Maybe this is what T.S. Eliot meant when he wrote of the world ending “not with a bang but a whimper”, in his famous poem The Hollow Men.
That these people will literally sit back with a good coffee, meal and wine and watch their world burn.
Or is this resilience that we’re seeing? The ability to keep going while the world crashes around you, perhaps even with a touch of confidant insouciance?
Background to this is here, if you’re interested. Macron unilaterally raised the retirement age from 62 to 64, which is still less than New Zealand and a lot of other Western nations, is necessary if the French pension system is to be saved, but goes against the grain of modern French people who’ve been conditioned to have the State give them everything. Meaning that the riots are about a lot more than the pension age, which is just the trigger.
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