Some call it a phenomenon, others compare it to the failed 2011 Occupy movement, but Nuit Debout has taken the largely discredited French political class, from across the bogus standard left to the far right, by surprise. Sociologically, it should not be a surprise at all. The backdrop is a sense of deep social malaise, a ras le bol et envie de redevenir vivant (a spillover and wish to be alive again).
Since 2011, however, throughout the world some elements have greatly changed: the connection between the political class and citizens has reached a breaking point; the notion of elections being a farce has become widespread; wealth concentration and social inequality have reached an unprecedented and unsustainable level; and conflicts and the business of warfare have reached an apex. These factors are fertile ground for the collective quantum leap that is a revolution.
Around 2:15 he refers to news about perverts and pedos taking advantage of the pro-LGBT laws to assault women in bathrooms, and some Colorado girls are being threatened with hate crime charges for objecting to men coming into the girl's restrooms. Now all a pedo/pervert has to do is dress up as a woman, claim his identity is really that of a woman, and then legally enter female restrooms to wack off or sexually attack women, and the law and rock-and-roll star Bruce Springsteen, among others, will still fully back his “right” to enter a woman's restroom.
In the context of the Ecuadorian transition project towards a open commons-based knowledge society, see Floksociety.org, and to complement the prior analysis of three competing economic models in the age of peer production, I have formulated some transition proposals, on how to get from Phase 2, emerging peer production in the context of the dominance of cognitive and financial capitalism, to Phase 3, a mature peer production economy associated with a ethical economy and a partner state.
Twenty-two percent of the world’s people are Muslim. Allowing bombing campaigns and drone warfare to define our relationship with them is a recipe for endless terrorist backlash against us.
Phi Beta Iota: The article is most valuable for its complete shredding of the National Security Council, as great a collection of inept children and self-centered morons as have ever been assembled in one place.