Originally Posted by MaxOverlord
There is more of a street political culture in France and some other European countries this is trueHowever, with regards civilisation one might argue that this is in the eye of the beholder. Despite the odd rock or two thrown and some street ballet between police and protestors were there serious injuries? One might find that in the same period more people died in casual street crime in the US than in France with all her riots and crime. Is this civilisation and progress? Also, regarding conspiracies of the elite, I thought this had reached near industrial proportions in the US. I recall having near neural meltdown trying to follow the 9/11 conspiracy theories espouced by one of your countrymen on another board.
I will most surprised if following the emotion of the election announcement the French do not settle down very quickly to get on with the democratic process.
First off you can't compare the actions of a people living in a free society of 300 million who do things because of their own individual "problems" with a mob-rule mentality of a political persuasion acting out with rocks and firebombs and overturning cars.
The difference is between like-minded people acting out of disgust for what they perceive as injustices by the political system and a single individual acting out against society.
As for the 9/11 people. These are fabrications by people who have no facts to back up their charges. To compare a few "oddballs" who think their own government pre-planned and killed 3000 of its own citizens to a band of miscreants torching and ravaging their own cities is a little off...no?
It wasn't my intention to compare rioters with conspiracy theorists. I was rather comparing US/French dysfunctional social behaviour and political conspiracies as two separate items. I thought you had kept these separate in your original piece but this would appear to be an error on my part. With regards the former, the motivation of the two are of course quite different. One represents a collective disenchantment whereas the other is individual and self centred. Riots can be exceptionally destructive - but the riots in France were not of that order. The French democratic process is robust enough to shrug off small emotional outbursts. Indeed with turn outs of 85% the French democratic process has much to say to both the UK and the US.
As to the facts to back up conspiracy charges, there was no end of melting points and footprints of falling buildings. Unnervingly it seemed to take little to leap from such engineering niceties to Illuminati, Satan Worship and Alien control of our Governments. The most notable thing was their relentlessness (and total lack of sense of humour). Nevertheless, the oddballs have quite a following in the US as far as I could ascertain. Certainly my cynicism was rebutted by a number of equally convinced supporters.
However, with regards civilisation one might argue that this is in the eye of the beholder. Despite the odd rock or two thrown and some street ballet between police and protestors were there serious injuries? One might find that in the same period more people died in casual street crime in the US than in France with all her riots and crime. Is this civilisation and progress? Also, regarding conspiracies of the elite, I thought this had reached near industrial proportions in the US. I recall having near neural meltdown trying to follow the 9/11 conspiracy theories espouced by one of your countrymen on another board. 
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