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The French reactionary revolution | Dominique Moisi | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

This is a really good article - there seems to be a tendency among left-leaning commentators to applaud the civil unrest in France purely for happening at all, rather than examining the motivation for it, which is actually incredibly conservative. The other confusing thing is that maintaining the status quo isn’t even in the interest of many of the protestors; it is bizarre that some of the youngest citizens of a country with a rapidly aging population would take to the streets to protest *against* an increase in the pension age, virtually ensuring that there’ll be no money left for any sort of state pension when they reach retirement, whatever age that happens at.

The whole thing reminds me more of the tea party than May 1968 - Misguided people vocally protesting against both their own interests and the common good, serving only to defend the entrenched privilege of others (albeit unintentionally).