They are not knowledge
seekers
But Zombie haters.
Hate Filled Zombies Run Amuck
Haters of what?
The violence reveals.
Haters of France and
desecrators of sacred objects
such as family businesses
that serve the community.
Haters who burn venerable
schools
that are more sacred than
churches.
Haters who burn fire
trucks,
that are as venerable as farmers' tractors.
The one saves lives,
the other sustains life.
Their fires expresses
their hatred.
They do not starve,
clearly quite healthy.
If sick or injured, they
will receive medical treatment.
To most, France is not
their homeland.
Their homeland is elsewhere poor,
corrupt, violent, and repressive.
No books there because they
contain knowledge forbidden.
That is why they are in France.
Knowledge doesn’t
really matter to the rioters
Video games, social media,
& smart phones (smarter than their users) matter.
The rioters believe life
is hard for them. It isn’t.
Life is hard in Ukraine (underground schools) and Gaza (no schools)
caused by destructive haters.
They want to live rich
but spend their time doing
nothing but complaining.
Could go to a library and
read a book.
Education without schools
is possible.
Scholar H.G. Wells
Hard times seekers of knowledge
Ray Bradbury never
attended college
Angelou did not attend
college due to poverty and becoming a mother young
Mark Twain left school at
the age of 12, educating himself on the river and in print shops
Jack London London join
the Klondike Gold Rush and studied in libraries
Jack Kerouac dropped out
of college but continued to read books and write
H. G. Wells left school at
the of 11 to become an apprentice working thirteen-hour days
Charles Dickens worked in
a boot-blacking factory at the age of 12 after his father died
William Shakespeare never
attended a university
Jane Austen received no
formal higher education but read books at home
Michael Faraday left
school at age 14, self-taught physics and chemistry by reading books
Benjamin Franklin left
formal school at age 10, educated himself through voracious reading
Thomas Edison was largely
self-taught through library books
George Boole the son of a
cobbler was entirely self-taught in mathematics
Srinivasa Ramanujan was largely
self-taught from a single mathematics book
Ditto for: Émile Zola, André Malraux, Jean Cocteau
Rioters, haters, nihilists,
anarchists, not scholars
When in school haters mostly resent listening to lectures, being assigned required reading, and having to write essays. They play with their smart phones and talk while their teachers lecture. During the riots, learners have remained home reading and studying or following the news of the haters’ rampages. Their parents will vote Marine Le Pen and the National Rally because they love France rather than hate France. The right-wing movements in Germany, France, the U.K., Italy, and elsewhere reject the leftist-Islamist's hatred of their homelands. Marine Le Pen is seen as modern France’s Joan of Arc in arms against the haters of France. The same happened in the U.S. The haters burn cities and MAGA was born.
Be careful what you wish for!
The true scholars have stayed
at home reading
Or using their inexpensive
computer (cheaper than smart phones used by rioters)
to study art, history,
religion, physics, mathematics, etc., on YouTube.
Knowledge is available in library
books, purchased secondhand books, or on the Internet.
If cold in winter, wear a
coat.
If hot in summer, have
class outside.
Want to protest—don’t burn venerable schools leave them empty by boycotting them in mass.
What burns
in the flames?
Reason
burns in the flames.
The legacy of
Louis
Pasteur, Antoine Lavoisier, Blaise Pascal, Pierre-Simon Laplace
René
Descartes, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus
Victor
Hugo, Gustave Flaubert, George Sand, Émile Zola, , Jules Verne, André Malraux
burns in the flames of zombie nihilism.
Yes, the French education
system is broken
Straightjacketed by bureaucracy, like the rest of France.
Politicians like Macron (most politicians) are straightjacketed by single vision.
They lack creative thinking and are arrogantly and disdainfully detached from the people they are supposed to serve.
A bureaucratic revolution is needed by wise and creative French men and women, not by haters who want France destroyed, not improved.
Those who love France—in spite of the faults of the politicians who mismanage her—must come to her rescue.
Two solutions. First, a school repair tax on millionaires and billionaires. The money could be used only on repairing schools and not spent on other programs. Second, individual millionaires and billionaires could adopt a school for repair. According to the Internet France has 51 billionaires (the U.S. has 989) and nearly two million French households are millionaires. If these millionaires and billionaires adopted schools for repair, beginning with schools most in need of repair, that would take care of at least a couple hundred schools. Of course, the government could impose the school repair tax on millionaires and billionaires who don’t adopt a school. Such a program would make the super wealthy good Samaritan heroes to the students instead of being greedy villains as they are in the U.S. and Russia.
No, no, no!
A peaceful revolution is needed.
Vive la France
