Widespread riots across impoverished areas of France took a malevolent turn in a ninth night of violence, as youths torched an ambulance and stoned medical workers coming to the aid of a sick person. Authorities arrested more than 200 people, an unprecedented sweep since the beginning of the unrest.And did I forget to mention that 9,000 police cars have been stoned in France since the beginning of the year? 9,000!?
Oh, and they set a disabled woman on fire. Because they feel "oppressed" you see. C'est la vie...
Look down just a few posts to:
It is better to be opposed by an enemy than to be adrift in meaninglessness, for the simulacrum of an enemy lends purpose to actions whose nihilism would otherwise be self-evident.Killing or even attempting to injure medical personnel in the act of rescue is nihilism pure and simple. The irony is that rationality would easily argue that anyone attacking medical personnel should either be killed on sight or immediately whisked into a rubber room.
And it exposes the great Catch-22 of the advance of civilization: We've somehow advanced to the point where the best of our societies have their lives constantly at risk to help save nihilists. Because they truly believe that nobody is beyond the reach of being "saved". And the very success of our best via these heroic acts helps foster the very dependence that is a -- probably the -- critical root cause of nihilism.
And why do they perceive ambulances as evil? Because as PALLYWOOD makes clear, they themselves use them as mere props -- if not actual instruments of terror.
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