Re:Bullshit (Score 1)

There must be some legal authority on a French campus, No? Certainly if I behave badly enough, someone will come and arrest me? I read a quote somewhere in the past that went something like "American democracy takes place in the ...., French Democracy takes place in the streets." It is funny that I can't remember where American Democracy is supposed to take place at in the quote. Being charitable, "at the polls" or "in the courtroom" might work. "in the boardroom may be more accurate. The point about French democracy taking place in the street, I think is instructive to us Americans. American democracy was born out of the upper class, the closest thing we had to american aristocracy. Our revolution was "top down". The French revolutions, in my incomplete education, was born of the people in the street, and when it isn't going right the French go back to the street and make it known. It seems to me that there is an implicit message that "we changed the goverment this way once..." To be fair, I am sure that a lot of people wished they had intervened at the time, and many have/are protesting now. Please take my statement of my impression of French behavior, as just that my impressions. I think it is an instesting sociological question. Best regards, Eric