A mirror to the world
France is burning, literally. Universally, social unrest is ever incipient, flowing as an undercurrent to surface from time to time, but triggered differently in each nation. The common thread is deep-seated social and economic problems, entrenched poverty, crime, racial discrimination and educational underperformance.
For over two decades now, leapfrogging technology has elevated skill requirements that have taken away (and are taking away) jobs from the traditionally endowed working class. Blunders, as in Ukraine, now threaten to take food away from their plate. Social resentment had to ensue. In this pervasive gloom, France is but an example where one unthinking policeman could set off nationwide mayhem. No nation is immune from this.
