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Samizdata quote of the day – Europe’s philosophic sickness edition

“The funniest thing I’ve ever heard is that the kids are rioting in Paris because of `educational inequality’. I was taught in classes of 30 in wooden huts so cold you could see your breath in winter, but it never occurred to me to burn down the town hall. This isn’t a `legitimate expression of rage’, it is a pathology, evidence that the whole of Europe – not just France – has a cancer, of which violence and decay are merely the symptoms. Our tumour is bad philosophy. It has been growing for years.”

Tim Stanley, Daily Telegraph (£)

 

 

3 comments to Samizdata quote of the day – Europe’s philosophic sickness edition

  • Ironically, Tim Stanley is an exemplar of the very mindset that permeates the ‘Conservative’ wing of the Uniparty

  • Johnathan Pearce (London)

    Perry, maybe, but he’s right on the money here.

  • DJM

    Insert

    *It’s all so tiresome* meme

    This has been predicted for at least 25 years by what the legacy media would call the Faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar Right. And the enablers of the Faaaaaaaaaaaaar Left – part & parcel of current evenements en France are still in complete denial as to their responsibility…..

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