horse of george

I do enjoy the smooth snark of Mr Steyn and this is one of his better recent efforts. The 'striking' students of Montreal may be a perfect metaphor illuminating the ills plaguing the West - or as Steyn puts it, financial bubbles may be bursting all over but the real deflation is in Western civilization's flawed sense of entitlement, as more and more of our citizens seemingly forget, lose sight of or proudly hold in contempt the very attributes that made our culture great and history may now be in the process of rewarding us for our sins. How on earth can students strike? They can protest, engage in various civil disobediences, rave like morons, tie their myopic little wagons to whatever pathetic anarchist cult they happen to be buying their weed from - but they provide no vital or even remotely useful service they can withhold as leverage in a negotiation - therefore it can't be a strike! Sorry, but stupidity, arrogance and an unearned sense of privilege are generally not considered highly prized assets outside of Hollywood. It's farcically absurd - a farce made sad by the left wing Canadian media's indulging of the idiocy. And why if you're a hardworking business owner losing money because of the disruptions are you tolerating this insanity? Maybe it's just the French - even when they're of the lost tribes of Quebec, they're still I guess simply born with a ridiculous sense of entitlement and therefore out of respect stifle what should be a logical urge towards outrage. It truly boggles the mind.