[MD] French ingredient in the soup of sentiments

[Platt Holden]

Hi All, 

"What passed for morality within this crowd was a kind of vague, 
amorphous soup of sentiments known as "human rights." You were also 
supposed to be 'reasonable.' What these terms really meant was never 
spelled out in any way that Phaedrus had ever heard. You were just 
supposed to cheer for them." (Lila, 24)

French students have spelled out one of the rights in their particular 
soup of sentiments - the right not to be fired from their first job.

Of course, the right of employers to get rid of worthless new employees 
is not included in the French soup. In fact, employers' rights are not 
even acknowledged to exist.

Here we taste the soup cooked up by the typical socialist state where 
the rights of one group override those of a so-called "privileged" 
group, in this case "bosses."

Little wonder that unemployment rate among young French workers is at 
23 percent.

Pirsig called socialist cities "dull" places due to their lack of 
Dynamic Quality. He could have added "riotous" places due to a foul 
brew of wishful sentiments.

Regards,
Platt