[lbo-talk] Thoughts on all this sort of thing.

[Philip Pilkington]

So we're seeing protests proper in France and fear spreading among the Davos
crowd:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7861774.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/davos/7862679.stm

Obviously there's an hysterical element to it all among the elites. But
personally I'm picking up major dissent about the current system all around
me... albeit in a country which is majorly going down the shitter. However,
many European countries seem to be in the same situation as us Oirish... and
many of them actually have a concrete leftist base.

I feel that many in European have been fed a rather seductive outlook on how
things should be going and aren't obtaining results...