Discouragement
In March 1968, the French Minister for Youth and Sport visited the University of Nanterre
. Campus seething - the students demanded an end to gender segregation in dormitories. "If you have problems with women, I advise you to take a cold shower" - instructive minister said the leader of the youth group perturbed Daniel Cohn-Bendit.
A few weeks later a thunderous student uprising, which entered history under the name "Red May". In the Latin Quarter of Paris, youths began to erect barricades and breaking the boulders from the roadway - "weapon of the proletariat." Burnt set on fire the building of the Paris Bourse. The walls were adorned with banners that destroyed its preposterous: "All power to the imagination!", "Forbidden to forbid!", "Be a realist - he dreamed about the impossible!
In the days of the uprising in the streets of Paris carnival atmosphere prevailed. Fashionably dressed participants in this event, with rare exceptions, the offspring of wealthy families (in those days higher education was still a preserve of the elite), marched along the boulevards, flashing in front of crowds of enthusiastic spectators and posing in front of the photographers as victims of horrible violence (one of their slogans read: "All of us - the German Jews" - a broad hint to the fact that separate hostel akin to the gas chambers at Auschwitz).
Attentive observer it was obvious that the youth of Paris just used the excuse to have fun, for a time to throw off the shackles of bourgeois conventions and prejudice, to play in the revolutionary proletariat. " And why not, if the sun is shining gentle, warm, the girls look at the new-found "fighters against injustice" as heroes, a progressive public opinion strongly supports them - cheap and cheerful!
All who have ever taken part in street disturbances, one vote show how nice escape from the shackles of public decency and quench your thirst barbaric destruction. Like each of us lives a wild beast, which was only waiting for a chance to escape from the cage of civilization and give vent to his primitive instincts.
Descriptions of student revolutions that swept in 1968 by many Western countries, provides a variety of explanations of unrest. However, it was actually just an excuse, not the true, underlying causes. (American students, for example, joined the struggle against inequality in the midst of a campaign to build a "Great Society", when the administration of President Lyndon Johnson threw an unprecedented means is to eliminate poverty.) For all their differences, dictated by national circumstances, youth riots united, probably their main spring - boredom. Common boredom, which the ancient Christian writers called "the demon of despondency."
Boredom is clearly underestimated as one of the most powerful driving forces of history. In combination with medium pressure, thirst for power and enrichment, and other mundane and rather unsympathetic traits of human nature, bore the potential to have such destructive power that, under favorable conditions to easily overturn the most stable political and religious beliefs, crushing the whole empire.
As the philosopher Robert Nesbit, throughout the animal world, a sense of boredom and satiety familiar only to man, besides having a certain level of intellectual development and a minimum fineness of psychic organization. Idiot does not know the boredom, but knows it, and the peasant, from morning till night, engaged in hard, monotonous work: idleness, unbearable for the intellectual, for it no more than a rare welcome rest.
Boredom can be reasonably regarded as a product of progress, as the price we pay for success in the struggle for life. The inventor of holography, Nobel Prize winner Dennis Gabor suggested that the human central nervous system evolved over millions of years, when increased vigilance and aggressiveness, constant alertnost, an immediate readiness to rush to war, or rush to flee were essential for survival. It is easy to assume that these features constitute the most ancient and stable layer of the human psyche.
Discouragement
By: Adam Miller
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