"The French, they are a funny race,
"They fight with their feet and **** with their face."
The above doggerel was popular when this writer was a young lad, and it was meant to express that the French were different than the rest of us; us meaning members of the Anglosphere.
The French, whether right or wrong, seem to value their self-proclaimed "intellectuals" and "philosophers." Consider the fact that the idiotic natterings of Sartre and DeBouvavier were regarded by the average French opinion maker as Gospel, or the fact that a recent foreign minister was appointed to the office because he was a "philosopher" and "poet."
The French, as a nation, seem to have an aversion toward thinkers who are hard-headed realists, and the result is nightly car burnings in Paris and just plain silliness like Johnny Halliday.
In this writer's opinion, the best public thinker in France over the last twenty years has been Brigitte Bardot, who has been repeatedly found guilty of "insulting Islam" for her stance of standing for traditional French culture and preferring hearing church bells on a Sunday morn instead of the caterwauling from a minaret on a Friday afternoon.
Well, this week a French "philosopher" was shown to be a bit of a poseur and dope:
The Associated Press: French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy duped
Life can be sweet.
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