I have a few French friends and acquaintances that participated in the student riots of May 1968 and that French generally classify as "Soixante-huitards". At that time, I was serving the Nation's military and didn't appreciate one bit the fact that this long-hair hooligans were keeping us on alert on base and preventing us from enjoying a tiny bit of leisure time!
These radical people believed then, and still believe today, that they would inherit a perfect society, split the spoils obtained by confiscating from the rich, by practically throwing the baby and the bath water and breaking the fibers that held society together.
Today, that nothing turned even close to their wildest dream from 45 years ago, they sound bitter and still believe, deep in their heart, that some violent revolution is long overdue, is still programmed, and when it comes, it will set the record straight and establish the kind utopian fairness they feel is their God-given right.
As they approach the final stretch in their long, "laissez-faire" live, they are bound to be sorely disappointed, unless of course, someone plays "May '68" in the thereafter!
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