Writing sixty-years ago, Maurice Merleau-Ponty foretells the explanatory mechanisms used to anaesthetize the behaviour of urban french youths, turning potentially revolutionary activity into mere vandalism.
We do not want to say, along with most of the mainstream media, that "we have here blind, 'elementary forces' cleverly exploited by a few shrewd agitators. It is possibly in this light that the prefect of police will view history." -Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception (my italics)
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