French television has driven me nuts for years. Tonight, on TF1, they devoted a total of 30 seconds to the fantastic economic crisis facing Europe. That’s all. The reporter ends his reportage from Athens by reminding viewers that the new bailout of Greece could cost … 100 billion euros. Hey! Chump change! Then we’re off … elsewhere. To a report about a company that makes the new, best water cannon trucks for the CRS, the special police that comes out to crack heads during manifestations. You can be absolutely sure — there will be more protests in France, all over Europe, as the young people stand up and say: We do not have jobs. The fatcats at the top of the leading companies are pocketing all the money. This cannot continue. There is going to be a Europe-wide revolution: You watch. It is forming. Like a storm on the plains … Wait, the newscast is almost over (we got to see a hamburger factory that produces mounds of e. coli-laden fake beef) and guess what: No mention of Syria! Where more and more people were killed today, and where the crisis is spilling over in a deadly way into Lebanon. No perspective. Completely hermetic vision. The world does not exist. Vive la France. Vive la perspective! Hey, tomorrow is the 18 Juin: Would De Gaulle approve of the current attitude? Would he say, yeah, it’s OK, bien, that we spend 100 billion euros to bail out Greece? But I digress …