However much I would agree with the 'reality check' that you talk about, I think that there a distinction to be made between a generation that has a common experience and a generation that has the same opinion about this experience, that has the capacity to be united by a political party, etc. I have not seen yet any proofs of a widespread prise de conscience about the greater picture. Thus, most people see themselves as fighting a political order that just harms them, not a political system that is crooked in itself.

Louis Chauvel, as you have guessed, it for the CPE under the fallacious pretense that, if it doesn't pass, trying to help the youth will be considered too dangerous by politicians and that therefore the real problems won't be solved until 2016, or in his own words, 'maybe even in 2026'. He basically makes the bet that if the CPE passes, the right will be there to implement the other reforms we desperately need.

Rien n'est gratuit en ce bas monde. Tout s'expie, le bien comme le mal, se paie tot ou tard. Le bien c'est beaucoup plus cher, forcement. Celine