As I write, French schools are burning—set ablaze by high schoolers who say they want more investment in education but for some reason think they can achieve this by filling the streets with garbage, setting it on fire, waving Palestinian flags, and clashing with the police.

Obviously, the riots are not due to underinvestment in education. A small protest about education may have triggered it, but the riots setting cities in flame are not caused by that.

The cause of the riots is the learned helplessness of a generation who've been taught that every problem in their life is someone else's fault... and, consequently, that the solutions exist entirely in the hands of other people... people who need to be coerced violently into solving the problem you aren't able to solve yourself (because of your learned helplessness).