Navel gazing in France

Apparently the French are engaging in some self analysis, unusual for them I know but apparently true. In one piece critical of France's current state, L'Arrogance française, the journalist authors, Romain Gubert and Emmanuel Saint-Martin, state:

"With our sermons, our empty gestures and our poetic flights, we (the French) have pissed off the planet. Worse: we make them laugh."

You mean they haven't been trying to be amusing? All my illusions shattered! (I must say that the French have never pissed me off, but they have made me laugh a lot.)