Post by mouse on May 25, 2020 12:48:41 GMT -5
THE MASKS
"To something misfortune is good". While the current pandemic spread its ravages to the entire planet, tétanisant governments, terrorizing people, crippling economies, suffering from a formidable social crisis, a side and unexpected effect of a formidable social crisis, a side and unexpected effect of coronavirus has come to remind us, at least to us French, the truth of this old adage.
Although in some of its aspects it appeared to be part of the and farce, the masquarade we experienced is nothing anecdotal. The tragi-comic soap opera, sewn with threads of all colors, which is around this piece of fabric, acted like a double revealing. It remains to know if we will be able to learn from it.
We were at war, told us the president. Was the expression appropriate? Either way, we were able to check that the first victim of the epidemic was well, as it is rule in time of war, the truth. Faced with the consequences of an outrageous incompetence whose fault was part of their predecessors, in part to officials still in place, the various public officials, authorized health specialists, ministers concerned, up to the first of them , and up to the head of state, have chosen for weeks for artistic blurry, denial, cover, in short, have chosen lie, justifying themselves for their own eyes by their desire not to panic the people - eternal excuse of those who despise him. They told us stories, they Walked us like in the forest of tales where parents will lose their children. Unable to solve the problem within a reasonable time, lost themselves in the bureaucratic mazes where we get lost every day, at the same time asking for the individual initiative to come and remedy the collective failure, they dared to tell us during the two months when the masks were lacking that masks were useless, before making them almost obligatory from the moment we were provided. The dramatic episode that we are going through has led them, quite accidentally, on this and others (tests, treatments, the number of victims...) to reveal the few cases that leaders, democratically elected leaders, of a country that is supposed to be democratic, have for one of the essential values of democracy: information. When the time comes, we will have to remember it.
This same health crisis, which we do not yet know when or in what state we will get through, has been the occasion of another revelation, of incomparable magnitude, and which goes far beyond the lies and fate of the leaders of the moment. She suddenly and brutally opened her eyes so far indifferent or complicit in the state of decay, decay, failure in which decades of liberal capitalism, false "free competition", relocation, mergers, removal, errors, abandon, resignations, collusion, preferably given to special interests on the general interest, short-term, lack of height, vision, momentum have plunged our poor country.
France looked at itself, naked, as it is, in the ruthless mirror of the news, and it discovered in what state of industrial, financial, commercial, cultural, diplomatic, military dependency had fallen the supposed sixth economic power in the world, unable to meet its most basic needs like fighting on equal arms with competition from countries, developed or emerging, more offensive, more active, more ambitious, more consistent, more united, caught up otherwise outdated in the field of the most advanced technologies.
These eyes, so long closed, suddenly islands, will they remain open? Will the French, after becoming aware of the level at which they fell, will they continue to deal with it? Have they understood, will they finally understand that our future is not limited to a choice between a left, right or a large central group also acquired, with slight shades, to the dilution of France, as countries, in large supranational political sets, to its inféodations to large multinationals? Under Jacques Chirac, under Nicolas Sarkozy, under François Hollande, under Emmanuel Macron, with some changes, a few shades, France has made the choice of voluntary slavery, the bondage granted, collective resignation. It's only time to go back.
In less than two years, the presidential election will face candidates who will fight with more or less conviction, eloquence and know-how, the dusty flags of the classic left, traditional right or the big central group of people reasonable. Let us no longer be abused by the so-called diversity of their labels, sensitivity, affinities. They go and they trained us in the same direction. Statistical the essentials of the accessory. The real choice is between vassalage and sovereignty, between fate and freedom. In less than two years, the French have the opportunity, like every five years, to regain control of themselves, their country, their future or to rely on liars once again. The are coming under misleading attire. Let's learn how to expose them.
Dominique Jamet
"To something misfortune is good". While the current pandemic spread its ravages to the entire planet, tétanisant governments, terrorizing people, crippling economies, suffering from a formidable social crisis, a side and unexpected effect of a formidable social crisis, a side and unexpected effect of coronavirus has come to remind us, at least to us French, the truth of this old adage.
Although in some of its aspects it appeared to be part of the and farce, the masquarade we experienced is nothing anecdotal. The tragi-comic soap opera, sewn with threads of all colors, which is around this piece of fabric, acted like a double revealing. It remains to know if we will be able to learn from it.
We were at war, told us the president. Was the expression appropriate? Either way, we were able to check that the first victim of the epidemic was well, as it is rule in time of war, the truth. Faced with the consequences of an outrageous incompetence whose fault was part of their predecessors, in part to officials still in place, the various public officials, authorized health specialists, ministers concerned, up to the first of them , and up to the head of state, have chosen for weeks for artistic blurry, denial, cover, in short, have chosen lie, justifying themselves for their own eyes by their desire not to panic the people - eternal excuse of those who despise him. They told us stories, they Walked us like in the forest of tales where parents will lose their children. Unable to solve the problem within a reasonable time, lost themselves in the bureaucratic mazes where we get lost every day, at the same time asking for the individual initiative to come and remedy the collective failure, they dared to tell us during the two months when the masks were lacking that masks were useless, before making them almost obligatory from the moment we were provided. The dramatic episode that we are going through has led them, quite accidentally, on this and others (tests, treatments, the number of victims...) to reveal the few cases that leaders, democratically elected leaders, of a country that is supposed to be democratic, have for one of the essential values of democracy: information. When the time comes, we will have to remember it.
This same health crisis, which we do not yet know when or in what state we will get through, has been the occasion of another revelation, of incomparable magnitude, and which goes far beyond the lies and fate of the leaders of the moment. She suddenly and brutally opened her eyes so far indifferent or complicit in the state of decay, decay, failure in which decades of liberal capitalism, false "free competition", relocation, mergers, removal, errors, abandon, resignations, collusion, preferably given to special interests on the general interest, short-term, lack of height, vision, momentum have plunged our poor country.
France looked at itself, naked, as it is, in the ruthless mirror of the news, and it discovered in what state of industrial, financial, commercial, cultural, diplomatic, military dependency had fallen the supposed sixth economic power in the world, unable to meet its most basic needs like fighting on equal arms with competition from countries, developed or emerging, more offensive, more active, more ambitious, more consistent, more united, caught up otherwise outdated in the field of the most advanced technologies.
These eyes, so long closed, suddenly islands, will they remain open? Will the French, after becoming aware of the level at which they fell, will they continue to deal with it? Have they understood, will they finally understand that our future is not limited to a choice between a left, right or a large central group also acquired, with slight shades, to the dilution of France, as countries, in large supranational political sets, to its inféodations to large multinationals? Under Jacques Chirac, under Nicolas Sarkozy, under François Hollande, under Emmanuel Macron, with some changes, a few shades, France has made the choice of voluntary slavery, the bondage granted, collective resignation. It's only time to go back.
In less than two years, the presidential election will face candidates who will fight with more or less conviction, eloquence and know-how, the dusty flags of the classic left, traditional right or the big central group of people reasonable. Let us no longer be abused by the so-called diversity of their labels, sensitivity, affinities. They go and they trained us in the same direction. Statistical the essentials of the accessory. The real choice is between vassalage and sovereignty, between fate and freedom. In less than two years, the French have the opportunity, like every five years, to regain control of themselves, their country, their future or to rely on liars once again. The are coming under misleading attire. Let's learn how to expose them.
Dominique Jamet