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Mathieu Laine: "Faced with the nanny state, read and reread Molinari"

11/9/2020, 7:32:54 PM


OPEN BOOK - In these times of confinement when Ubu seems to have taken power, reading a classic of liberalism is essential to shed light on the failings of the technocratic state, observes the chronicler.

After a surreal week which saw, at the heart of the most serious crisis since the Second World War, a government and its services sort through the micro-menu what is essential or not in order to cover entire supermarket shelves, invite to read Gustave de Molinari, the first thinker of integral freedom, will undoubtedly pass for a provocation.

Faced with inventories such as

"ovens no, stoves yes, cutlery no, stoneware yes, hob no, 2-year-old children's pajamas yes, 3-year-old children's pajamas no"

, as Michel-Édouard Leclerc explains, brandishing a good legitimate hashtag # OnMarcheSurLaTête, a reflection on the failings of the centralizing and technocratic State is essential.

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The interministerial crisis unit would still wonder, it is said, whether household linen (sheets and towels) is or not, like the plates and dishes, worthy of being bought in stores ... As for the concern for localism and to the attention paid to the territories, here they are broken

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