FigaroVox week - "If you are wise ..."

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Several authors have observed: the State willingly treats the French like capricious children and some of our fellow citizens ask for nothing better. The past week has hardly proved them wrong. First, whims: calls are increasing, from people or personalities committed to the ecological cause, to adopt a healthier, more harmonious, more sober lifestyle. Besides that the signatories of these calls are rarely the first to set an example, as observed in our columns by Eugénie Bastié , we are struck, moreover, by the strange resemblance of the recipes of the world of tomorrow with those of the world of yesterday: awareness, surveillance, repression.

The permanent infantilization of citizens creates its own addiction: "To invoke the indiscipline of the French is to maintain it", notes the essayist Frédéric Lazorthes . But how to explain that the French, once so quick to jealously defend their freedoms, are at this

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