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Covid-19 and youth: "Poisoned heritage"

2020-09-29T19:02:51.311Z


The editorial of Le Figaro, by Laurence de Charette.Their grandparents wanted to enjoy, to enjoy "without hindrance" or annoyance of any kind, as if only the future could be born from the absolute absence of limits. And now the youth of today live, to protect them, the maximum constraint. Their elders claimed to celebrate "freedom" at all costs, in search of a new grail, laughing in the face of Aragon, "old beards" and an "old world" ( "Course, co


Their grandparents wanted to enjoy, to enjoy "without hindrance" or annoyance of any kind, as if only the future could be born from the absolute absence of limits.

And now the youth of today live, to protect them, the maximum constraint.

Their elders claimed to celebrate "freedom" at all costs, in search of a new grail, laughing in the face of Aragon, "old beards" and an "old world" (

"Course, comrade ..."

) to their happily dying eyes.

And it is in a straitjacket that our children are now growing up.

Sad reversal.

Can we imagine May 68 in "distance"?

The youth of the barricades proclaimed, after Jean Yanne, that it should be

"forbidden to forbid"

;

that of 2020, lives, for the good of the first, under the reign of social distancing and barrier gestures, a daily limited by the indicators of the Ministry of Health, which however mainly concern the former.

Caulked under masks, when not assigned to home, students

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Source: lefigaro

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