Since the onset of the health crisis and the uncertain and threatening period we are living in, the most intriguing question is the comparison with the 30,000 deaths that occurred in France in December 1969, struck by the Hong Kong flu, overcrowding hospitals with distress respiratory, and gone completely unnoticed.
The difference with our present reaction, enormous, unanimous, frantic, raises questions.
It demonstrates a major transformation in the order of beliefs, references, imperatives.
In 1969, many believed in the bright future of Communists, Socialists or allies.
We had ideals, even absurd or vicious.
The rest came after.
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Our times are different: hygiene has taken over, entirely.
The only reference that remains after the bankruptcy of ideologies is what contemporary philosophy calls, with a large number of variations, bare life.
Governments are little more than protecting biological life
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