Isabelle Saporta is a journalist, essayist and editor at Fayard. His latest book is
Rendez-nous la France!
Put an end to the caste that paralyzes the country (Fayard, 2020).
FIGAROVOX.
- Your new book showed that the coronavirus crisis and the first confinement were indicative of a technocratic and above-ground management of the country.
Was the second confinement inevitable or does it prove that nothing has changed?
Isabelle SAPORTA.
- The Coronavirus crisis acts as a revealer of the failings, the faults, the strange habits of the technocracy which governs our country.
Intelligent, cultivated, generally well born, she thinks she has nothing to learn from the lower classes and the field.
This technostructure has never been so strong as under Emmanuel Macron.
Worse, he strengthens it by having a solitary and opaque practice of power.
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Ministers become non-existent, the Defense Council, of which we do not know who it is or what deliberations are taking place there, has replaced the Council of Ministers.
Parliament is nothing more than a registration chamber ... The result is a regime where the technostructure, without any checks and balances, is in freewheeling mode.
Every day enacting its quota of absurd decisions.
And seeking to interfere in the privacy of our lives, without ever resolving anything.
It is the closure of the shelves of books, socks and ear covers of supermarkets because we had made the initial mistake of closing bookstores and small businesses.
These are the decrees allowing us to buy the Christmas trees but not the garlands.
It is these omnipresent and delirious certificates giving us the right to go about a kilometer from our home .. Before, fortunately, to allow us to do 20Km ...!
We know that this confinement shattered our youth, reduced the French to depression and engendered hundreds of thousands of economic tragedies.
On the other hand, when it was necessary to manage and manage the tests well in August, we witnessed an embolism of the system such that only one solution, the worst, the second confinement, was essential.
However, we know that this confinement shattered our youth, reduced the French to depression and generated hundreds of thousands of economic tragedies.
What did you think of Emmanuel Macron's last speech?
Isn't there something absurd in seeing the President of the Republic or the Prime Minister solemnly explain to us the way in which we should lead our daily life?
Including how we should celebrate Christmas?
France has completed the transition to a republican monarchy.
We have all of them: the pomp of decorum, the aboveground side of the elites.
Without having the advantage of longevity of power.
We therefore have a false king who, every fortnight from now on, is addressing us, not to chart a path over the next five years.
Not to tell us what will happen to our youth to which we have asked so many sacrifices and which we are going to submit to so many burdens.
Not to speak to us about the blood and the tears which await us to put back the country.
Churchill point in Macron.
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No, he speaks to us like a father, or should I say like a “
dad
”, who explains to us how to wash our hands, ventilate our houses, celebrate Christmas… In short, a cutesy and infantilizing speech.
During this time, Queen Merkel, who has been able to register in the long term, speaks to the Germans as an adult, explaining to them concretely how the vaccination across the Rhine will take place.
We also heard a professor of medicine explain to us learnedly that “
Grandpa and grandma had to eat the log in the kitchen
”… Besides the bureaucratic excesses that you describe, what do you think of the role of certain doctors?
Macronie has created a monster: medical expertise.
The word of the rifles has become golden.
We cannot contradict it.
A beginning of criticism and you are assigned to the camp of the evil thinking, not to say the Poujadists committing the crime of lese-majesté of daring to doubt out loud.
Why has medical expertise become omnipotent?
We elected politicians, in no case did we give our votes to these experts
Because the politicians are hiding behind it.
They took cover behind her.
Remember, ministers were not taking restrictive measures, they were responding to the health demands of scientific councils.
Except that we elected politicians, in any case, we gave our votes to these experts.
It is time for politics to recapture the power we have given it.
And that she put it to good use.
Many European countries also seem overwhelmed.
Are our failures the result of French specificity or simply the consequence of an unprecedented situation?
If we still had a doubt about the fact that the French bureaucracy was a specificity that no other country envied us… We no longer have any!
We are not going to repeat the match with Germany, we unfortunately lost it.
But now that we know our limits, those of this vertical management of France, let's reform!
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Let us rely on the specificities of our regions, on the talents of our regions, on the commitment of our local elected officials.
Finally, let us succeed in transforming our Jacobin France into Girondin France.
Let's end with what led us, once again, to this
Strange Defeat,
to paraphrase Marc Bloch.
France is beating records for public spending and compulsory levies.
How do we explain that we ran out of beds in the hospital, among other things.
Where is the money going?
France, in a masochism that I cannot explain to myself, puts its resources and its energy on the bureaucratic metastases which hamper it rather than on the infantrymen who support it.
Before this crisis, we had known a year of strikes of the white coats which shouted their dismay, the lack of means and the bureaucratic madness which, every day, prevents them from doing their work.
The finding is known.
The reports of the Court of Accounts pile up denouncing all this French evil which consists in putting money in the administrative thousand sheets rather than on the ground.
Clearly, you are teachers, nurses, police officers, you are paid a pittance while the Republic rests on your shoulders
And?
What are we doing to change software?
Nothing!
Quite the contrary!
Remember, barely had we come out of the first confinement, when Amélie de Montchalin proposed to us to create a new bureaucratic floor, a new layer in the thousand sheets with the sub-prefects to relaunch.
You explain that the paradox is that this Kafkaesque management is carried out in the name of an imperative of budgetary and economic efficiency ...
These enarques take themselves for
cost-killers
, or at least they took themselves for it before the crisis.
Their mantra was to cut costs… Everyone!
Except theirs.
Clearly, you are teachers, nurses, policemen, you are paid a pittance while the Republic rests on your shoulders.
You work in premises with leprosy.
But for all that, we point out to you that you cost a crazy dough.
On the other hand, the Theodule committees, the independent authorities and other nonsense are doing well, and they are very handsomely paid.
You explain that the "
deep state
" continues to increase its power and its "privileges" while "
those thanks to whom our Republic does not waver
"
are sacrificed
: teachers, nurses, doctors, police officers, firefighters, etc.
This crisis will also have been marked by the massacre of the independents: small traders, restaurateurs, etc ... Is there a contempt of the government and senior officials towards them?
What do you think of the term “
non-essential
”?
The term "
non-essential
" is appalling with contempt, and ignorance of what makes France great. Our nation cannot be reduced to the sum of our biological bodies.
However, our policies acted as if France were that: 67 million biological bodies that had to be preserved at all costs.
Not once have we asked ourselves the question of what makes, what we make society.
Not once have we said to ourselves that culture, living together and conviviality also deserve our attention, not to say our protection.
We have abandoned our small businesses while for decades mayors have tried to relocate them to city centers knowing that without them, it is the beginning of desertification, economic and social death.
When they fade away, delinquency and fear set in.
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We wiped out restaurateurs with a stroke of the pen, without once trying to understand what they represent in our collective imagination.
Without once, think of all these trades they bring to life: winegrowers, breeders, market gardeners, fishermen, oyster farmers.
Will the GAFAMs be the big winners of the crisis?
How can we restore a minimum level of fair competition?
We salute the work that Commissioner Thierry Breton is doing at European level to limit the power of GAFAM.
And let's hope that the lobbies of these powerful interests which are launched against him, will not get the better of his courage.
Thanks to him, we should have the means to regain power over these giants: to give weapons to small businesses that need these GAFAMs to be sold online via their market place and which for the moment, are mainly getting their money pumped. data and their clientele diaries.
Europe seems to have finally understood, whether it was capable of banging its fist on the table, until threatening these GAFAMs with dismantling if they did not play the game of our common market, or what we represent, our hopes. , our values, are doomed to be devoured by these unscrupulous giants.
