Olivier Babeau is president of the Sapiens Institute and, moreover, professor of management sciences at the University of Bordeaux. He recently published
The New Digital Disorder: How Digital Is Exploding Inequalities
(Buchet Chastel, 2020).
Crises reveal our greatness, but even more surely our smallness.
During these months of pandemic, our state apparatus will have unleashed all its demons: creation of countless counters, production by shovelfuls of amphigouric forms, a series of orders and contrasts.
Of course, the risk is real and the death toll is already heavy.
Action needs to be taken.
But, as Montesquieu wrote, unnecessary rules weakened those that were necessary.
The finicky measures and gratuitous annoyance of the public power contrast painfully with the glaring proofs of its weakness in the face of the thugs who ravage our cities at each demonstration.
Health efficiency, a stated objective, is erased
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