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"Civil disobedience is not a right and takes the risk of a balance of power"

2021-01-29T19:46:38.782Z


FIGAROVOX / INTERVIEW - Calls not to respect a new confinement are flourishing on social networks. Pierre-Henri Tavoillot, philosopher, lecturer at Sorbonne-Paris IV University, analyzes this phenomenon and its intellectual roots.


LE FIGARO.

- Should we take seriously the calls for civil disobedience that are increasing on social networks?

Pierre-Henri TAVOILLOT.

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Surprisingly, demonstrations are rarer in France than in many other European countries (the Netherlands, Italy, sometimes even in Germany) where often disorganized and brutal movements have broken out.

With us, the protest in the street is still quite weak, which is singular in view of our rather conflictual political history.

How to explain it?

It seems to me that our current feeling is twofold: on the one hand, a form of fatalism in the face of an event that no one controls;

on the other, the exasperation with regard to a horizon of return to normality constantly pushed back.

The vaccination had given great hope, but he was shaken by the appearance of the variants.

Hence a new worrying race against time between vaccines and variants.

In this extreme, even dramatic tension, I find it hard to envision a wave

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Source: lefigaro

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