Anne-Sophie Chazaud is a researcher and essayist, author of Liberté d'inexpression, contemporary forms of censorship (éditions de l'Artilleur, 2020).
Looking at the abundant nonsense and not devoid of inventiveness produced by most elected environmentalists (who actually care very little about ecology) is a bit like tasting with wonder and greed at the daily joys of a calendar advent: every day his little pleasure, his little ridiculous decision, his pathetic desire to provoke, his infantile desire to shock the bourgeois (and the much hated populo), his obsession with deconstructing traditional codes and landmarks, in particularly when they relate to the historical Christian roots (
horresco referens!
) of France (nothing but bad words!). And the grotesque declarations or decisions followed one another in a sort of secret competition that seemed to be engaged in these city councilors,competition including
vulgum pecus was
unaware of the obscure rules and whose prize of the winner was perhaps a Clitoris d'Or - in salt dough - made thanks to the witchcraft donations of Dame Sandrine Rousseau, who knows ...
The accidental conquest due to Covid of only 8 cities (out of 42) of more than 100,000 inhabitants with a record abstention rate of 56% and a more than tenuous legitimacy (even because of the circumstances in which this process took place electoral, between confinement and fear of panic) nevertheless made these local executives grow wings who, immediately at the helm, set the tone in a way that was not very unifying and willingly ideological, where arrogance often disputes it with simple stupidity , which moreover both harm the environmental cause to which every normal human being can only be sensitive.
Behind the grotesque, there is an ideological agenda that cannot be avoided: it is obviously a question of not celebrating Christmas in the traditional way.
Anne-Sophie Chazaud
For example, there was a rush to embrace inclusive writing, this gibberish in reality excluding for all those who have reading and cognitive difficulties (but never mind since this is nothing other than an outward sign of cultural richness testifying to the unhealthy desire to insecure the language), there were the crazy declarations on 5G (serving, as everyone knows, according to the inenarable mayor of Grenoble Éric Piolle to “
Watching porn in the elevator
”), the prohibitions on flying over Lyon for the Patrouille de France, the idiotic statements about the Tour de France and so much other nonsense.
There was also a whole nebula semantics of new names within the local executives suggesting that we were plunged into the heart of some improbable Ulipian dictionary suggesting that these elected officials had taken all the words they knew and had mixed them up. at random before assigning them to their teams, as Judith Waintraub jokingly recalled in these columns: “
In Strasbourg, the “resilient city” and the “inclusive city” each have their deputies.
Bordeaux announces the color with a first deputy “in charge of finances, the climate challenge and equality between women and men”, another “in charge of permanent democracy, associative life and governance by the collective intelligence ”, an assistant for“ resilient town planning ”, municipal councilors responsible for“ digital sobriety ”and“ food resilience ”,“ circular economy ”,“ zero waste ”and the development of a “local currency”
”.
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In the midst of this recurring gibberish and burlesque decisions, the Christmas question came back regularly like a thorn (fir) in the side of our political apprentices. We remember in particular that last year, at the same time, the mayor of Bordeaux Pierre Hurmic said bluntly: “
We will not put dead trees
[sic]
in the city squares. This is not at all our conception of revegetation. At the end of 2020, we will adopt the tree rights charter
”.
And, indeed, a few days ago, it was done because our aedile obviously more concerned with the rights of trees - which, by definition, having no conscience, can not be subjects of law, whatever the immense consideration they are given to them, as is the case with the author of these lines, who perhaps even lends them a secret soul ... - that by the right of its citizens to live in safety, signed on Wednesday a Declaration of the rights of the tree (sic), also announcing a series of measures to revegetate its city (which is always a little scary now, knowing the propensity of elected environmentalists to disperse here and there in all corners of their cities of woodchip litter - dead trees, therefore - where animals and children catch splinters and germs).No dead trees, therefore, the expression had amused all of France.
Behind the grotesque, however, manifested an ideological agenda that could not be avoided: of course, it was also a question of not celebrating Christmas in the traditional way. Let us add, moreover, that specialists in the wood industry were very moved by it, pointing out the stupidity, including ecological, of this measure: “
If he has a brain, the mayor of Bordeaux must learn to think. The Christmas tree is like wheat, we plant and harvest. There is no deforestation. They in Bordeaux, they produce vines, they cut the bunches of grapes. It’s exactly the same thing for us,
”observed Gérard Maternaud, producer of fir trees. Too complicated to understand, obviously.
The very notion of Christmas is now clearly stated as to be banned since it seems to presuppose that everyone is a Christian.
Anne-Sophie Chazaud
In order to show that the discontent of the citizens had still been vaguely heard about the respect of a tradition certainly Christian but especially eminently popular, the mayor of Bordeaux this time decided that there would be a Christmas tree but made of glass and in steel (which gives the feeling of coming closer to nature and of revegetation) and more of an artistic order than of the Christmas tradition.
We would like to say here that it is by no means, as many have done in reaction to this announcement, to criticize in a reflex way the creation proposed by the artist designer Arnaud Lapierre. Personally, we find this work beautiful, particularly appreciating the play of light made possible by the magic of glass, the most fascinating material. Let us note, moreover, that the artist defends his work well with solid arguments, and consequently we do not wish here to howl with the wolves of primary anti-modernism; also note that this work is inspired by a smaller creation, already made for the city of Saint Petersburg (for the museum of modern art), with a steel structure and glass panels, the way of one-way mirrors,emerald color, all materials being recycled and recyclable, the work can also be reused for several years. Arnaud Lapierre worked with the Bordeaux metalwork, a local ironwork workshop, no part being manufactured more than 50 kilometers from Bordeaux. This is all well and good, on a creative level.
However, if we refer to the Instagram profile of Arnaud Lapierre's design studio, we can certainly contemplate (with pleasure) the images of the work thus produced in Russia, but embellished with a comment that caught our attention. .
In fact, we read (we translate from English) that this “cone” is “
decontextualized from any theological sign
”.
Here we are, it was enough to look a little ...
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The artist is not denied the right to produce this “experience”. On the other hand, it is disputed the will proven but somewhat concealed (badly) by the local councilors to offer a Christmas tree which on the one hand is not a tree in its natural and traditional (popular) dimension and which in addition is designed specifically to empty the latter of its Christian content (no star on the top, of course): “
Creating a Christmas tree experience for the city
”… Should we remember that in Christmas, there is “Christ”?
It also seems that Christmas poses serious existential problems in Wokistan, in general and outside of Bordeaux antics. Thus we recently discovered that the European Commissioner for Equality Helena Dalli had published a guide entitled
Guidelines for Inclusive Communication
in which, on no less than 18 pages, semantic recommendations are given with the aim of ideologically mold minds according to the neo-progressive wind which constantly blows on the institutions of the European Union and their sinister agenda of deculturation.
Among other absurd considerations (such as, for example, that of banning the overly gendered “Ladies and Gentlemen”), the very notion of Christmas is now clearly stated there as should be banned since it seems to presuppose that everyone is a Christian - even then that 'it is simply a question of assuming the origins and the European cultural tradition which visibly appreciates very particularly to shoot bullets in the foot and to hate itself. It is appropriate, says this new Little Red Book, to say rather "holidays" than Christmas. In fact, we must admit, it is indeed a question of vacancy, in the etymological sense of emptiness, of the emptiness of a message whose very meaning is nothing more than the emptiness which constitutes it. Let's celebrate emptiness with joy and good humor!
In Besançon, a controversy arose because we discovered the illuminations of the traders of the city entitled (in a rather ugly typography, by the way), this astonishing festive incantation wishing everyone a "Fantastic December".
Anne-Sophie Chazaud
Let us therefore remember, for all practical purposes, that in addition to the initial religious meaning of Christmas, it is not necessary to be a believer to popularly celebrate the birth of a small child, the hope of all civilization as well as of any individual in the heart of winter (real or metaphorical) - and of the death it represents -, to celebrate the humility of all bowing down to the innocence of life (a notion that should however speak to environmentalists) , especially in these times of collective morbidity that we are going through, that it is not necessary to be a Christian to celebrate the pleasure of unity, whether family or friendly and, for a time, that of truce, of concord and peace. It's called the Christmas spirit and maybe elected environmentalists should give it a try,it would relax everyone.
In Besançon, at the same time, a controversy arose because we discovered the illuminations of the traders of the city entitled (in a rather ugly typography, by the way), this astonishing festive incantation wishing everyone a "Fantastic December ". If this umpteenth incongruity of a disoriented world cannot be attributed to the mayor (environmentalist) of the City but to the Office du Commerce et de l'Artisanat de Besançon (OCAB) which had chosen this term in 2019 to designate the operation of the holiday season, however, we do not see there any valid excuse. Whether the word "Christmas" is present in various activities offered throughout this "fantastic December" does not matter: the question is indeed to know what is displayed, what thewe say and what is the message we send, in short, what is the (nameless Christmas) tree that hides the forest of renunciation.
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Believing to thwart the controversy launched on this subject by the deputy Éric Ciotti, many found in the fact that this initiative came from the traders and not from the elected environmentalist, the proof that this one was wrong when it denounced the sign of 'a desire to deconstruct traditions.
We think that in reality it is worse.
Worse because it comes directly from the law of the market, and even more from the injunctions of a few confused ideologues.
The law of the market, which adapts slavishly with its invisible hand to the pressure of minorities which one fears that they are offended (violently, perhaps?) By what, in a country of Christian tradition, the we wish Christmas when it's Christmas.
So, we censor ourselves, we self-censor and we will always find a few complacent elected officials (from all sides) and a few belly-up food-priests adepts of who knows what wobbly theory of the mysterious "pincers". Identity ”to rejoice, the very people who go hunting for santons in December, like others, track down smuggled small game. And we must never forget this so luminous sentence of Roland Barthes who recalled that "
fascism is not to prevent saying: it is to force to say
". Forcing to say "Fantastic December" or "Very Happy Holidays" in a perverse and deceptively ingenuous game.
As hope and as a basis, there remains popular common sense, the “sentimental crowd” so poetically sung by Alain Souchon, who never was moved to celebrate a simple calendar month or a vacancy of any significance.