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Eugénie Bastié: "Praise of the flesh against the neo-puritans"

2022-01-19T19:02:00.508Z


CHRONICLE - Hygienism, metooism, cancel culture: in The Trial of the Flesh (Grasset), David Haziza pulverizes the new inquisitors.


What do surgical mask fetishism, Me Too feminism, veganism and artificial intelligence have in common?

The refusal of the flesh, its indictment by a technical, binary and sanitized era.

In

The Trial of the Flesh

(Grasset), David Haziza pulverizes contemporary Puritanism and its petty inquisitors.

Their pyres are plastic and they prefer hydroalcoholic gel to the flame, but their purification fever is intact.

The flesh that we enjoy and that which we eat, that which we hold from our ancestors and which we pass on to our children, is once again in the dock

”.

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He curses, with Bernanosian verve, this civilization of robots “

manufacturing children in the laboratory whom we then lock up for fear of death and disease

” which went so far as to suspend funeral rites during the pandemic.

The mask, which has become an object for displaying ostentatious virtue, is another aspect of political correctness that chills…

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Source: lefigaro

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