And what had to happen happened...
The scandal that affects the managers of retirement homes - Orpea today, others perhaps tomorrow -, accused of inhumanities of all kinds towards their residents, lifts a corner of the veil collectively thrown on a hated age: old age .
Chronicler of the deep ills of our time, Michel Houellebecq has just depicted in his latest novel the misfortune of the elderly, stricken with infamy, relegated to gloomy "Ehpad" (the word itself is not one) in the gap of life.
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Should we really be surprised that a society hypnotized by the myth of endless expansion turns its elders no longer into wise men but outcasts, and that a world steeped in youthism and "ing" imperatives ( coaching, reporting, and other performance supports) no longer sees in old age anything but abjection and disgrace?
It is in this withdrawal of consciences, this retreat of the heart, that this “conspiracy of silence” that Simone de Beauvoir already denounced grew…
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