François de Closets
may
have been born in 1933,
but he still has the anger of a young man.
We remember how it thundered in 2020 against a confinement that walled up the whole country, when the Covid-19 was only really dangerous for the oldest.
On its way, the essayist accused the generation of baby boomers (the famous “boomers”) of being dreadful selfish people who will leave future generations only a devastated planet and a mountain of debt.
In a thought-provoking essay coming out this week*,
the author of
“Always More!”
implacably develops his indictment.
How, he wonders, could a generation that knew neither war nor major crisis have pushed France from prosperity to decline?
And to line up the charges: retirement at 60, endemic deficits, 68-year-old individualism, declining birth rate, concentration of wealth among seniors... Here are the boomers dressed for winter, even if they don't 'need it more since they also provoked...
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