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Pascal Bruckner: "Opposition to pension reform or the reflection of a fearful and tired France"

2023-02-12T19:16:13.452Z


TRIBUNE – For the writer *, author of the “Sacre des pantoufles”, the opposition to the pension reform shows that confinement has become the matrix of our present. The French are, according to him, more morose than revolted. He invites them to rediscover the taste for effort and...


“Following a social movement

”… the traveler who hears this information in a train or metro station knows that he is going to stay on the platform.

The movement of a few presupposes the immobility of all.

Do not move any more: this is what the spirit of the times tells us.

Ditch the global for the local even though the local too often looks like a jar.

Isn't it the guru Jean-Marc Jancovici who recommends reducing the plane to four trips per person for an entire life?

Why this number?

Mystery.

The master knows, it's up to us to obey.

Containment has imperceptibly become the matrix of the present: sanitary tyranny has slipped into sedentary tyranny.

In a dangerous world where war, epidemics, terrorism and natural disasters reign, leaving the nest is an act of mad heroism.

Plan-plan youth, as sociologists call it, is paralyzed by dread.

In the slightest rise in temperature, she reads the signs of the end.

You have to stay at home in the…

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Source: lefigaro

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