Everything must be deconstructed!
Men, the colonial imagination, received ideas, the myth of the Parisian woman, the economy, work, the image of French women in the United States, again and above all men, the taboo of menstruation, the heterosexism, the couple, the French language, carbonara pasta and children's stories... Deconstruction is the mantra of social science doctoral students in Western universities, the imperative of the 21st century M. Homais who populate the newspapers, the gesture of the semi-skilled of our time.
As long as pushing this gesture to the end, why not deconstruct deconstruction itself?
After all, as Péguy wrote in
L'Argent
about the dechristianizers of the Third Republic:
“For thirty years they set out to ruin everything that was standing in France and France itself.
And today we would not have the right to ruin this ruin.
We wouldn't have the right to corrode this corrosion, erode this erosion
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