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Professor at the University of Bordeaux and essayist,
Olivier Babeau
notably published “
The
Tyranny of Entertainment
” (Buchet-Chastel, 2023).
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The contrast is striking.
On the one hand, a France ship which is cracking on all sides: abysmal deficits, debt which is increasing dangerously, decline in terms of wealth per capita compared to other developed countries, taxes at their historical maximum, uncontrolled immigration, degradation continues from our school and our hospitals.
On the other, the government's satisfied communication on improbable micromeasures of more than doubtful usefulness.
When the latter also provoke an almost immediate backlash, the drama turns into a farce.
The video of the Minister of Ecological Transition, Christophe Béchu, was a great success on social networks: it proudly announced “
very simple, very concrete
”
measures
, in particular the doubling of the
“
bonus amount for 5
daily devices
”
(TV , washing machine…
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