This article comes from “Figaro Magazine”
Bordeaux, Montpellier, Viry-Châtillon… The savagery of the city continues its course, indifferent to the bleating indignations. Relativistic verbiage. With votive and martial spiel. No surprise: things are laughed at by those who only have the words to confront them. But we must go further than these incontinent litanies shamelessly exhibiting their impotence. Because, behind the words, there are ideas. In this case, a simple idea inherited from Rousseau, generally formulated as follows:
“Man is born good, society corrupts him.”
An idea that has become dogma from which its devotees deduce that the less society there is, the more the natural goodness of human beings will flourish gracefully.
The inescapable “it is forbidden to prohibit” wonderfully sums up this ideological matrix which is always alive, dominant and fertile. The consequence? She is before our eyes
This is why every society must force itself to no longer be one. How? By abolishing any requirement, limit, norm and constraint likely to hinder the natural expression of goodness which is the basis of the human soul. In short, contrary to what Camus thought…