The Hardline Right Moves into the Élysee Palace - Sarkozy Wins the French Presidential Election
14 May 2007, 20:33
Well, if you’re an American who’s felt besieged by French critiques dripping with superiority over the past five years, you might take some satisfaction in seeing a Reaganesque candidate sympathetic to W. assume the mighty throne. Finally, a taste of American-style cheese - right there in the home of Brie.
On the other hand, if you’ve been awed by the illustrious contributions, from J.J. Rousseau to Levi-Strauss, you’re, no doubt, a little sick to your stomach. For you are witnessing the gradual, and now indisputably, inexorable momentum of the Right marching deeper and deeper into our consciousness. All under the auspices of "Freedom." "Democracy." "Free markets."
And the people, duped by the clever hypnosis, doped by the bourgeois payouts, shout out in unison, "Yes Masta." Exhibit A: all 17 officially declared American candidates wearing the same exact suit at the debates. Makes you wanna go out and get a Bozo outfit and yell fire in a crowded theater.
Meanwhile, the poor mentally ill walk the streets in Dickens Redux - a play that features the gentrified, bloated with self-importance and burdened with 2-lb. watches capable of working 20,000 leagues below sea, walking by the mass of undesirables on their way to next cabaret.
Think: ancient Greece, Rome, Germany in the 20s. Was Spengler wrong about Western Decline?
Are the masses stupid as has always been the assertion? You better believe it. And in a world rapidly headed for intensified balkanization - gated communities writ large - where the upper classes are forced to increasingly segregate themselves from the "unfit" via fascistic means, stupid = dangerous.
The writing’s on the wall now. And the barricades, and virtually everywhere you look. The line down the center isn’t blurring but becoming more distinct with each social Darwinist move. You’re either Right or wrong. The left, like many of the critters suffering from environmental overload, is quickly becoming extinct.
Well, if you’re an American who’s felt besieged by French critiques dripping with superiority over the past five years, you might take some satisfaction in seeing a Reaganesque candidate sympathetic to W. assume the mighty throne. Finally, a taste of American-style cheese - right there in the home of Brie.
On the other hand, if you’ve been awed by the illustrious contributions, from J.J. Rousseau to Levi-Strauss, you’re, no doubt, a little sick to your stomach. For you are witnessing the gradual, and now indisputably, inexorable momentum of the Right marching deeper and deeper into our consciousness. All under the auspices of "Freedom." "Democracy." "Free markets."
And the people, duped by the clever hypnosis, doped by the bourgeois payouts, shout out in unison, "Yes Masta." Exhibit A: all 17 officially declared American candidates wearing the same exact suit at the debates. Makes you wanna go out and get a Bozo outfit and yell fire in a crowded theater.
Meanwhile, the poor mentally ill walk the streets in Dickens Redux - a play that features the gentrified, bloated with self-importance and burdened with 2-lb. watches capable of working 20,000 leagues below sea, walking by the mass of undesirables on their way to next cabaret.
Think: ancient Greece, Rome, Germany in the 20s. Was Spengler wrong about Western Decline?
Are the masses stupid as has always been the assertion? You better believe it. And in a world rapidly headed for intensified balkanization - gated communities writ large - where the upper classes are forced to increasingly segregate themselves from the "unfit" via fascistic means, stupid = dangerous.
The writing’s on the wall now. And the barricades, and virtually everywhere you look. The line down the center isn’t blurring but becoming more distinct with each social Darwinist move. You’re either Right or wrong. The left, like many of the critters suffering from environmental overload, is quickly becoming extinct.