Not sure if this is Nitzchean, but it could be that the French army itself is hosting some seditious undercurrents... Well that's one of the places where you would expect to find far-right, paramilitary-style people after all:
It's in French, but basically a bunch of army generals, high-grade personnel, and yet others among the army, have published an address to the nation in Valeurs Actuelles. Warning about the decay of the Nation, etc etc and then calling for sedition. This is one of the most notoriously ambiguous French right-wing periodicals, always bordering on the obscenely far-right with shocking, terrifying covers about this or that threat etc... Feels like WW2 isn't really over, when you see their covers sometimes. Of course this one article got a lot of attention, and the indignation it deserves, because they are calling for a state coup led by the Army.
This comes straight after another 'lone-wolf' style Islamic terror attack, this time a guy stabbing to death a female clerk in a police office. There was also the end of the prosecution of a guy who pushed an old lady out from a window, to kill her because she was Jewish. The guy was not sent to jail, on grounds that drug and psychic troubles had compelled him to act and it wasn't a purely responsible antisemitic act. That verdict got a lot of public protests from the Jewish communities and from the population in general... The government is now proposing a law about judiciary responsibility for a crime. They will name a street after the old lady, in Paris. It's quite a strong symbol, more nadaid over an open wound. There was also a case of suburb hoodlums who were judged for trying to burn a police car and the policewoman inside, they were like a dozen and only 5 of them got a jail sentence. Some police force unions protested. Quite a few church fires as well, which always instill tension in the audience. I am not judging the right from the wrong here, or if there are culprits, etc... But the perception it creates is dangerous.
It will be quite easy to throw the baby with the bathwater, it won't be different this time. The scary part here is that as years go by, the support of the armed branches of the state (army, police) is slowly eroding away. What's also scary is that the media is always about fear, how we are doomed if we don't change (the climate, the covid, what have you). So people intuitively feel that change has to happen. But a "military" change is not something that will come from the people, I doubt it will benefit many people. And given how French History has unfolded, it's fair to say that each military crisis is handled by authorities in a way as to hurt many people. So the military taking over may be a sign of rosy flowers being shared by a lot of hugs... or of something a bit more sinister.
What's puzzling me is that certain options are still taboo: questionning our reliance on technology, for instance. Or, let's say, the need for spiritual life to help a community. Social technologies as opposed to electronics... We always fight terrorism, or threats from the outside like immigration, Covid or climate change. What's difficult is that the threats we now face are from the inside, like rampant complexity (of which globalization of goods' production and extreme transportation/inventory management is only an offshoot), increasing inequality, erosion of the social contract, crime and lawlessness.
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It's in French, but basically a bunch of army generals, high-grade personnel, and yet others among the army, have published an address to the nation in Valeurs Actuelles. Warning about the decay of the Nation, etc etc and then calling for sedition. This is one of the most notoriously ambiguous French right-wing periodicals, always bordering on the obscenely far-right with shocking, terrifying covers about this or that threat etc... Feels like WW2 isn't really over, when you see their covers sometimes.
Of course this one article got a lot of attention, and the indignation it deserves, because they are calling for a state coup led by the Army.
This comes straight after another 'lone-wolf' style Islamic terror attack, this time a guy stabbing to death a female clerk in a police office. There was also the end of the prosecution of a guy who pushed an old lady out from a window, to kill her because she was Jewish. The guy was not sent to jail, on grounds that drug and psychic troubles had compelled him to act and it wasn't a purely responsible antisemitic act. That verdict got a lot of public protests from the Jewish communities and from the population in general... The government is now proposing a law about judiciary responsibility for a crime. They will name a street after the old lady, in Paris. It's quite a strong symbol, more nadaid over an open wound. There was also a case of suburb hoodlums who were judged for trying to burn a police car and the policewoman inside, they were like a dozen and only 5 of them got a jail sentence. Some police force unions protested. Quite a few church fires as well, which always instill tension in the audience. I am not judging the right from the wrong here, or if there are culprits, etc... But the perception it creates is dangerous.
It will be quite easy to throw the baby with the bathwater, it won't be different this time.
The scary part here is that as years go by, the support of the armed branches of the state (army, police) is slowly eroding away. What's also scary is that the media is always about fear, how we are doomed if we don't change (the climate, the covid, what have you). So people intuitively feel that change has to happen. But a "military" change is not something that will come from the people, I doubt it will benefit many people.
And given how French History has unfolded, it's fair to say that each military crisis is handled by authorities in a way as to hurt many people. So the military taking over may be a sign of rosy flowers being shared by a lot of hugs... or of something a bit more sinister.
What's puzzling me is that certain options are still taboo: questionning our reliance on technology, for instance. Or, let's say, the need for spiritual life to help a community. Social technologies as opposed to electronics... We always fight terrorism, or threats from the outside like immigration, Covid or climate change. What's difficult is that the threats we now face are from the inside, like rampant complexity (of which globalization of goods' production and extreme transportation/inventory management is only an offshoot), increasing inequality, erosion of the social contract, crime and lawlessness.