In an article published in Choiseul Magazine, Xavier Desmaison reviews the changing political and social context in France.
“The famous permanent civil war so well described by historian Michel Winock in his classic La Fièvre hexagonale, and summed up by François Mauriac in 1968: “I don’t think there’s any more hatred in France today than there was in the good old days. Civil war has been cold or hot depending on the era, but perpetual.”
Everything points to the fact that we’re waking up from a period of glaciation, from the Mitterrandian “ni ni” to the Macronian “en même temps”, perhaps a little too cool, and that we’re immediately tipping over into a form of dangerous canicule. One of the main reasons for this is the transformation of our public space: the atmosphere is gradually becoming saturated with misleading, biased information, uncorrelated with the facts. How can we limit the digital greenhouse effect?
Read online the article published in the print edition of Choiseul Magazine (Issue 4, Summer 2024).
