Of course it’s not me who says it - that no.It's Claude Askolovitch.More precisely, Claude Askolovitch reports the words of a "pulmonologist".At the same time, we feel that he puts them a little.It’s not exactly he who says it but a bit like anyway.In any case, all the papers of respectability are duly stamped: a journalist from France Inter and d'Arte, we can hardly more in good standing.And so all of a sudden, without warning, here it is talking, or lets speak, of our rulers as "assholes".
Lire aussi« Covid-19, et la vie bascula », Le Monde diplomatique, avril 2020.
One wonders what has bitten it-at the same time we must admit: when a video called to remain in the collective memory shows Agnes Buzyn, above Minister of Health, declare at the end of January that obviously the virus will remain in Wuhan and that there is no chance that we never see the color of it; When, until March 12, afternoon, Minister Blanquer asserts that there is no reason to close the schools (me too, like Claude Askolovitch, I have a friend: in his daughter's class, seven Positive cases, but why annoy parents with useless care concerns?), And that the same evening the general closure is announced; When, in a tweet to put away on the same shelf as the video of Buzyn, Macron, like a hipster of the 11th arrondissement which would have made the poetry workshop in college, invites us- on March 11-: "We will not give up anything , especially not to laugh, to sing, to think, to love, especially not on the terraces, to the concert halls, to the summer evening summer, especially not to freedom ", to close the schools, on the 14 his Prime Minister announce a beginning of general confinement, and on the 16th Morigue the population who continued on the momentum of the example he gave him for weeks; When we recover before our eyes the overall picture of these astonishments, we tell ourselves that all these people were caught either by surprise or by bullshit. And that the hypothesis of surprise being obviously excluded, there is only that of bullshit - which is not a surprise.
But the establishment of the archives would not be complete if we added this sequence, eloquent and synthetic among all, from the intervention of Martin Hirsch, director of the AP-HP to the Journal de France 2 Saturday evening:"I beg all French people to apply the measures announced".Martin Hirsch, passed without transition from demolition to supplication.
On s’est beaucoup moqué des soviétiques, de Tchernobyl et du socialisme réel, mais vraiment, le capitalisme néolibéral devrait prendre garde à ne pas faire le malinSupplication is the title of a book by Svetlana Alexievitch. On the Chernobyl disaster. And it’s true that there is Chernobyl in the air. There will be "cleaners". This is the name that was given to the sacrifices, those who were sent with a cloth on the mouth and a pair of boots, shoves the vitrified rubble of radioactivity. A nursing assistant on Twitter publishes the boss circulating to make "yourself at home" masks with fabric. We made a lot of fun with the Soviets, Chernobyl and real socialism, but really, neoliberal capitalism, which has already forgotten its Three Mile Island and its Fukushima, should be careful not to be clever. At the hospital in France in 2020, there is a shortage of frost and masks for the nursing staff - while considerable fractions of the population should have access to it. And we have probably not seen anything yet: what will happen in a few weeks when the hospital, contaminated, will start to fall like flies, and the whole structure of care threaten to s 'collapse on herself, the caregivers becoming to be-but by whom? But zero-back, zero-works: it was the effective instructions for Lean-Du-Déliers-zero-managers. To whom only the supplication remains.
Lire aussi Julien Baldassarra, « Quand la télévision américaine raconte Tchernobyl », Le Monde diplomatique, août 2019.
There are zero-managers and, therefore, there are the Epsilon-Journalistes: those who start to shout in "assholes" when the disaster is there.That is to say a little late.Other people have been shouting in "assholes", for a long time, but, God all this radicality!All this violence!Democracy is the peaceful debate and far from the extremes (which touch).In France Inter, on Arte, in the world and in Liberation, reason is the name of the mission: violence is for the populace bounded in its yellowish passions, or the furious crazy of "the ultra-left".And then all of a sudden, one day: "asshole".
The problem with major disasters - financial, nuclear, health - is that it is better to have seen them coming from afar.That is to say, having taken the risk of yelling "assholes" when everything was fine, or rather when everything likely-while the disaster was growing in the shadows.Armament, and the permanent rearmament of finance, therefore financial crises, including that of 2007: assholes.The destruction of school, university and research (especially on coronavirus, what irony): asshole.The demolition of the public hospital: Ah yes, sacred assholes.The emergence of disinfectant gel bottles in the polling stations anyway, caregivers are lacking: excluding category.
On peut jouer « l’immunité de groupe » avec la grippe saisonnière, par exemple, mais pas avec la peste. Où est le coronavirus entre les deux ?Finally "outside category", it's quickly said. Because, on the front of the assholes too, unusual competition is fierce. The United Kingdom, which has the same at home, is discovering the slight dumpling of its first strategy based on the construction of "group immunity"-that is, in the perspective of a recurring epidemic, letting Deliberately infecting 50 to 60 % of the population to largely distribute the formation of antibodies, with a view to "the same according to". However, we can play "group immunity" with seasonal flu, for example, but not with the plague. Where is the coronavirus between the two? A little too much in the middle it seems. In any case enough to play the "regulated propagation", instead of the containmentrigorous, ends up ending in the hundreds of thousands of deaths - 510,000 in the British case according to estimates of an Imperial College report. Here the consequentialist philosophy (1) with a heavy hand, and the spirit of generous sacrifice - but for others, as always.
Now the conspiratorial organ of the radical left, Le Figaro, tells us that there are many reasons to think that the first response of the French government was strongly impregnated, without obviously saying it, of the sacrificial strategy of "theGroup immunity " -" Certainly, there will be a few dead, but finally it is for the future salvation of the community ".Comes the moment when, in Paris and London, we realize that "a few dead", it will rather make a mountain of dead.Hence the somewhat brutal passage of college poetry with armed confinement.From there also the legitimate question of how much it puts us on the open Richter scale of the governing bullshit.
We understand, in such conditions of moral fragility, that the government needs to appeal to "war" and "the national union".It is that authorizing the slightest departure of protest threatens to turn into general fire.In the real one, the solidarity with which Macron makes his zero troops, and which is indeed very imperative, does not lead to being united with him - just: between us.Under these conditions, nothing is removed from the duty to look and the freedom to say: "assholes", if it turns out.
But the social world is like a great system of differential authorizations. The rights to say, and especially to be heard, are unevenly distributed. What is said little, and who says it a lot. For example, warning "assholes" as long as France Inter says that everything is fine is inadmissible. France Inter must go into "asshole" mode so that "assholes" can be said - and received. We understood that here France Inter was a metonymy. The metonymy of the Epsilon-Journalist monopoly. That you only draw the nose on the obstacle. But then guaranteed hilarity: on this morning in the first round of the municipal elections, CNews shows us Philippe Poutou voting in Bordeaux where he is a candidate, and we fail to fall backwards by hearing the comment voice remember that "Philippe Poutou represents a Party whose slogan has long been "our lives are worth more than their profits", and I find that what we are experiencing at the moment is the implementation of this principle ". There you go. They were so funny these trostystes with their slogans, well, just, from the bottom of the USSR of Chernobyl (historiographical stubbornness of the first, but that is how it is stored in a journalist's head). They were so funny. And then they are right. We say the Trotskyists, but there too it is a metonymy-symmetrical of the enema monopoly.
En-face, precisely, apart from this humor, almost nothing.Claude Askolovitch is not France Inter - he will be when, and in his own name, he will say "asshole" at the microphone, even from a "friend", rather than on his personal account of Twitter.At Libé, we were not very shaken by sarcasm from the idea that one could argued of the stock market crash against the pension reform - these rebellious .... in the world, any question of the whole of neoliberalismIn the present situation is worth ulucation excited at the "big evening".
But the characteristic of major crises, as situations with meteoric developments, is that opinions also experience dazzling developments. For example, a few days away, we would gladly take up the feeling of Lilan Alemagna that the Krach connection/pension reform made you laugh so much. Or that of Abel Mestre now that he has learned of his own newspaper articles on mortality projections and the gradually revealed situation of the hospital, how he appreciates the degree of change that must be made known to the social order present. The social order which gives "hero" in symbolic veroterie to hospital staff, but makes them send emails explaining to them that infection in the coronavirus will not be recognized as an occupational disease (sometimes between two guards they go to tear themselves apart in disco); Whoever by the mouth of Martin Hirsch - again - deals with "scrogneugneu" the doctors and nurses who denounced the material agony of the hospital (chaired by him), and this at the very moment when he asks retired personnel to come Take the emergency room necklace, that is to say to join their colleagues all already positive, Chernobyl-Style; The one who celebrates the ethics of public service Il-y-a-des-Choses-ie-ne-Pas-Concier-à-la-Loi-du-Marché, but maintains the day of deficiency for his agents sick; Whoever comes out of old people in the hope of securing the municipal majorities of the bourgeois block (©); Whoever produces characters as brilliant as, but that then! Again Martin Hirsch - decidedly the ambulant synthesis of the regime alone - explaining on France Inter with interviewers who are not pretending to be the censer but this time a little designed, that there are resuscitation which, what, how, how to say how … Last a long time, of the two three weeks, while well at the end it ends rather badly, and suddenly they did not serve much (the resuscitation), in fact to nothing, that we could Perhaps consider disconnecting a little earlier, since it would be a question of freeing the bed quickly, reports to Zero-Bed. And now, Verbatim: "When the resuscitators judge that resuscitation only has the effect of prolonging only eight days, they will make the rational (sic) not to embark on a resuscitation whose conclusion is already known". But the verbatim is still too little, it lacks the speech characteristic of the one who says a monstrosity, an obscene, impreshing thing, knowing that he says a monstrosity, an obscene, unbearable thing. Because to judge "a resuscitation whose conclusion is already known", it is, as would say, and moreover as Ali Baddou says, a "terrible responsibility". To which Hirsch answers, from the TAC to the TAC, that "terrible responsibility is indeed to do as much as possible, to be hyper-organized, to convince others that we must mobilize thoroughly"-to the Heart of the question that had just been asked. Because we had not understood what terrible responsibility is terrible responsibility: it is to stick together and to be "mobilized thoroughly"! Let's say, things: against all this, the proposal to overthrow everything and to redo everything who, under the name-epouvantail of "Grand Soir" scares so much Abel Mestre, is ultimately most moderate, in fact minimal.
On planquera d’autant moins les morts que les médecins disent depuis des mois l’effondrement du système hospitalier, et que la population les a entendusBut the characteristic of all the propagandists of the present order is that the sense of the disgusting only comes to them late - if it comes to them. You never really know how far the dominant must go to tear them off a start of turnaround, a beginning of global interrogation. But whatever: "global questions", others than they are, more numerous and, the time spent, less and less calm. Until now, the dead of neoliberal capitalism, between asbestos, pharmaceutical scandals, work accidents, suicides France Telecom, etc., were too scattered so that the common conscience summarizes them under an overall causal system. But those who arrive by wagons, we will not hide them like cat shit. We will hide them all the less since doctors have been saying the collapse of the hospital system for months, and the population has heard them. Just as she begins to understand who this collapse is "terrible responsibility". The time for the surrender of political accounts is looming, and it too risks being "terrible".
Lire aussi Sonia Shah, « Contre les pandémies,l’écologie », Le Monde diplomatique, mars 2020.
In reality, a pandemic in the format of today is the fatal test for all the logic of neoliberalism. It stops what this capitalism requires to keep constantly in frantic movement. Above all, it recalls this evidence that a company being a collective entity, it does not work without collective constructions - it is usually called public services. The killing of the public service, a company pursued with fierceness by all the liberals who have continued continuously in power for thirty years, but brought to incredible degrees by the Macron-Buzyn-Blanquaud clique and all their miserable managers, n 'is not just an institutional killing when it comes to the public health service - where words find their own meaning with the last brutality. In December 2019, a banner of demonstrators said: "The state counts the money, we will count the dead". Here we are.
For the time being, we say "asshole", but you should not be mistaken: it may still be an indulgence.Who knows if we will not say anything else soon.
In fact, all this power, if he had remained two sous of dignity to him, should have taken on the disaster already announced in front of the public, recognize that he has understood nothing about what it is that living in community or thatthat the time calls.Under these conditions, he should have downgraded to the rank of an interim servant, in fact in charge of the situation, to announce that he would immediately dismiss the past crisis.Everyone understood that it is not exactly this path that "those who govern us" intend to take.Let's say it anyway that, on this path, they will be expected at the turn.
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