/lit/ - Literature

I don’t know if this is the right place, but it’s too premeditated for wwoym. I also don’t know if it’s a journal entry, an anti-establishment WSJ op-ed, or just experimenting with styles, so just take it with a grain of salt.


I read an article today in the New York Times. "Will American Ideas Tear France Apart? Some of its Leaders Think So." The headline is a dubious question that the author has no interest in exploring. The author himself, Norimitsu Onishi, is a model example of the endless reach of Ameri-Canadian cultural imperialism. An immigrant rebuked by his homeland now modernly molded to drive the West into progressive decline.

In the fashion of modern co-opted media, each point is carefully crafted to defend the reader’s innate views. Onishi easily finds many progressive intellectuals to quote about their subversive "progress" in France, but not so much in defense of France and its rich history, culture, and pride. I will not bore you with the details of the rest of the article, but Onishi unknowingly gives up the game, “Behind the attacks on American universities — led by aging white male intellectuals — lie the tensions in a society where power appears to be up for grabs.” Power. Are the French ready to play a game where the rules are made up, points don’t matter, and you have everything to lose? And no, it’s not pétanque.

The French are sensitive, they are cunning, and they do not care about your sensitivities. Behind closed doors you will hear French versions of school yard racial jokes and some exceedingly clever new ones as well. Yet in this society speech is not free. It is not written into parchment by quill or extolled conveniently by lame duck congressmen. There is an expectation that speech must be good for the Republic, and luckily that Republic is made up of the French. Contrast that to the technofascist society of America, where middle managers live in fear of teenage twitter products. The highest moral good is walking around with a phone hoping to catch glimpse of the Mothman shouting the n-word.

A constitution will not protect your modern livelihood, so what will? Your fellow citizens of course, citizen! If the spores of American intellectual decadence so sporadically take tendrils in French society, France is fucked. Fair intellectually discourse worked out horribly for American society, so I suggest the French bully the hell out of progressives, nuke their hard drives, and stop anymore immigration.