Le nouveau totalitarisme

George Jonas du National Post sur le millénarisme nouveau genre:

But the two forces that, to my mind, exhibited the greatest capacity for becoming all-embracing and thoroughly repressive ideologies in the 21st century were feminism and environmentalism. They both transcended borders and religions. More precisely, they could absorb other kinds of self-identifications and loyalties. They could even absorb each other, as demonstrated by the 1990s movement of “eco-feminism.”

Even more dangerously, they were both millennial ideas. They held out the promise of a new beginning, a fundamental change in human society. Both matriarchy and environmentalism combined mysticism with a quasi-scientific stance, much like fascism and communism did. Like the older totalitarian ideologies, they were based on partial truths and appealed not only to the worst but also to the best side of our nature.

Environmentalism, especially, promised to unite us with the cosmos. It identified the enemy as the masculine-humanist tradition of “biocide” — a crime of which we were all guilty by virtue of being human. It was a kind of religion, addressing itself to true believers, the very types who have a need to be ruled by something greater than themselves.

In 1994 I saw a bright and terrible future for both in the totalitarian horse race, with eco-fascism leading by a nose. In today’s post-Kyoto world, it leads by a length.

Plus ça change…

Le pattern habituel: le Hamas balance 90 roquettes en trois jours sur Israël, niet. Tsahal réplique en effectuant quelques frappes chirurgicales en territoire palestinien, breaking news…

Qassam attacks on Sderot have received very little coverage in world media, despite the heavy barrages that have been going on for the past three days.

Only when Israel began to respond to the attacks by aerial bombings, cannons and tanks did this part of the world receive attention from the American media.

Israel’s complaints to the United Nations Security Council were simply not reported.

In Europe the issue also received very little coverage, especially compared to the factional fighting that has been going on in the Gaza Strip between.

The Europeans claim the reason for this is that most of the airtime in the past few days has been dedicated to the change of leadership in France, and the little airtime left was set aside for the difficult images from Gaza, and not Sderot.

The moment that the Israel Defense Force began to retaliate, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict went back to making headlines.

Ynetnews

Affiliation Québec

Insatisfaits d’avoir été réduits à une seule représentante au sein du nouveau cabinet libéral, des anglophones de Montréal ont décidé de fonder leur propre parti.

Après avoir perdu sa majorité parlementaire, son aile nationaliste, son aile gauche, la quasi-totalité de l’électorat francophone et une trentaine de sièges, les choses continuent de bien aller au PLQ, qui s’apprête vraisemblablement à perdre son dernier bastion de supporters.

Preuve que s’il y a un parti qui doit s’attendre à de durs lendemains à la suite des prochaines élections provinciales, ce n’est peut-être pas celui qu’on pense…

Malheureusement…