Le nouveau totalitarisme
Posté par sniper82 le 19 mai 2007
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.
