"'This is why I would like to tell you: Enough thinking, already. Roll up your sleeves'...[Finance Minister Christine Lagarde] said the French should work harder, earn more and be rewarded with lower taxes if they get rich..”
Bad habit, that thinking thing. Since we, as a nation, stopped thinking, and elected staunch anti intellectuals, look how great things have turned out.
Turns out that the French, being human, are perfectly capable of stupidity: They elected their own George Bush:
"Certainly, the new president himself has cultivated his image as a nonintellectual. 'I am not a theoretician', he told a television interviewer last month. 'I am not an ideologue. Oh, I am not an intellectual! I am someone concrete!'".
With the rocks in his head to prove it.
That qualifier is all too telling:
ReplyDelete"if they get rich."
Derrida may have been prescient of such national vapidity, ne pas?