[CHRONIQUE] When France rhymes with violence

They have XVIII^th century, France was considered, according to Abbé Raynal, to be the most “policed” nation in the world and the Prince of Lignes could say: “ every man has two nations. His and then France “. An example of spirit, culture, courtesy and elegance, the kingdom nevertheless fell into a bloodthirsty revolution which was only equaled and surpassed by the Bolshevik revolution. And Talleyrand could sigh: “ Who has not known the Ancien Régime, has not known the sweetness of life “. For some, no doubt.

France therefore experienced violence and chaos. Often. Armagnac against Burgundians during the Hundred Years' War, wars of religion, Fronde, Revolution. Violence has not spared us. But now a new kind of violence is developing, an everyday violence. Violence all the more barbaric because it seems gratuitous and immoderate. It is no longer about ideology or politics but about violence without rhyme or reason, about violence as a mode of expression. The left and the liberals only see news items when they are social facts. Of a very sick society, “archipelagoized”, divided, disoriented. The funeral litany would be too long and the unfortunate commune of Crépol has become its symbol.

Recently Bruno Retailleau made this observation: “ More and more young people are killers “. Sometimes even hitmen. Making this observation is necessary because it is appropriate to name things if we want to remedy them. But what are the causes?
Educational bankruptcy of certain families, trivialization of violence in electronic games on which certain young people feed, absence of authority and contempt for it, cynicism of drug traffickers who use minors as instruments of their dirty deeds to profit from the the criminal excuse of minority, arrival of populations from regions of the world where the most terrible violence is rife, failure of assimilation, shortcomings of school, impossibility for some to express themselves other than through brutality because words and reasonings lack, judicial laxity, ideology of social excuse, police themselves accused of violence while they fight it at the risk of the lives of their agents… We are paying for the ultimate effects of the post-sixty-eight slogan: “It is forbidden to prohibit.” If it is forbidden to forbid, then everything is permitted.

But if you think about it carefully, the society created by the adults heirs of May 68, liberal libertarians, individualists, materialists, is not itself incredibly violent for its children. When, with obstinate determination, some strive to destroy all the frameworks which allow a society to live in harmony, to destroy all the anthropological references which support human communities, should we be surprised to give birth to generations of “wildlings”?

When a government enshrines the right to abortion in the Constitution, is this not an extremely violent anthropological break? What was an exception to a fundamental right, respect for human life, becomes the rule “sanctified” by the supreme law of the Republic, and the fundamental right the exception. It is no coincidence that article 1^is of the Veil law, which stipulated “ the law guarantees respect for every human being from the beginning of life. This principle may only be undermined if necessary… ”, was repealed. Therefore, respect for every human being becomes relative. Euthanasia will soon be legalized. At both ends of life, the right to life has become relative in principle and no longer because of an exception motivated by particular and serious circumstances. This is obviously a fundamental moral change. Which, undoubtedly, through a phenomenon of dull contagion, has reversed the way society views human life.

If parents, by principle and not by exception, no longer respect the right to respect for human life in the name of their individual choices, why should children do so? There is a sort of legitimization of the supreme violence that is the attack on human life, a shift in European societies towards a return to pagan times where it had little weight. To fight against the violence installed in the heart and mind, it is not enough to arm the police, we must also rearm souls.