Everyone is wondering right now who the annoying ball-breaker is. who demanded the closure of the Ferreira terracea few days ago.
Is this a tyrant who wanted to make a gesture of power, as we find so many today, in the name of convictions that ordinary mortals will consider delusional?
Is it an ordinary civil servant, a little gray man like so many others, who decided to scrupulously apply an absurd regulation?
It is necessary to know this. Because we cannot permanently tolerate institutionalized irresponsibility, transformed into a system. We must know who gives themselves the right to ruin the life of their neighbor with complete impunity and no longer be content with bureaucratic anonymity which conceals both the will to power and incompetence.
We cannot be satisfied with the flat apologies of Mayor Plante either.
Although she is right to apologize.
Because this decision is consistent with the vision she has for the city of Montreal. It is a sanitized city, which enshrines the power of punitive, finicky, authoritarian progressivism, and which often combines with the most improbable security and health reasons to push social control ever further.
There exists, even if we tend to forget it, a left-wing puritanism, which today applies to many areas of existence – and the aversion to the Grand Prix is certainly a manifestation of this. (I say this even though I’m not a fan of the Grand Prix myself). This puritanism is the opposite of the spirit of freedom which normally characterized the metropolises.
I note that everywhere in the Western world, moreover, the radical left has particularly invested in the municipal world to transform each city into an ideological laboratory, into a progressive fortress. This is where the new world is being built, against a demonized suburb.
We see it in Paris, in London, in Nantes, in Bordeaux, and Montreal is no exception – nor is Quebec, for that matter. The electoral sociology of large cities is favorable to this.
Cities are called to submit to a form of ecological collectivism, which will combine the end of the car, the end of the individual house too, the veganization of food, the promotion of gender theory and the celebration of municipal autonomy, in the name of a form of progressive feudalism.
We are not obliged to see this as progress.
