Brivael Le Pogam: The French owe everyone an apology for the scourge of wokism

This apology by a Frenchman for the harm modern French philosophers have done is extremely worth reading.


'We must understand what they did. Foucault taught that truth does not exist, that there are only power relations disguised as knowledge. That science, reason, justice, the medical institution, the school, the prison, sexuality—everything is merely a staging of domination. Derrida taught that texts have no stable meaning, that every signifier slips away, that every reading is a betrayal, that the author is dead and the reader reigns supreme. Deleuze taught that we should prefer the rhizome to the tree, the nomad to the sedentary, desire to the law, becoming to being, difference to identity.




'....A civilization stands on three pillars: the belief that there exists a truth accessible to reason, the belief that good is distinct from evil, the belief that it has an inheritance to transmit. French theory undertook to dynamite all three. Not out of malice. For the sake of an intellectual game, out of fascination with the suspect, out of hatred for the bourgeoisie that had nourished them. But the result is before us. An entire generation has learned to deconstruct and has never learned to build. An entire generation knows how to be suspicious and no longer knows how to admire. An entire generation sees power everywhere and beauty nowhere.'


The combination of French theory and what the American civil rights movement morphed into, which was the social revolution that spread across the Western world, has been disastrous.

One of the two biggest and the most paradoxical reason why Romania is such a wonderful place to live is that these things didn't happen here because of, not despite, Marxist rule. The other reason is pre-enlightenment Romanian religiosity which is another reproof to cultural Marxism.