Delbecque – Decivilization exists, we encounter it every day

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For the specialist in security issues, the debate on the use of the term “decivilization” by Emmanuel Macron aims to eclipse the debate on the facts.

By Eric Delbecque*

Ihe President of the Republic evokes a process of decivilization after the death of a nurse attacked with a knife, that of three police officers killed by an irresponsible driver in Roubaix and the resignation of a mayor after the fire in his home, and now the usual fidelcastrists of the strategy of chaos take advantage of this to put on their gleaming uniforms of the police of language… Normal, you will say to me: the first characteristic of totalitarianism is the manipulation, the subversion of language. We have known all this since the 1930s, and particularly since Orwell wrote 1984. As early as 1949, he taught us how to recognize and analyze “Newspeak”, a masterpiece of enslavement of the mind by the violence exerted on language in general and words in particular.