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CHRONIC. The distorting mirror that the president holds out to the French reveals, beyond the stereotypes, the Dorian Gray syndrome of an infantilized generation.
By Kamel Daoud
© JM EMPORTES / ONLY FRANCE / Only France via AFP
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AT At the time of communication in funfair mode, it is useful to come back to the use of distorting mirrors. Here is one in attraction: what does Macron reveal about the French? Of course, the reverse – what the French say about Macron – is left to opinion or intox. While the first question questions Macron in his “hollow” portrait of the French. What does it indeed allow us to discover, in indirect astronomical mode, of their affects? Of their political novel? What does he show between his role, skilfully assumed, of martyr of the public interest and the infantilism of the oppositions? Because there is something to say about the French by analyzing their way of judging or misjudging this man, his function, his person above all. And by the hatred that we cultivate around his character…