VSnational cohesion, resilience, “living together” versus “individualization of society”, “decivilization”, even “wilding”… How many times have these words punctuated the public debate in recent years? No doubt since the destructuring of the social body has become obvious to many French people.
In reaction to this process of fracturing and fear, some take refuge in the construction of a space between themselves, erecting invisible barriers with the hope that these will protect them and their children; the others, especially the youngest, lock themselves in their social or cultural bubbles in search of benchmarks that the Republic no longer offers them.
This phenomenon now also affects relationships between urban and rural residents. Distrust has taken precedence over fraternity and the feeling that we all belong, despite our differences, to the same social body. Outside, we arrive in 2024 and tensions and conflicts are increasing in a world that is rocking dangerously.
Responding to a partly disengaged social body
War is at the gates of Europe. Our national security is being re-examined despite the doubling of our defense effort in ten years. The best equipped Western armies indeed suffer from the fragility of a partly disengaged social body, a phenomenon which affects all modern democracies. It is on this double observation that Emmanuel Macron is implementing, in 2019, the project of his presidential program to which he seems most attached: the universal national service (SNU).
The surge initiated by the Minister of National Education concerning behavior at school, educational content (strengthening of civic education and fundamentals) cannot be enough to “ civic rearmament » announced by the President of the Republic during his wishes and which a very large majority of French people are demanding. School can’t do everything. It is based on the individual emancipation of each young person to enable them to build a critical mind and the conditions necessary for their entry into professional life.
Promoting ownership of the collective, giving visibility to those we do not see, creating social diversity and therefore encouraging a spirit of cohesion around common projects, this is what, on the other hand, the service does. national universal can answer.
Find the few benefits of military service
The SNU, before being an element contributing to national defense, even if it can be its base in the future, is above all a vector of social cohesion of which the country lost part of the benefits during the suspension from military service in 1997.
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