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EDITORIAL. Citizens demand immediate responses while political decision-making requires hindsight and compromise. How then to build a social project?
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By Sebastien LeFol
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Emmanuel Macron takes his time. But is he still the “master of the clocks”? And, if he isn’t, who turns the hands? In recent days, commentators have their eyes glued to the clock. As if time, this illusion, had taken our whole democratic life hostage.
During a debate at the City of Success this weekend, the great sociologist Dominique Schnapper underlined the discordance of contemporary temporalities. Between, on the one hand, the impatience of citizens demanding ever more prompt responses to the slightest problem and, on the other, the incompressible time of political decision-making. Participating in this meeting, two former Prime Ministers, Bernard Cazeneuve and Édouard Philippe, one confronted with terrorism, the other with the Covid epidemic, recognize…
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