OH LA LA MONSIEUR SARKOZY…
07 02 2012
Where free thinking was murdered, there should be a statue of Sarkozy
It is very late now, too late. If thinking is banned once, the critical threshold is passed. Once the mind has been covered, thought stops. A reversal has begun in the climate of freedom that is the European Union and in the lands of the French Revolution. The small man who rang the bells signalling the reversal has become the greatest traitor to freedom.
Dogmas are absolute values, accepted to never change. They are absolute truths. They are not inspected, questioned, debated or researched. For there is no need. The law making it an offence punishable by fine or incarceration to deny that the events of 1915 amounted to genocide, Sarkozy’s cheap elections manoeuvre, is a good example of dogmatism.
This scandal which denies intellectual morality and the standing of the law is a case in dogmatism. It is tragic, laughable and banal, but today you may dispute the existence of God and debate the identity of Christ in France, but you cannot claim that there has not taken place genocide in 1915.The crumbs of the intellectual deviancy of the Middle Ages which have made it to the present have produced the dogma that makes this state of affairs possible. The reincarnation of the monstrosity which the Scholastic point of view had produced for metaphysical issues will from now on damage France and Europe more and more.
Anything may now walk through the door opened in France, which has reverted to the Christian culture of the Middle Ages, under the pretext of 1915. Any ban may now be more easily passed. No one can know what comes next.
Perhaps the French will not experience the pressure of dogmatism with regard only to the events of 1915 in the coming years. Who can guarantee that there will not be legislation in the same spirit regarding Islam? Perhaps a law is also in order for periods of relations between France and the Vatican, for example the rule of Philippe the Beautiful. We cannot know at the moment.
It will probably be the case that France will take certain steps over reparations and land, based on the law making it criminal denial to reject claims of genocide. Now that the legal ground has been established, there are no other obstacles.
It is very much possible that France will try to find a home for this chimera in the European body of law. Perhaps there are others who wish to make a triumphant entry through the door Sarkozy has opened.
We can only wait and see that the next massacre of free thinking will be in France, which is experiencing a numbing of reason. In the Middle Ages it was believed that the innocent would not burn, even if thrown to the pyre. This was church dogma. Inquisition courts therefore burned people at the stake to determine whether certain defendants were guilty or not. Of course no one emerged unharmed.
Free ideas have more longevity than people. They do not burn. Some try to kill them by banning them, there have always been such people. However no book of history mentions and idea that died.
What is really needed in France is a ban on fanaticism. Of course, denying stupidity should also be criticised. After all, we can treat cancer, but there is no treatment for stupidity.