(this is not satire, it is real!)
“It is time to abandon the old national habit. France is a country that thinks. There is hardly an ideology that we haven’t turned into a theory. We have in our libraries enough to talk about for centuries to come. This is why I would like to tell you: Enough thinking, already. Roll up your sleeves.” French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde.
At the beset of the new conservative Sarkosz Administration the French people have a new floor to crash through. Descartes, Rousseau, Voltaire, Sartre and the most famous political document, The Rights of Man defining the Enlightenment all need burying. The New French culture will be modeled after George W. Bush where they put marbles in their mouths, turn off their brains, don cowboy hats and roll up their sleeves to cut brush in their backyards. A rebuilding of the Champs Elysees to line it with Walmarts and gunshops. A chang to the historic culture of the Left Bank from great discussions of art, literature and philosophy to that of faith based initiatives and intelligent design.
It seems the Sarkozy government has finally figured out how America succeeded in creating and holding right-wing control of a nation, keep everyone too stupid to figure out what’s being done to them. It is all quite simple. Raise the cost of college education beyond the ability of the middle class to afford, and give corporations control of the media so the masses think all that really matters is how drunk Paris Hilton is, where the ball went, and who shagged or shot who down there in Dumbass.