The Jacobins left a beautiful gift to the Western world: the Jacobinism. Which consists in this: a small minority decides at a table what is good and what is evil, then forcibly applies its scheme to the people with the method of the Procrustean bed. It stretches the too short ones and mutilates the too long ones to make everyone fit into the dimensions of its bed.
Philosophy is Gnostic: some self-describe themselves as “righteous” and they force the people, a sheepish mass that does not know what is its true good, to do what they say. “We will make France a cemetery if we cannot regenerate it in our own way!”, proclaimed an authoritative exponent of the Robespierrian clique. And, in fact, guillotine. And it was not enough to obey, but you also had to show enthusiasm. Hence the obligatory cockade and the certificate of “civism”. Hence the modification of the language, the introduction of new themed parties, the cancel culture (they also beheaded the statues of the Kings on Notre Dame.) Does this remind you of anything?
France has not lost the habit, as can be seen today. Democracy is “their thing”, so they don’t give a damn about the popular will. The people vote for the right (which even our newscasts continue to call “extreme”) and down with its so-called representatives to force laws and regulations (which they themselves invented) to circumvent it, to nullify it, because the people, as has been said, are little children who don’t know what they’re doing.
It all started from France. First, the medieval king was only a primus inter pares with his barons. And the Pope was responsible for keeping him within the right principles (theoretical and generalissimi, that is, moral). Then, the first king to arrest him, the Pope, was a Frenchman, Philip the Fair, who first eliminated the Pope’s Praetorian Guard, the Templars. His successors, little by little, deprived the nobility of power, inaugurating Absolutism: The State is meLouis XIV could finally say. But by centralizing all power in the capital, the absolute kings did not realize that they were sawing off the branch on which they were sitting. And a handful of Jacobins only needed to take over Paris to have all the rest in their hands.
The French Revolution was actually a Parisian revolution only, that the rest of France had to suffer with bad luck (see the Vendée genocide) and Napoleon exported throughout Europe at the point of his sabre. Just think of the Civil Code (called Napoleonic, in fact): the kings had never dreamed of interfering in private law, nor – let alone – legislating on the family. However, the mania of wanting to build the “new man” began in 1789, and today we see its extreme consequences in the regulatory obsession with which we are suffocated daily by those in command. The cancer has also infected the USA, as the Obama era still underway demonstrates. May God help us, because no one else can. Not even the vote, as France itself demonstrates.
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