If France's misfortunes are exemplary, it will take us thirty years to recover from the latest: the laxity of the right combined with the sectarianism of the left. For nearly half a century, we have been subjected to the terrorism of an intelligentsia successively corrupted by Marxism, Leninism, Maoism, socialism, and social democracy, not to mention deranged capitalism, to which has recently been added artistic terrorism that has placed subversion, provocation, and the absurd at the heart of its credo in an attempt to crush values founded on beauty. As long as there is no complete reversal of the aims of our activities, as long as our leaders persist in considering economic expansion as a supreme objective instead of giving primary importance to the aesthetic dimension of our lives, there will be no true civilization.
Postscript:
This postscript by my dear friend Georges Mathieu (1921-2012) to his book, The Massacre of Sensibility, published by Odilon Media in 1996, keeps coming up…
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