Used book – Epître à nos nouveaux maîtres, Alain Minc

Conformity has changed sides. It is no longer the old bourgeois conformity that reigns, but a new "French-style" political correctness. It is the prerogative of the masters of the moment: feminists, gays, communalists, anti-globalization crusaders, devotees of purity, apostles of populism, among others. Their discourse is omnipresent; their aspirations triumph; their fantasies now shape the collective imagination. Society has abdicated before them, just as it once did before the sole ruling classes. A surprising reversal of perspective: the ideology of those who are intelligent enough to still present themselves as the dominated has become dominant. "Neither God nor master": why shouldn't the finest of principles apply to our new masters? Why should they escape all questioning? Why, displaying, like noble titles, their past sufferings, or their former marginality, should they be immune to the criticism that they have, rightly, leveled against us? "Ten epistles to our new masters to lift this pall: Ø First epistle: to ourselves, the ill-thinking Ø Second epistle: to feminists Ø Third epistle: to gays Ø Fourth epistle: to communalists of all stripes Ø Fifth epistle: to the zealots of "NGOs" Ø Sixth epistle: to anti-globalization crusaders Ø Seventh epistle: to those obsessed with anti-Americanism Ø Eighth epistle: to the devotees of purity Ø Ninth epistle: to the apostles of neo-populism Ø Tenth epistle: to ourselves, the hypothetical well-meaning