Occasion – Letters To Our New Masters - Alain Minc

Author(s): Alain Minc Publication: 01/01/1970, Printed: December 2002 Publisher: Grasset & Fasquelle Size: 20.5 x 13 cm Weight: 256 g EAN: 9782246619819 Summary:

"Conformism has changed sides. It is no longer the old bourgeois conformism that reigns, but a new "politically correct" French style. It is the prerogative of the masters of the moment: feminists, gays, communitarians, 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. An astonishing reversal of perspective: the ideology of those who are clever enough to still present themselves as the dominated has become dominant.

"Neither God nor master": why shouldn't the most beautiful of principles apply to our new masters? Why should they escape all questioning? Why, displaying their past sufferings or their former marginality like noble titles, should they be immune to the criticism that they, quite rightly, leveled against us?

Ten epistles to our new masters to lift this heavy shroud."