{"id":190489,"date":"2019-06-25T06:15:13","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T06:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=190489"},"modified":"2019-06-30T07:42:58","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T07:42:58","slug":"the-suicide-of-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=190489","title":{"rendered":"The Suicide of France"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Guilio Meotti \u2013 The Gatestone Institute June 23, 2019<\/strong><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;Frenchness&#8221; is disappearing and being replaced by a kind balkanization of enclaves not communicating with one another&#8230;. this is not a good recipe.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The more the French \u00e9lites with their disposable incomes and cultural leisure cloister themselves in their enclaves, the less likely it is that they will understand the everyday impact of failed mass immigration and multiculturalism.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The globalized, &#8220;bobo-ized [bourgeois Bohemian] upper classes&#8221; are filling the &#8220;new citadels&#8221; &#8212; as in Medieval France &#8212; and are voting en masse for Macron. They have developed &#8220;a single way of talking and thinking&#8230; that allows the dominant classes to substitute for the reality of a nation subject to severe stress and strain the fable of a kind and welcoming society.&#8221; \u2014 Christophe Guilluy, <em>Twilight of the Elites,<\/em> Yale University Press, 2019.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_190490\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/yellow-vest-demo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-190490\" class=\"wp-image-190490\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/yellow-vest-demo-1024x657.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/yellow-vest-demo.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/yellow-vest-demo-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/yellow-vest-demo-768x493.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-190490\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PARIS, FRANCE &#8211; MARCH 23: Gilets Jaunes or &#8216;Yellow Vest&#8217; occupy the steps leading to the Baslique du Sacre Coeur during Act 19 of protests on March 23, 2019 in Paris, France. After last week\u2019s violent protests on the Champs-Elysees, the Minister of the Interior Christophe Castaner announced zero tolerance in a bid to avoid a repeat, banning protests on the Champs Elysees and mobilising the Army\u2019s Sentinel anti-terrorist unit to help reinforce the police in an unprecedented mobilisation of the army in France since the Algerian war. (Photo by Kiran Ridley\/Getty Images)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;Regarding France in 2019, it can no longer be denied that a momentous and hazardous transformation, a &#8216;Great Switch&#8217;, is in the making&#8221;, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.meforum.org\/58603\/france-is-dead\">observed<\/a><\/strong><\/span> the founder and president of the Jean-Jacques Rousseau Institute, Michel Gurfinkiel. He was mourning &#8220;the passing of France as a distinct country, or at least as the Western, Judeo-Christian nation it had hitherto been presumed to be&#8221;. A recent cover story in the weekly <em>Le Point<\/em> called it &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lepoint.fr\/societe\/exclusif-la-france-le-grand-bouleversement-27-02-2019-2296870_23.php\">the great upheaval<\/a><\/strong><\/span>&#8220;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Switch or upheaval, the days of France as we knew it are numbered: the society has lost its cultural center of gravity: the old way of life is fading and close to &#8220;<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/02\/28\/world\/europe\/france-albi-french-towns-fading.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>extinction<\/strong><\/span><\/a>&#8220;. &#8220;Frenchness&#8221; is disappearing and being replaced by a kind <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.valeursactuelles.com\/node\/1562\">balkanization<\/a> of enclaves not communicating with one another. For the country most affected by Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism, this is not a good recipe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The French switch is also becoming geographical. France now appears split between &#8220;ghettos for the rich&#8221; and &#8220;ghettos for the poor&#8221;, according to an analysis of the electoral map by France&#8217;s largest newspaper, <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/societe\/article\/2019\/06\/03\/ghettos-de-riches-ghettos-de-pauvres-les-inegalites-se-creusent-en-region-parisienne_5470646_3224.html\"><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Le Monde<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a>. &#8220;In the poorest sector, 6 out of 10 newly settled households have a person born abroad&#8221;, notes <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/societe\/article\/2019\/06\/03\/ghettos-de-riches-ghettos-de-pauvres-les-inegalites-se-creusent-en-region-parisienne_5470646_3224.html\"><em>Le Monde<\/em><\/a>. A kind of abyss now separates peripheral France &#8212; small towns, suburbs and rural areas \u2013 from the globalized metropolis of the &#8220;bourgeois Bohemians&#8221;, or &#8220;bobos&#8221;. The more the French \u00e9lites with their disposable incomes and cultural leisure cloister themselves in their enclaves, the less likely it is that they will understand the everyday impact of failed mass immigration and multiculturalism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">A recent European poll reflected these &#8220;two Frances that do not cross or speak to each other&#8221;, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/politique\/article\/2019\/05\/27\/le-rassemblement-national-meilleur-representant-electoral-des-categories-populaires_5468260_823448.html\">observed<\/a><\/strong><\/span> Sylvain Crepon of the University of Tours, in analyzing the success of Marine Le Pen&#8217;s National Rally party in the recent European Parliament election. Le Pen and President Emmanuel Macron, the two winners in the election, speak to completely different sociological groups. In the Paris suburbs &#8212; Aulnay-sous-Bois, Sevran, Villepinte and Seine-Saint-Denis &#8212; the far-right National Rally has been experiencing a boom. In the cities, Le Pen is largely behind: she came fifth in Paris, third in Lille, fourth in Lyon. According to Crepon:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;[T]hese cities will be protected from the National Rally&#8217;s vote by their sociological structuring. It gives credit to the populist talk that diagnoses a disconnected elite. This [view] backs the idea of \u200b\u200ba sociological break, which is not completely wrong&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">On one side of this break are towns such as Dreux, which <em>Valeurs Actuelles<\/em> <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.valeursactuelles.com\/clubvaleurs\/societe\/dreux-le-petit-archipel-francais-entre-ville-historique-et-cite-islamisee-107958\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>called<\/strong><\/span><\/a> &#8220;the city that prefigures the France of tomorrow&#8221;:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;On one side, a royal city with the vestige of a history believing that all things are being changed [millenarian]; on the other, cities imbued with [drug] trafficking and Islam. The bourgeois of the city center vote for Macron, the &#8216;small whites&#8217; for Le Pen&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">On the other side, is Paris. &#8220;All the metropolises of the world know the same fate. This is where wealth flows and where the alliance between the &#8216;winners of globalization&#8217; and their &#8216;servants&#8217;, immigrants who have come to serve the new masters of the world, keep their children, bring their pizzas or work in their restaurants&#8221;, <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"http:\/\/premium.lefigaro.fr\/vox\/politique\/2019\/03\/22\/31001-20190322ARTFIG00007-eric-zemmour-paris-n-est-vraiment-plus-paris.php\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>writes<\/strong><\/span><\/a> the distinguished social commentator \u00c8ric Zemmour in <em>Le Figaro<\/em>. From now on, he writes, &#8220;Paris is a global city, not really a French city&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The globalized, &#8220;bobo-ized [bourgeois Bohemian] upper classes&#8221;, according to one of France&#8217;s most respected authors. <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2019\/jan\/17\/twilight-of-the-elites-christophe-guilluy-review\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Christophe Guilluy<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, are filling the &#8220;new citadels&#8221; &#8212; as in Medieval France &#8212; and are voting en masse for Macron. They have developed &#8220;a single way of talking and thinking&#8230; that allows the dominant classes to substitute for the reality of a nation subject to severe stress and strain the fable of a kind and welcoming society&#8221;. Guilluy has been <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/premium.lefigaro.fr\/actualite-france\/2018\/12\/21\/01016-20181221ARTFIG00235-ces-intellectuels-victimes-du-politiquement-correct-a-l-universite.php\">criticized<\/a><\/strong><\/span> by some French media for addressing this reality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The recent &#8220;yellow vests&#8221; movement &#8212; whose demonstrators have been protesting every Saturday in Paris, for months, against President Macron&#8217;s reforms &#8212; is a symbol of this division between the working class and the gentrified progressives. According to Guilluy, it is a &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/dec\/02\/france-is-deeply-fractured-gilets-jeunes-just-a-symptom\">social and cultural shock<\/a><\/strong><\/span>&#8220;. This shock, according to the French philosopher <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"http:\/\/premium.lefigaro.fr\/vox\/societe\/2018\/12\/07\/31003-20181207ARTFIG00062-alain-finkielkraut-aux-racines-de-la-crise-des-gilets-jaunes.php\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Alain Finkielkraut<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, consists of the &#8220;ugliness of peripheral France and its effects on concrete lives, the sadness of these working classes who have lost not only a standard of living but also a cultural referent&#8221;. In France, there is now a pervasive sense of &#8220;<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/04\/14\/opinion\/sunday\/france-in-the-end-of-days.html\">dispossession<\/a>&#8220;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Marine Le Pen&#8217;s party <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/05\/27\/world\/europe\/european-vote-france.html?login=email&amp;auth=login-email\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>won<\/strong><\/span><\/a> more than twice as many electoral department as Macron. Le Pen won in the depressed and deindustrialized areas of northern, south-central and eastern France that spawned the yellow vests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;Since moving to France in 2002, I&#8217;ve watched the country complete a cultural revolution&#8221;, Simon Kuper recently <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/0d864f88-81a0-11e9-9935-ad75bb96c849\">wrote<\/a> in the <em>Financial Times<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;Catholicism has almost died out (only 6 per cent of French people now habitually attend mass), though not as thoroughly as its longtime rival &#8216;church&#8217;, communism. The non-white population has kept growing&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Macron, Kuper explains, is the symbol of &#8220;a new individualised, globalised, irreligious society&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">France&#8217;s flight from Catholicism is so evident that a new book, <em>L&#8217;archipel fran\u00e7ais: Naissance d&#8217;une nation multiple et divis\u00e9e<\/em>, by the pollster Jer\u00f4me Fourquet, has described the cultural failing of the French society as a &#8220;<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lepoint.fr\/societe\/moins-de-baptemes-de-mariages-et-d-enterrements-la-fille-ainee-de-l-eglise-s-emancipe-27-02-2019-2296866_23.php\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>post-Christian era<\/strong><\/span><\/a>&#8220;: French society&#8217;s displacement from its Catholic matrix has become almost total. The country, Fourquet states, is now implementing its own <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lepoint.fr\/politique\/le-grand-bouleversement-la-dechristianisation-s-accelere-28-02-2019-2296990_20.php\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>de-Christianization<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. And there is only one strong substitute at the horizon. There are today already, according to a <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lepoint.fr\/debats\/de-plus-en-plus-de-francais-ne-croient-plus-en-dieu-23-05-2019-2314705_2.php\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>new academic study<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, as many Muslims as Catholics among 18-29 year-olds in France; and Muslims represent 13% of the population of France&#8217;s large cities, more than double the national average.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Sometimes Muslim feelings of community solidarity appear to have been taking advantage of this fragmentation by creating their own &#8220;<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.valeursactuelles.com\/societe\/islamisation-de-la-france-quand-la-charia-cree-ses-ghettos-60975\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>ghettos of sharia<\/strong><\/span><\/a>&#8220;. A report from Institut Montaigne, &#8220;<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.institutmontaigne.org\/en\/publications\/islamist-factory\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Islamist Factory<\/strong><\/span><\/a>&#8220;, has detailed the radicalization of the French Muslim society. Instead of integration, assimilation and Europeanization, Muslim extremists in France are pursuing multiculturalism, separation and partition. The enclaves of immigrants at the edges of French cities, <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-fragility-of-a-fractured-france-1479760065\">posits<\/a> Gilles Kepel in his book, <em>La Fracture<\/em>, foment &#8220;a rupture in values with French society, and a will to subvert it&#8221;. &#8220;People do not want to live together&#8221;, said France&#8217;s former Interior Minister, G\u00e9rard Collomb, in <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"http:\/\/premium.lefigaro.fr\/politique\/le-scan\/2018\/10\/31\/25001-20181031ARTFIG00146-quand-collomb-faisait-le-lien-entre-immigration-et-insecurite.php\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>comments reported by <em>Valeurs Actuelles<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">This &#8220;fracture&#8221; was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.valeursactuelles.com\/clubvaleurs\/societe\/laics-contre-islamistes-ruraux-contre-urbains-gilets-jaunes-contre-bobos-les-nouvelles-fractures-francaises-107956\">noted<\/a><\/strong><\/span> again in the same publication: &#8220;Four out of ten boys in Seine-Saint-Denis have Arab-Muslim first names&#8221;. Pollster J\u00e9r\u00f4me Fourquet <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/rmc.bfmtv.com\/emission\/18percent-des-nouveaux-nes-portent-un-prenom-arabo-musulman-on-a-la-carte-de-visite-de-la-france-de-2017-a-2019-1642180.html\">revealed<\/a><\/strong><\/span> in a new study that &#8220;18 percent of newborn babies in France have an Arab-Muslim name&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">France&#8217;s &#8220;Great Switch&#8221; is underway. As the philosopher Alain Finkielkraut recently <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.causeur.fr\/alain-finkielkraut-suicide-notre-dame-161470\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>wrote<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, &#8220;The Notre-Dame fire is neither an attack nor an accident, but a suicide attempt.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><em>Giulio Meotti, Cultural Editor for<\/em> Il Foglio,<em> is an Italian journalist and author<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/14406\/suicide-of-france\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The elite have promoted mass immigration to create fragmented societies, and further their power through the the principle of \u2018divide and rule\u2019. 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