The current era with its social networks, its fake news and its relativism is favorable to all conspiracy theories.
The pandemic has allowed those who engage in the craziest rantings under the influence of intelligent but perverse gurus, thirsty for money and power, to access an enviable status of social influencers, and this, at the greatness of the West.
The wilder their words, the more followers they attract. My column last weekend on anti-Americanism provoked astonishing reactions, which justify the fear that one can feel regarding the consequences of the ignorance of history, which pervades all strata of the Company.
Putin’s Quebec supporters, for example, claim that Russia’s “little czar” is preferable to past and present American leaders, all so-called planetary assassins. Reasonable thought is under assault across all democracies from citizens who can pour out their gall with impunity thanks to charters that protect their freedom of expression.
Marginals
In other words, the conspirators and other fanatics draped in their convictions are fueled by crass ignorance and an irrepressible need to assert an active marginality in the face of social norms.
Respect, solidarity and moderation give nausea to these despisers of democracy, attracted by tyrannical regimes where they would never dare set foot.
How can anyone claim, as some of my readers have, that the Americans are responsible for the current destruction of Ukraine? Those who have written that Mao’s China enabled its people to learn do not speak of the various abuses suffered by these people, who have since lived without freedom under the control of the most advanced technology in the world. A country which, as we have just seen at our expense, sends its police to our own soil.
