The Wise Philosopher
I generally have no use for philosophers (those living today, anyway), nor Frenchmen. In fact, if I could go back in time and kill one individual I would have a hard time coming up with a better candidate than Jean-Jacques Rousseau. (Yes, he was Swiss, but he adopted France and they embraced him to the point of having a revolution and there are statues of the crazy old pervert in town squares all over France to this day.)
So you can imagine what my opinion of a living French philosopher would normally be.
But a commentary by André Glucksmann has me reconsidering that position. His work is too good to excerpt, so go read You said ‘war’, Mr Kouchner, and you were not mistaken…
Brilliant.
Didn’t you know that almost of your founding fathers were impressed by this crazy old pervert, and them too, “they embraced him to the point of having a revolution.”
Bashing France, you love it. But with that, you didn’t know you were bashing the guys who created your country. Fortunately, the founding fathers of USA were less brainwashed than you.
I don’t especially like France, but I’m more disgusted by ignorant haters like you.
GermanGirl