Because the idea of degeneration is a boomerang

Everything indicates that the France was today going through a serious moral and political crisis. However, if it does not blind partisan emotions, it is not easy to discern what it is. Only valid index: this malaise is linked, probably in many ways, the idea of forfeiture. It is in the legal sense, at first glance, that the word has spread the news. This week are discussed projects for "deprivation of French nationality", including "naturalized" for fresh date - less than 10 years - who have attacked representatives of the public authority. This forfeiture would be removal, loss of previously held prerogatives, as is the case, for example, the forfeiture of the paternity.

Highly questionable legal measures of this kind, likely will be invalidated by the Constitutional Council. But the power the knows full well, if is still credit from a minimum of discernment. As on the other hand, there is no reason to suspect the head of State to be suddenly become racist or xenophobic, one cannot but conclude, electoral horizons with a view to the instrumentalization of old demons. But this map here, more than an error, is a fault.

Want to remove from the list of citizens to become offenders fresh French date, play at the same time of hatred against the nomads - with evictions of Roma who are legal, but in fact immoral - open Pandora's box. Rejection of the other, Earth excitement, withdrawal - all these well-known reeks of bad winds in inevitably fall. In this uncertain calculation, which shines the Catholics without definitively seduce the ultras, which divides the majority and soda cheap opposition, another thing is to see: a form of revocation of the policy.

Because the idea of degeneration is a boomerang. It can turn against those who are launching, while changing meaning at the same time that management. Indeed, "it is not wonderful to see a prince flourish one day and depriving the next day", as noted by Machiavelli, in "The Prince" (1515) in chapter 25. However it is not here of a man of fallen state, stripped of its power by a political order. Was the forfeiture in the broad sense is concerned, the term when referring to degradation, decay and abandonment.

Known physical forfeiture: major diseases, old age, major addictions, leading to the wreck State, avachie or debased. Known as the wear of time, the inevitable disintegration of all organic life, and even produced anything, that the Greeks called phthora ("destruction" or "bribery"). One of the treaties of Aristotle is entitled "generation (génèsis) and corruption (phthora)." If the text is difficult, the lesson can be simply stated: living died, which grows decreases. Only the incréé is immutable. It belongs to the order of nature that everything produced is destroyed.

With the policy, it is otherwise. The decay is not his fate. Wear of its obviousness, exist. But it reached that those who wield it, and never its principles. Because the policy does not obey nature: the General will not age, it is not aging. The city is therefore reinvents and regenerates continuously. She is always able to start from scratch to restore other statutes, to break the burdens of history, are not those of physics.

Forfeiture of the policy could be defined as a loss of autonomy. It is less online or Government determined that, in a profound abuse of the function, its goals, its size and duties amnesia. Effects of announcement, staging, curtains of smoke are signs. The oversight of human a sure symptom. That is why the crisis is now the France is not to take lightly.