The biggest nightmare

François Cusset describes the drama of a society undergoing revolution against post-68, which slides slowly but steadily to the right or the extreme right (as is the time of the rise of Le Pen and and the disastrous misconception that wants that France has a "problem" of immigration). He dismantles the changing ideals of the 1960s turned into meaningless advertising slogans, the company and the "money maker" built into new models for all privatized TV channels became an extraordinary propaganda tool for industrial, advertising as a worldview ... And on that, "new philosophers" (who are neither one nor the other) preaching the end of the "thought 68" and proposing nothing less than to skip over two centuries of philosophical development, to resurrect an illusory paradise lost, where mass culture had not "dirty" the beautiful ideas of the Enlightenment (or at least the idea that they to make), and especially where everyone stood in their place.

This book is exciting because this time of great renunciation carries the seeds of our own, is the direct source of the disasters of the 2000s, this ideas-made fabrics from which builds all the current thought, and no one or almost dares question. It is useful because it calls to move this single thought disguised as "end of ideology" and create alternatives to this nightmare is always ours.

The downside, however: if this book is quite exciting and quite well written in addition, it is also very dense, and can discourage non-reader accustomed to this kind of testing. This is not the kind of book that reads lightly, but the game is worth the effort for the understanding of our time - and fight its excesses.