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Tuesday, July 06, 2004
Written by: GoemagogNEWS FROM FRANCE. The five Harry Potter books - enormously successful in French translation - are stiffed with "neo-liberal stereotypes" which caricature approvingly the "excesses of the Anglo-Saxon social model", Yocaris said. France stands up to IngSoc's tyranny! Down with those pesky liberals and their Anglo-Saxon social model! IngSoc is not for the frogs! Frogs have higher standards! Frogs demand... A SWAMP, where stagnation and decay are the norm! Yocaris says that the Harry Potter books are an example of the totalitarian universe imagined by George Orwell, come to life. The totalitarian universe of English Socialism, referred to by Orwell as "IngSoc", to differentiate it from French Socialism, i.e. "SmellySoc". IngSoc is characterized by Orwell as having chronic shortages, a population comprised mostly of slaves ("proles"), a government which kills anyone who even thinks about dissenting, and no soap. So which part do the french disagree with? I'll give you a hint, it's not the lack of soap! Thus all representatives of the state (the Ministry of Magic) are lampooned as ridiculous, or incompetent or sinister. Harry goes to a "private" school, whose "micro-society" is a "pitiless jungle" which glorifies "individualism, competition and a cult of violence". ... "Capitalism is now trying to shape, after its own taste, not only the real world, but the imaginary world of its consumer-citizens." The French are against the individualism imposed by the tyranny of IngSoc. Thinking bad things about the government is punishable by death under IngSoc, but France believes that to be too individualistic! Being enslaved inside their own skulls isn't good enough for frogs, state control must run deeper! Under IngSoc, there is no competition, but that's too much for France! Under IngSoc, "War is Peace". For France, war is a festival where everyone waves white flags! What violence could there possibly be in France's Festival of the White Flag? Far less than the cult of violence called "peace"! IngSoc is a horrible thing, and that's why Orwell wrote 1984. He wanted to warn people about the oppression needed to sustain a socialist state. The French don't see this as a warning but as a starting point, and intend to go far beyond the tyranny of Orwell's 1984. Of course, you may ask who I am assuming speaks for France. I gave you a link above, but not everyone follows links, so I'll include that as well. Ilias Yocaris, of the Institut Universitaire de Formation de Maitres (secondary teacher training school) in Nice. ... Yocaris, one of the people responsible for training the next generation of French teachers The frogs are not being taught this by just the thousands, generations of frogs are being taught that Orwell's imaginary IngSoc tyranny permits too much freedom and individuality. This is not an isolated example. Goe, because we know freedom's enemy, and it is France.
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