"It's mind-boggling when you think about having to fill out a self-certificate to go around your block," essayist Mathieu Laine remarked on Europe 1 on Thursday.
For him, the health crisis has exacerbated the omnipresence of the State in France, depriving citizens of individual freedoms and responsibilities.
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"The state talks to us like children."
Mathieu Laine, essayist author of
Infantilization, this nanny state who wants you well,
published by Éditions de la Cité, qualifies as "worrying" the omnipresence of political decision-makers in the life of the French.
A phenomenon reinforced by the health crisis which in fact contributes to depriving them of individual freedoms and responsibilities.
"It's mind-boggling when you think about having to fill out a self-certificate to go around your block. Or to receive a fine for having filled it out in pencil," notes the essayist.
For him, "the State becomes a shepherd and we are a sheep people".
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