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Having grown near the city he was a mayor (Conflans St Honorine) his influence on french politics has lead to a severe turn of technocracy and denial of democra
by SFJulie 10y ago
Having grown near the city he was a mayor (Conflans St Honorine) his influence on french politics has lead to a severe turn of technocracy and denial of democracy.
His (in)famous disciples are [0] Macron, A. Richard, Valls, Sapin, DSK that are all famous for priming business accounting based decisions other the people's choices. A very capitalist/market friendly turn of socialism, that makes US democrats looks like hardcore communists.
Valls (Val d'Oise federation) and Richard (St Ouen l'Aumonne) were famous for their interest in politic agenda and despising the people.
I do regret that some google washing has been made on his keyword in google because right now, all his obituaries are saying how human and nice this man was, and I can't factualize my memories.
He was also a great artisan of the European Union, I may say in the direction most europeans maybe a tad mad with: the one where enlightened freaks and crony technocrats can lead 300 millions people to a destiny they did not choose.
For the software patents he was like for a lot of things choosing direction randomly by reading techno-prohecies and as coincidence happens, he happened to be right on this.
With his death, we remember that my generation scarified to the altar of the greater good envisioned by the 68' generation may have one day the power to choose their destiny ... democratically now that these people begin to die.
He did great things still, like helping to solve the post colonialist kanak situation in new caledonia and was at least a convinced pro-peace and pro-friendship between people, even at the cost of an heavy jacobinism.
[0] http://www.slate.fr/story/85937/rocardiens-pouvoir-valls-macron-sapin http://www.slate.fr/story/85937/rocardiens-pouvoir-valls-mac...
- astrobe_ 10y agoLet's not abuse the fact that most of the readership here know nothing about French politics, please. Here is a text written by Rocard on the topic of software patents: http://www.sens-public.org/IMG/pdf/SensPublic_MRocard_PatentsLiberties.pdf http://www.sens-public.org/IMG/pdf/SensPublic_MRocard_Patent... I'll just let those interested here compare your slightly biased description of him with his writing.
- SFJulie 10y agoHe had nice ideas and was a wise men. It does not mean that all praise should not come with a little of objectivity on its political bias: his slightly biased opinion of the people in the process of making political decision. He was a techocrat -even though he was a gifted one. And technocrats have been so far strongest heralds of unfair IP laws that is the very first reason of the existence of free software. Free software is a walk-around technocratic decisions. Technocracy is much more a problem to free software than regulations. Regulations that can be changed by the people matters more than «right» decisions taken by some sort of deaf aristocracy. I will agree his essay was on spot. I will still spot his strong will to undermine democratic process and his distrust of the people. 1 right can be undone by a small wrong that is more important.