This aged a bit too well

@George-ow1pc

2 жыл бұрын

L enlevement de michel houellebecq

I'm swedish and he is more than correct.

@PhilHug1

11 ай бұрын

Could you explain? I've heard that Sweden has a consensus culture. You're not allowed to think outside certain views?

@OberDesiah

11 ай бұрын

@@PhilHug1 The nordics have a consensus/trust-based culture which is really shooting them in the leg in the current year. Best regards, dude in Norway.

he's absolutely right

Based and true.

Only the very old can afford such honesty. What do they have to lose?

@Marenqo

Жыл бұрын

heaven

@nicolasrayspikenicolasray3100

Жыл бұрын

he's less than sixty years old in this

based

Houllebecq is a kind of prophet.

France is freaking dystopia. This footage was quite a while ago and yet France has been a dystopia for decades still. Nothing changed; no actually everything got worse than 1984 on all aspects.

@Marenqo

Жыл бұрын

1986 was better, tho

@sanssucreajoute6554

43 минут бұрын

you probably never read the book for saying that , u.k is by far worse than france btw

Superb.

"Government of experts" Yup.

@dansmith1661

Жыл бұрын

Triple () this

In Sweden everything is heavily legislated, except migration. Migration from the third-world have been excessively liberal, due to the benefit of the state, more people more tax money. But this hasn´t panned out as planned, violent crimes has increased significantly since the 80´s which is very costly to deal with. Also, now Sweden is one of the most class divided countries in EU. Still most Swedes are pro open borders, mainly of humanitarian reasons, a nice propaganda from the progressive liberal-leftists who are indirectly in-control of all the major news outlets. Impressive how Houellebecq has such wide insight.

@naq1648

Жыл бұрын

Jeff Ahl would like to know your location

So true

Is this from a movie? Documentary? I'd love to see the entire thing.

@yvankaramazov77

2 жыл бұрын

It's a movie 'L'enlèvement de Michel Houellebecq' 'The kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq' not very good but a bit funny in my opinion.

@DarkAngelEU

2 жыл бұрын

@@yvankaramazov77 I saw it and I thought it was incredibly inspiring. A satire on what politics should be, and what they are.

What is this from?

holy crap.

Where is this clip from ?

2026

true. but then, is the 'will of the people' really a good thing? the masses can easily be convinced into doing the most horrid things. by contrast, it was when the West was ruled by enlightened autocrats and oligarchies when it made the most crucial advances - Caesar, the Medicis, Charles V, Louis XIV, Napoleon, etc. Democracy was considered regressive by Plato and Aristotle. For good reason.

@DarkAngelEU

2 жыл бұрын

But those are still moments of history where the leaders were killed and defeated by their people. Caesar got killed by Brutus, Louis XIV by the Revolution, Napoleon by his own greed to conquer Europe. Democracies like Switzerland are thriving, because there people are allowed to propose new laws, and those laws are studied and ratified by experts and politicians to see if they are realistic laws or weird fever dreams. Those laws can apply to regions, and if other regions like to apply those laws to their own region, and over time overlap a majority of the country, they can be adopted as national policy, but it is rarely a top down decision, as it most often is in other European countries, even those we often consider to be democratic like France. Houellebecq is also right on Sweden being like a dictatorship. It was frightening to observe how colour blind they are, how unwilling they are to discuss integration, racism, gang violence and the incoherence between secularism and Islam while I was staying there. A very good work of art that conveys the experience would be The Square. Amazing movie on Swedish culture.

@deltame3264

Жыл бұрын

@@DarkAngelEU Louis XIV by the Revolution, you mean Louis XVI, Louis XIV died of sickness

@lennart2089

Жыл бұрын

@@DarkAngelEU I think you are right for the most part, but not all countries can be like Switzerland, because not all countries are as developed. There are various factors to take into equation, economics for one but more importantly, the people. If a population is striving for the same goals then it can work, but looking at most parts of Europe and the rest of the World, this is not the case.

@DarkAngelEU

Жыл бұрын

@@lennart2089 It's not about being developed. Democracy has nothing to do with development. It is a liberal ideology that concerns certain pragmatic freedoms: secularism, freedom of the press, individual liberties, and I agree that because of our history, Europe is the place where democracy sprang into life and had its long development since the Renaissance and still growing until today. I am not preaching for democracy everywhere. I don't care if certain cultures prefer dictators. I'm talking about a European context only, where certain countries simply pretend to have democratic principles, but in reality, politics are heavily top-down instead of bottom-up. That needs to change. Ironically, the EU is a great organ to secure democracy stays afloat in these countries. The way the EU is trying to solve the democratic crises in Hungary and Poland respectively shows promise. These are countries where leaders crack down on human rights, whilst the people demand them. It's a great example of leaders abusing their power against the will of the people.

@lennart2089

Жыл бұрын

@@DarkAngelEU I see, you are a neo-liberalist, I´m not. I´m National Concervative,, for lack of a better way to put it. In Switzerland that is exactly what the biggest and most influentual Party is. Poland and Hungary observes the west and see what a mess we made and are trying to prevent that to happen to their own countries. I travelled quite alot in Poland and I would say it´s one of the friendliest and least dangerous countries in Europe to travel nowadays. Democracy is Liberal in it´s own nature for sure, but that is intended for the people of that specific country and culture. What the EU have worked for is to become a multi-cultural globalized economy, and it´s been a failure from the start. Sure Germany, France and even Sweden has benefited from this Union in terms of Economics, but if you look to the south of Europe, and the smaller nations in the union their "freedom" has come with a high price, the quality of life for the majority has decreased instead of increased.

Que ' il estintelligent Cet homme.

Populist

😂😂😂 idolworshipper is crying

Houellebecq is tiring, far past his prime.

@OberDesiah

10 ай бұрын

Shhh