Now is not the time to turn our backs on Enlightenment values | Will Hutton
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/08/will-hutton-lost-enlightenment-values
The dynamic element on the political right across the west is giving up on the Enlightenment. No longer does it want to embrace tolerance, reason, democratic argument, progress and the drive for social betterment as cornerstones of society. Tolerance is dismissed as an indulgence and a lack of moral standards; progress is trashed as an opportunity for social engineering and a cloak to enhance state power and also as featherbedding the feckless, undeserving poor.
La notion « no longer » dans ce genre de commentaire repose sur quoi ? Quand j’étais ado, on (nous les ceusses qui avaient fait leur éducation politique avec Pierre Arditi, Emmanuelle Béart et Daniel Balavoine), on était déjà intimement persuadés que Pasqua constituait une rupture fascisante dans l’évolution de la droite.
