Showing up on Instagram to renew her denunciation of Maripier Morin, and practically demanding that she be banished from society until the end of time, the always subtle Safia Nolin justified her remarks by explaining that two years later, his “sanity” was still affected by the events.
The mere presence of Maripier Morin in the public space seems manifestly unbearable to him.
I obviously do not intend to comment on the mental health of Safia Nolin. I would not dare.
I would add that I have nothing against this woman of legendary politeness, even if she already called me, in 2019, “the other host of Bock-Côté”. It is probably with such terms that she fights in her own way against the culture of intimidation of which she claims to be a victim.
Of construction
But I come back to the essential: Safia Nolin talks about her mental health.
And I note that she is not the only one to use this argument as a political argument in our collective debates. Just a few days ago, young Anglophones also mobilized him to oppose Bill 96. Once again, their mental health would be in question. The new French courses they should pass could compromise it.
And as soon as we think about it, we find that this argument circulates a lot.
It accompanies several calls for censorship. The Woke youth thus explains that they cannot hear this or that speech because they come to weaken them psychologically – they no longer feel safe in the face of ideas that contradict their vision of the world.
This can be seen as an easy argumentative pirouette. But it can also be seen as a terrible confession.
This generation is the victim of the psychic collapse of Western civilization, which today pays the price on a daily basis for the ideas that have captured the imagination of our societies for fifty years.
It is a veritable ideological revolution that has bulldozed the Western world. We had to deconstruct, deconstruct everything. There was a hypnosis of nothingness there.
But the vacuum is not tenable. Human beings need certainties. Even if it means getting lost in a fantasy.
This is perhaps the sociological and philosophical key to understanding the present times.
Thus, today, it is the one who feels foreign to the masculine and the feminine who becomes the new norm.
Similarly, it is the illegal migrant who becomes the identity and moral norm, and the citizen is struck with suspicion.
Fanaticism
It would also be necessary to definitively reverse our understanding of beauty, of elegance, of freedom.
The younger generation, deeply unhappy, is looking for itself without finding itself. And the more mentally fragile she is, the more she takes refuge in woke fanaticism and transforms the slightest inconvenience into an unpardonable offense.
And we are witnessing a change: the young Westerner has become a fragile little creature.
Richard Martineau is right: our era is that of little rabbits.