SInce on January 20, the news from America was an extravagant fervor, presenting every morning The avalanche of the Follies of the day before. The amazing spectacle offered day after day by the White House can push us a little more every day in a dystopia that no one could have imagined arriving So quickly, but this also hides a significant part of the depth of the current change of regime in Washington.
Thanks to its relationship with science, knowledge and places where knowledge is built and transmitted, the Trump administration also roughly reveals its totalitarian practices.
“There cannot be two masters: the party and science. For the party authority to become absolute, science must disappear (…). The ambition to control reality itself, all reality, is inscribed in the totalitarian project. This is why oligarchs must decompose the two modes of thought offering a reliable access to reality and refer to it: Science and Common Sense”, wrote John-Jacques Rosat, A book to be published in the Philosopher JeanThe spirit of totalitariam. George Orwell and 1984 Facing 21e Century, “The spirit of totalitarianism: George Orwell and 1984 Against the 21stst Century”).
Friday, March 7, in France, in the United States and elsewhere, many rallies were organized to protest against the subversion and destruction of the science of the Trump administration. “Science and knowledge (are) targeted by a fascist trajectory”, was the motto of the Rally of Paris.
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