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Recently, a well-known public official said this to someone refusing to shake their hand at a press event: “Fuck off then, stupid bastard.” Ordinarily, one would assume that this figure must be a tawdry celebrity, someone with a level of maturity and emotional restraint akin to that of Britney Spears. Yet it was not a pop icon, but rather Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France, who uttered this statement...
...During a visit to the annual Paris agriculture fair at the end of February, Sarkozy glad-handed the crowd, thanking observers for coming—until he came upon one who refused to shake his hand. “Tu me salis,” or “You dirty me,” said the unidentified man, to which Sarkozy crudely retorted, “Casse-toi alors, pauvre...
...effort to justify Sarkozy’s comments, Prime Minister Francois Fillon later claimed that it was “totally abnormal that someone would refuse to shake the hand of the President.” Perhaps Francois Fillon and I have different definitions of the word “abnormal,” but I find it more abnormal that the President of the French Republic would call one of his constituents a stupid bastard. This incident represents a pattern of behavior wholly unfitting to the French presidency—a pattern of behavior that is costing Sarkozy credibility...
...Indeed, awareness-raising, as an entirely logical and un-ironic pursuit, is ubiquitous in our generation. Back in the 70s, people went awareness-raising because they wanted to shake up their complacent neighbors by doing something radical and “far-out.” Now everyone does it as a matter of course. There are awareness bracelets, awareness pins, awareness weeks, even awareness frying pans. And this long after other trends like the bell-bottomed pant and Richard Nixon have gone the way of the dodo. So what explains awareness’s continuing popularity...
...makes me wonder if anything is sacred. Must I now be nostalgic of not only sandlot baseball games, but also “old” technologies made irrelevant by the ruthless advance of digital innovation? Maybe Polaroid figures you can’t “shake it like a Polaroid picture” because of your carpal-tunnel from “Guitar Hero.” The magic is gone—at least for our generation.We shouldn’t stay true to the real thing, in the arts and otherwise, simply because of nostalgia...