Impenetrability, or obscurantism: good luck with that in a court of law. This is important: I’ve seen patent lawyers haggle over the dictionary meaning of a word. ‘Grounded’ and ‘groundless’ are technical legal terms for what the law will uphold or dismiss. This is not a creative writing class. No one has ever used the word ‘illuminé’ in the sense of zealot. When you start using words in your own individual way – this is called an
idiolect, a notion somewhat related to
idiocy – all positive interaction with the community eventually becomes impossible. In Anthony Burgess’s
A Clockwork Orange, among a gang of thugs who have their own language, communications break down to the point where they even turn against each other.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clockwork_Orange
When this obscurantism, the exact opposite of enlightenment, is applied to the common ground of a nation, namely its constitution, you get people imagining the phrase ‘France is a secular, democratic, social Republic’ to mean ‘France is an Islamic, charia-law state’. That is the stance of the ‘illuminés’ who carried out this atrocity in the first instance, and if you care to see any handlers behind them, then they too are concerned, whether or not they are card-carrying Illuminati. They are common criminals who would be dealt with by the law in the above-described manner.
The fact is that the perpetrators are drawn from the idle poor of the banlieues (lower-class housing estates) whose recruiters give them a false identity and purpose in life. They have fallen by the wayside. Why? Notably, but by no means exclusively, because the State’s coffers are always empty, as its wealth is being siphoned off to the usual suspects. As a feasible alternative to throwing this misguided youth in jail, the first thing to be done would be to throw some of these other people in jail instead.
Re: Charlie Hebdo shooting: eleven dead at Paris offices of satirical magazine
Reply With Quote
Bookmarks