France and Regression Part I

The new French president is the symbol of world regression. Rather than moving forward and realizing the potential of a post-scarcity society, i.e. reducing work hours, allowing for decentralization, severing the tie between work and income, conservative's are trying to reinforce the attributes of a society of scarcity.

The regressive qualities of the 'New' France are explitict with Sarkozy's response to his election win:

"[Voters] have chosen to break with the habits and the ideals of the past so I will rehabilitate work, authority, morality, respect, merit!"

Excuse me, rehabilitate work and authority, why? We can now reduce work and authority is no longer needed. Authority is only required to maintain hierarchy, domination and subjugation. Authority is necessary to enforce work and its extension, rather than automating work and decentralizing society those in power seek to maintain their privilege. They seek to enforce the existence of social relations conducive to the perpetuation of a system of domination that can be transcended. You must realize that all these qualities are those of a society of scarcity and are feed by a mindset of enforced society. Free your mind of social constraints and realized that these are defunct values that need to be transcended. Of course Sarkozy wants to rehabilitate work and authority, capital is forced work and needs to extend work hours to increase its profit levels and in order to extend work hours it is much easier if people have internalized the work ethic and manifest social-discipline on themselves rather than forcing the state to enforce social control upon them.

Instead, we should be rejecting enforced and inhumane work and unnecessary authority. We need to decentralize power relations, we need to free work from capital, we need to eliminate domination and hierarchy.

No Gods, No Masters!