Nearing the Iceberg?

I'm indebted to a reader for the idea of a sinking ship.

The S. S. Ségo may not be in Davy Jones Locker yet,

but she is running into stormy weather from France's most influential media "philosophers": André Glucksmann, Bernard-Henri Lévy and Alain Finkielkraut.

The same reader sent this link to an article in the Telegraph that exposes the serious questions these "philosophers" are raising.

The least serious of the three is Bernard-Henri Lévy (BHL) who insists a philosopher should "ask questions not express preferences",

but since it has been reported that at one time he actively supported the Lady,

we can only presume that he'd like to forget about that:

his reputation as a philosopher could sink along with the battered ship.

I would like to turn to Alain Finkielkraut.Alain Finkielkraut is known to all Frenchmen. Writer, philosopher, social critic, he made rather turbulent waves during the November 2005 riots when he granted an interview with the Israeli journal Haaretz.

In the interview he made the mistake of calling a spade a spade and had to atone for his sins in another interview with high-profile journalist and French media mogul Jean-Pierre Elkkabach.

With Haaretz he spoke frankly about the racial problems besetting France, the immigration that was really an invasion and the deep-rooted cultural problem of a country that was no longer proud of its heritage.

And he made it clear that he had broken with his left-wing background - he had been one of many radicals of the disastrous decade of the 1960's who sought to change the whole world.

If you are interested in the English version of this interview from 2005, and the self-defense he made to Elkkabach click here.

Finkielkraut severely criticizes Ségolène Royal .

He says, in substance, of the candidate:

I'll tell you why it is impossible to support Ségolène Royal.

Her faux pas reveal an abysmal incompetence.

Everything in the posturings of Ségolène Royal worries me... everything worries me because it reveals her incompetence,

BUT ALSO because it reveals the deteriorated state of a Left that has been debased by Mitterandism and its posturing, dumbed down by the search for a social science based entirely on ideology and intimidated by an extreme-Left that is ever more radical and ever more violent, at least in its words.

Finkielkraut's voting plans aren't clear.

He seemed to favor Sarkozy, then denied it. Now he talks about voting for François Bayrou.

I think it's best for "wise men" to keep their choice a secret, or rather, to reveal it after the election, when they have a much better chance of being right.

Via GalliaWatch