Our peers in France
Our peers in France are mulling over 12 minutes of an interview shot in 1999, of Pierre Bourdieu, talking about which political figures styled as "of the left", are "of the right". The 12 minutes were first shown as Gauche/Droite vu par Pierre Bourdieu on Zalea TV, on September 29th, the day that Ségolène Royal announced that she was running for president in the '07 cycle. As a Socialist.
The political figure that Pierre Bourdieu chose to discuss was ... Ségolène Royal.
The bits were posted to DailyMotion, a YouTube like free (for the time being) video stream feed server, and four days later, the dead tree press (Le Monde, Libération, etc.) has copy on the TV-to-feed-to-blogs phenomena.
When Ségolène Royal was in government in 1999 she had responsibility for education and her acts of note were campaigns against pedophilia, hazing and for the re-establishment of civics. The play ground of the moralists, and a vast distance from the enlightenment for children ages 5 and up.
Which got me to thinking. The Congressional Page Program is an educational program. Which do we care more about, Ségolène Royal's issues, or that the curriculum is factual about the nature of the Congress, that is, currently a dictatorship, corrupt incomperable except for the Grant and Harding (elected) administrations, run for and by the aristrocracy?
Is our interest sexual mores or life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness through the creation and preservation of a government by the people?
To see the video, click here.