Good evening to you all,
I give you my impressions and thoughts immediately after the intervention of the President, two minutes. Substance , there is little to complain about: what kind of exercise is suitable graph every word was weighed, read the text leaves no room for surprise. It is a presidential speech in which, by definition, everyone can recognize. On the form , I would hold this lesson to address those many who believe that long to do it well: in six minutes, one can express a lot of fundamental ideas.
What catches my attention is rather the timing of this intervention the middle of events that shook the Mediterranean countries and that Nicolas Sarkozy has called an "historic". A president who meets history, it does not happen all day. Also prominent as it is, the supreme decision is made mostly technical, policy monitoring, regular management, ad hoc arbitration that are not of history, collective memory will be quickly forgotten. Only through hyperbole often referred to as "historic" choice or statements that are not in reality. Here, however, we feel a breath inspires people, as regimes collapse, something new is prepared: this is called history, and it is not so frequent.
But history is a river unruly, unpredictable, which can be worn as it can drown, which we do not really know where it leads us. The statesman is struggling to keep his boat there, to give it direction. Louis XVI had not realized that July 14, 1789 was a revolution, De Gaulle was aware that his appeal of 18 June 1940, albeit marginally, had a historical dimension. Anyway, it is difficult to capture the event the moment when it happens, when we feel largely escapes, as when we tossed in midstream. And yet, the statesman must speak, decide, give meaning to what is still a mess.
We remember the reproaches Mitterrand had made in 1989, before the fall of the Berlin wall, whose attitude had been prudent, wise, pragmatic diplomacy. But opinion appears awaiting there something prophetic. Nicolas Sarkozy wanted to accompany tonight, maybe even get ahead of history, failing to do so, a task that now seems more devoted to the peoples as leaders. This is the first time since the beginning of his mandate he is confronted with such circumstances. The financial crisis, because financial and not political, was not really a historic event. History is a people business, no cash flows or stock prices.
The problem with history is that she decides to just about everything, it goes beyond the role of states. "Since these events escape us, pretending to organize ," said Jean Cocteau. That's what the statesman is obliged, at the risk of being wrong. For it is only history that is to say, the future, which tell if the event is historical or not , sometimes long after it occurred. Meet History is not easy. The paradox is that we must be worthy of an event that is beyond us yet !
Good evening historic.
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