The title of the invitation was one of those that takes your breath away: “unveiling of Nice personalities from civil society, assigned a mission in the city of Nice”!
In the end, when put to the test of facts, we were able to take a deep breath… it must be said that the communication operation was well orchestrated, the announcement effect was there, and the splash as well.
And that’s very good indeed, because one wondered what could possibly happen in the city that was so serious as to require such a shock intervention.
But, as we know, Christian Estrosi does not like lukewarm politics but rather boiling hot!
In fact, 8 people, with varied curricula, are assigned a mission on certain themes of general interest and will provide an analysis report and recommendations that will be made public and could be subject to a follow-up in terms of application.
The words of the mayor of Nice were rather reassuring and dispelled the risk of a permanent Maoist-style cultural revolution: “This afternoon I presented the 8 Nice personalities who have chosen to commit themselves to their city, coming from civil society, from all walks of life. They are assigned a mission within the @VilledeNice.”
In other contexts, they would be called the “council of the crown.” In this framework, we might call them… “the breathers of the future.”
They will work in concert with the deputies in charge of the various sectors and will bring a new, certainly innovative, perspective, akin to “lateral thinking.”
Moreover, Christian Estrosi, with a post-ideological stance, aims to be at the forefront of the fight to make things move; the municipal bureaucracy (the one that says, it’s the rule or we’ve always done it this way) might suffer a little or a lot, but it’s the price to pay: moving forward while staying in place goes against the laws of physics!
The transfer of disordered energies from the outside to the center is the prerequisite for change and the support of innovation.
Mayor of Nice has put the finger where it hurts: in certain areas, the delay compared to international reference standards is considerable: one example among others, with 70 companies registered at Nice-Start(s)up, claiming a French Tech territory status is rather laughable. Not to mention American myths, the Rothschild Boulevard alone in Tel-Aviv houses over 1,000. No need to invoke Hegel to know that quality comes from quantity.
This is to say that the “thinker” in the matter, Philippe Garcia, a restaurateur by trade and an investor in a start-up, will need to change the “menu.” He might make his own the expression: culture is like jam, the less you have, the more you need to spread it.”
It should also be noted that among the 8 experts (in which we cannot help but notice with regret that only 2 are female! and wonder the reason for this disregard towards women), there is a judoka and a karateka. Something to worry about
for future debates?
Someone once said that ‘humor is in disorder and disorder is positive.’
The final proposals will tell us if the “innovators” have found the key to charting the path of the future or if we will simply have to laugh about it.*
