The reader will undoubtedly notice the cover of this work. Besides the title: Authority, the subtitle stands out: “My proposals to straighten the republic.” Mr. Éric Ciotti does not speak of France, but of its regime, the republic.
Through a richly detailed book, the author meticulously describes the country’s situation. If he quotes Plato, it is to better highlight the abandonment of authority: that of parents, teachers, the State, justice, and power, which have devalued themselves.
The genesis of this decadence, this decay of the organs of power, dates back to May 1968. The motto “Prohibited to prohibit” is the new commandment, the new virtue, everything is permitted, and society is resigning. Éric Ciotti thus draws up an assessment of the state of France and demonstrates that the loss of authority is the cause of all our ills. Ferry’s school had trained generations of responsible and civic-minded citizens.
This book is a whole program, and Mr. Ciotti paints an alarming picture with increasing delinquency, lawless areas, the Islamic veil in opposition to secularism, a power seeming to abdicate, and immigration where overbidding should be avoided. Authority!
It was time to think about it, and this book shows us an alarming clinical situation of our country. Mr. Ciotti, deputy and president of the departmental council (the new name for the former general councils), depicts a sick country and provides his solutions to save it.
One could not fault him for the common sense and obviousness of his words. While this book is an assessment of the current five-year term according to the half-empty bottle version, which is fair game, its author being in the opposition. His intellectual honesty is emphasized with the admission of a shortfall in the actions of right-wing governments.
This book is a draft of the right-wing program for the 2017 deadline. Mr. Ciotti gives us the keys to this campaign that seems to have already begun.
An easy-to-read book, a press review of the key events since the beginning of François Hollande’s five-year term. An enlightening assessment, as expected.
This book is therapy for the republic in danger, threatened both by the fanatic communitarianism of uncontrolled Islamists and another extremism no less dangerous because it’s built on hatred and xenophobia.
Thierry Jan
