When I wake up after a nightmare in the middle of the night (something which portrays Richard Martineau, I'll explain one day), when a car passes me on the feet and tears me a toenail, when it's storm, and I miss my mom and I cry, I just think delusions colonized by Pierre Falardeau and Raymond Villeneuve other. And suddenly I smile, as if I had to take a country of Quebec toune seriously ("It's sunny in my heart / Oh you my sweet / My little Jesus / Yodlayihi ...")
What reassures me, nay, what delights me in Falardeau et al, is the effect of comparison. I remember a CEGEP course where, following a debate on the death penalty when we countered all his arguments, a classmate had given up saying that "Eille, if you think too much, it will eventually collapse. " Obviously, they are people who think more than me.
Still, playing the game, imagine if Quebec was colonized. Not just a little government interference in our affairs, a real settlement with the civilizing mission and everything. And let's say, to maximize the realism, that those who colonized us are Indians of South America. But then
Indians land in question here, set fire to parliament, Prime Minister Dumont exiled in Texas (where his political career continues with a dazzling success as unlikely), we convert to shamanism with great blows of forced ingestion of psychotropic and give the strap to anyone caught speaking another language that Quechua at school. Happiness reigns over the country, generations follow one another in joy and hunting tapir.
Or not. A century later, big break, a wave of postcolonial authorities seized Amerindian. And then it starts to ooze remorse, it finds that acculturation attempts have only succeeded in half, it decides to save the traditional Quebec culture. If you think that the first phase was heavy, wait a bit we are trying to save you.
"It's really horrible, the disappearance of traditional societies," they say. "Imagine the wealth of knowledge about the beginnings of humankind that we lose the diversity culture that disappears when a language no longer used by some grandmother Paspébiac to speak for itself. "
So we must ensure that each parish has its Quebec priest (a Catholic priest, not patchwork ) and that each parishioner goes to Mass on Sunday. No more nonsense, we just save your culture, just as we save a species endangered by creating a national park. While cultural change is a form of defeat in the great war against acculturation and homogenization, and after we have fucked in shit sudamérindienne progressive society will do everything to bring us back three hundred years ago.
OK, we're back to reality. I really need to explain my metaphor?
"Nope," you say (oh my grandchildren, I appreciate your insight, I appreciate), "one wants only that they keep their cultures, people of the South, it does not mean that promoted obscurantism. "
Like, slap on your bongos and sharing your philosophy of harmony with Mother Earth, but not you dare to have different social roles for men and women. The whole debate revolves around the essential difference between "good traditional values" and "bad traditional values." Good, those are the ones that are compatible with the program of Québec solidaire. External pressure to repress them, is of colonialism and cultural genocide. The bad, these are the ones that QS will be corrected by education. The "correct" is a work of development. No no, nothing in this colonialist trend that we have to impose on others to become an idealized version of ourselves. Jesuit missionaries came to convert the "savages" in the 17th century thought the same thing. The only difference was in the classification of a particular cultural trait in one category or another.
Still, it's a shame that the choice between "good" and "bad" values is always made by the colonial power. Me, seen here, from the inside "a subject people, a vassal people, a people subservient to another", I still have my say. Because I'm scared that the colonial authorities sudamérindiennes begin to think that ideas are Falardeau this part of our traditional culture should be protected. * * *
Oh, and by the way, congratulations to Al Gore. Now that his work of education has paid off, everyone is eager to see him take a boat sails to collect her award in Norway.
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