The loss of France’s triple A could, If we get it right, become some great news. It could provide the small stimulus, needed to make us finally understand the gravity of the situation, become indignant against it and refuse to comply with it.
For this to happen resignation needs to be replaced by resistance.
We will have to be positive.
Too many bad news beset us. Since a number of years. Too many disasters and economic, social, financial, ecological threats. With their human consequences, shattering lives and businesses, threatening each of us of an irreversible decommissioning.
In the face of such threats, the world seems too big, France too small. The market seems too powerful, democracy too fragile.
The temptations to surrender are then so great, to back off, to give up, to flee.
That’s how big individual and collective bankruptcies always begin. This is how, without being aware of it, the most beautiful civilizations begin to disappear. how the darkest prophecies are fulfilled.
It is necessary in order to avoid it, to take all bad news as challenges. And to achieve this, we must find the vital impetus, the desire to face the blows of fate and to overcome them. And to feel that beyond the danger, life, and France, are worth the effort. This feeling must be sustained by nostalgia and hope, courage and respect for oneself.
Only then will we find the strength not to resign, not to flee. We will succeed in considering adversity as good news because it will force us to excel.
Each of us has been or will face at some point in his life, this kind of situation.
It is almost always reversible. And when it is not, it is only because the end is near.
For a nation, there is not necessarily an end: it can be immortal, if it gives itself the means, if it knows how to provide a meaning, a purpose, to its people, to keep them there, so they can create, shake up those in power, bear children, invent a future.
The loss, expected, of the triple-A should be regarded as good news for France: Finally, we are not going to simply fear for the future. Finally, we will no longer be able to avoid taking charge and we will have to react. All together. As quickly as possible. Without even waiting for a new government to be put in place in June.
Anyway, I hope we will find in ourselves the vital impetus to want it. As we found in other dramatic moments of our history.
Because France is worth the effort. And because all those who have brought the country so far, in fifteen centuries, would not forgive us if we ruined in ten years such a beautiful legacy.