It was all very decadent, yes, but not in the way it thinks it was. Because this
wasn’t French at all, but a display of American cultural imperialism, the goading
and the power display of wokeness, establishing the new sacred –
transgenderism, multiculturalism – and repudiating and mocking the old. Daring
you to object. Director Thomas Jolly apparently said beforehand of his opus, ‘I
wanted everyone to feel represented’. This is a telling remark. Because
‘everyone’ doesn’t actually mean everyone, it means only the narcissistic
elements of newly sacralised minorities. Nobody else exists.
Like all of this culture, it was contemptuous, shambolic (the Olympic flag was
flown upside down) and pompous. ‘This is France!’ Macron tweeted during it,
handing Marine le Pen material for years.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...-finished-yet/