Silly Little Country

Exquisitely Accomplished Grace

A wonderful post from Grant McCracken, struggling to make sense of France, and what the word 'equality' means there.

This may be the only Western culture in which the phrase "creative destruction" is fully paradoxical. All of us balk for a moment at the phrase, but the French, I think, must just shake their heads and say, "no, it's creative or it's destructive." This is a culture that approaches perfection, and for a world like this all of the things that make other Western economies go, innovation, responsiveness, competition and innovations, these, in France, are wrong. These contradict the the French style of life.

posted by Alan Adamson @ 6:53 AM