I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life - to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one's neighbors.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
France has the least social mobility of any developed country. The social elevator no longer works. It's broken.
I saw that there are people who will connive against innovation. They're hostile to it. And that has shaped my behavior ever since.
All over the world, social innovation is tackling some of the most pressing problems facing society today - from fair trade, distance learning, hospices, urban farming and waste reduction to restorative justice and zero-carbon housing. But most of these are growing despite, not because of, help from governments.
During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.
Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society.
Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.
The reason I don't like realist, photorealist, neorealist, or whatever, is that I am as interested in the artificial as I am in the real.
As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.
What matters to me is to find rational solutions for those that are facing difficulties so that France preserves jobs and its ability to innovate.