There is always something that prevents French society from debating crucial issues in depth. Laziness, emotional dripping, embarrassment, fear, cowardice, and so many others. In the case of the assassination of Lola, it is the political recovery. The confrontation between the researchers of responsibility is all the more indecent, as it has also deprived Lola’s family of the silence essential to the accomplishment of their mourning. For some, it is the fault of immigration, because if the assassin had not been present on national territory, little Lola would not have been killed. Good: hard to go against such an unstoppable argument, but what does it actually explain? Or, it is the fault of the government, decidedly too cowardly. For the others, it is “the fault of bad luck”, to the misfortune of this young immigrant to whom France did not know how to give her place, as the Keeper of the Seals tried to convince the Assembly national during a session of questions to the Government. This unacceptable argument does not explain anything either. This sterile debate adds confusion to the horror. Indeed, Lola’s assassination has only remotely to do with the migration crisis.
Just like all the evils that affect our country, for the rest. Take the example of the expansion of Islam in France: it would not prosper if the French and Westerners were faithful to their heritage and eager to share it. Thus, in all things, immigration aggravates everything, amplifies everything, makes phenomena unbearable that could be tolerated in other contexts, makes the gentle violent, and the calm nervous. If it is a very bad emulsifier, it is in itself the cause of nothing. What is at work in the assassination of Lola is not primarily the status of her executioner, but all of his motivations, the state of his will, what feeds his spirit. There lies the real cause of this act, and consequently what should mainly interest our political reflections: barbarism, whose unrestrained expansion in today’s France is spectacular. It settled with machetes and weapons of war, gratuitous lynchings, clan wars. Formerly concentrated on a few territories and a few hoodlums, today it spares no one, anywhere; without anything containing it, and without real will Politics to stem it.
It is in fact a consequence of the spiritual void in which we have plunged by making globalized consumption our only horizon. We pay for having defended the autonomy of the individual and the realization of his unlimited desires; chose consumption as the sole horizon of human life, materialism as spirituality and stupid secularism as the last political horizon; ignored that the teaching of beauty, truth and goodness, natural societies and virtues are conditions of social life. We pay in all this the consequences of our own renunciations. To ignore the needs of the human soul is to hand it over to its devourers, and make it ready to devour other souls in its turn. Neither poverty nor immigration produces violence as much as the deconstruction and weakening of minds.