Censorship, covidism and Nazism

Tzeu lou said:« If the Prince of Wei were waiting for you to settle public affairs with you, what would be your first concern? ‑To give everything its true name, » replied the Master. (Confucius, Talks, XIII.3) Censorship, which we are trying to contextualize here, is defined by Le Robert (1979) as « the prior authorization given by a government to publications, shows ». This political meaning is, of course, far from being the only one, as shown by its long history, which is religious (the fight against heresies…), political (the subversion of anarchy…), moral (the fight against pornography…), and military (the management of disinformation in wartime…). Sade, for example, was able to benefit from the censorship of the Monarchy and the Republic because he transgressed the religious, political and moral orders at the same time. We will see that covidism activates all these dimensions at once. What is covidism? A very particular version of scientism, that is to say the ideology accor …

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