I will be forgiven today for meditating on the evolution of the world.

For thirty years, everywhere on the planet, but especially in the West, we have talked about globalization.

The trend was not necessarily new, but it accelerated: countries allowed themselves to be swallowed up by a global system manufacturing a homogeneous civilization, with metropolises all standardizing on the same model.

Everyone became a citizen of the world, and everyone had to feel at home in Montreal as in Los Angeles, in London as in Barcelona, ​​in San Francisco as in Toronto.

Globalization

Everywhere, the same fashions, everywhere, the same globish.

The whole world has become a hybrid of Hollywood, Starbucks and McDonalds.

Moreover, it was well seen, among the trendy, to say they were more united with the other inhabitants of these world cities than with their own compatriots living in the region, considered latecomers, retrograde, dusty, withdrawn.

The finest of globalized humanity now resided in these interconnected metropolises.

Moreover, we no longer really believed in the existence of peoples: we preferred to see interchangeable populations on the planet.

The borders were decreed obsolete. Everyone could cross them at will.

It was no longer even necessary to adapt to the habits and customs, in other words, to the identity, of the country where one was settling.

It was even up to the host society to adapt to the foreigners who settled there. You don't just have to have a sense of hospitality. It had to be erased.

Whoever showed resistance to this revolution was accused of xenophobia.

Bottom line: globalization and the demographic and sociological changes it has brought about have created a fragmented world, with multiple tensions, which will only get worse.

One need only look at what is happening in Western Europe to be convinced of this.

Above all, this revolution is based on fraud.

It claims diversity, while it comes to annihilate the diversity of the world. With it, Quebec is less Quebecois, Italy is less Italian, Scotland is less Scottish, Sweden is less Swedish. The world is becoming uniform – it is becoming Americanized in low-end versions. It turns us all into exiles – Westerners become exiles from within.

Each country, to adapt to the laws of globalized tourism, becomes uniform: the tourist takes precedence over the citizen, and when a country has too strong an identity, it must be put aside so as not to offend the visitors of the moment. .

In Quebec itself, we were recently told that. We were told that French could even be repulsive.

But this world is sad, alienating.

It deprives human beings of a real home, where they can continue the work of their ancestors and bequeath the world to their descendants.

Revolt

It creates a world that is no longer a home.

This world today arouses a feeling of revolt.

This revolt is sometimes disdainfully called populism. This term is poorly chosen. But this revolt is not only understandable. It is necessary.

This revolt is that of men and women who want to be masters in their own house.