Pauve Sarkozy, he just can't win! First he's threatened by militant wine producers who apparently can't trust a president who doesn't drink wine, then he draws fire from the French Left for jogging!
'Worst of all, say these heirs of Sartre and Saussure, the very act of le jogging - or le running as it is now more fashionable to call it - is a cultural humiliation. It is, in the first place, an offence to national honour, they say, that the President of the Republic should totter back into the Elysée Palace looking like a sweat-drenched miniature version of Sylvester Stallone.
But as you would expect of French philosophers, they make a deeper point. Jogging, they say, waving their Gitanes angrily at the camera, is a Right-wing activity. It is all about the management of the body; it is about performance, and individualism, and the triumph of the will.'
But as you would expect of French philosophers, they make a deeper point. Jogging, they say, waving their Gitanes angrily at the camera, is a Right-wing activity. It is all about the management of the body; it is about performance, and individualism, and the triumph of the will.'
But here in Australia we know that's all wrong. Jogging's really more of an elite, chattering classes, inner city, chardonnay set, latte belt, guilt industry sort of affair. (did I forget any?) What's really right-wing is walking!
Or maybe all exercise is right-wing. That must be why I'm so lazy.
Spooky!!!!
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