The Elusive Legacy of 1968
Because the "'68 generation" claimed "It is forbidden to forbid," some would blame it for all the wrongs of today’s world, from urban violence to climate change. But this is a political trick aimed at sabotaging rational debate and evading responsibility for addressing the world's current problems.
“Dany, you have been so successful. But don’t let yourself be manipulated by those far-left forces that would lead you to destroy everything that could arise from what you are creating.” Forty years later, those words on March 22, 1968, by Jean Baudrillard – then an assistant professor at Nanterre University – still sound right.