Have you seen the video of one of Canada’s Airbnb leaders trying to flee journalists after his meeting with Minister Caroline Proulx on Thursday?
pathetic.
The guy was looking for any door to escape.
I watched him walk in all directions, and I thought of the renters of the Airbnb in Old Montreal, who had also spent minutes desperately trying to find an escape route.
But not to run away from journalists.
To escape the flames.
And stay alive.
ABOUT NATIONS
Like Uber, Facebook, Google and Co, Airbnb believes in itself above all else.
The rules, the laws, the taxes, the taxes?
pffft! This is not for us!
We don’t have a business in a country…
We live in heaven! In the clouds !
We are supranational!
We hover 20,000 feet above your parliaments and courts!
The countries ? National Sovereignty? Politics ?
But that’s in the past, come on! It’s part of the old world!
We are the future!
To use the famous line from Film Network that I quoted you earlier:
“There are no nations! There are no peoples! There are no Russians! There are no Arabs! There is no third world! There is no West!
“There is only one holistic system, a vast and immutable interactive empire of dollars! Petrodollars, Electrodollars, Multidollars, Marks, Rubles, Francs, Pounds, Pesos!
“It is the international monetary system that governs all life on this planet! This is the natural order of things!
“They talk about America and democracy. There is no America! There is no democracy! There’s only IBM and ITT and AT&T and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, Exxon!
“These are the true nations of the world!
“We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies. The world is a college of corporations obeying the immutable laws of business.
The world is a business! »
THE OLD WORLD RESISTS
This is how the executives of these companies perceive the world, and this is how they would like it to be…
More citizens than consumers!
No more prime ministers or presidents than CEOs!
More proxies than shareholders!
But unfortunately for them, the old world still resists.
There are still people who believe the law is stronger than the corporations—!
So Airbnb had no choice but to comply with Quebec rules.
“Would you like to do business in Quebec? You must respect Quebec rules! Like all other companies! »
To cheer !
But just because we won a battle doesn’t mean we won the war.
The digital age is just beginning. We are just at the beginning.
Artificial intelligence will soon be ubiquitous.
It will become increasingly difficult for us to distinguish the true from the false.
We will live more and more in an abstract world. Immaterial.
And the ties that bind citizens of the same nation will crumble.
A royal stay
The Governor General of Canada, Mary SimonHe spent nearly $700,000 on his very first trip, a four-day stay in Germany in October 2021.
It must be said that Madame Simon slept in very prestigious hotels. What do you want, we are representatives of the queen or belly we are not!
That said, it’s not so much the person’s fault as the existence of this pointless post.
As the saying goes, “opportunity makes the thief”.
Why shouldn’t governors-general take advantage of the generosity the system affords them?
“A fool in the pocket! »
A transphobic measure?
Transgender people will be banned from women’s track and field competitions “from March 31,” the president of World Athletics, the international governing body, announced on Thursday.
Contrary to what some activists will say, this is absolutely not a transphobic measure.
It’s just a way to protect women who were born women!
Because today, a man no longer has to undergo hormone therapy to be considered a woman and to participate in competitions reserved for women. He just has to get up one day and say to himself, “I’m a woman!” »
This created a real injustice for “biological” women…
Everything in the same bag
On QUB radio this week, a friend of mine who suffers from bipolarity and has suffered from psychosis expressed deep concern over a particular discourse that associates “mental illness” with “violence, threats and murder.”
It helps stigmatize people who have mental health problems, he told me.
Of course we have to be careful, but we shouldn’t put all people with mental disorders in the same bag either.
“We’re not all walking bombs,” he told me. And for a good reason.
