Poseur Alert

"I still don’t think there’s reason to despair of this country. No matter how many derangements, dysfunctions, driftings there may be … no matter how fragmented the political and social space may be; despite this nihilist hypertrophy of petty antiquarian memory; despite this hyperobesity – increasingly less metaphorical – of the great social bodies that form the invisible edifice of the country; despite the utter misery of the ghettos … I can’t manage to convince myself of the collapse, heralded in Europe, of the American model," – Bernard-Henri Levy, as quoted in the New York Times.