One could plausibly counter that these qualities are France's leading exports, and therefore precisely the country's prime contribution to the New World Order. Cohen's massive piece, nestled under a dispiriting headline ("For France, Sagging Self-Image and Esprit"), attempted to demonstrate the myriad ways that the French have greeted the new global information age with "torpor. In a remarkable story last Wednesday, the New York Times turned correspondent Roger Cohen loose on the "risk-averse" European power. "And there is special regard for California." Indeed, Jean-Francois Theodore, chairman of the Paris stock exchange, is already looking to adapt the Golden State's high-tech investment structure to France's struggling venture-capital market, telling Flanigan of his admiration for the "entrepreneurs and high-tech companies" that shape California's business sensibility.īut this was nothing compared with what was to come. economy, now there is widespread admiration for its job-creating ability," Flanigan wrote. Writing in the Los Angeles Times, James Flanigan noted with a certain pride that Europeans in general, and the French in particular, are coming to regard California as a role model for future economic expansion. And, last week, the crowning indignity: news stories in two of America's leading newspapers advising the French to start acting more like. Their economy is stalling, unemployment rates are rising, Brigitte Bardot has become a right-wing animal nut. Recent events have been hard on the poor Gauls. Any country that has foisted both Jacques Derrida and Plastic Bertrand on an unsuspecting world clearly has a lot to answer for.īut really. Lord knows it's an obliging target, with its vast national self-regard, its deaf ear for popular culture, its bloviating intellectuals.
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