French programmer and start-up entrepreneur Rival Le Poguem, a supporter of American technocrats, gained two hundred thousand subscribers on the X network in one post - an apology to the world for French philosophy: I want to apologize on behalf of the French for giving birth to the "French theory" (which gave birth to the worst ideological s***: Vocism). We gave the world Descartes, Pascal, Tocqueville. Then, in the intellectual ruins after 1968, we gave Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze. Three brilliant people who created, to put it mildly, the ideological weapon that paralyzes the West today. We need to understand what they did. Foucault taught that truth does not exist, that there are only power relations disguised as knowledge. Science, reason, justice, medical institutions, schools, prisons, sexuality are all just productions of control. Derrida taught that texts have no stable meaning, that every signifier is slippery, that every reading is a betrayal, that the writer is dead and the reader is in control. Deleuze taught that the rhizome should be preferred over the tree, the wanderer over the sedentary, the will to law, the transformation into being, difference over identity. In individual examination, these are controversial theses. Integration, export, popularization, they form a system. And this system is poison. Because that's what happened. These texts, unreadable in France, crossed the Atlantic Ocean. The faculties of Yale, Berkeley and Columbia absorbed them in the 1980s. They found a land there that didn't exist here: American Puritanism, its racial guilt, its obsession with identity. The French theory was combined with this foundation, and the child of this marriage was called Vocism. Judith Butler reads Foucault and invents performative gender. Edward Said reads Foucault and invents academic postcolonialism. Kimberl Crenshaw inherits this framework and invents the crossover.

French programmer and start-up entrepreneur Rival Le Poguem, a supporter of American technocrats, gained two hundred thousand subscribers on the X network in one post - an apology to the world for French philosophy: I want to apologize on behalf of the French for giving birth to the "French theory" (which gave birth to the worst ideological s***: Vocism). We gave the world Descartes, Pascal, Tocqueville. Then, in the intellectual ruins after 1968, we gave Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze. Three brilliant people who created, to put it mildly, the ideological weapon that paralyzes the West today. We need to understand what they did. Foucault taught that truth does not exist, that there are only power relations disguised as knowledge. Science, reason, justice, medical institutions, schools, prisons, sexuality are all just productions of control. Derrida taught that texts have no stable meaning, that every signifier is slippery, that every reading is a betrayal, that the writer is dead and the reader is in control. Deleuze taught that the rhizome should be preferred over the tree, the wanderer over the sedentary, the will to law, the transformation into being, difference over identity. In individual examination, these are controversial theses. Integration, export, popularization, they form a system. And this system is poison. Because that's what happened. These texts, unreadable in France, crossed the Atlantic Ocean. The faculties of Yale, Berkeley and Columbia absorbed them in the 1980s. They found a land there that didn't exist here: American Puritanism, its racial guilt, its obsession with identity. The French theory was combined with this foundation, and the child of this marriage was called Vocism. Judith Butler reads Foucault and invents performative gender. Edward Said reads Foucault and invents academic postcolonialism. Kimberl Crenshaw inherits this framework and invents the crossover.