Black Magic of the State

Author: François-René Rideau

Pages: 254

This book is not a treatise on magic, it will not teach you any magic potion. But it could well help you see magic where it hides in society. Not just any magic: black magic, the kind that is harmful, bad, destructive. But if the magic wands do not have the conventional form, the formulas do have their secret grimoires. Constitution, legislation, codes and decrees, these are its sacred texts, the author tells us. In this first volume, François-René Rideau conducts a systematic dissection - a deconstruction, to use a fashionable magical term - of the founding myths of the democratic and increasingly socialist society that surrounds us.

He demonstrates point by point the profound similarity, both in logic and in practices, with diabolical witchcraft. However, this is not a book that goes around in circles based on a vague thesis lacking in substance. "Black Magic" is on the contrary a work with ideas and arguments of rare density. The relevance of the analyses will not fail to bring a new eye to many informed readers, even among those familiar with the best authors of liberalism. The pen is nimble, the tone is often lively: the author takes us with verve and passion on an enlightening and revealing journey, announcing the one to follow, open to the magic of civilized society.