From Top of the Class to Howling Monkey: The Overturn of Political Codes

Emmanuel Macron perfectly embodies the profile of the "top of the class": a tireless worker, rigorous technician, intellectually armed, obsessed with reform coherence and mastery of files. But in today's political world, this traditional model has been overturned: the top of the class are now the most disruptive, aggressive, and outrageous.

Overturn of Codes

Long valued, the top-of-the-class profile—reason, procedure, compromise—is now disqualified as "cold technocrat" or "disconnected elite."The paradox is clear: the more one embodies reason and mastery, the more one becomes a target for bashing, relegated to "bottom of the class" in the media theater.

The New Champions: The Vociferators

Today, dominant leaders are Donald Trump, Javier Milei, Vladimir Putin, Benjamin Netanyahu, or Narendra Modi: masters of provocation, polarization, and self-staging as "warriors" against the system.They turn every event into a spectacle of insults, personal attacks, and identity dramatization, often eclipsing the intellectual poverty of their projects.

The Bannon Software in Action

This shift follows a "new software": "flood the zone," Steve Bannon's doctrine advocating flooding the media space with lies, rumors, and outrages to neutralize facts and media.On social networks, verbal aggressions, conspiracy insinuations, and attacks on judges or experts saturate attention 24/7, imposing a normality of excess and violent fait accompli.

The Crowd Drawn to Chaos

The population aspires to these codes: bashing reasonable leaders, idolizing intellectually hollow but loud figures, masters of media vociferation.The voter, tired of complexity, prefers tribal simplicity: "them against us," without demanding depth, replacing debate with the reflex of humiliation.

Wisdom Amid Disarray

History shows that "howling monkeys" never reign long: hysteria, propaganda, and aggressions wear out against economic reality, crises, and solid counter-powers.For clarity: value nuance, doubt, compromise; reject dehumanization; prioritize the long term of patient advances (civil rights, reconciliations).In this noisy forest, silent roots—schools, judges, civil service—ensure lasting stability.