For once, Gallic humor is not the excuse for a ribald joke. Among the multitude of New Year greeting cards that we receive at 20 minutesit is rare that one of them arouses enthusiasm: “Happy New Year this, let’s succeed together in that… Bla bla bla, bla bla bla…” As when you have to write to your old aunt, creativity doesn’t is not at its peak.
But this year, one of them caught our eye like a fish thrown by Ordralphabétix. For the 65th anniversary of the release of the album “Asterix the Gaul”, the town of Mennecix – sorry, Mennecy, in Essonne – provided a greeting card bearing the image of the band character favorite comic book of the French.
A call to distinguish between virtual and real
Except that instead of the famous Roman villages of Aquarium, Babaorum, Laudanum and Petibonum, the designated enemies are called Tik-tokus, Snapchatum, Instagrul and Facebookus.
“This is not a personal crusade against social networks,” explains Jean-Philippe Dugoin-Clément, the local Abraracourcix. According to the councilor, his invitation to the town hall’s greeting ceremony (January 31 at 7 p.m. at the Jean-Jacques Robert theater) is more of a little reminder about the dangers of social networks than of the anti-Internet primary: “I am a user myself like everyone else. But in an increasingly virtual world, it is becoming more and more difficult to separate things. »
For the mayor of Mennecy, “networks” are as much an exceptional means of communication as a form of “danger and impoverishment”: “For me, who is often in a public decision-making situation, there is often a gap between this what I read online and what I hear in everyday life. This invitation to meet again is only a reminder not to forget this reality. »
Wise words for a councilor who does not hesitate to use communication and derision to remind his constituents of simple things, as when he innovated with new traffic signs to make motorists slow down.