From link to link, the Internet allows some walks that lead to a result quite different the initial search. In fact, assuming a reunion of the famous French band Phone prompted me to go on the website of Corinna, the bassist. In reading articles on rocker, I realized she was pretty disillusioned by the star system. She wrote a book "over time" on the wings of the Telephone Group which should certainly be quite interesting.
By viewing items deposited on its website by Corine , I found the text of Tocqueville the political thinker, sobering.
"There is a very perilous passage in the lives of democratic nations.
"When the taste for physical gratifications develops in one of these people as soon as the lights and the habits of freedom, there comes a time when men are away and be out of themselves at the sight these new assets they are willing to grasp. Concerned only care to make money, they no longer perceive the close link between the private fortune of each of them to the prosperity of all. There is no need to pull such citizens the rights they have and they gladly let them escape themselves (...)
" If at this critical time, an ambitious clever comes to seize power, he finds that the way is open all encroachments. Ensures that any time that all the material interests prosper, we will easily leave the rest. It ensures particularly good order. Men who have a passion for physical gratifications usually discover how the agitations of freedom disturb the well-being before to see how freedom is to be obtained, and at the slightest sound political passions that penetrate world of small pleasures of private life, they awake and worry, fear for a long time of anarchy is the ever outstanding and always ready to throw themselves out of freedom in the first disorder.
"I readily admit that the peace is a great good, but I will not forget that it is through the good order that all peoples have come to the tyranny. It certainly does not follow that people must despise the public peace, but it should not suffice them. A nation that asks its government that the policing is already a slave at heart and is a slave to his well-being, and the man who must follow up may seem. (...)
"It is not unusual to see so on the vast stage of the world and in our theaters, a multitude represented by a few men. They only speak on behalf of absent or inattentive crowd and only they are acting in the midst of universal stillness, they have, according to their caprice, of all things, they change the laws and tyrannize at will mores, and we are astonished at seeing the small number of weak and unworthy hands which can fall into a great nation ...
"The nature of absolute power in democratic ages, is neither cruel nor wild, but it is painstaking and fussy. "Alexis de Tocqueville
Extract From Democracy America, Book II, 1840
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