Africa-Press – Mauritius. With the return to parliament, it is also the excesses of the Speaker who are back. And the latter did not disappoint. Between expulsions, naming and spats, Sooroojdev Phokeer begins to really master the weapons at his disposal in order to hinder the work of the opposition.
At least that is a general perception. And he doesn’t bother. These scenes have become so common that they no longer shock anyone. Worse, they have become the reason many people watch parliamentary sessions.
Thus, we found ourselves in a situation where we would have succeeded in transforming the work of the National Assembly into a circus that responds to the logic of the voyeurism of reality TV, which Baudrillard described as the theater of mediocrity.
The reference to Baudrillard is not hazardous here. He had made a remarkable diagnosis of what the world would become with the proliferation of screens, images, social networks and reality TV: the mirror of platitude, banality, mediocrity and zero degree.
And that is exactly what we see in the National Assembly. At a time when television and the media are less and less able to report on world events, we are faced with the very collapse of the social and institutional standards and norms that allowed the country to move forward.
The sad spectacle of parliamentary work thus becomes the very mirror of the decline of the country. This show is in no way an exception, but the confirmation of a state of affairs against which we have no serious answer today.
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