France against the robots is a book of Georges Bernanos, published in 1947. It is about a collection of various texts, as well as violent criticism of the industrial society. Bernanos estimates at it that the Technological advance limit the human Liberté. For him, French civilization is incompatible with a certain Anglo-Saxon idolatry for the world of the technique.

It disputes there the idea according to which the free enterprise would lead automatically to the happiness of humanity, because, according to him “there will be to always more gain to satisfy the defects of the man that his needs”. In addition “one day, one will plunge in the ruin of the day the shortly after the whole families because to thousands of kilometers could be produced the same thing for two centimes less with the ton”: astonishing prefiguration of what will be the concern of the Délocalisation later forty years.

It also predicted there to a future revolt of the generous dashes of youth against a company too materialist where those cannot be expressed, and that more than twenty years before the dispute of the Consumer society which will be one of the aspects of May 1968.

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