Some version of de Benoist’s critique is also at the core of the beliefs of the hugely popular (and scandalous) French novelist Michel Houellebecq, surely the writer of the moment in Europe, if anyone is. In the novel that made him famous, Les Particles Élémenataires, Houellebecq proposed that a society with an unchecked devotion both to liberalism in the economic sense and libertinism in the erotic sense would eventually lead to one of more or less compulsory oscillation between, well, fucking and finance, where bankers would literally break their backs in the act of having sex for the
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