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In March of 1968, Pierre Viansson-Ponté wrote an article which would become famous: «When France Grows Bored», which treated with irony a conglomerate of elements which would explode soon after in France in May. There he noted something remarkably current: «the true objective of politics can not be restricted to administrating the common good 'the least bad possible'». But even this minimum seems violated in politics today by a succession of conservative decisions in which austerity is the word of order, whilst creativity to face the crisis seems also absent in the progressive visions. (NuSo/GIGA)