French minister is confronted by a naked dramatist (adult material)

DAVID says:

Actually, why “sadly so”? Although I do find this to be quite “out there,” the point delivered is quite profound, and this might be the only fitting way to properly make it: namely that playwrights have actually less social protections and benefits than the actors who perform their plays and who would therefore simply have no job without the formers’ work and creative input. When we see a naked singer on stage in an opera — as often happens in a city such as Berlin, or in an opera like Salome, or in certain productions of Vivaldi or Monteverdi operas — are we shocked? Do we not make a distinction between the actual person and the character he or she is incarnating? I view it as a token of France’s remarkable cultural sophistication that such a thing can happen at all, and be approved by the appropriate authorities, without people immediately crying outrage or without leading organizations threatening lawsuits. The only sad thing here is the increasingly puritanical direction — embodied in the antiseptic quality of merely virtual so-called “social” networks where “friendship” has become a mere ethereal concept devoid of any real significance, or in our modern obsessiveness with devices supposedly keeping us “connected” but which only seem to alienate people even more from one another, thus leading to a profound degradation of our very sense for community — which our entire culture is headed towards.