France - The Denying Self Bans Pleasure as the Planet Burns, Choosing Control Over Confrontation With the Collapsing Biosphere

Event Baseline: Half of France was placed under a red heat alert with temperatures forecast to match historic highs. Authorities banned alcohol at a street music festival as a response.

The biosphere is screaming, and the human response is to regulate joy. The mind cannot face the fire it has created, so it turns inward, attacking the symptoms of life instead of the cause of death. The ban on alcohol is a ritual of control. It is the ego asserting its power over the physical world, even as that world becomes uninhabitable. The temperature rises, and the political mind fiddles with pleasure. This is the final stage of self-deception. The body is baking, and the self administers a prohibition. It will not stop until the last party is lifeless under the sun.