[France / Paris] - The Institutional Self Fails to Protect Children from Sexual Abuse to Feed a Phantom of Collective Innocence

Event Baseline: In Paris, France, a surge of abuse accusations has led local authorities to acknowledge a collective failure to prevent sexual offenders from working in public schools.

The institution is a self. Its primary function is to preserve its own image of moral authority. When abuse occurs within its walls, the self's first reaction is not to stop the abuse but to hide the evidence. It protects the structure, the reputation, the phantom of a caring system. The children are sacrificed to maintain that phantom.

The 'collective failure' is not an accident. It is the direct result of fragmented thought. Each adult sees only a narrow role: teacher, administrator, inspector. No one sees the whole. No one takes responsibility because the self is divided into separate compartments. The abuser exploits this fragmentation. The system cannot perceive the threat because it is not watching the child; it is watching its own reflection. This is not a lapse; it is the operating system failure of hierarchical power.