The reason why the French both admire and hate America, is because it represents everything the French wish for: to have a wholly republican tradition, that is to say, to have no tradition. What really troubles the French is the inescapable horizon of their pre-1789 tradition.
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The French are obsessed with America, because it succeeded where they were doomed to fail, that is to say, in creating a new tradition. The past creeps in, always eating upon the present. The French have to be obsessed with was is new, because they are old and getting older.
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The incessant chatter of the French is one more symptom of their fear of the past; silence would return them unto themselves, and make them witness their becoming-past; the search for more novelty and their continual talking is a way to reify their present, before it escapes.
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