Inclusive writing and our disease of the century

As inclusive writing exerts its grip ever more violently on people's minds, including those of pedagogues who are no longer shy about imposing it on schools, it's time to determine what ailment it's a symptom of, so that we can get rid of it.

The man of the future who looks back over the course of the centuries will inevitably have to recognize these two fundamental traits of our society: the rejection of the past and the need for assistance. By scrutinizing our arts, our customs, our education and our thinking, these are the two keys that will enable him to link these seemingly disparate traces into a comprehensible and coherent whole. In the midst of his excavations, he unexpectedly stumbles across a kind of fairground phenomenon, something perfectly eccentric: inclusive writing. After breaking out in a cold sweat, he's not surprised to see this invention as yet another symptom of