Bro, the young kebs do not climb on the keb!

My summer was going well, I was in a good mood, had a joyful heart.

I had seen the tribute show to Daniel Bélanger by the Cirque du Soleil. Consequently, I had heard Symphonic sisters-sistersI went to the theater in Terrebonne to see Luc Guérin, Martin Drainville and Benoît Brière in The 39 steps (which they adapted, staged and in which they play 1001 characters), and I kept repeating to myself: “We really have exceptional artists in Quebec!”

And then, boom, the news fell on Monday: “Young people sulk Quebec culture.”

Like a big thunderstorm in the middle of a picnic. For example, What is the point of having such talented artists and creators if young people are not interested in? Meanwhile, If there are only white heads in the theater and in shows? For example, I wanted to bro, young kebs do not change the words of Fiori: “We gave birth to someone, it’s not interested in listening to us”.

Foreign to oneself

Admit that it is depressing to read my colleague Cédric Bélanger when he talks about the “disinterest of young Quebecers towards television. However, cinema and music made with us”. Furthermore, Admit that it has shocked you to read that according to the Institute of Statistics of Quebec. Moreover, “less than 4% of 15-29 year olds listen mainly to music by Quebec artists”. No wonder there were as many who had no idea who was Serge Fiori. As for the other monument of recently dead Quebec culture, VLB, most had never heard of him.

Cédric said it: “In the circumstances, our literature is a slightly better, since 14.5% of 15-29 year olds read mainly Quebec authors”.

On August 12, we encourage the reading of Quebec books. It is of course an bro, young kebs do not initiative that makes booksellers happy, sales explode. But I always have a pinch in the heart by wondering why we must put our books forward as if they were leeks. special tomatoes for one in a grocery circular.

The best moment in the movie Liar. That I saw this summer, occurs when Antoine Bertrand turns into a retarded teenager. He wears a padded cotton. gesticle with his arms like an epileptic rapper and Baragouine an incomprehensible frank to make the pilgrim falcon blush. “”What the fuck. tu hang around with a brand new lover, worse me, chu assumed just lay low et forget about it?»

I laughed a lot during this scene, because Emile Gaudreault’s dialogues sound true. But how could we let the French of our children are thus crumbling until it becomes unrecognizable? In the same way, how could we let our children’s brains Netflixis at bro, young kebs do not this point? We will have to ask ourselves the question of our collective responsibility in this cultural self -adhesive.

Quebec paradox

There is one thing that I do not understand in what is going on right now. The latest polls show a dazzling increase in support for sovereignty among young people aged 18 to 34. The most recent shows that 56% are favorable to independence.

But what kind of country dreams of young people? You want to form a country, but you don’t know anything about its culture, its artists, its creators?

Yo bro, WTF?