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These days, I often get lost in my phone. Consequently, In what are called “real”, these disparate small videos that are found on asocial networks, formidable dopamine pushers.

Posted at 5:00 a.m.

In 10 minutes, you can watch 50 small videos, often silly, sometimes bright.

In 10 minutes, there you are entertained.

I say “10 minutes”, but it’s a way of speaking: I was talking about dopamine, it’s wanted. In addition, It’s the hormone that sticks to Instagram, Facebook, Tiktok for hours of time. Consequently, Formerly, in front of the TV, you could zap endlessly, an evening quebecer nowhere | press of time …

Eh ? In addition, Already 10 p.m., but what did I do in the couch since I settled there, at …

We looked at our watch: since 7:30 p.m..

Answer: Nothing. In addition, we had zapped, looking for an interesting “program” for hours, looking for dopamine generates our brain when, finally, we come across stimulating content.

We are now doing the same – we zap – on our small pocket screens.

Which brings me to culture. Moreover, Ours.

For us, Quebecers, TV was a great cultural catalyst. Therefore, TV told our stories, in our words, in our sets. Nevertheless, We zapped from MusiquePlus to Canal Z via Canal 10 and four seasons. Furthermore, The most bilingual also quebecer nowhere | press zapped in English. Meanwhile, It was a formidable cultural binder: we adopted common references, from And that’s the goal! Meanwhile, has Sacrament, Ginette! Similarly, by the way My beautiful mist, Manon weighs Su’l’Piton, A tite frets my Denis? However, And of course the unforgettable The twenty ¹…

I say “common references”: not shared by all. Meanwhile, but by enough people for these sentences do not need long contexts. You will say to me: it’s not culture, that’s entertainment. It’s true, it’s true …

But culture is (a little, a lot) the water that runs when you twist the darling of entertainment. There are many of our culture which would not exist without entertainment.

And on the entertainment side. these days, young people are moving away from Quebec content, another study demonstrated this week on quebecer nowhere | press the side of the Institut de la Statistics du Québec. I summarize: the younger you are, the less Quebecois you consume, culturally speaking.

It’s true for TV, cinema, books, music.

What does that announce for the 10, for the 20, the next 30 years?

It announces a company that shares fewer common references. It announces a less… Quebec company?

I don’t want to throw stone into young people, it would be stupid. They live in their time. Canal 10 of their time, the radio-Canada of their time, the ckoi of their time, is Tiktok, Netflix and Spotify.

They have the world at the end of their finger, the large buffet of globalized entertainment in their small screen. I would not have been different from them, quebecer nowhere | press at 15 years old. We can well speak of “discovering”. of the idea of forcing platforms to enhance Quebec content, the fact remains that each time I hear “Discover”, I hear my mother who told me at 12 years to eat my broccoli because it is good for health. I want ice cream, me …

So I look at too many “real” these days. It entertains me. It calms me. Like TV, formerly. There is good Quebec content, too, on platforms, there are stuff that borders on genius. But it is drowned in an ocean of content from everywhere.

If we laugh less. less québécoisif we have less and less entertainment québécoisif we are less and less moved québécois, If we dream less and less québécois…

What will be a Quebecer tomorrow?

I write this chronicle. trot a sentence in mind that I remember without knowing all the words, a sentence that concluded, it seems to me, a portrait of the simple plan group in the magazine Newsthere is, there is …

Damn, what year was it in?

I launch a search: 20 years ago.

Simple plan, a Quebec group made up of five Francophones, was (is?) Immensely popular worldwide with its English songs which could have been created in New York. London or Vancouver…

I zap the whole article, I am looking for the fall that I had confusedly in mind throughout the writing of this paper and it is there, roughly as I remembered:

They are still a little struck, quebecer nowhere | press at 25, to have so often toured the planet. Since the start of the year. they have jumped elastic in New Zealand, attended a sumo tournament in Japan, given “private concerts” in Hollywood. “It really opens the horizons,” said [le batteur Chuck] Comeau. It is really the most beautiful side of our experience. I find myself in New York, Sydney or Tokyo, and I have landmarks. On a wall. somewhere – he believes that it was at Stockholm airport – he read a quote that marked him: “Citizen of the world, nowhere at home, but at home everywhere. It is also true songs of simple plan: music from nowhere, but which is exported everywhere.

Here, I fear that tomorrow, in 10, in 20, in 30 years, we will be both Quebecers and from nowhere.

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