smoking ban or algorithmic society?
let’s bet our freedom
France is ahead…
Yes, toward a community of automated citizens, increasingly deprived of freedom. You confuse living in a community with the organization and efficiency of society… conformists! Incapable of choosing, you prefer homogenization over freedom. You have lost every element of humanity. You deserve the algorithmic management of your lives.
There are those who applaud. Those who speak of “progress.” Of civilization. Of health protection. But beware: what happened in France with the ban on smoking in open spaces is not a trivial health measure. It is a signal. Another piece moved on the chessboard of control. It is yet another step—silent, invisible but devastating—toward a society where individual freedom is sacrificed on the altar of algorithmic efficiency.
Congratulations, you have become model citizens. Too bad that, in the meantime, you have lost your humanity.
🚬 SMOKING IS JUST A PRETEXT: THE REAL TARGET IS FREEDOM
Yes, we all know: smoking is harmful. We don’t need more charts or scientific reports—though there are plenty of those. But thinking that this law is simply a tool to reduce cancers and cardiovascular diseases is a misjudgment. This is played on another level: the very redefinition of freedom.
We are no longer asked to choose between good and evil. We are told what is “right.” End of discussion. If the State decides you cannot smoke in a park, it does so “because it is better for everyone.” But who decides what is better? And on what basis? And above all: who decided that freedom is a problem to manage rather than a right to guarantee?
🧠 THE PARADOX OF THE ORGANIZED SOCIETY: MORE CONTROL, LESS CONSCIENCE
This is where “progress” is unmasked: every measure “for the collective well-being” hides a logic of control. A logic that transforms you from citizen to data. From individual to profile. From conscience to code.
Banning smoking does not radically improve public health. It serves to normalize an idea: that the State (or rather: the automated system of rules, artificial intelligences, and regulations) knows what is best for you. Better than your conscience. Better than your judgment. Better than you.
From tobacco to traffic. From personal diet to health insurance policies. From urban mobility to smartphone usage. Every aspect of existence is channeled into an efficient, predetermined routine. And if you refuse? If you don’t fit the standard?
You are antisocial. You are deviant. You are “non-compliant.”
⚙️ THE END OF THE INDIVIDUAL: WELCOME TO THE AGE OF HOMOGENIZATION
Here is the core of the problem: France—and with it all the other countries that will follow like sheep—is not building a community. It is building a system.
The difference is colossal. In a community, dissent is vital. Differences are valuable. The individual is sacred. In a system, only compatibility matters.
If you are not compatible with the rules, with the data, with the algorithm? You are expelled. Invisible. Irrelevant.
Those who today defend the smoking ban as a “measure of civilization” will not be scandalized tomorrow if:
- their health insurance premium increases if they don’t walk 10,000 steps a day
- they are geolocated in real time “for security reasons”
- their dietary choices are monitored to “save the planet”
❌ IT IS NOT FREEDOM IF YOU CANNOT MAKE MISTAKES
We have confused freedom with comfort. With convenience. With the feeling that someone—a government, an algorithm, a minister—can know what is best for us.
But the price of this trade-off is extremely high. We lose our judgment. Our autonomy. Our humanity.
The true quality of life is not living in a smart city where everything is perfect. It is living in a community where you are free to choose. Even to make mistakes.
Even to smoke a cigarette in a square, if you want. Because that choice is yours. Not the algorithm’s. Not the minister’s. Not the prefect’s.
🚨 THE APPEAL: LET’S REBEL AGAINST THE FRENCH MODEL BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE
France, they tell us, is “ahead.” If “ahead” means becoming efficient nodes in a network governed by AI, where the individual only matters if they conform… Then yes: full speed ahead. Toward dystopia.
But that is not civilization. It is surveillance. It is social automation. It is the prelude to a world where freedom is a glitch to be corrected.
If there is still someone who believes in the value of choice, in the unpredictability of the human being, in the sacredness of error…
…it is time to raise our voices.
Say NO to this algorithmic logic. Remember that the human being is not a data stream. It is conscience. It is history. It is a free act.
🧬 FREEDOM IS NOT MEASURED BY THE ABSENCE OF RISK, BUT BY THE PRESENCE OF CHOICES
Even imperfect ones. Because that is where life is found. Everything else is just management.
