On Carrefour’s statements about ‘sensory hypersensitivity’
While the linked press release is from 2021, I heard of this over a shop’s loudspeaker for the first time today (11 February 2025). Everything, absolutely everything in that, in that jargon, in their philosophical-anthropological conception, in their ethics, in those policies, is wrong.
Their use of language is corny, mannered, it would have been insufferable in itself even had they said something worthwhile.
As with ‘bipolar disorder’ and so many other trendy contrived labels, people are explicitly considered disabled and/or sick precisely because of their most normal, noble, civilised, rational, healthy characteristics. In this case, ‘sensory hypersensitivity’ of ‘autism spectrum’.
For these ubiquitous people, virtues are defects, the capacity to differentiate between good-right and bad-wrong, to appreciate (enjoy) what sounds or looks or smells good and to detest (suffer from) noise, deformity, or repugnance, is classified as a disability/disorder/illness.
Swept away by mercy towards the disabled and in order to promote their ‘inclusion’, these omnipresent people dim the sound and light intensity in their shopping centres one day a week for one hour — very generous on their part and certainly very useful, unvaluable for those affected!
This is all ridiculous.
Anyone who goes to a supermarket assumes that there will be sufficient lighting, just as one would welcome darkness in a cinema or in the bedroom where one intends to sleep, for example.
With respect to noise, it is almost always very annoying and almost always caused by people without the slightest human ability for self-control, respect for others, or education. We perceive such noise not only as an acoustic nuisance, but also as an aggression, an insult and an avoidable evil, and this naturally drives us unhinged. It is natural, human, normal. The true health. Noise will have little effect on us in a supermarket, it will have a great negative effect on us in a movie theatre, it could even have a positive effect on us in the street or at a pub, and it will be really invasive (an unbearable invasion) in our home.