Thank you for the reply and the original article as well. This part was the first text of yours I came across. I'm glad people are digging around this topic.

Your comparison of Foucault and Chomsky sounds fair and accurate. Voyeur is an excellent word choice here.

I have not been hearing any recent political news from France, but what you are describing is rather worrying. Similar political ideologies seem to be in operation right about everywhere. Lately, my particular focus has been on Burma/Myanmar, following George Orwell and Edward R. Murrow. Monks of war is an interesting expression.