tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37144158199191215222024-03-20T19:22:18.682-07:00a view from BabylonSébastien Doubinsky's official pageseb doubinskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00095914978037591953noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714415819919121522.post-91396220685136475812021-02-15T06:25:00.000-08:002021-02-15T06:25:36.588-08:00Giorgione's “Tempest”, from “monologue” to “dialogue” - a reflection on a “false” mystery.<h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></h1><p class="pre" style="background: rgb(248, 249, 250); line-height: 21.6pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; padding: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">A few years ago, I wrote an article which compared the narrative modes of “The Tempest” by Giorgione and “Correspondances” by Charles Baudelaire. I indicated, among other things, that </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">the similarity</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> in the experience of the spectator and the reader </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">came from</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> the false unity at the center of the two compositions: indeed, if, from a distance, the painting and the poem seem to display a visual </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">or stylistic</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">coherence</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">,</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> we quickly realize that the real center, the “meaning”, is elsewhere, </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">and </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">even, </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">in the case of </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">“The Tempest”, untraceable or absent. Indeed, if these two works can be considered without hesitation as metaphors, Baudelaire</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">’s poem</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> is the most telling: it is an image of poetry itself, as pure “artifice”, a radical mise-en-abyme of the poetic object as such, and I believed that it was the same for Giorgione in view of the 57 different and divergent interpretations listed by Salvatore Settis in his excellent book </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">“</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">I</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">nvention of a </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">P</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">ainting</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">”, published in 1978.</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="pre" style="background: rgb(248, 249, 250); line-height: 21.6pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; padding: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">However, in 2016, participating in a conference of the A.C.L.A. (American Comparative Literature Association) </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">which took place</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> at Harvard</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> University</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">, I visited </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">its</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> beautifu</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">l </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">museum and came across the small painting attributed to Titian, entitled “An idyll: a Mother and a Halberdier in a Wooden Landscape . ” Its direct link with “The Tempest” immediately appeared to me, as </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">it did </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">to many others before me - the museum's notice also indicates </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">the proximity of the two works</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">, but only as</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> belonging to the same wave</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">of </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">fashionable subjects during the Renaissance in Venice, i</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">.</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">e</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">.</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> the “Bucolics”</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">:</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="pre" style="background: rgb(248, 249, 250); line-height: 21.6pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; padding: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-char-indent-count: 0.0000; text-indent: 21.0000pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background: rgb(248, 249, 250); color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">“</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> The subject of printed, painted, and drawn images, landscapes of shaded groves, musicians, shepherds, and languid nymphs were a quintessentially Venetian genre in the early sixteenth century. The most celebrated, and perhaps most enigmatic, of these is Giorgione’s Tempest, which shows the same configuration of a seated woman and a standing figure found here.</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">”</span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="pre" style="background: rgb(248, 249, 250); line-height: 21.6pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; padding: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></o:p></span></p><p class="pre" style="background: rgb(248, 249, 250); line-height: 21.6pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; padding: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> T</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">his similarity </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">however </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">seems to me much more important than it is suggested. Indeed, </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Titien’s</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> painting is literally the inverted mirror of "The Tempest". All the elements are in fact there: the soldier, the seated woman and her child, nature, the sky, etc., but in opposition. The soldier, armed </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">in </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Titian</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">’s work</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">, is weakened </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">in </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Giorgione</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">’s</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">, without a breastplate and with a simple staff in place of the halberd. The seated woman, naked and breastfeeding </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">in</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> Giorgione, is dressed in Titian's painting, and the child does not </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">suckle</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. Nature is </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">welcoming</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> and the sky</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> is</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> blue in </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">the “</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Idyll”, </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">somber</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> and threatening in “The Tempest”. Likewise, where a river forms an obstacle between the characters in the foreground and the city in Giorgione's work, it has disappeared in Titian's painting, replaced by a welcoming village which is just a stone's throw away.</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="pre" style="background: rgb(248, 249, 250); line-height: 21.6pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; padding: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">We know that Titian was the pupil and the disciple of Giorgione, and the approximate dates of the two </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">paintings</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> correspond to this period: 1505-1508 for “The Tempest”, 1505-1510 for “An Idyll”. The link between the two paintings therefore becomes obvious and is established </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">as </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">the center of a double narration: one, imagined by us, of the student with his master, and the other, of the subject, of the real meaning of the metaphor</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">,</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">which is split in two</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. Titian explains Giorgione, and places “The Tempest” at the heart of a dialogue, and no longer as an isolated mystery. If we compare the motifs of the two paintings one by one, everything becomes clear - or at least in part, because, to be honest, I am absolutely no specialist in the Italian Renaissance, nor in art history in general. </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="pre" style="background: rgb(248, 249, 250); line-height: 21.6pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; padding: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The soldier of Idyll could represent </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Strength</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">, and his gaze that </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">leads</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> out of the picture is that of the guard, who observes and protects, while the fallen soldier of Giorgione would embody Weakness and Lust - his staff is not a</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">n efficient </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">weapon</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">and his gaze is on the naked woman, whose oblique is accentuated by the swelling of h</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">is </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">sex.</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="pre" style="background: rgb(248, 249, 250); line-height: 21.6pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; padding: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The woman, in the </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">“Idyll” </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">could be Virtue, symbolized by the simplicity of her clothes and her gaze directed towards </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Strength</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">, avoiding crossing that of the spectator. Her child, a Christ</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">-like </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">symbol, sits peacefully on her knees and is standing fac</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">ing the spectator</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. He does not suck</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">le</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">, because he is divine. </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">In</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> Giorgione's</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> painting</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">, the woman is naked, barely covered with a clo</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">th</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">, and breastfeeds her child. It is the Eve of the Fall, carnal and mortal, who turns her back on the City, from which she may have been cast out. Her gaze is on the viewer, perhaps to remind </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">him or her</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> of </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">their</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> own mortality, and the child who needs milk to survive could thus symbolize human vulnerability.</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="pre" style="background: rgb(248, 249, 250); line-height: 21.6pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; padding: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">As for nature in the composition of Titian, it is peaceful and harmonious. All the elements of the decor are interconnected, and if the tower, symbol of power, dominates the landscape in the background on the left, the village and the city located in the background are accessible, because peace reigns. In </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">“</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The Tempest</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">”</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">, on the contrary, the elements are unleashed (the lightning) or threatening (the gray clouds rolling in the sky), the city is hidden behind a wall and is only accessible by a fragile bridge, and nature is strewn with ruins, including a broken column, which in all probability symbolizes Death.</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="pre" style="background: rgb(248, 249, 250); line-height: 21.6pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; padding: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">We therefore see clearly that all the essential elements of the two works correspond to each other, and can only be understood in relation to each other, and that it is indeed a dialogue, and not simply a similarity or thematic proximity. The meaning, or the key, is the fruit of this connection - or rather, the meaning </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">becomes only visible</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">through</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> this connection. It is a mirrored philosophical and spiritual metaphor, but physically separated into two works where they are usually combined into one. </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="pre" style="background: rgb(248, 249, 250); line-height: 21.6pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; padding: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">If my interpretation is limited and certainly open to criticism, even laughable for specialists, it simply seeks to show that the identity imposed on “La Tempête” as a “mysterious” work because it is “unique” is not entirely accurate, because it is in fact part of a philosophical dialogue which should, on the contrary, </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">have been</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> perfectly explicit for the intellectual circles of the time. To be clearer, “The Tempest” would not be an individual meditative work of which the meaning is “hidden” or “lost”, but rather “half” of a philosophical and moral metaphor, quite clear if one contemplates it</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> in its entirety</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. If there is a mystery, it </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">lies</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> therefore elsewhere: in the particular choice of the commissioner, who seems to have favored the </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">“Ominous</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">” over the </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">“</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">I</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">deal”, and in the genesis of Titian's painting - exercise, command, dialogue? This is perhaps the greatest of mysteries, no longer in the </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">object</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">, but in the intention - </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">a</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> deeply and radically human enigma.</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="pre" style="background: rgb(248, 249, 250); line-height: 21.6pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; padding: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="pre" style="background: rgb(248, 249, 250); line-height: 21.6pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; padding: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Short Bibliography:</span></span></p><p class="15"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Doubinsky, Sébastien, </span><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">« Vanishing Point »- a contrastive study of Baudelaire’s « </span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Correspondances </span><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">» and Giorgione’s </span></i><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“</span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">La Tempesta</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">”</span><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">, </span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Orbis Litterarum</span><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">, </span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">volume 69, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">issue 6, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">December 2014</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> pp. 441-469.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="15"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span></p><p class="pre" style="background: rgb(248, 249, 250); line-height: 21.6pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; padding: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-size: 16.5pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"></span></span></p><p class="15"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Settis, Salvatore, </span><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">L’invention d’un tableau</span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">, Paris, Éditions de Minuit, 1978.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="pre" style="background: rgb(248, 249, 250); line-height: 21.6pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; padding: 0pt; text-indent: 0pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; 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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Since its appearance in November 2019 in China, the Covid-19 has successfully undermined all authoritarian narratives of governance, from the extreme Chinese fascist dictatorship to our ultra-liberal semi-democracies. It took a microscopic grain of sand, a particle of natural chaos to literally seize all of our systems.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">With the Covid-19, all the illusions, the false decorations, the hollow slogans fell by themselves, revealing the </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">sad </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">reality of the stupidity and the inhumanity of the politico-financial models which pretend to direct us. The Covid-19 is, on the one hand, the revelation in broad daylight of the</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">face, as brutal as it is ineffective, of proven dictatorships (China, Iran, soon Russia and others) and their system of social control, and </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">on the other,</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> the outright annihilation of </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">the </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">false smiles and </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Self-Help </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">slogans from</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> the political</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> sales reps in the EU, England and the USA.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">It is certainly not the first time that an epidemic has hit the world, but what is different is that today, it is us that it strikes and that the bankruptcy of an effective response by many country comes from a perfectly identifiable cause: the disinvestment of governments in essential structures such as health, education or basic administration in favor of private capitalization without control and without moral responsibility (nor financial, since when that goes bad, it's up to the State, </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">therefore us</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, to pay</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> up for their mistakes</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> ...). However, like Hitler in his bunker in 1945, our states continue their maddening denial of responsibility in the middle of </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">a</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> field of ruins. But today even the media behind them can no longer divert attention and find other causes for our problems. The proof: they never</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> actually</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> talk about the causes. They cannot. If they talked once about the reduction of beds</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> in the hospitals</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, the </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">slashing</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> of </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">useful jobs in administration</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, the policy of criminal savings in all the infrastructure of the nation, they would open the Pandora's box, whose monsters would risk taking them too.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">But this total failure of our leaders is also the failure of a whole part of the education of our elites: that of business schools. The whole </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">construction around </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Maastricht and Lisbon was built around a weak, harmful and totalizing ideology. What this crisis proves is that a country is anything but a business. That what constitutes the rationality of a decision is not the analysis of the results of an algorithm, but a human reflection from the real. The Covid-19 is more than a virus, it is a huge computer “bug”, which reveals all the flaws of a system which was seen until now (and which is still seen, no doubt) as the worthy and unique representative of “the end of History”, to use</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Francis Fukuyama</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">’s </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">moron</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">ic </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">formul</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">a.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Propaganda will certainly take on the task of repainting the world in a few months' time, and will certainly claim an usurped victory </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">from</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> those who actually fought to save lives, despite the system. But I think, without being a prophet, that the bug will remain and that it has </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">infected</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> the machine much deeper than she imagines.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Because, with its tens of thousands of deaths and its ineffective and even criminal policies (To think that a natural “mass immunization” could work, when we see in history how many deaths</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> were caused</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">by </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">smallpox</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> only </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">before the discovery of his vaccine is unfathomably stupid and sinister), our system is more than bare: it has become transparent. All the fears that one might have about his ideology are now not only confirmed, but undeniable. Even China has not been able to hide the </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">real volume</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> of the funeral urns</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">, </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">which </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">means we have</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> to multiply all their figures at least by 10. The society of surveillance of citizens is </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">being </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">transform</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">ed</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> into</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> a</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> society of surveillance of the State, and ironically, thanks to purely commercial tools (social networks, among others). </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">Oh the</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> sweet irony</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"> it is when you think that “money has no political color”...</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14.0000pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-spacerun: 'yes';">I</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">n 1787, to impress his ex-mistress, Catherine II, then on a trip to the Crimea, Minister Potemkin ordered the construction of false villages in order to make h</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">er</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> believe that h</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">er</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> people were happy and hide the real misery of the country.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Since the 1980s, neoliberalism with the help of the media has built a global Potemkin village, where we are taken for walks whenever we have doubts. So far, it has worked perfectly, and the happiness provided by finance and (false) competition seemed to be more or less established, and those who challenged it were considered, at best, </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">to be </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">in bad faith, at worst, as </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">supporting </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">terroris</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">m</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">It was, alas, without counting </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">on</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> nature, that damn nature which neoliberalism still cannot get rid of, despite its repeated "greenwashing" operations. Now nature, which knows nothing in politics, cares little for newspeak and economic-political nuances.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">China, the fascist regime and worthy heir to Mussolini, was the first victim, despite its ultra-totalitarian policy of super-control. Unable to face the truth, it now pays for it with a death toll probably ten times higher than the figures announced.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">But then, the covid-19, who decidedly does not respect anything, came to us, after having visited the totalitarian Iranian theocracy. And there, the masks (for those who had them) began to fall: all our hospital infrastructure, dismantled since the 80s to make room for the private</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> sector</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> and its financial interests, are </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">failing us</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">. Our hyper-technological algorithmic society is useless. Factories close, shops close, restaurants close, museums close, everything closes except hospitals and supermarkets. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Our governments turn out to be helpless at best,</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">criminal</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> at worst (</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">heavy </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">glance directed at all those who preached "group immunity", </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">that </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">great Nazi </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">idea</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">). The financ</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">e experts</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">, who we saw every day </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">parading sternly</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> in TV shows are now </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">MIA</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> - </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">trembling with fear</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> in their villa in </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">their week-end villas.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Those who save the country are the </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">underpaid </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">employee</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">s</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> in supermarkets, </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">the </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">nurses and </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">health personnel</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">in the</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> hospitals, </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">the </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">teachers who</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> are doing their best to teach from home</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">, and all the</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> usually </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">invisible world of logistics or social infrastructure</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">s</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">. All those to whom the system sometimes said "t</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">hey should</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> work more to earn more", </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">or that they are </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">"nothing". If there weren't so many dead, we could joke that we find ourselves in a </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">classic XVIIth century </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">fabl</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">e</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">. But one can, without joking, wonder what will be the moral of this story. What did the neoliberal system do after the 2009 financial crisis? Nothing. What will </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">it</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> do after the covid-19 crisis? Probably nothing.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The problem is that if Potemkin had built the villages for the Tsarina, the neoliberal system built them for </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">it</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">self and</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> it</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> does not even realize that they are false. Or rather, if they are "</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">real</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">" for them, then they </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">must be</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> "</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">real</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">" for everyone</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> else</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Covid-19, a dirty little revolutionary virus in spite of itself, has just shown everyone that solidarity is better than competition, that strong social structures allow crises to be better managed than </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">with </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">a confetti of privatized companies, than strategic institutions and productions must remain national, because if not, well, everything falls to the ground like a bad cinema</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> set</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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seb doubinskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00095914978037591953noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714415819919121522.post-47937983082240954372020-03-29T03:57:00.000-07:002020-03-29T03:57:13.025-07:00LE COVID-19 ET LE VILLAGE POTEMKINE GLOBAL<span style="font-size: large;">En 1787, pour impressionner son ex-maîtresse , Catherine II, </span><span style="font-size: large;">alors en voyage en Crimée,</span><span style="font-size: large;"> le ministre Potemkine ordonne la construction de faux villages démontables afin de lui faire croire que son peuple est heureux et cacher la misère réelle du pays.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Depuis les années 80, le néolibéralisme avec l'aide des médias a construit un village Potemkine global, où l'on nous promène à chaque fois que nous aurions des doutes. Jusqu'ici, cela a parfaitement bien marché, et le bonheur assuré par la finance et la (fausse) concurrence semblait à peu près établi, et ceux ou celles qui le contestaient étaient considérés, au mieux comme de mauvaise foi, au pire, comme des suppôts du terrorisme. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">C'était, hélas, sans compter sans la nature, cette satanée nature dont le néolibéralisme n'arrive toujours pas à se débarrasser, malgré ses opérations de "greenwashing" répétées. Or la nature, qui ne connaît rien en politique, ne se soucie guère de la novlangue et des nuances économico-politiques.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">La Chine, au régime fasciste et digne héritière de Mussolini, en a été la première victime, malgré sa politique ultra-totalitaire de super-contrôle. Incapable de faire face à la vérité, elle le paye aujourd'hui d'un nombre de morts probablement dix fois supérieur aux chiffes annoncés.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Mais ensuite, le covid-19, qui ne respecte décidément rien, est venu faire un tour chez nous, après avoir visité la théocratie totalitaire iranienne. Et là, les masques (pour ceux qui en avaient) ont commencé à tomber: toutes nos infrastructures hospitalières, démantelées depuis les années 80 pour faire place au privé et à ses intérêts financiers, sont prises en défaut. Notre société hyper-technologique algorithmée à mort ne sert à rien. Les usines ferment, les boutiques ferment, les restaurants ferment, les musées ferment, tout ferme sauf les hôpitaux et les supermarchés. Nos gouvernements se révèlent au mieux impuissants, au pire criminels (regard dirigé vers tous ceux qui ont prêché "l'immunité de groupe", belle trouvaille nazie). Les financiers, que l'on voyait chaque jour faire leur important dans les émissions télé sont désormais aux abonné absents - en train de trembler dans leur villa à Belle-Île ou à Trouville. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Ceux et celles qui sauvent le pays sont les employé.e.s à 1200 euros dans les supermarchés, les infirmières et soignants des CHU, les profs qui font cours de chez eux, et tout le petit monde invisible des infrastructures logistiques ou sociales. Tout ceux à qui le système disait tantôt de "travailler plus pour gagner plus", tantôt qu'ils n'étaient "rien". S'il n'y avait pas tant de morts, on pourrait dire en plaisantant qu'on se retrouve dans une fable de La Fontaine. Mais on peut, sans plaisanter, se demander quelle sera la morale de cette histoire. Qu'a fait le système néolibéral, après la crise financière de 2009? Rien. Que fera-t-il après la crise du covid-19? Probablement rien. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Le problème est que si Potemkine avait construit les villages pour la Tsarine, le système néolibéral les a construits pour lui-même et ne se rend même pas compte qu'ils sont faux. Ou plutôt, s'ils sont "vrais" pour eux, alors ils sont "vrais" pour tout le monde.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Le covid-19, sale petit virus révolutionnaire malgré lui, vient de montrer à tous que la solidarité vaut mieux que la compétition, que de fortes structures sociales permettent de mieux gérer les crises qu'un confetti de sociétés privatisées, que des institutions et productions stratégiques doivent demeurer nationales, parce que sinon, hé bien, tout tombe par terre comme un mauvais décor de cinéma.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Il faudra alors, la crise passée, lutter de toutes nos forces pour qu'on ne puisse plus jamais bâtir ce village Potemkine, et protester que la réalité est bien de notre côté et pas de la leur. </span><br />
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<br />seb doubinskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00095914978037591953noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714415819919121522.post-61757622178337438102019-11-12T02:12:00.001-08:002019-11-12T02:26:10.084-08:0030 ANS APRÈS, L'EFFONDREMENT DU DEUXIÈME MUR?<span style="font-size: large;">Il y a 30 ans, le mur de Berlin s'effondrait, offrant un court espoir de démocratisation mondiale, bien vite dissipé par les convulsions des Balkans, la fin de la pérestroïka, l'élargissement de l'OTAN et l'installation progressive du "mainstream" commercial comme seule manifestation culturelle autorisée à l'Ouest. Depuis, le néolibéralisme a clamé haut et fort sa victoire, et en a profité pour détruire toutes les structures d'entraide sociale et de solidarité dans les pays où il s'est lourdement installé. L'Europe, une de ses premières victimes consentantes, s'est fait inoculer le très cher poison, pour se transformer en monstre de Frankenstein aussi destructeur chez lui qu'impuissant ailleurs. Mais, depuis quelque temps, devant la propagande permanente assénée par les grands médias tous possédés par le 1%, on se sent atteint de dissonance cognitive: on nous assure que tout va pour le mieux dans le meilleur des mondes, et tout brûle autour de nous. Les slogans à la Orwell qui nous assurent que le bien, c'est le mal et que la liberté, c'est la consommation, commence à résonner comme des haut-parleurs crachotant et déglingués. Nous nous rendons aussi compte que la force du néolibéralisme ne vient pas d'un hypothétique "ruissellement" pécuniaire faisant le bonheur des petits et des grands (surtout des grands, d'ailleurs), mais de la violence de ses outils de censure et de répression. De plus en plus de gens ouvrent les yeux et se rendent compte qu'ils ne faisaient pas un cauchemar, mais qu'ils sont bien en plein dans le cauchemar! Cependant, pour garder espoir, il faut se dire qu'il y a 30 ans, toute une idéologie totalitaire, deuxième puissance mondiale, s'est effondrée comme un château de cartes à cause de son modèle économique, qui n'était plus viable. L'ironie est qu'il en sera très vraisemblablement de même avec son grand ennemi, le capitalisme, dont le mirage de la "croissance" rappelle la formule magique de Matérialisme Dialectique et du Gosplan. Comme l'URSS, le monde néolibéral sombrera avec son idéologie attachée aux pieds comme un énorme bloc de ciment. Et ce jour-là, ce ne sera pas un mur en béton qui s'effondrera, mais bien le mur de l'argent.</span>seb doubinskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00095914978037591953noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714415819919121522.post-16261671250898370792019-06-30T01:07:00.002-07:002019-06-30T01:07:28.753-07:00VOUS AVEZ PEUR DU RETOUR DU FASCISME? AYEZ PLUTOT PEUR DE LA SEMI-DEMOCRATIE<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Vous avez peur du retour du fascisme? Vous devriez plutôt avoir peur de la semi-démocratie.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Qu’est-ce que la semi-démocratie? C’est une entité politique totalitaire qui se sert des failles des institutions démocratiques pour asseoir son pouvoir. Le vote aujourd’hui, par exemple, ne sert qu’à perpétuer un système de partis au fonctionnement non-démocratiques, amenant un dégoût et un soupçon des citoyens pour leurs système, dont le(s) parti(s) dirigeant(s) vont entretenir et profiter. De même, la liberté de presse existe toujours a priori, sauf que tous les grands médias sont aux mains de puissantes fortunes proches du pouvoir, et que la vraie presse libre est cantonnée à une existence marginalisée sur le web. La justice de classe et la mise sous surveillance totale des citoyens ne se cachent plus, mais sont présentées comme garantes des institutions démocratiques, avec un logique toute Orwellienne. En clair, les libertés politiques et individuelles sont de plus en plus restreintes, mais sans que change le cadre démocratique traditionnel. La semi-démocratie est un chancre qui s’installe dans les institutions comme un parasite qui profite de l’hôte qui l’accueille. Présente en France, en Italie, en Hongrie et en Pologne, c’est le système politique de l’avenir, la mutation terrifiante de nos sociétés ouvertes en sociétés semi-fermées.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Car il ne faut pas nous faire d’illusions, ce système est là pour rester. Il ne faut s’attendre à aucune réforme allant vers l’ouverture, mais au contraire à une calcifications de tous les éléments liberticides légalement contenus dans nos institutions. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"> On ne peut pas lutter contre ce système avec les moyens traditionnels, car ils sont systématiquement détournés profit de cette semi-démocratie. Il nous faut la combattre avec des alliances larges, bâties autour de valeurs humanistes communes - ce que nous ont montré les Gilets Jaunes, par delà les divisions politiques traditionnelles (mais en excluant, bien entendu, les partis racistes et antidémocratiques). Il faut aussi que les intellectuels cessent d’analyser la situation par rapport à leurs grilles dépassées, qu’elles soit marxistes ou libérales - nous sommes arrivés dans un nouvel espace politique où tous les paradignes ont changé. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Et ne croyez pas que si les dirigeants d’aujourd’hui perdent les élections, cela va changer: la semi-démocratie est un modèle clé-en-mains, user-friendly, qui s’adapte à n’importe quel candidat. Le modèle suprême est bien entendu cette Europe de Maastricht et de Lisbonne, qui a perfusé le poison dans tous les pays membres. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Il faut se rappeler une chose: ou bien la démocratie est totale, ou ce n’est pas une démocratie. Là se trouve la clef de notre combat, et des démocrates de tout bord. Il est temps de la retrouver, perdue quelque part dans nos grands poches vides.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
seb doubinskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00095914978037591953noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714415819919121522.post-42892753339176293502019-02-01T06:43:00.002-08:002019-02-01T07:08:06.067-08:00"GILETS JAUNES", ET MAINTENANT?<span style="font-size: large;">La crise amorcée par les Gilets Jaunes depuis novembre ne faiblit pas, malgré les efforts conjugués, voire parfois complices, de la police et des grands médias. On pourrait presque dire qu'elle ne fait que s'aggraver, vu la stupéfiante surdité et aveuglement ( avec tout le respect que je dois aux vraies victimes de la répression) de notre président. Or, ce qui me semble de plus en plus évident, c'est que nous avons atteint un point absolu de non-retour. La cinquième république ne pourra plus jamais être celle que l'on a connue jusqu'ici - le peuple s'est réveillé et exige sa participation et le contrôle des institutions qui devraient le représenter. La question qui se pose donc - et que l'on me pose souvent ici, au Danemark, où je vis- est celle-ci: qu'est-ce qui peut se passer maintenant? Il est bien sûr évident que je ne suis pas Cassandre, mais il me semble tout de même pouvoir émettre une ou deux hypothèses. la première question est de savoir comment Macron peut se sortir de cette crise. Il y a en fait seulement deux options: premièrement, profiter de violences soit provoquées, soit réelles, et déclarer l'état d'urgence le temps "que les choses se calment". Le gros problème avec cette option c'est la petite assiette de soutien que le président a dans la population, et que cette situation, si elle apparaît comme un coup d'état, risque de précipiter le pays dans une révolution bien réelle et aux coûts humains énormes. De plus, il n'est pas sûr que l'armée et les forces de l'ordre se retrouvent à 100 % derriére leur chef. Mais disons que c'est, hélas, une possibilité. La deuxième option, la plus souhaitable, c'est la dissolution de l'asssemblée nationale et l'organisation de nouvelles élections. Le problème, ici, retombe sur le gros des Gilets Jaunes, qui ne veulent pas entrer dans le moule politique traditionnel. Si les partis habituels se présentent, vu la confiance exprimée par la nation envers ses politiciens, on verra, une fois encore, une chambre introuvable, soit LREM ou RN, là encore par défaut, puisqu'on pourra parier sur une abstention frôlant ou dépassant les 70%. Comme la Vème république ne prévoit pas de seuil minimal pour qu'une élection soit validée, nous nous retrouverons encore avec des élus à 17-20% des suffrages exprimés. Si tout changer revient à faire la même chose, il est logique de penser que le mouvement des Gilets Jaunes repartira de plus belle, et que nous nous retrouverons devant le risque de la première option. Par contre, en cas de dissolution, si des partis d'opposition et démocrates (au vrai sens du terme) se présentaient avec comme projet commun la formation d'une constituante (et pas seulement la FI) sur la base des recommandations du CNR et des Gilets Jaunes, et dont les travaux seraient soumis à un référendum, alors là, oui, il y aurait peut-être une possibilité de sortie pacifique de cette crise. Mais il faudrait beaucoup de courage, de maturité et de véritable sens politique de la part d'un président catastrophiquement inexpérimenté et de partis bloqués dans leurs idéologies et postures.</span>seb doubinskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00095914978037591953noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714415819919121522.post-32053448599105731962019-01-18T07:17:00.001-08:002019-01-18T07:17:27.251-08:00"YELLOW VESTS", THE REVOLT OF THE CENTER.<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
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</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; white-space: pre-wrap;">The insurgent and revolutionary wave of Yellow Vests in France has been </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; white-space: pre-wrap;">extensively </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; white-space: pre-wrap;">observed, analyzed and commented on in the media and on websites. They have been described as either populist, fascist, racist, anarchist, violent, stupid, and so on, or as ignorant activists, true revolutionary socialists, the people on the move, and so on. It seems to me, however, that if we allow ourselves a small historical comparison with the most similar events, that is to say the uprisings of 1788 and 1789, there is another reading than that of the official media, Macronists, Lepenists and Melanchonists. Indeed, this revolt does not appear as extremist, but as a reformist - it wants a better sharing of wealth, a better democracy, a better social welfare, etc. This strongly resembles the first phase of the French Revolution, from 1789 to 1792, when it was a question of transforming the absolute monarchy into a constitutional one. It was the Girondins, not an insignificant party, who represented this trend, popular until the unveiling of the king's treason and the Terror. What the Yellow Vests demand is above all a REFORM of institutions, this time to their advantage, and no longer to that of the ruling classes. To equate them with dangerous extremists is to make </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;">exactly the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;">same mistake that Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette made during the beginning of the Revolution: Instead of acceding to the demands and accepting, as the English and Dutch monarchs before them, a new way of ruling, they pushed the Assembly into foolish actions (The war against Austria, etc.), thus allowing the accession to power of Robespierre. What the Yellow Vests want is not a Soviet republic or an ultra-liberal regime but, on the contrary, a republic of the center. They are, however, ready to go on until they to get what they want, and if the Fifth Republic does not reform itself (which seems very unlikely), then we can fear a growing violence. And a justified one, above all.</span></span>seb doubinskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00095914978037591953noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714415819919121522.post-78733495733684136652019-01-17T02:55:00.000-08:002019-01-17T04:59:26.511-08:00"GILETS JAUNES", LA RÉVOLTE DU CENTRE.<span style="font-size: large;">La vague insurrectionnelle puis révolutionnaire des Gilets Jaunes en France a été observée, analysée et commentée à foison dans les médias et sur les sites internet. On les a décrits comme soit comme des populistes, fascistes, racistes, anarchistes, violents, abrutis et j'en passe, ou comme des militants qui s'ignorent, des vrais socialistes révolutionnaires, le peuple en marche, et j'en passe aussi. Il me semble, cependant, que si on s'autorise une petite comparaison historique avec les évènements les plus similaires, c'est à dire les soulèvements de 1788 puis de 1789, il se dessine une autre lecture que celle de BFMTV, des Macronistes, Lepénistes et Mélanchonistes. En effet, cette révolte n'apparaît pas comme extrémiste, mais comme réformiste - elle veut un meilleur partage des richesses, une meilleure démocratie, une meilleure couverure sociale, etc. Cela ressemble fortement à la première phase de la révolution francaise, de 1789 à 1792, lorsqu'il s'agissait de transformer le monarchie absolue en monarchie constitutionnelle. Ce sont les Girondins, parti non négligeable, qui représentaient cette tendance, populaire jusqu'à la Terreur. Ce que demandent les Gilets Jaunes, c'est avant tout une RÉFORME des institutions, cette fois à leur avantage, et non plus à celui des classes dominantes. Les assimiler à de dangereux jusqu'auboutistes, c'est faire la même erreur, exactement, que Louis XVI et Marie-Antoinette ont fait pendant le début de la Révolution. A lieu d'accéder aux demandes et d'accepter, comme les monarques anglais et hollandais avant eux, une nouvelle facon de régner, ils ont poussé l'Assemblée à la faute (La guerre contre l'Autriche, etc.), permettant ainsi l'accession au pouvoir de Robespierre. Ce que veulent les Gilets Jaunes, ce n'est pas une république soviétique ou une république ultra-libérale mais , au contraire, une république du centre. Par contre, ils sont prêts à aller jusqu'au bout pour l'obtenir, et si la Vème République ne se réforme pas d'elle même (ce qui me semble fort peu probable), alors nous pouvons craindre une violence grandissante. Et justifiée.</span>seb doubinskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00095914978037591953noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714415819919121522.post-5015856934383649892018-06-15T11:32:00.001-07:002018-06-15T11:34:27.723-07:00THE EUROPEAN UNION PROJECT OR THE QUIRKS OF SELF-COLONIALISM<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">The rise of so-called "populist" movements in the European Union elicits many comments and analyzes. There are, however, a few missing elements that I think are essential to better understand what is happening now. The first thing to analyze, it seems to me, is the functioning of the European political superstructure in its </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">perspective of a</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> "power". Indeed, we are in the presence of a super-state, the European Commission, doubled by a gigantic parliament, but with fuzzy powers, because </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">with a contradictory identity: in the one hand, it has only a very limited </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">power </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">which it tries to exaggerate while at the same time whole-heartedly accepting to represent </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">a travesty of democracy, where the "representativity "</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">is so delegated that it does not represent much more than the absurdity of the system itself. </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">T</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">he European Union, in its present avatar, has everything of a two-headed monster, with a head that decides almost everything and hides it, and another </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">deciding</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> almost nothing, </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">while </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">pretend</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">ing to</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">. But this monster aims to reign in the name of a political idea that may </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">have been</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> legitimate and honorable in its early days, but which has changed since the Maastricht and Lisbon treaties into an increasingly authoritarian economic-political ideology.</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> This ideology, piously called "neo-liberalism", is in fact a toxic emanation of Anglo-Saxon ultracapitamism, defended by Reagan, Thatcher and Blair. I will not go back over its characteristics, which everyone knows, but rather about the paradoxical and dangerous consequences that its application implies </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">in </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">what is called the </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">“</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">European Union</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">”</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> project. Indeed,</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> both</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> the commission and the parliament, hand in hand, try to govern like </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">dysfunctional </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Siamese brothers a motley heap of countries </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">disunited </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">by their languages</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">, traditions a</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">nd cultures, </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">trying to replace</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> the national </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">hi</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">stories (often tragic) by a great European narrative (</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">full </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">of</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">blissful optimism). If </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">at first sight </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">the intention is laudable (nobody wants </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">a priori </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">to fight today to defend any flag whatsoever</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> - well, mostly anybody...</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> but we will come back to it), the method used is more than critic</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">iz</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">able because it is based directly, consciously or worse, unconsciously, on the colonial model.</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "simsun"; font-size: 12.0000pt;"><br /></span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">In the colonies, all the power resided in the metropolis, and was assured on the spot by so-called representative institutions, either national or local, which transmitted directives which could not be discussed. This basic scheme is precisely what these "populist" movements mentioned above </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">criticize </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">and on which we will come back later. </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">However, the project of union is complicated precisely by the diversity of models p</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">roper</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> to each colonizing country: between the British "home rule" and the French "universalist" model, the gap is deep, even irreconcilable. Yet we find these two models cohabiting within the current European project, and the crisis we are experiencing is the result of an internal conflict over the administration of the</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> colonized</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> territories of the Union, i</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">.</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">e</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">.</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> our countries. </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">T</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">he Anglo-Saxon side</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">ha</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">s</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> sought to counterbalance "universalist" </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">ce</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">ntralism by a symbolic delegation to "local" powers, in other words our governments. Symbolic, because despite this apparent willingness to share, </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">it is actually to protect and favor the</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">Great Britain-United States</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> axis </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">, that is to say </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">directly influencing nations</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> through a discreet support to the parties, the movements and to individuals in favor of this policy. It was the essence of British colo</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">n</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">ialism, where the social and national structure of the colonized countries was kept, while imposing on them a strict political and economic control</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">,the famous “Home Rule.”</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"> </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">On the French side, however, a "universalist" and centralist discourse is used to </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">create the idea of </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">a union that attempts to erase the negative aspects of nationalism by an equally romantic adherence to a humanistic political ideal of progress. The only problem is that it is exactly in these terms that the Third Republic embarked on its policy of </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">full-blast </span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">colonization from the 1880s onwards. The replacement of "lower" national identities by a superior identity of progress</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;">” was the motto of these brutal politics.</span><span style="background: rgb(255 , 255 , 255); color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">As for Germany, a country that </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">was a</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> smaller (but </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">nonetheless brutal</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">) colonial </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">power </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">than the other two, it insists more on "pragmatism" as a political color, which is in fact the defense of its own economic interests and of its policy towards the </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">Eastern block</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">. Neither really centralist nor </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">“</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">home rulist</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">”</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">, </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">it</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> sails between the two </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">ideologies, changing with the wind</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">. It may be, </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">incidentally, t</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">he most authentically "European" nation of the three cited here, because of its abominable past and its impossible desire for redemption.</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">The "populist" reaction we are witnessing today in all member countries can therefore be read in terms of this political reality and analyzed in a slightly different way than what the media or other "experts" offer us. </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">Indeed, we must first reject the term "populist", because, by definition, all political parties are</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> populist</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">, in one way or another, since they all make untenable promises to flatter the "people" and collect their voices. I think we should rather talk about reacti</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">ve </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">rather than reactionary movements, because</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">not al</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">l these movements are reactionary</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">, and</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> if they are,</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> not all in the same wa</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">y.</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">What they have in common, however, is the 2009 economic crisis, which has seen their ranks grow considerably. What struck the </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">minds</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">was</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> the fact that w</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">hen</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> the states were saving the banks </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">by applying </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">the same policy dictated by the European Central Bank, none of the </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">people </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">responsible</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> for the krach</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> w</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">ere</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> condemned, or even a little bit </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">attacked</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">. A</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> s</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">econd important aspect</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> is that </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">this </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">government</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> aid was financed by the radical dismemberment of social protections and the national industrial fabric. Third and last aspect, the betrayal of leftist parties in power in some countries (France, Denmark, Spain, Italy, etc.) who not only submitted to the dictates of the Central Bank and </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">its </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">economic lobbies (which </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">are</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> modestly called "Think tanks" but are</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">, in fact,</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> lobbies), but have also </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">adopted</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> Thatcher's </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">infamous </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">"TINA" ("There Is No Alternative") as the</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">ir</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> only justification.</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">However, this shift from </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">a national</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> center of political and economic decis</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">ion</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> to an all-powerful and meta-national entity is one of the characteristics of a colonial situation. And if we analyze the nationalist reactions we see around us through the colonial prism, we can better understand the fracture they show. It's the wrong answer to a real problem, </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">which seems</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> beyond us because it seems out of reach, when in fact we have the means to fight it without necessarily going through violence.</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">It is time for Europe to change plans, </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">because </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">otherwise </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">I am afraid</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">we will</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">witness</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">more and more movements of "national liberation", of which Brexit is the most spectacular and paradoxical </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">example</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">. </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">But </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">as </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">for </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">us </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">radical humanists, of which I am a part, we must</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> come with concrete</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> propos</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">itions</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">, not just protest</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">s</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">, </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">that is to say </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">solutions to defend dignity, coexistence and peace, </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">with a total </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> respect</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">for diff</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">er</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">e</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">nces</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">. We need to invent a new form of European "social contract", far from the model of economic and political self-colonization </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">which is being </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">impose</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">d</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> on </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">us</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">. But </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">this</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"> must be done in a great brotherly and respectful gathering, and not in a spirit of </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">splitting apart</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">, which is the characteristic of reactionary movements on the right as on the left.</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">We have to fight not with slovenly political slogans, but in the name of simple human dignity and </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">the </span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;">radical and inalienable right to difference.</span><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14pt; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">La progression des mouvements dits "populistes" dans l'Union Européenne suscite de nombreux commentaires et analyses. Il manque cependant quelques éléments qui me semblent essentiels pour mieux cerner ce qui est en train de se passer actuellement. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">La première chose qu'il faut analyser, il me semble, est le fonctionnement de la superstructure politique européenne</span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"> dans sa nature de “pouvoir”</span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">. En effet, nous sommes en présence d'un super- état, la commission européenne, doublé d'un parlement gigantesque, mais aux pouvoirs flous, car tour à tour contre- pouvoir limité et acteur d'une parodie de démocratie, où la "représentativité" est tellement déléguée qu'elle ne représente plus grand chose sinon </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">l’absurdité du</span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"> système lui-même. l'Union européenne, dans son avatar actuel, a tout d'un monstre bicéphale, avec une tête qui décide d'</span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">à</span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"> peu près tout</span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"> et qui le cache,</span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"> et une autre d'</span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">à</span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"> peu près rien</span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">, mais qui fait semblant</span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">. Or ce monstre a pour objectif de régner au nom d'une idée politique </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">peut-être </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">légitime </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">et honorable </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">à ses débuts, mais qui s'est transformée depuis </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">les traités de </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">Maastricht et </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">de </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">Lisbonne en une idéologie </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">économico-politique </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">de plus en plus autoritaire. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">Cette idéologie, pieusement appelée "néo-lib</span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">é</span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">ralisme",</span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">est en fait une é</span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">manation</span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"> toxique de l'ultracapitamisme anglo-saxon, défendu à la fois par Reagan, Thatcher et Blair. Je ne reviendrai pas sur ses caractéristiques, que tout le monde connaît, mais plutôt sur les conséquences paradoxales et dangereuses que son application implique pour ce qu'on appelle le projet d'union européenne. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">En effet, la commission et le parlement, main dans la main, tentent de gouverner</span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"> comme des frères siamois et </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">de manière ultra-centralis</span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">é</span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">e un amas hétéroclite de pays déliés par leurs langues et leurs cultures, quitte </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">à</span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"> remplacer les histoires nationales</span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"> (</span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">souvent tragiques</span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">)</span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"> par une grande narration européenne</span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"> (d’un optimisme béat)</span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">. Si apparemment l'intention est louable (personne ne veut se battre a priori aujourd'hui pour d</span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">é</span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">fendre un drapeau quelconque - quoi</span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">que</span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">...</span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"> mais nous y reviendrons), la méthode employée est plus que criticable, car elle se base directement, consciemment ou pire, inconsciemment, sur le modèle colonial. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">Da</span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">n</span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">s les colonies, tout le pouvoir résidait en métropole, et était assuré sur place par des institutions </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">soi-disant </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">représentatives, soit nationales, soit locales,qui transmettai</span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">en</span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">t </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">d</span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">es directives qui ne pouvaient être discutées. Ce schéma de base est précisément ce que critiquent ces mouvements "populistes" mentionnés plus haut</span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"> et sur lesquels nous reviendrons plus avant.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">Cependant, le projet d'union e</span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">s</span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">t compliqué justement par la diversité d</span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">e modèles propres à chaque</span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"> pays colonisateur: entre le "home rule" </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">b</span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">ritannique et le modèle "universaliste" français, le fossé est profond, voire même irréconciliable. Pourtant on retrouve ces deux modèles cohabitant au sein même du projet européen actuel, et la crise que nous traversons est bien le résultat d'un conflit interne sur l'administration des territoires de l'Union, c'est </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">à</span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"> dire nos pays.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">Du côté anglo-saxon, on a chercher à contre-balancer le ecntralisme “universaliste” par une délégation symbolique à des pouvoirs “locaux”, autrement dit nos gouvernements. Symbolique, parce que malgré cette apparente volonté de partage, se dessine la défense de l’axe Grande-Bretagne-États-Unis, c’est à dire une mise sous influence des états au travers d’un soutien discret aux partis, aux mouvements et aux individus favorables à cette politique. C’était l’essence du colobialisme britannique, où l’on gardait la structure sociale et nationale des pays colonisés, tout en leur imposant un sévère contrôle politqiue et économique.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">Du côté français, on mise par contre sur un discours “universaliste” et centraliste, qui vise à former une union qui tente d’effacer les aspects négatifs du nationalisme par une adhésion tout aussi romantique à un idéal politique humaniste de progrès. Le seul problème est que c’est exactment en ces termes que la IIIème république a engagé sa politique de colonisation à outrance à partir des années 1880. Le remplacement des identités nationales “inférieures” par une identité de progrès “supérieure.” </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">Ce qu’ils ont en commun, par contre, c’est la crise économique de 2009, qui a vu leurs rangs s’étoffer considérablement. Ce qui a frappé les esprits, c’est le fait qu’au moment où les états sauvaient les banques avec la même politique dictée par la Banque Centrale Européenne, aucun des responsables n’a été condamné, ni même un tant soit peu inquiété. Et, deuxième aspect important, cette aide des états a été financée par le démembrement radical des protections sociales et du tissu industriel national. Troisième et dernier aspect, la trahison des partis de gauche au pouvoir dans certains pays (France, Danemark, Espagne, Italie, etc.) qui se sont non seulement soumis aux diktats de la Banque Centrale et des lobbies économiques (qu’on appelle pudiquement “think tanks”, mais qui sont bien des lobbies), mais ont en plus repris le “TINA” (“There Is No Alternative”) de Thatcher comme seule justification.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">Or, ce déplacement du centre de décisoon politique et économique vers une entité toute puissante et méta-nationale est une des caractéristiques d’une situation coloniale. Et si nous analysons les réactions nationalistes auxquelles nous assistons autour de nous au travers du prisme colonial, nous pouvons mieux comprendre la fracture qu’ils montrent. C’est la mauvais réponse à un vrai problème, mais qui nous dépasse parce qu’il semble hors de notre portée, alors qu’en réalité, nous avons les moyens de le combattre sans nécessairement passer par la violence. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">Il est temps que l’Europe change de projet, sinon nous allons, je le crains, assister à de plus en plus de mouvements de “libération nationale”, dont le Brexit est le modéle le plus spectaculaire et le plus paradoxal. Mais pour les humanistes radicaux, dont je fais partie, il nous faut inventer une lutte sur deux fronts, qui sache nommer les ennemis et les idéologies qu’ils défendent. Il nous faut proposer, et pas seulement protester, des solutions pour défendre la dignité, le vivre-ensemble et la paix, mais dans le respect des différences et sur un pied d’égalité. Il nous faut inventer une nouvelle forme de “contrat social” européen, loin du modèle d’auto-colonisation économique et politique qu’on cherche à nous imposer. Mais il faut le faire dans un grand rassemblement fraternel et respectueux, et non dans un esprit de clivage, qui est la caractéristique des mouvements réactionnaires de droite, comme de gauche. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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seb doubinskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00095914978037591953noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714415819919121522.post-73654595129347682352017-05-03T08:46:00.000-07:002017-05-03T08:46:06.289-07:00ENTRE-DEUX TOURS 2017<span style="font-size: large;">Les coupables cherchent toujours un coupable.</span>seb doubinskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00095914978037591953noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714415819919121522.post-1670051778457115062016-12-15T02:24:00.001-08:002016-12-15T02:24:12.455-08:00MY FEELING ABOUT ALEP ETC.<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This false common responsibility, which I see flourishing everywhere, disgusts me. It is the supreme “I feel for you” con. Indignation is a permanent state for me, it did not start at Aleppo, Srebrenica or elsewhere. I am, like you, like most, completely powerless. But not guilty. I am not the one who should wring my hands, sign useless petitions, self-flagellate myself. The next time you go vote, think about Aleppo and those you’re about to elect.<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"> Think of Spain in 36, about Sarajevo, about the Kurds who fight in the front line to protect you and are massacred by Erdogan. Think about what horrors and treasons your vote will allow on your behalf. Think about the weight that your just indignation weighs on the government you have or will put in place. Think about it and tell me where the real responsibility lies.</span></span>seb doubinskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00095914978037591953noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714415819919121522.post-9719270016337351212016-12-15T02:19:00.001-08:002016-12-15T02:22:27.504-08:00MON SENTIMENT SUR ALEP, ETC.<div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 6px;">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Cette fausse responsabilité commune que l'on voit fleurir un peu partout m'écoeure. C'est l'arnaque suprême au bon sentiment. L'indignation est un état permanent chez moi, elle n'a pas commencé à Alep, à Srebrenica ou ailleurs. Je suis, comme toi, comme vous, comme la plupart, totalement impuissant. Mais pas coupable. Ce n'est pas à moi de me tordre les mains, de signer des pétitions inutiles, de m'auto-flageller. La prochaine fois qu<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">e vous aller voter, pensez à Alep et à ceux que vous aller élire. Pensez à l'Espagne en 36, à Sarajevo, aux Kurdes qui se battent en premiére ligne pour vous protéger et se font massacrer par Erdogan. Pensez à ce que votre vote va autoriser comme horreur et lâcheté en votre nom. Pensez au poids que votre juste indignation pèse sur le gouvernement que vous avez mis ou allez mettre en place. Pensez-y vraiment et dites-moi où se trouve la véritable responsabilité.</span></span></div>
seb doubinskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00095914978037591953noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714415819919121522.post-33617212725703650582016-11-03T00:42:00.001-07:002016-11-03T08:43:13.273-07:00POST-HUMAN, ANTHROPOCENE - THE HUBRIS OF WESTERN THOUGHT<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">Right now, the </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">hottest new thing</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">in </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">pioneering thinking and </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">in the </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">media revolves around the posthuman (How to think the genetically modified man, the man-machine, man surrounded by things or thinking machines, etc. .) and the "Anthropocene", a new geological epoch marked (negatively) by the presence of Ma</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">n</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">. It is interesting that these two schools of thought, which often overlap, are based on two assumptions, </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">i.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">e</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"> on statements that need to be supported later. Indeed, for many geneticists, </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">the </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">post-human must be a change / mutation of homo sapiens, which does not seem ready to arrive</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">, and many artificial intelligence researchers doubt that robots will ever be “intelligent” enough to threaten us on their own. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">Furthermore. for geologists, the mark of man on the geological layers is not obvious. I say right away that I am not a fierce</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">neo-liberal conservative, but an anarchist who is just trying to reflect and identify the real problems. It seems, therefore, more appropriate to consider these two theoretical fields as speculative fields, not as </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">scientific</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"> truths. Now</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">, what do </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">these theories</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">reveal, not on the future of the man or his environment, but </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">of </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">our way of thinking about the world? We are still and always </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">stuck </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">in </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">a </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">Western thought that cannot detach </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">itself from its</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"> two fundamental </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">- </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">and catastrophic in many ways</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">- characteristics, which</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"> are </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">the Apocalypse </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">and hubris. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">The Apocalypse</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">, because we always run to disaster, or we're already there, and </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">we </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">must therefore save </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">ourselves</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">, even if it is against our</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"> will </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"> (The ravages of the idea of "redemption"), and hubris, because we, humans, are able to change the world in our image, </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">like</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"> real demiurges (positive or negative). There is</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">a common thing in this double vision</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">, either </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">positivist (the post-human is the bright future of man) or pessimistic (the post-human announces the end of mankind, the power of robots, and the Anthropocene indicates a tragic point of </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">a </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">geological</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">no</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">-</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">return ) </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">which </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">is, again, this decidedly Western ethnocentrism </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">that we can’t seem</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"> to get rid of. Indeed, the post-human announces the end of what kind of humans? Those who are rich enough to be cloned or artificially </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">enhanced</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">. And </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">about </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">the Anthropocene: who will not survive climate change and other disasters? </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">Us</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">, because First Nations have a level of adaptability much higher than ours. Imagine for a moment a world suddenly without electricity, and compare what would happen in the Mongolian plains, in the Amazon</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"> forest</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"> and New York, Paris and Tokyo.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"> To me, t</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">he post-human and the Anthropocene are the most glaring expression</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">s</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"> of the anguish of the </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">W</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">hite (Wo)</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">M</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">an, a égrégore it </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">creates to confront</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"> a world that </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">it </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">control</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">s</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"> and </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">understands</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"> less</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"> and less</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">. A mestizo world, a young world, a </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">rising new </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">world made up of other non-white </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">humans</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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seb doubinskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00095914978037591953noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714415819919121522.post-75700943455046750962016-11-03T00:24:00.001-07:002016-11-03T01:04:13.112-07:00POST-HUMAIN, ANTHROPOCÈNE - L'HUBRIS DE LA PENSÉE OCCIDENTALE<span style="font-size: large;">En ce moment, la grande mode de la pensée d'avant-garde et médiatique tourne autour du post-humain (Comment penser l'homme génétiquement modifié, l'homme-machine, l'homme entouré de choses ou de machines pensantes, etc.) et de l'"Anthropocène", nouvelle époque géologique marquée (négativement) par la présence de l'hommme. Il est intéressant que ces deux courants de pensée, qui se rejoignent souvent, reposent sur deux postulats, c'est à dire sur des affirmations qui se doivent d'être étayées par la suite. En effet, pour beaucoup de généticiens, le post-humain doit correspondre à une évolution/mutation de l'homo sapiens, ce qui ne semble pas prêt d'arriver. De plus. pour les géologues, la marque de l'homme sur les couches géologiques n'est pas non plus évidente, ni son effet réel sur le climat, hormis, bien entendu, la pollution. je précise tout de suite que je ne suis pas un farouche conservateur néo-libéral, mais un anarchiste qui essaie simplement de réfléchir et de cerner les vrais problèmes. Il me semble, par conséquent, plus judicieux de considérer ces deux champs théoriques comme des champs spéculatifs, et non comme des vérités épistémiques. Or que nous révèlent ces théories, non pas sur l'avenir de l'homme ou de son environnement, mais sur notre mode de penser le monde? Que nous sommes encore et toujours dans une pensée occidentale qui n'arrive pas à se détacher des deux aspects fondamentaux (et catastrophiques à bien des égards) que sont le millénarisme et l'hubris. Millénarisme, parce que nous courons toujours à la catastrophe, ou que nous y sommes déjà, et qu'il faut, par conséquent nous sauver, même si c'est malgré nous (Les ravages de l'idée de "rédemption"), et hubris, parce que nous, les humains, sommes capables de modifier le monde à notre image, en véritables démiurges (positifs ou négatifs). Il y a, par contre, une chose commune dans cette double vision soit positiviste (le post-humain est l'avenir radieux de l'homme), soit pessimiste (le post-humain annonce la fin de l'humanité, le pouvoir des robots, et l'anthropocène signale un point tragique de non-retour géologique), c'est, encore une fois, cet ethnocentrisme occidental dont on n'arrive décidément pas à se débarrasser. En effet, le post-humain annonce la fin de quel type d'humains? Ceux qui seront assez riches pour se faire cloner ou augmenter artificiellement. Et de même pour l'anthropocène: qui ne pourra pas survivre aux changements climatiques et autres catastrophes? Nous, parce que les Premières Nations ont un niveau d'adaptabilité beaucoup plus élevé que le nôtre. Imaginons un instant un monde brusquement sans électricité, et comparons ce qui se passerait dans les plaines mongoles, dans la forêt amazonienne et New York, Paris et Tokyo. Le post-humain et l'anthropocène sont l'expression la plus criante de l'angoisse de l'homme blanc, une égrégore qu'il fait surgir face à un monde qu'il contrôle et comprend de moins en moins. Un monde métis, un monde jeune, un monde nouveau constitué d'autres humains non-blancs.</span><br />
<br />seb doubinskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00095914978037591953noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714415819919121522.post-77132657367772446232016-04-28T04:25:00.000-07:002016-04-28T08:48:10.801-07:00VOILE ET ANARCHISME<span style="font-size: large;">Puisque personne ne me le demande, je vais vous faire part de ma position comme anarchiste sur le voile, qui est, bien entendu, paradoxale et ne va pas faire plaisir à beaucoup d'entre vous. En tant qu'anarchiste il y a plusieurs éléments qu'il faut que je prenne en compte, même s'ils peuvent sembler contradictoires:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">1) Tout symbole d'oppression ou de discrimination m'insupporte et m'est fondamentalement intolérable.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">2) Tout individu a le droit de s'exprimer et de se vêtir comme il l'entend</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">3) En tant qu'athée, toutes les religions me semblent également irrationnelles, discriminatoires et dangereuses.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">4) Même si je suis athée, tous les dieux et toutes les déesses sont les bienvenu(e)s dans ma maison.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Ce qui me frappe le discours des gens de gauche et des démocrates de droite qui s'opposent au port du voile en France (la burqa et le voile intégral sont un autre sujet à mes yeux) est l'imprécision de leur position. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">En effet, soit on est contre le voile parce qu'on est contre tout symbole religieux ostentatoire ou contre tout ce que la religion peut représenter - et cette position est pour moi légitime, et il faut dénoncer avec les perruques des femmes juives orthodoxes, les points rouges sur le front des Indiennes, les turbans des Sikhs et les fichus sur la tête des catholiques - tout comme l'est alors celle de la croyante qui est pour, parce que ce symbole représente, à ses yeux, son attachement à sa foi. Nous sommes là dans un débat d'idées classique - entre deux absolus de la pensée. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Mais si sont on attaque le voile à partir d'une position "féministe" ou "républicaine", ca commence à devenir pour moi un petit plus compliqué. Une des caractéristiques du discours culturel impérialiste ou colonial est justement de "parler pour" ou de "parler au nom de", et non de "parler avec". Quand on accuse les femmes musulmanes d'être soumises à, opprimées par ou complices d'une religion intolérante et dangereuse (ce qui, en passant, caractérise toutes les religions), ou pire, d'une culture (au sens nazi du terme, c'est à dire, "atavique") intolérante ou dangereuse, on prend un espace de parole qui va dénier celle de l'autre. Pourquoi? Parce que si on porte le voile, on est déjà discréditée et que les arguments de la défense sont niés d'avance. Pour moi, que des femmes d'origine musulmane discutent du voile avec d'autres femmes musulmanes, c'est tout à fait légitime. Que des féministes francaises se disent solidaires de ces femmes qui luttent contre le sexisme et les symboles d'une société/culture/religion machiste peut certes se comprendre (et certainement doit même se faire) mais avec cette nuance essentielle qui est de préciser leur point de départ. Comme je l'ai dit plus haut: soit on combat TOUS les symboles religieux et toutes les religions qui oppriment les femmes (Et elles le font toutes), soit on accepte de stigmatiser une minorité et de courir le risque d'être traité(e) de raciste et/ou de xénophobe - ce qui est fondamentalement vrai. Lorsque Elisabeth Badinter dit "On a le droit d'être islamophobe", elle dit aussi "On a le droit d'être antisémite", ce qui est vrai dans l'absolu, mais qui historiquement implique beaucoup, beaucoup de conséquences pour le moins inquiétantes.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Les femmes musulmanes qui portent le voile sont une double minorité, et c'est à ce titre qu'il faut faire attention aux discours qui les stigmatisent. Elle sont devenues une cible symbolique, où leur apparence extérieure devient la "preuve" des dangers de leur religion. Comme dans tout discours raciste, l'individu devient le symbole du groupe - que ce soit le Juif, le Nègre, le Chinois, etc. L'indifférenciation permet de condamner l'ensemble au nom de la "preuve" qu'on a sous les yeux - comme les vitrines de ces Juifs "riches" et "profiteurs" dont on a brisé les vitrines durant la Nuit de Cristal. C'est pour cela qu'il est si important de parler avec nuance et sutout, de laisser parler l'autre. Accuser, "avoir raison" est toujours dangereux quand les arguments de départ sont faussés - parfois naïvement, parfois volontairement.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Nous assistons aujourd'hui à un nouvel amalgame (oui, je défend ce mot, au risque d'être traité "d'islamo-gauchiste", quoi que dans mon cas il s'agirait plutôt de "judéo-gauchiste") qui est d'autamt plus dangereux qu'il n'est souvent pas percu comme tel. C'est le fameux "Je ne suis pas raciste, mais..." qui se traduit aujourd'hui par "Je ne suis pas anti-musulman (terme qui entre nous reste encore à définir), mais je suis contre le voile." C'est comme de dire "Je ne suis pas antisémite, mais je ne peux pas blairer les Juifs orthodoxes). Oui, mais les juifs orthodoxes sont juifs. Et le voile fait partie de l'islam. On ne peut pas être semi-raciste, Par contre, on peut être contre toutes les religions, qu'elles qu'elles soient, et justifier son propos soit politiquement, soit philosophiquement, soit les deux en même temps. Mais être partiellement raciste, non, ca n'est pas possible.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Dans les années trente, parmi nos intellectuels et écrivains se trouvaient un grand nombre d'antisémites. Certains sont devenus collaborateurs, d'autres pas, Mais s'ils n'ont pas tous les mêmes responsabilités vis à vis de la Shoah, ils étaient bien TOUS antisémites.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Le problème avec la foi, c'est qu'on ne peut pas décider pour les autres. Bakounine lui même l'a reconnu et a écrit, dans une lettre, qu'on me pouvait pas abolir une religion par décret. Il a même ajouté que tant que la société ne serait pas parvenue à rendre la religion inutile, il fallait l'accepter, et même, parfois, la protéger. Aujourd'hui, je me sens proche de Bakounine, pour exactement les mêmes raisons. Car ce n'est hélas pas que de religion dont on parle quand on parle du voile, mais de l'effacement d'une minorité "trop visible". </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Et ca, ca me donne froid dans le dos, car si je suis bien opposé à toutes les formes de religion, je m'oppose aussi à toutes les formes de fanatismes, y compris "laïcs". Le but de l'anarchisme, c'est de vivre bien ensemble, pas de vivre bien entre nous, sans les autres.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Donc, laissez-tomber cette histoire de voile, si vous êtes honnêtes, et concentrez-vous sur les vraies raisons de votre angoisse. </span><br />
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seb doubinskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00095914978037591953noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714415819919121522.post-46665095562768455782016-03-11T07:07:00.001-08:002016-03-11T07:07:22.189-08:00THE WEST'S CHINESE DREAM<span style="font-size: large;">It is striking today to see how paradoxical the word "Freedom" has become in Western society. If the "freedom" of the markets is a positive things, the "Freedom" of the citizens is suspicious, and has to be constantly monitored and even temporarily (?) restricted. Products may move freely across borders, but not all citizens. What's more, the privileges of the super wealthy become the symbols of the first notion, while social racism and xenophobia are systematically attached to the second. Freedom has thus become (like democracy) a concept that can be read two different ways (at least) at the same time: one positive and official, one negative and threatening. We are moving more and more towards a Chinese model, as it is today, with a free for all (and corrupt) economy supported by a single Party relying on its propaganda tools. The dream of the crazy US Republicans today or of the Bruxelles ultra-liberal eggheads is indeed of a single-coloured society, with limited individual rights, in the name of a supreme good, the "Market", to which all must be sacrificed. A Chinese dream indeed - very far away from poor Adam Smith's ideals.</span><br />
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<br />seb doubinskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00095914978037591953noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714415819919121522.post-30117681041499878832016-03-11T06:56:00.000-08:002016-03-11T07:08:15.257-08:00LE RÊVE CHINOIS DE L'OCCIDENT<span style="font-size: large;">Il est frappant de constater l'extrême paradoxe du mot "liberté" aujourd'hui dans la monde occidental. Si la "liberté" des marchés est considérée comme une "bonne" liberté, celle des citoyens est, pour le moins, dangereuse et demande à être constamment surveillée, voire temporairement (?) limitée. Les produits doivent pouvoir circuler librement, mais il n'en est pas de même pour tous les citoyens, De plus, les privilèges associés aux plus riches deviennent des symboles de la première liberté, de même que le racisme social et la xénophobie sont rattachés à la deuxième. La liberté est donc devenu (comme la démocratie, d'ailleurs) un concept qui se lit en même temps d'au moins deux manières différentes: une positive et officielle, une négative et dangereuse. Nous nous rapprochons donc d'un modèle politique qui tient de plus en plus du modèle Chinois actuel, avec une économie débridée et de plus en plus incontrôlée (et corrompue) et un Parti unique tout puissant.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> Le rêve des Républicains aux USA ou des neólibéraux de Bruxelles ici est bien une société unicolore, aux libertés individuelles limitées, au nom d'un bien supérieur, le Marché, auxquel tout doit être sacrifié. Une société chinoise, donc - bien loin du rêve de ce pauvre Adam Smith.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">One of the strengths of Nazism has always been to use the language to corrupt Thought, and part of Europe is in the process of </span><span style="font-size: large;">applying with great success lessons from Dr. Goebbels. Today, Scandinavia, France, Hungary and elsewhere, political parties and even governments, as in Hungary and Denmark, use coded expressions such as "anti-Islam" or "Islamskritik" in Danish, to hide their true nature, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">which is outright racist. But when this is pointed out to them, they deny it and blame Muslim “culture" - as in the latest example, the assaults against women in Köln and elsewhere. But we must not delude ourselves about the meaning of "culture" in the right-wing thought: culture is an atavism that is made up of hereditary traits formerly associated with a race, and today a religion. This is the "moral" basis of the extreme-right today: on the one hand, the good, white Christians, although Jews are considered OK too, for strategical reasons; and on the other hand, colored barbarians that cannot adapt to "Western civilization" because of atavistic traits. In Denmark, where I live, this distinction is found everywhere, both in the current government, partly in its opposition (the Social Democrats) and in almost all the Media. If we add a strong nationalist sentiment traditionally maintained by both the right and the left (once for different reasons, but joining in an appalling way today), we find ourselves with a speech in which we divide the world into two: on one side, the "Ubermensch" civilized and de facto moral; and on the other the "Untermensch" barbaric and de facto immoral. This distinction is not only the prerogative of Denmark and, what is more worrying, it is not seen for what it is: a Nazi concept. The democratic Europe in which we believed before before the back-stabbings of Maastricht and Lisbon, day after day loses its soul and honor, corroded from within by a violent cancer we continue to call a “cold "... It is time to open our eyes and oppose a total resistance, that can begin simply by calling things by their real name ... No, it isn’t a new form of Fascism that threatens Europe; It is, purely and simply, a neo-Nazism.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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seb doubinskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00095914978037591953noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714415819919121522.post-19840087011002071832016-01-22T03:24:00.000-08:002016-01-22T04:40:05.795-08:00NE PARLONS PAS DE FASCISME, C’EST BIEN LE NAZISME QUI EST DE RETOUR<div class="p0" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Une des forces du Nazisme a toujours été de se servir du langage pour mieux corrompre la pensée, et une partie de l’Europe est en train d’appliquer avec une grande réussite les leçons du Dr. Goebbels. Aujourd’hui, en Scandinavie, en France, en Hongrie et ailleurs, des partis politiques, voire des gouvernements, comme en Hongrie et au Danemark, se servent d’expressions codées comme “anti-Islam” ou “Islamskritik” en danois pour cacher leur vraie nature, qui est purement et simplement raciste. Mais lorsqu’on leur fait remarquer, elles s’en défendent et accusent “la culture musulmane” - dernier exemple en date, les agressions contre les femmes à Cologne et ailleurs. Or il ne faut pas se leurrer sur le sens de “culture” dans la pensée d’extrême-droite: la culture est un atavisme, c’est à dire constituée de traits héréditaires associés autrefois à une race, aujourd’hui à une religion. C’est ainsi que se divise la “morale” de l’extrême-droite: d’un côté, les bons, blancs, chrétiens si possible,mais aussi juifs à l’occasion aujourdhui- et de l’autre les barbares de couleur, qui ataviquement ne peuvent s’adapter à la “civilisation occidentale.” Au Danemark, où je vis, cette distinction se retrouve partout, à la fois dans le gouvernement actuel, une partie de son opposition (les Sociaux-Démocrates) et dans à peu près tous les médias. Si l’on y ajoute un fort sentiment nationaliste traditionellement entretenu à la fois par la droite et par la gauche (pour des raisons autrefois différentes, mais qui se rejoignent aujourd’hui de manière consternante), on obtient un discours où l’on divise le monde en deux: d’un côté, les “Ubermensch” civilisés et de facto moraux, et de l’autre les “Untermensch” barbares et de facto immoraux. Cette distinction n’est pas l’apanage du seul Danemark et, ce qui est plus grave, elle n’est pas perçue pour ce qu’elle est: un concept Nazi. L’Europe démocratique à laquelle nous avons aspiré autrefois, avant le coup de Jarnac de Maastricht, puis de Lisbonne, perd jour après jour son âme et son honneur, rongée de l’intérieur par un cancer que l’on continue d’appeler un “rhume”... Il est temps d’ouvrir les yeux et d’entrer en résistance totale, ne serait-ce, pour commencer, en appelant les choses par leur nom véritable... Non. Ce n’est pas une nouvelle forme de Fascisme qui menace l’Europe, c’est purement et simplement un véritable néo-Nazisme.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
seb doubinskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00095914978037591953noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714415819919121522.post-55276690856964959532015-10-23T03:27:00.002-07:002015-10-23T07:05:51.617-07:00L'EUROPE DE WEIMAR<span style="font-size: large;">Paralysée par le flot des refugiés et des immigrants, débordée par son extrême-droite, l'Europe d'aujourd'hui file un bien mauvais coton - et nous avec. Ce qui est grave et dangereux dans cette situation, c'est que cette paralysie de l'Europe est volontaire: pas de soutien direct aux courageux Kurdes en Irak et en Syrie pour ne pas se fâcher avec la Turquie, pas de soutien aux troupes chiites pour ne pas se fâcher avec les Américains, soutien suicidaire aux factions extrémistes sunnites pour contrer les Russes... On a tout faux. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Paradoxalement, à l'intérieur de nos frontières, le système postdémocratique ultra-libéral se met en place avec violence et sans complexe - la Grèce en est l'exemple le plus frappant, mais la réduction des débats d'idées dans tous les pays européens en est le symptôme accompagnateur. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Au Danemark, par exemple, le terme de "pensée unique" est un euphémisme, tellement les médias sont à la botte du capital (à l'exception de deux ou trois journaux et de quelques journalistes courageusement frondeurs) et le fanatisme anti-musulman est devenu une effrayante banalité, relayé jusqu'au parti social-démocrate. Si je prends cet exemple, c'est que le modèle nordique est souvent - et à tort, à mon avis - cité comme un modèle démocratique. Aujourd'hui, on peut voir que les modèles ne sont mesurables qu'à l'aune de l'Histoire et qu'aujourd'hui le Danemark est devenu un des pires marais populiste d'Europe à l'échelle nationale.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Mais cette Europe de Weimar n'est pas que la conséquence de l'effondrement de la gauche, qui aurait fait le lit de l'extrême-droite. Il y a eu aussi l'effondrement de la droite démocratique, qui partageait justement certaines valeurs humanistes avec la gauche. Mais ce vide a bien été créé par cet ultra-libéralisme mentionné plus haut, et si les conséquences sont plus accidentelles que volontaires, elles sont tout aussi catastrophiques. L'idéologie ultra-libérale est une idéologie totalitaire, se cachant sous de fictives "lois du marché". Il est impossible de dissocier la guerre totale économique qui se joue aujourd'hui contre les peuples, de l'ídéologie néo-conservatrice qui la défend et la promeut. Il est d'ailleurs facile de faire un parallèle entre la montée des populismes en Europe et le Tea Party américain -ils procèdent tous les deux de la même situation.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Pour réagir, il faut plus que des signatures sur Internet ou des débats sur le débat à la Mutualité. Il faut une redéfinition en profondeur des termes employés et déformés quotidiennement dans les médias: démocratie, liberté, travail, etc. Il faut que les intellectuels - les vrais, pas les fantôches médiatiques qui s'agitent à la radio ou à la télévision - s'attellent à cette gigantesque tâche qui est la refondation, ni plus ni moins, du<i> Contrat Social</i> de ce cher - et combien critiqué - Jean-Jacques Rousseau.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Face à une Europe qui feint d'oublier l'Histoire pour mieux la répéter, à nous de l'écrire à sa place. </span><br />
<br />seb doubinskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00095914978037591953noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714415819919121522.post-91986941976727099582015-07-09T01:29:00.001-07:002015-07-09T01:29:36.358-07:00RADIO PARIS<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17.5636348724365px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Je suis toujours étonné quand on qualifie Leparmentier, Aphatie et Quatremer de "journalistes" et encore plus quand on s'étonne qu'ils soient toujours en poste alors que leurs analyses et prédictions sont à 100% fausses. Ce ne sont pas des journalistes, ce sont des propagandistes pur et simple, comme au bon vieux temps de Radio Paris et de la Propagandastaffel. Leur rôle est de soutenir et de proclamer la victoire du Grand Capital, comme les journalistes collabos le faisaient pour le Reich. Nous sommes en train de vivre le Stalingrad du capital et de la "démocratie" corrompue en Grèce, et le trio nous annonce sa victoire et déplace des petits drapeaux frappés de l'Euro sur la carte. Ils n'ont pas besoin d'être rigoureux, exacts ou sérieux: ils sont là pour autre chose - la propagande. Et ils sont (grassement) payés pour ca.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 17.5636348724365px;">Cette comparaison ne s'arrête, hélas, pas là, car nous sommes bien en pleine guerre d'extermination contre un pays entier. En fait, par certains côtés, on pourrait y lire une version économique de la guerre d'Espagne, avec l'Europe "libérale" dans le rôle de l'Axe et l'Europe "modérée" (la France, comme en 36!) dans le rôle des lâches qui regardent leurs chaussures. Cela a été dit et répété: ce qu'on reproche à la Grèce, c'est l'espoir d'une autre voie, d'une autre idéologie - qui ressemble d'ailleurs aux critiques portées contre la jeune république espagnole.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 17.5636348724365px;">Ces pseudo-journalistes, donc, ne sont pas que des "valets" serviles qui expriment l'opinion de leurs maîtres, mais bien des criminels, au sens où la Collaboration active était criminelle. Par leurs éditoriaux, tweets et interviews, ils appellent purement et simplement au renversement politique d'un gouvernement démocratiquement élu, et dont la légitimité a été de nouveau confirmée par réferendum. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 17.5636348724365px;">Si, par malheur, une option militaire se dessinait (je pense là à un coup d'état militaire soutenu par les partis corrompus), nous savons déjà quelle sera leur position, et celle de l'Europe.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 17.5636348724365px;">Et ils pourront vraiment dire, face à leurs accusateurs éentuels: "Je n'ai fait qu'obéir aux ordres."</span></span>seb doubinskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00095914978037591953noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714415819919121522.post-46801873016648919052015-06-30T11:09:00.000-07:002015-06-30T11:09:36.461-07:00ANARCHISM AND UTOPIA<span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-size: large; line-height: 24px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I often hear the criticism about my political beliefs, that "Anarchism is a utopia." OK. I can accept that a classless society, based on all its different cultures and identities, (temporarily) represented by elected representatives for a limited time and subject to the approval of their voters can make one smile, particularly in view of the New Ultra-Liberal Imperialist Order to which we are subjected these days. I would just argue that anarchism does not seem more utopian to me than a world living in peace thanks to non-regulated markets, than a harmonious society where the rich get richer and the poor are happy to get poorer, and where a handful of privileged politicians, bankers and businessmen decide of the fate of entire countries, which were ruined by them ... As far as utopias are concerned, I'm sorry to say, but I much prefer mine.</span>seb doubinskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00095914978037591953noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3714415819919121522.post-62694166836120408402015-06-30T10:54:00.000-07:002015-06-30T11:03:41.204-07:00L'ANARCHISME COMME UTOPIE<span style="font-size: large;">J'entends souvent la critique, quant à mes convictions politiques, que "L'anarchisme est une utopie." Soit. je veux bien admettre qu'une société sans classes, constituée dans le respect de ses diversités, soumise (tempotrairement) à des représentants élus au sein desdites communautés pour un temps de représentation limité et soumis à l'approbation de leurs électeurs a de quoi faire sourire, en particulier au regard du Nouvel Ordre Ultra-Libéral et Impérialiste auquel nous sommes soumis. Je voudrais juste objecter que l'anarchisme ne me semble cependant pas plus utopique qu'un monde vivant en paix gâce à des marchés non-régulés, qu'une société harmonieuse où les riches sont toujours plus riches et les pauvres heureux d'être de plus en plus pauvres, et où une poignée de privilégies décident du sort de pays entiers, ruinés par leurs soins... À utopie conte utopie, je suis désolé de vous le dire, mais je préfère de loin la mienne.</span>seb doubinskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00095914978037591953noreply@blogger.com0