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Each generation must out of relative obscurity discover its mission, fulfil it, or betray it.
Frantz Fanon
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I learned that there was a battle After which
love was dead
and never returned;
and the field was deserted, there were no fighters but only an eternal defeat
Edouard Glissant, Le sang rivé
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Each generation must out of relative obscurity discover its mission, fulfil it, or betray it.
Frantz Fanon
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I learned that there was a battle After which
love was dead
and never returned;
and the field was deserted, there were no fighters but only an eternal defeat
Edouard Glissant, Le sang rivé
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When there is no truth, there is no order.
When there is no order, there is no justice.
Order cannot be built on lies.
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Young man from La Grande Borne housing estate, December 2009
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When there is no truth, there is no order.
When there is no order, there is no justice.
Order cannot be built on lies.
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Young man from La Grande Borne housing estate, December 2009
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| The Age of Violence: Alain Bertho ... PDF |
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The Age of Violence:
The Crisis of Political Action and
the End of Utopia
Alain Bertho
"Only martyrs know neither pity nor fear.
Believe me,
the day when the martyrs are victorious
will be the day of universal conflagration".
Jacques Lacan made this gloomy prophesy back in 1959:
but doesn't it also apply to our own time?
What hope is there for the alienated youth,
as we see the latest war in the World?
For Alain Bertho, the mounting chaos we see today is above all driven
by the weakening of states' legitimacy
under the pressure of globalization.
Add to this the hypocrisy of the elites who beat the drum of 'security measures',
even as they sow the seeds of violence around the world.
This disorder is the swamp of despair which can only produce fresh atrocities.
Today's youth are the lost children of neoliberal globalization,
the inheritors of the political and human chaos it produces.
When they find it easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism,
their revolt tends to take the paths of martyrdom and despair.
The closing of the revolutionary hypothesis allows only fury.
The answer, Bertho argues, is a new radicalism,
able to inspire a collective hope in the future.
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The Age of Violence:
The Crisis of Political Action and
the End of Utopia
Alain Bertho
"Only martyrs know neither pity nor fear.
Believe me,
the day when the martyrs are victorious
will be the day of universal conflagration".
Jacques Lacan made this gloomy prophesy back in 1959:
but doesn't it also apply to our own time?
What hope is there for the alienated youth,
as we see the latest war in the World?
For Alain Bertho, the mounting chaos we see today is above all driven
by the weakening of states' legitimacy
under the pressure of globalization.
Add to this the hypocrisy of the elites who beat the drum of 'security measures',
even as they sow the seeds of violence around the world.
This disorder is the swamp of despair which can only produce fresh atrocities.
Today's youth are the lost children of neoliberal globalization,
the inheritors of the political and human chaos it produces.
When they find it easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism,
their revolt tends to take the paths of martyrdom and despair.
The closing of the revolutionary hypothesis allows only fury.
The answer, Bertho argues, is a new radicalism,
able to inspire a collective hope in the future.
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Today to the core
corrupt, selfish,
below-average man and woman
has come to power by,
and lost the very foundation of their life in the process.
They can no longer find the handhold they once had
"God" and "spirit" once meant.
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They have long since eliminated these values from their life,
and filled the void with superficial political rhetoric.
The politics
today is faith,
religion,
the beacon,
for the majority, politics is all that matters,
sees and judges everything through a political lens.
If something does not fit into this political framework,
they start to persecute it,
like heretical ideas in the Middle Ages.
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And it seems that the final victory is not far off:
soon
the total abolition of individuality will be sanctioned,
the cult of mediocrity,
sameness,
banality,
thoughtlessness,
vulgarity,
drabness will triumph.
The prophecies of several eminent philosophers have shown us
with uncanny accuracy the inevitable doom.
- But is there any 'panacea' to prevent it?
- Can we avoid the rule of the mob if we realise the power of the spirit?
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Politics is the continuation of war by other means. Michel Foucault
Today to the core
corrupt, selfish,
below-average man and woman
has come to power by,
and lost the very foundation of their life in the process.
They can no longer find the handhold they once had
"God" and "spirit" once meant.
🌸
They have long since eliminated these values from their life,
and filled the void with superficial political rhetoric.
The politics
today is faith,
religion,
the beacon,
for the majority, politics is all that matters,
sees and judges everything through a political lens.
If something does not fit into this political framework,
they start to persecute it,
like heretical ideas in the Middle Ages.
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And it seems that the final victory is not far off:
soon
the total abolition of individuality will be sanctioned,
the cult of mediocrity,
sameness,
banality,
thoughtlessness,
vulgarity,
drabness will triumph.
The prophecies of several eminent philosophers have shown us
with uncanny accuracy the inevitable doom.
- But is there any 'panacea' to prevent it?
- Can we avoid the rule of the mob if we realise the power of the spirit?
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Politics is the continuation of war by other means. Michel Foucault
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Our Beautiful World
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Our Beautiful World
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Here we are
Watch the World Today
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"No one else here could say a worthy curse anyway,
only who knows terrible words..." Isaiah
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Here we are
Watch the World Today
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"No one else here could say a worthy curse anyway,
only who knows terrible words..." Isaiah
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The Rotten World ...
... just to let you know the abyss into which Western culture is about to "fall" ...
Some types of people do not learn. The "advanced" West, for the better, can no longer
what it is doing and does not learn from history.
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History (therefore) repeats itself.
It was the same before the fall of the Roman Empire ...
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Pictures
from the Rotten World
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... just to let you know the abyss into which Western culture is about to "fall" ...
Some types of people do not learn. The "advanced" West, for the better, can no longer
what it is doing and does not learn from history.
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History (therefore) repeats itself.
It was the same before the fall of the Roman Empire ...
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Pictures
from the Rotten World
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