I accept the text I was electrified. In particular, the first seventy pages are brilliantly written, the analysis sharp and sometimes very convincing, the rhetorical flames hot, confident tone and content. The text is called a manifesto, the authors come from France, however, remain anonymous. A rebellion is not proclaimed, but simply announced. "We are already in motion the downfall of a civilization. That is the point where you have to take sides, "wrote the committee that, for strategic reasons" will remain invisible ...
The problems are familiar: unemployment, financial crises, environmental disasters, migration, the disintegration of Europe ... The invisible Committee believes, however, that the real crisis is different. "The preservation of the self in a state of permanent semi-decay, chronic failure in a half is the best-kept Mystery of the current order of things, "it writes.
And: "The weak, depressed, self-critical, virtual self is essentially the infinitely adaptable subject that requires a production that is based on innovation, accelerated deterioration of the technologies, stable transformation of social norms, generalized flexibility." This is not so looked at the "recognized" problems, but on the place of the individual human in a society that does not expect the individual man.
The man, says the committee is detached from any affiliation, from his family, his friends, his neighborhood, his history, his work and his calling, he heard nothing more. By the constraints of the economy is "expropriated" from his self: he should not work to live his life but to give up his life to work. What makes his life, inwardly and outwardly, is no longer even relevant. Man is himself estranged, and his hatred of the stranger merges with the hatred of themselves as strangers ".
They are strong sentences that include a lot of truth. Very much are the following: "There is no environmental catastrophe. There is this disaster that is the environment. The environment is that what the human remains when he has lost everything, "and". What solidifies as environment, this is a relationship to the world that builds on the administration, that is, of alienation ". Rudolf Steiner would say at this point that the disaster not a disaster but an opportunity for the young soul is consciousness. The disaster would be from his point of view rather from the fact that it is not perceived as an opportunity.
The last strong sentence. "Every life is a dose of truth that does not know the Western concept of" less strong, however, seem to me the revolutionary proposals to be made on the last thirty pages of the manifesto be. The first recommendation is still strong: begin with your truths. "A truth is not something that one has, but something with a". The second recommendation is true: take your friendships seriously. "Every encounter encounter in a joint affirmation is". That sounds like a culture of the heart.
with some aspects but I have problems. The first is that in the text again and again the "partisan" is romanticized. The fighter is described as a resistance soldier who must do what he wants, as long as it serves the cause and will not be caught as well. Pain, he may just the stupid or smart "others" obviously cause that one is used in revolutionary movements. Who is meant by the stupid others is clear in the text: that is adaptive citizens (! Not WE who are reading the manifesto)
Anonymous is the cunning other, the enemy, in the text again and again "one" is called, passes through the conspiratorial with his success seems unworthy goals. He seems to be invisible to the boardrooms of large companies reside. I believe that as a "man" does not exist. If there is an enemy, I mean, he would have to be sought in ourselves. Revolutions, found in their output that the others have debt, we no longer need ...
"Once we are entered in the visibility, our hours are numbered," wrote the committee. This attitude is understandable, however, mean a step back. What good are more likely, radiant "egos" that arise in the light of the sovereign public. A committee makes himself invisible to the ulcer, not the alleged complicity of the great things to dissimilar. "Man" sets out on this way to an enemy that does not exist.
The committee, according to communities (in the German text is misleading talk about "communities": romantic revolutionary rhetoric) Incurred "not to do by an inside and outside a defined as collectives, in general, but by the density of connections within her." That is very true, very important. This inside out to protect anonymity, however, necessarily lead to a separation between inside and outside. And it created "man" just what will "they" fight: the strangeness.
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