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Régis Debray
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#41245
A society without a strong belief is a dying society.

Régis Debray
(Source inconnue)


#41246
"The wall forbids the passage, the border regulates it. To say of a border that it is a colander is to give it back its due: it is there to filter (...) the pores make the skin breathe like ports, islands and bridges, rivers. (...) Keeper of its own character, remedy for navel-gazing, school of modesty, light aphrodisiac, rickshaw-au-rêve, a recognized border is the best possible vaccine against the epidemic of walls. Opposing identity-relationship to root identity, refusing to choose between evaporated and enkysted, far from the common dissolve and the chauvinist that ossifies, the anti-wall I speak of is better than a provocation to travel: it calls for a sharing of the world."

Régis Debray
(Praise for borders)


#41247
Giving up on yourself is a rather futile effort: to surpass oneself, it is better to start by taking responsibility.

Régis Debray
(Praise for borders)


#41248
Malraux noted that "the modern world carries within itself, like cancer, its absence of soul."

Régis Debray
(Ghost Europe)


#41249
The parody, the humor, the wink are no longer understood. Second degree is forbidden. Secondary temperament is poorly noted. The neo-frontal cortex, that of introspection, is set aside.

Régis Debray
(Source inconnue)


#41250
The euro is a note of Monopoly, without date, no place or currency, ghostly illustration of an intangible no man's land. The dollar embodies a memory and a territory, with a geography, a genealogy (the Founding Fathers) and a metaphysics (in God We trust).

Régis Debray
(Ghost Europe)


#41251
Any border, like medicine, is cure and poison. And so it's a matter of dosing.

Régis Debray
(Praise for borders)


#41252
Even if its holder is a saint, all power tends to excess.

Régis Debray
(The Republic explained to my daughter)


#41253
For bodies and souls, the struggle of slowness against speed, a real issue of survival, has been linked, in our civilization, with the capacities of literary time to resist the strobe lights of image and sound. If this line of defense gives way, it is the victory of the gondola and the bus ass. How to escape the increasingly hellish cadences of fast food, fast thinking, etc., to consume on the spot and in the blink of an eye? In all-info, forbidden digression, not recommended loitering, time is money. Along with painting and sculpture, literature appears as one of the most powerful decelerating machines. Despite the formulas of so-called rapid reading, sampling and pecking, despite digests and extracts, the time of reading remains incompressible, like that of the rotation of the Moon and the Sun. To get from Paris to Madrid, we take a hundred times less time than a contemporary of Cervantes, but to read Don Quixote from side to side, we put in about the same time. The inner time of the poetic meditation of existence (...) has escaped the means of locomotion. This monstrous, irretrievable shift does not make reading the classics very convenient, but can make it attractive, by contrast, and increasingly valuable for the physical and mental rebalancing of our organisms destabilized by inconsistency and effervescence. The present has swelled. He became obese. He ate the past and the future. Deflating it is a necessity - and a pleasure. The media operate with stimulation without memory and impacts without a future; literature loosens the moment, and puts syntax where we get used to a rhapsody of surprises without opportunities or consequences. The computer reduces the depth of time, an author's book takes its time. This is a maximum of duration in a minimum volume - with a time-to-space ratio, as they say quality/price, so far unbeatable" (page 130-131)

Régis Debray
(Modern catacombs)


#41257
Going back and forth between the spiritual and the material, between our thoughts and our devices, is the first concern of the meditologist. Valery didn't know the word. He put it into practice by recognizing in this or that invention a power of transformation of mores and thoughts, that is, a spirit in action, whose property, in its early days, is to go unnoticed. (...) Human intelligence being artificial since the age of the carved stone, we must give thanks to the first scrapers and tailloirs that allowed homo sapiens to shake the yoke of the natural. Valery knows that. He is not offended. He stubbornly wants to understand what tools do to their inventors... 96-97

Régis Debray
(A summer with Paul Valéry)


#41258
Maximum hatred in a minimum of territory.

Régis Debray
(A candid in the Holy Land)


#41259
The wall forbids passage; The border regulates it. To say that a border is a sieve is to give it back its due: it is there to filter.

Régis Debray
(Praise for borders)


#41260
Hypocrisy often, hysteria at worst. And a lot of misunderstandings. Without mentioning the absurd confusion between atheism and secularism, let us say at the outset that secularism is not tolerance, this indulgence of the Old Regime, this royal condescension by which a superior, who might not do so, lifts a ban or grants this or that impunity to a subject. (...) [Secularism] is above all a legal construct based on a requirement of reason: equality in the right of all human beings.

Régis Debray
(Secularism on a daily basis)


#41261
When the question of means deviates that of the ends, and the management of the tool becomes its own end, things lose their meaning, the rule of law its raison d'être, and man his way. Three home examples of this managerial subversion: Defence, Culture, School. Three humiliated nobility.

Régis Debray
(The miscalculation)


#41262
A hope: if 'interpretation' is the neurosis specific to the exegete, it is not incurable. We have seen people with severe illness who have been caught diving in the villages of 'Mother India'. A visit to "the mother of all religions" is to be advised to the prudish 'addicts' of the Logos. Nothing like re-synthesising our analyzers, than the festival of lights at the end of the monsoon, or the procession of the vishnouist chariot, with the luxury of colors and smells specific to mela and yatra, flowers and foods, jewelry and dances, Eros and Thanatos joyfully embraced. Seeing the maids of the god Shiva bow before the linga-yoni of the threshold and the nymphs with the bouncing breasts of the stone Kama-sutra reminds our minds of eternal schoolchildren that there are avenues to the divine less steep and more flowery than the gray parades of the signifier.

Régis Debray
(The Sacred Fire)


#41263
The shift between discourse and conduct, which is not new and will not end tomorrow, gives our "international community" a tragicomic effect, such as those poorly dubbed films where the soundtrack makes niches to the soundtrack. The actor is a schizo in good faith. The viewer laughs, sure that this only happens to others. But when the time comes, it will be subject to the same lag. The French republican with a bowler hat, who extled equality for all before the law, deprived his female half without any bad conscience, and this champion of equality quietly promoted inequality in the Empire (the status of the indigenate distinguished between subjects and citizens). Such a tireless apostle of human rights, a tireless globe-trotter, will spontaneously ignore the violations committed by his community of reference. He is noticed this blind spot on his radar screen, which he will startle: "You can't compare." With ours, it's always something else. Just reciprocity stops where interest and affect begin.

Régis Debray
(The Sacred Fire)


#41273
Above the nation, in France, there is humanity. Above society, in America, there is God. The president in Paris takes an oath on the Constitution voted by those below, and in Washington on the Bible, which emanates from the Most High. The first, after his "Long live the Republic, long live France" terminal, will go to his library with the "Essays" of Montaigne in his hands. The other will finish his speech on "God Bless America" - and will be photographed against a starry flag.

Régis Debray
(Setback)


#41274
What is European about our Europe aligned, covered with a blue coat of supermarkets, the successor to the white cloak of churches, with, here and there, and in addition to soul, museums with advantageous forms, where to come and fulfill by yawning its cultural obligations? There was more Europe in the age of monasteries, when the Irish Colomban came to sow his abbeys all over the continent. Moreover, at the Battle of Lepante, when Savoyards, Genoese, Romans, Venetians and Spaniards rushed to battle against the great Turk's fleet, under the leadership of Don Juan of Austria. More in the peaceful age of the Enlightenment, when Voltaire came to beat the cardboard at Sans-Souci with Frederick II, or when Diderot tapped on the shoulder of Catherine II in St. Petersburg. More, in the age of the Imperial Travellers, when Clara Zetkin stirred the hearts of French workers, and Jaurès, the German Socialist Congresses. Russian and German were taught five times more in our high schools in 1950 than they are today; there were more Italy in France and France in Italy than there are now. We follow the events of American domestic politics day by day, and a coughing cough of Mrs. Clinton on the campaign trail opens our newscasts, but we don't have ten seconds for a change of landscape in Romania or the Czech Republic. Broadcast satellites and our intellectual laziness put New York on our landing, Warsaw in the steppe and Moscow in Kamchatka.

Régis Debray
(Civilization)


#41275
It is by acquiring an insulating layer, whose role is not to prohibit, but to regulate the exchange between one inside and one outside, that a living being can form and grow.

Régis Debray
(Praise for borders)


#41276
Every kind of republic has its history, and you can't choose your model of democracy the way you choose a clothing brand in a store.

Régis Debray
(The Republic explained to my daughter)


#41277
Perhaps it is waiting for Godot to hope to see a time when public affairs were not distributed in matters of money and matters of the heart, when the forum did not offer a very congested outlet, transparency helping, to the sex, tax, judicial or psychopathology of bateleurs in need of stage.

Régis Debray
(The miscalculation)


#41278
the European Union barely discerns the link between its political impotence and its symbolic inconsistency. How can we become more than "a real estate occupied by a number of countries" (the US Secretary of Defense) - a collective individual? How can we give ourselves an identity without memory a great quarrel, for example with the World Empire? Don't unite who wants but who can. [...] Perhaps a Europe without a point of flight gains in wisdom what it loses in tone.

Régis Debray
(The Sacred Fire)


#41279
Rationalization and secularization appear to us not as processes in trompe l'oeil, but as fundamental changes releasing, because of their very weight, a formidable return of religiosity, with reconstruction of normative transcendences and accelerated reinvention of vernacular traditions.

Régis Debray
(The Sacred Fire)


#41280
The fabulous and wacky bear witness to a conservation instinct that could envy our very strong technical artifacts, to be replaced every five years.

Régis Debray
(The Sacred Fire)


#41281
By highlighting the mansuétudes to erase the ferocities of Yahweh/Allah/God, modest propriety ends up producing an ostrich theology, responding to a policy of the same name.

Régis Debray
(The Sacred Fire)


#41282
Veronese appears under good escort before the court of the Inquisition, before whom he must explain the sacrilegious presence next to Christ, in The Wedding of Cana, saltimbanques and goujats.

Régis Debray
(Life and death of the image)


#41283
1981, Coluche's candidacy for the presidency of the Republic. Turning political power into a derision makes a happy preamble to financial power, how the addition of a professional goes in the right direction.

Régis Debray
(Civilization)


#41284
The proof of the pudding is that it is eaten, and the proof of civilizations is that they do not digest anything.

Régis Debray
(Civilization)


#41285
It is tragic that Europe, the great adventure of a generation, the ultimate great story that leaves the beak in the water, has become a game of shadows, and that can be taken seriously what is so little. Let us agree that there is nothing cheerful about seeing the Continent where politics was invented, emasculating itself with the extension of the merchant domain to all aspects of life, statistics as supreme idols.

Régis Debray
(Ghost Europe)


#41286
The effigy of a president does not value a person, it personifies a value.

Régis Debray
(The Republic explained to my daughter)


#41287
We're not going to run or leave in time. Like love at first sight and the jackpot, lightning comes when you think about it the least. The right time or the wrong door. Maktoub! Chance is a great novelist said Balzac, who knew about it. A child who plays dice is not ordered.

Régis Debray
(Mrs. H.)


#41288
You can live in a republic, and take advantage of the windfall, without behaving like a Republican. It's even the most common. And bad omen. A republic of stucco and paper, delivered to the impersonal mechanisms of the rule of law, without a citizen to keep the spirit alive, is a house of cards. A breath can prevail.

Régis Debray
(The Republic explained to my daughter)


#41289
You start with the right to difference and you end up with the difference in rights.

Régis Debray
(The Republic explained to my daughter)


#41290
Secularism puts a line between "what I know" and "what I believe," between the realm of the mind and the realm of souls.

Régis Debray
(The Republic explained to my daughter)


#41291
If the "exit of religion" is within the reach of the loner, it seems infinitely more problematic for collectives.

Régis Debray
(The Sacred Fire)


#41292
Taoist China of the 'qigong', the art of breath and gymnastic practices, breathing and meditation, is going on great stories: its mythology is poor, but its calendar is dense, its space, carefully marked, and its rituals harmonious and sophisticated. The cultures that have given a good quarter of humanity a mental and material foundation have not been concerned with giving meaning to the world, but with balance, and this quarter does not seem to be doing too badly. The harmony of Heaven and Earth, with good management of the uncertain and fluctuating relationships that unite them, does not necessarily require a fable.

Régis Debray
(The Sacred Fire)


#41293
You don't read a book together, or half asleep.

Régis Debray
(Life and death of the image)


#41294
border, mark of finitude, stigma of imperfection

Régis Debray
(Praise for borders)


#41295
You don't have to have a great sense of the state or an excessive sense of your dignity to not see without unease, side by side, in the "Grand Journal", the President of the Constitutional Council and the President of the National Assembly squirming in their chairs to be applauded by children running at the whistle. Embarrassed, sloppy, pricking blushes in front of a Bimbo, humiliated by the lazzi of a trio of bear watchers who are missing only the chambrière and the hoop to put their guests on all fours and make them jump through (next step). Politics doesn't even turn up anymore, it crawls.

Régis Debray
(Left-wing dream)


#41296
The urns are double-bottomed, electoral and funeral boxes: they collect, with a slight lag, our dreams and our ashes. When the dreams of one generation fall to ashes, another comes to rekindle the flame. This is good and beautiful. So the jubilation will be of the best will, Place de la Bastille, when another "we won" will invade large and small screens. A nice May, in the Republic, it is celebrated, after five years where the vulgarity will have shamed us so much. The refusal of humiliation by all means, including legal, is part of human and citizen rights. A golden jacket of Neuilly in the chair of General de Gaulle, it was more than a fault of taste, an attack on the minimum of self-esteem that a republican of the rank needs not to lower his eyes in front of his neighbor of landing.

Régis Debray
(Left-wing dream)


#41297
At what point situate the change in the cultural climate: the transition from social to societal, from who is right to what is called modern, from equality to equity, from the momentum of solidarity to humanitarian crime, from culture for all to culture for everyone, from the fraternal to the compassionate, from "changing life" to "changing the canteen"? When did the prolo become Cabu's beauf, The militant, supporter; the current of thought, stable; Class, network; And the bobo, compass? When did the raout address slip from the Steelworkers' House to the Latin American House and the pilgrimage site of Latché to Marrakech? I simply note that the global warming of the Earth's atmosphere has corresponded to sea level a clear cooling of civic passions" (pg 17)

Régis Debray
(Left-wing dream)


#41313
Should we give thanks to the positive religions for gradually channelling, rhythmic and sublimated the stimuli of testosterone, thus contributing to a slow and difficult domestication of the male beast, or should we hold them to the rigor of having added morality to the hormone, making the compulsive aggressor even more dangerous than life?

Régis Debray
(The Sacred Fire)


#41314
Hence the question: what demand does religious expenditure meet? And what service can it provide that compensates for its undeniably high costs (wars, intolerances, misogynies, obscurantism, etc.)?

Régis Debray
(The Sacred Fire)


#41315
... Hence the result of a service-providing state, which has users and not citizens, both enlarged and hollowed out, omnipresent in its grips, evanescent in its values, and which, by the very means that it has given up, legislates in turn. This teller, everyone asks for it, no one respects him. It owes me all repairs for cold, hot, dry and wet, etc.); I don't owe him anything (except VAT, ticket and taxes). Our 'human rights' monolâtry - where the ever-plus reigns - has cut them off from their reciprocal, 'the duties of the citizen' - where the less and less reigns. ....

Régis Debray
(What the veil veils us)


#41316
the artist does not have the keys, it is I, spectator at the end of the chain, who opens or closes the doors. What prompted him to make this canvas can be communicated to me by her upside down. Painting his room in Arles, Van Gogh meant his serenity. I understand it as pure anguish. And I'm silent.

Régis Debray
(Life and death of the image)


#41317
As the tombs were the museums of civilizations without museums, our museums are perhaps the tombs of civilizations that no longer know how to build down.

Régis Debray
(Life and death of the image)


#41318
The Israelis must be healed from fear ... and the Palestinians who are afraid of this fear must be relieved.

Régis Debray
(A candid in the Holy Land)


#41319
Decentralizing public power is good for local democracy; and also for general corruption and transnational mafias. (page 474)

Régis Debray
(Praised be our lords)


#41320
"Access to oneself always passes through another, and bumping into people who don't look like us is the best way to discover what we look like (so exile has always been the best factory of patriots). (...) The Indian made me Gauls." p.47

Régis Debray
(From one century to the next)


#41327
De Gaulle, referring to Joan of Arc, spoke of the "honour of being poor"; Nicolas Sarkozy: "After that, I'll make money."

Régis Debray
(Civilization)


#41338
When you don't know who you are anymore, you're hurting with everyone - and first of all with yourself.

Régis Debray
(Praise for borders)


#41339
The French Republic is made up of citizens, not communities. Individuals have their own peculiarities; not the citizens.

Régis Debray
(The Republic explained to my daughter)


#41340
Only the public power can overcome the thousand and one private interests that draw to boo and dia.

Régis Debray
(The Republic explained to my daughter)


#41341
The people are the only irreplaceable and permanent controller.

Régis Debray
(The Republic explained to my daughter)


#41342
The Earth doesn't make a country. There is no morality without prohibition, no law without sanctions, and no peace without borders.

Régis Debray
(The Republic explained to my daughter)


#41343
Laxism undermines freedom as surely as authoritarianism.

Régis Debray
(The Republic explained to my daughter)


#41344
What is legal is not always legitimate. Above the law, there is the Constitution. Above the rules, there is humanity.

Régis Debray
(The Republic explained to my daughter)


#41345
That secularism is not a Pentecost of Reason, self-propelled and self-sufficient, the history of our country has shown it too much. It was the "sacred love of the homeland", more than mathematics, that allowed the crucifixes to be removed from the courts and schools. Without republican piety, would the non-profession that is in its background secularism - which is too often confused, because of its birth bath, with an anti-religious struggle that it is by no means - would have been successful in our peasant depths? The promoters of this new institutional framework (such as Ferdinand Buisson) were aware that an educator state assumes a civil religion, which speaks to the heart no less than to intelligence. Theirs was called "Duty and Homeland." "The Fatherland plays in the secular school," remarked one witness, "the role reserved for God in the congregan school."

Régis Debray
(The Sacred Fire)


#41346
The rise of religious references in the texts of the [European] Community, and then of the Union, has gone hand in hand with the dechristianisation of individuals. This is a sign that the public does not have the same leeway with respect to 'meta' as private individuals. The logic of collectives is one thing, the psychology of members is another. Limit of the liberal horizon: the sacrosaint if-I-want-and-when-I-want, which detangles, does not allow to reconnect. And even less to anticipate.

Régis Debray
(The Sacred Fire)


#41347
Wouldn't our demystification of lure itself be a decoy of placing a seal of atheism on our idealistic vision of "ideology" - as a mere sweetener, naïve transvestification or false perception?

Régis Debray
(The Sacred Fire)


#41348
The dialogue of cultures being made of misunderstandings, an analytical philosopher of Anglo-Saxon inspiration can persuade himself to be finished with a religion for having demonstrated the inanity of his system of evidence. There will come a day when a Shia in Turbane will feel that he is done with logical positivism because he has signalled the inanity of his system of mutual aid. Of these quiproquos, the best in the West is the first: to treat religions as bad philosophies. Who scoffs at the weakness of the evidence of God's existence is fixed on the tip of the iceberg, but it is the submarine that makes it float right.

Régis Debray
(The Sacred Fire)


#41349
The concept of community is a metal concept (as has been called "metaphysical"). The 'meta' was first expressed in the form of 'mytho', then 'theo', and recently 'ideo'-logical. Three historical avatars of a seemingly structural principle of incompleteness, according to which no whole can "close" with the current elements of this set. It keeps its cohesion from a point of unseal, out of its immediate point of existence. Hence a kind of law of delay, according to which the moment of excellence having already taken place, progress is always catching up. The neo would then be an archaeo who ignores himself, and nostalgia, a dynamic.

Régis Debray
(The Sacred Fire)


#41350
This epidermal attachment to a nearly nothing decisive, which is often moralized in dignity (of a people) or pride (national), would not have to be on a desert island. The perfect Robinson would certainly have an identity, but it would be that of the oyster. We distinguish a belon from a Portuguese and this one from a clear one, by sampling. Humans also rank, care and rank by type and gender, but they are not satisfied with being included in the species 'sapiens'. He wants more, and that 'plus' is a 'less'. He demands exclusive properties, which he and one might think are due only to his merit, his history, his genius, in short, qualities, real or supposed, which he prides himself on because they are not those of his neighbour. The identity we are talking about here - soft concept, hard thing - is in any case not equality to oneself, which is suitable for oysters, dogs and eagles, under the principle of identity that characterizes things without souls (A - A). It is a negation of the other, in accordance with the principle of opposition that underlies our positions. As well, "the exclusive fatality, the only tare that can afflict a human group and prevent it from fully realizing its nature, is to be alone". And so without an adversary, which is supreme adversity, for a group and an individual. It is otherness that introduces identity, an eminently interactive notion.

Régis Debray
(The Sacred Fire)


#41351
The birth of the show is the birth of civilization. The end of the show is the return of barbarism, of which we are not far away. (p.83).

Régis Debray
(Summer interviews)


#41352
Hatred serves as an antidote to fear, which renders powerless. It restores courage, invents the impossible, digs tunnels under barbed wire. If the weak did not hate, the force would remain forever to the strength. And empires would be eternal.

Régis Debray
(The Sacred Fire)


#41353
Marx, this giant of thought, did not understand (he probably could not, for lack of convincing experience) that between communism and materialism one had to choose. He thought he was a scientist, and being too much has gone astray. His fellow volunteers, whom he stigmatized as utopians, seem closer to the pot of roses when they said, like Cabet, the cooper of Dijon: "The communists of today are the disciples and continuations of Christ."

Régis Debray
(The Sacred Fire)


#41354
Whether the 'Sapiens sapiens' is from the West or the East, silicon or bronze, if there is anything in it indomitable, it is his inability to be content not with what he has, but with what he is (which seems less understandable and probably hopeless).

Régis Debray
(The Sacred Fire)


#41355
... Every man, every woman has the right to belong to a community. and the Republicans even more than the others, since they have a duty to forge one. They must subordinate the natural one, that of the lineage, to a cultural community, conscious and constructed, in the same way that they subordinate the right of blood to the right of the soil, without denying the first. It is when the Republic is no longer a community of images, notes, dreams and wills that repressed communitarianisms rise to the surface and take revenge....

Régis Debray
(What the veil veils us)


#41356
Humanism tolerates "the praise of the hand", the organ of the Sovereign Spirit, but recoils from the praise of the machine (the most critical examination of which is still a variant). Automation positively puts him out of it.

Régis Debray
(Life and death of the image)


#41357
To say, as Gombrich in the incipit of his "History of Art" that there is no art but only artists, is to push back the problem: since when are there artists and why? "Art is all that men call it"? And what was there in the absence of its own name, before the passage of the shop in the studiolo and the ghilde at the Academy? It is not the artist who makes the art, it is the notion of artist, and it emerges in majesty only with the Florentine Quattrocento, in this period that goes from the conquest by the painters of their corporate autonomy (1378) to the funeral apotheosis of Michelangelo, directed by Vasari (1564).

Régis Debray
(Life and death of the image)


#41358
all agree that the TV image of black American ghettos has led to a new behaviour of French suburban gangs. Mysterious and innocuous efficiency: and such a loubard caught playing the kremlin-Bicêtre, after crushing a pedestrian by burning red lights in a rodeo of hell, asks the magistrate why the cops in California have the right to kill and not him. It's in the paper, in the "miscellaneous" column. Hence it is not deduced that the image is pernicious by nature. But let it feed, in all one and every day that God makes, at small and great expense, an unconscious memic tendency.

Régis Debray
(Life and death of the image)


#41359
The "it's beautiful": more than a quality patent, a certificate of durability.

Régis Debray
(Life and death of the image)


#41363
The bigger a country is, and turns its back to the sea (ports save), the more lives are walled. The islanders are glowing. Have we noticed enough that the best strategists often come from isolated places, Corsica or Reunion, or from the middle of the seas, England or Japan? With an avid, diy but quite extensive self-taught culture, Fidel vibrated with every jolt on the planet. (page 146)

Régis Debray
(Praised be our lords)


#41364
We have gone from a centuries-old religion in history to a religious cult of nature.

Régis Debray
(From one century to the next)


#41365
"It is on the left side, where hope is greatest, that the gap between the expected and the advenuy hurts the most. Hope has its malus when it invests itself in the century: depresses it. "p.134

Régis Debray
(From one century to the next)


#41366
"The seen by all will prevail in the long run over the read by a few." p.76

Régis Debray
(From one century to the next)


#41367
What happens when history evil takes you? Nothing. We're waiting. We never tire of waiting. And when what we've been waiting for doesn't happen, we keep waiting, another mirage, and then a third. It's waiting, our virus.

Régis Debray
(Mrs. H.)


#41368
We had God, reason, nation, progress, the proletariat. Rescuers needed a life raft. So, for the adventurers of the Lost Ark, this is human rights as a substitute progressivism.

Régis Debray
(Let the Republic live)


#41369
Our bearers of hope, our promising parousia would not go to so much trouble to curl us up in a terrifying ghost train if they were not sure, by that, to provide us with a rare and refined pleasure: after the pond of fire and briming to cross, at the very end, a lake of milk and honey. And we see only two branches of activity that technical unemployment does not threaten in the future: prostitution, in charge of the zizis, and prophecy, in charge of the zozos (you and me).

Régis Debray
(Good use of disasters)


#41370
Kindness? Merciful is called the God of Muslims, and that is a good sign. This does not prevent him from reserving his favors for his own: us first. Many Muslim charitable institutions care for and relieve Muslims. The Jewish God is interested in the Jews, period. Achilles takes pity on Priam. Joshua has no compassion for his enemies. The one of the Christians, less exclusive, has broader views. He wants all men to be saved, including Mongolians. No St. Vincent de Paul, no Mother Teresa in the religions of the Law. At home, the charity is practiced within the group. If an Orthodox Jew falls on an abandoned child at the corner of a road, the man in him will instinctively rescue him, but he will have to triumph over the Orthodox: is he from the Synagogue or not? The Muslim will also look at his crotch to inform his decision, and the Christian, whether the child is boy or girl, circumcised or not, will immediately put him in the sisters. Leviticus prohibits the crippled and the disabled from sacrificing in the Temple; Jesus invites women, the crippled and the lepers to his table. From a monad god without doors or windows, he makes a god world, clear-way. It's more airy, less discouraging.

Régis Debray
(A candid in the Holy Land)


#41371
(p. 380, chap.12, Dialectic of pure television) The setting of images of the world comes the day when it makes the world an image; from the story a TV movie; and a dubious fight, like all, a western like any other. By trivializing the extraordinary and sublimating the banal; euphemizing disasters and atrocities; by weaving the events, all stealthy and shimmering, equally spectacular and by the way, more or less indifferent; by promoting a consumption at first playful, soon dreamlike, and finally pornographic acts and works, facts and misdeeds, games and disasters, the effect of reality ends up derealizing the news. [...] Fictioning the real and materializing our fictions, tending to confuse drama and docudrama, real accident and reality-show, television once again tosses us theses in antithesis, "from the window of the world" to the "wall of images", from music to noise and vice versa. And this indecisable oscillation is perhaps its ultimate truth. A factor of certainty and uncertainty, the pinnacle of transparency and the height of blindness, a fabulous machine for informing and misinforming, it is in the nature of this machine to be able to tip its operators from the greatest credibility to the greatest discredit, in the blink of an eye, like us viewers, from rapture to disgust.

Régis Debray
(Life and death of the image)


#41372
(p. 347-348, chapter 11, The Paradoxes of the Videophere) The physical image (index or analog: photo, TV, cinema) ignores the negative statement. A non-tree, a non-coming, an absence can be said, not show. A ban, a possibility, a program or a project - anything that denies or exceeds the actual workforce - does not pass in the image. A figuration is by definition full and positive. If the images of the world transform the world into images, this world will be self-sufficient and complete, a series of affirmations. "A brave new world." Only symbolism has markers of opposition and denial. The image can only show particular individuals in particular contexts, not categories or types. It ignores the universal. It must therefore be called not realistic but nominalist: is real only the individual, the rest does not exist. [...] The image ignores the syntactic operators of the disjunction (or else... or else) and the hypothesis (if... then). Subordinations, cause-and-effect relationships as well as contradiction. The stakes of a social or diplomatic negotiation - its concrete raison d'être in short - are, for the image, abstractions. Not the face of the negotiators, his extras. The plot matters less than the actor. The image can only proceed by juxtaposition and addition, on a single plane of reality, without the possibility of logical meta-level. Frame thinking is not illogical but alogical. [...] The image finally ignores the time markers. We can only be contemporary of it. Not early, not late. The duration? A linear succession of present moments equivalent to each other. The hard "long, I went to bed early"), the optative ("get up quickly, desired thunderstorms... "), the frequentative ("I often used to... "), the past future or the compound past have no direct visual equivalent (at least without the help of a voiceover). These four deficits are objective facts, not value judgments. And the whole art of cinema is to "turn" them.

Régis Debray
(Life and death of the image)


#41373
(Art, Crafts Anchored in the Earth, 214-215, Chapter 7, Geography of Art) The artist is a dung beetle, he has his feet in the pagus and his hand to the dough. Everything that is crafted in representation sticks to the earth, with its tombs, its landmarks, its territories. To the countryside. French, Italian, Flamingo, etc., it is French "country," Flemish Italian, etc. Like spirituality, all art is local: it expresses, more often without its knowledge, the genius of a place crystallized in a certain light, in colors, in tones, in tactile values. The pictorial work itself, which should be written pictrural, is part of "works and days". Van Gogh: "The symbol of St Luke, the patron saint of painters, is an ox. So you have to be patient like an ox if you want to plow into the artistic field. » [...] The man in a hurry of the megacities loathe the farming patiences of ploughing. Speed, laziness, rhyme is good. Let us not be surprised tomorrow if "a world without peasants" becomes "a world without art". The hinterlands and the avant-garde were perhaps more united than we thought. Ubiquity of information, dematerialization of media, sliding vehicles, summoning all things on screen. Above-ground agriculture, like a language without words, a paperless currency and a golf without green find in the synthetic image its optical complement. The digitized visual is too international to have a country soul: it is both planetary and "acosmic".

Régis Debray
(Life and death of the image)


#41381
The "socialist" left in France, with the focus replacing the socialism that was, in the 1980s, "social Europe", ended up making its own the law of the market (privatization of public services, dismantling of the welfare state, deregulation of the economy) and to commune in the dogma, unreasistic, of free and undistorted competition.

Régis Debray
(Ghost Europe)


#41382
To assert oneself now good European, as once a good Christian, is to rank among the frequentable people and the Eurosceptic who deprives himself of this testimony of morality, knows how to be discreet for fear of being assimilated to the nationalist who sacrifices friendship between peoples to chilly and sordid reflexes.

Régis Debray
(Ghost Europe)


#41383
I ask you only one thing: to escape the wound of our time, which is to want to be loved, to please at all, and to pick up fans. You don't have to hold in suspicion, as I do, any sympathetic individual -because crooks and doers are - but remember that a civilization where a work of the mind is judged not for what it is but on its tonnage and sales volume goes into barbarism.

Régis Debray
(Bankruptcy balance sheet)


#41384
The Red Army won the Second World War against Nazism, the United States won the peace that followed. The Soviet Union, after 1945, stunned Eastern Europe and Central Asia with garrisons and missiles, but it did not come out of it a communist civilization capable of transcending and uniting the local self. missing nylon stockings, chewing gum and hot dog. Plus Grace Kelly and Jackson Pollock. p.29

Régis Debray
(Civilization)


#41385
Just because religions sow in every wind, far from the fold, does not mean that they blend gently into the panorama. They highlight, like a nose foot, their defiant signage (hair system, niqâb, tsitsit, bun, cross, tilaka, etc.).

Régis Debray
(Praise for borders)


#41386
It is painful to recognize the world as it is, and pleasant to dream it as one wishes.

Régis Debray
(Praise for borders)


#41387
Books, there are those that are made to be there and those that are made to be read. in " Bankruptcy Check" Editions Gallimard 2018

Régis Debray
(Source inconnue)


#41388
... on an untlicing river, there is even more annoying than a lock, and it is the absence of a lock.

Régis Debray
(Praise for borders)


#41389
This should encourage you, son, to a certain indulgence and to forbid you, in the affairs of the day, the rise to insults and, without giving five minutes of airtime to the neo-Nazi and five dens to the anti-racist, not to hold children of other circumstances as scoundrels (and who will see a blatant war crime where you see collateral damage, and vice versa).

Régis Debray
(Bankruptcy balance sheet)


#41390
To your adversary on the other side, first ask where he was dragging his leggings when he was twenty years old, it will explain everything.

Régis Debray
(Bankruptcy balance sheet)


#41391
You may be mad at me for making the flap-joy, but I must point out to you, to avoid you from possible hangovers, that the post-human galaxic has every chance to remain, once back in the atmosphere, the mammal with regrettable habits whose best minds are indignant, rightly. All available documents, since the Bronze Age, indicate a fairly stable biped in its fundamentals: xenophobic, fearful, aggressive, greedy as soon as it can and ready for the worst gutting as soon as it was persuaded that his opposite was the devil himself.

Régis Debray
(Bankruptcy balance sheet)


#41392
If secularism is a principle, it is not a founder, but founded upstream. It is not decreed, it is deducted.

Régis Debray
(What the veil veils us)


#41393
The EU is an anti-political machine, some of whom dream of becoming a political actor and even waiting for it to be built up one day, when its raison d'être is to avoid any idea of power.

Régis Debray
(Civilization)


#41394
October 1967. Twenty-two hatched. Seven Cubans, two of them seriously injured. Seven Bolivians, three of whom are sick. One cries with thirst. Two Peruvians, one of whom is disabled. Ghosts in rags, to scare. Dogs bark at them, on all sides. We're running away from these plagues. The column of sleepwalkers tips through the almost empty hamlets. One night, she even camped between two villages five kilometres apart, in the middle of the road, without any precaution. Che goes in front of the peasants. He runs after them, talks to them, identifies himself, knowing that, as soon as his back is turned, they will denounce him. Thus the Bolivian army follows their movement almost in real time. He multiplies the carelessness. He did not want to get rid of his mules, which delay his march. It is not that his will has faltered: he applies it to do whatever it takes to finish it cleanly and quickly. He lets go, walks straight in front of him, denying the obvious.

Régis Debray
(Praised be our lords)


#41395
1919, Treaty of Versailles. For the first time in two centuries, the French text of an international agreement makes more law. President Wilson demands an English version. French ceases to be the language of diplomacy. 1920, founded in New York, by Duchamp and Man ray, of the limited company, a place to exhibit "modern" art. "The most intelligent and embarrassing man of this early part of the 20th century (André Breton on Duchamp) moved to the United States in 1915. The urinal by R.Mutt, the famous ready-made, was exhibited in New York in 1917. (behind a screen). 1925, Metro Goldwyn Mayer buys the shares of the Commercial Credit of France of the limited company gaumont. Confirmation of the transfer of the dream factory from Paris to Hollywood. 1926, Charles Pathé gives kodak (USA) the monopoly of the manufacture of the virgin film, which he had snatched from Georges Eastman before the war. 1927, Warner Bros. produced the first talking film. The Jazz Singer. "If it works," said the producer, "the whole world will speak English. (The sound image did not arrive in France until 1930.) 1943, creation of the Allied Military Government of Occupied Territories (Amgot). Confounding liberation and occupation, President Roosevelt signed a plan for the administration of liberated France giving the Allied Supreme Command all authority over the entire territory and providing for a currency printed in the United States and distributed by the American administration to the population. Plan foiled in the spring of 1944 by de Gaulle, with the support on the spot of General Eisenhower. 1946, signing of the Blum-Byrnes agreement. Vichy had banned American films. A fraction of the French debt erased, in return for which the United States, under the aegis of a perceptive maxim, trade follows the film, demands the abandonment of the quota for American productions and a severe reduction of exclusivity for French films (from seven to four weeks). In response, a committee will be created to defend French cinema (Jean Marais and Simone Signoret), and the national film centre will come to the rescue of French films, their production having dropped by half. In Germany, after the war, the distribution of American films was not regulated. 1946, in parallel with the Marshall Plan, the United States launched the Fullbright programme "for the intellectual reconstruction of Europe". 1948, promulgation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, "the moral man of our time". Voted by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris, at the Chaillot Palace, but drafted in Lake Success in 1947, under the aegis of the great Eleanore Roosevelt, widow of the president, it represents in two ways, by its character of universality, a considerable advance on the declaration of 1789. It is the individual as such, whether stateless, refugee, migrant or asylum seeker, who becomes the subject of imprescriptible rights and the principles set out, although not obligatory, are imposed on all countries.

Régis Debray
(Civilization)


#41396
To the neo-bourgeois reversal of the former bourgeois hierarchies, inversion and half. If the word still makes sense, in a world where CEOs go in jeans, open collar and leather jacket at the opera, rebellion is the tie. As is the case in the audiovisual sector where cardiac editing and strobe maintenance reign; the sequence shot and the long interview. When the tutuation becomes widespread, with the radio the use of the first name as in kindergarten (Luke calls us Hello Gerard), it is clear that dissent lies in the vow, and the mention of the surname in our public exchanges. And as for the stupid cult of the new, which has as its place the of youth and for the rejection of the septuagenarian, what could be more provocative and dandy than to show its wrinkles, its blues and its Latin? Let's turn our cards over, folks. Sic transit gloria mundi. A candid at his window. Page 181.

Régis Debray
(Source inconnue)


#41397
We don't blame them for our discomies, for these gentle intransigents.

Régis Debray
(For the love of art)


#41398
A problem is philosophical as long as it has no scientific solution, says the sharp voice of the ethnologist; beware of the high dialectical aerobatics that allows you to demonstrate everything and its opposite.

Régis Debray
(For the love of art)


#41399
The so-called battle of the closed against the open, a tandem actually as inseparable as the hot and cold, the shadow and the light, the masculine and the feminine, the earth and the sky, continues to amuse our gallery. This common place is the delight of short minds, who prefer to quote Bergson ("open morality against closed morality") rather than Marcel Duchamp ("closed open door").

Régis Debray
(Praise for borders)


#41400
Between Euroland and Clochemerle, the door is narrow.

Régis Debray
(Code and sword)


#41401
Certainly. To say the historical context without the spirituality that animates it is to run the risk of devitalizing. To say, conversely, wisdom without the social context that produced it is to run the risk of mystifying. The first abstraction makes the entomologist, if not the Grévin Museum. The second is the guru, if not the Solar Temple. It is bet here on a third way, but which has nothing new in our best school tradition, for a good century: to inform the facts to elaborate its meanings.

Régis Debray
(Teaching religious fact in secular school)


#41402
The I. F (the French intellectual) was a scout, he became an exorcist. It increased the intelligibility, it increased on the opacity of the times. He favoured distance, he worked to close ranks. He was a futurist, that is, however eye-catching, and voluminous, a step-by-step, which no longer helps anyone to become contemporary. And it is from him that we should now emancipate himself.

Régis Debray
(I.F. sequel and end)


#41403
It is recently that the Republic has taken on its current and precise sense of political association based on the free adherence of people to a shared ideal.

Régis Debray
(The Republic explained to my daughter)


#41404
We may also be remorseful for cutting off Louis XIV's head.

Régis Debray
(The Republic explained to my daughter)


#41405
Secularism puts a line between "what I know" and "what I believe," between the realm of the mind and the realm of souls.

Régis Debray
(The Republic explained to my daughter)


#41406
Put at the service of the regime, in totalitarian society, then of the market, in a consumerist society, professional sport runs the slot machine, like another cog in the ambient religion of salvation by the "tune".

Régis Debray
(The miscalculation)


#41407
No more reading books ..., deserting theatres, riveted to her little phrases, flashes, text messages and banners, she allowed herself to be corrupted by a reactive illiteracy, clever in appearance and ultimately stupid. Little experience and little conviction: for a career, she only has to adapt to what she considers to be real: Paris-Match and Free.

Régis Debray
(The miscalculation)


#41408
Uninformed about the past of religions and present cultural geographies, to learn by the enarchic formatting in the idea that the history of humanity begins with the fall of the Berlin Wall and that of France of D-Day, this generation in the grip of a veritable eclipse of historical memory is not in tune with a news that everywhere regains its depth of time.

Régis Debray
(The miscalculation)


#41409
there are others who see the Republic as a permanent and tranquil state, a necessary goal towards which ideas and mores lead modern societies every day, and who would sincerely prepare men to be free. When they attack religious beliefs, they follow their passions and not their interests. It is despotism that can do without faith, but not freedom. Religion is much more necessary in the Republic they advocate, than in the monarchy they attack

Régis Debray
(The Sacred Fire)


#41410
Fraternity is less a legal category than a joy of existence; less a principle to be displayed in a corpus, to get rid of it once and for all, than a gymnastics to practice - to be imposed - from afar.

Régis Debray
(The fraternity moment)


#41411
What other fraternity than negative can emerge from the rejection of singularities, belongings and pathologies? Can the "common nothing" unite? The asymptomatic ideal of secularism, which helps to judge, distinguish and discern, does not create 'us' alone. Thus, where he asserts his rights, he had to borrow their propulsive force from pre-existing and unreasonable vectors. Such as national sentiment

Régis Debray
(The Sacred Fire)


#41412
For the time being, the "transatlantic partnership" is going well and the "Europe" of artifices is defeating deep Europe. Driven after the war by the best intentions of the world, free from a peace won by nuclear deterrence and the balance of the two blocs, the beautiful project was soon hostage to a naïve idea: that a Court of Justice and a free market can make a people, as a single currency a reflex of solidarity and directives, a sense of belonging. From where came a Spanish inn where the English language is law, entirely acquired from the forces of the market, which we see re-feudalizing national spaces, putting the public authorities, or what is left of them, under the control of private financial empires and voracious lobbies.

Régis Debray
(What is left of the West?)


#41413
Globalization that standardizes the material, tribalizes the mind (this because it), at the very moment when computer science is globalizing the tribe. A Corsican-independence website uses the Internet to list "real Corsicans of origin" all over the world. The 'crucible of cultures' has nothing of the 'cracking' hoped for, and the creative interpenetration is also explosive (as long as people don't meet too much, everything is fine).

Régis Debray
(The Sacred Fire)


#41414
In the past, men hated each other according to what they thought. The fact that they now hate each other according to who they are is an undeniable regression. Tutsi or Flemish, Hutu or Walloons. It is the revenge of the barbarian, that ugly part of ourselves that our ideals had left in the dark, and our moralists in the blind spots of the University. By refusing to venture into this "dangerous terrain", a rationalism that has become pudibond arouses a pathological inability to understand the present other than as pathological. The triumph of the visceral over the thoughtful and the epidemic of community reflexes among our great consciences gives us a camouflage of which the Enlightenment man may be morally ashamed, but whose reasons he should instead draw on the day if he does not want to give in turn in exorcism or euphemism. Prelude to a moral capitulation where the white flag would advance behind the banner "democracy and modernity".

Régis Debray
(The Sacred Fire)


#41415
the ransom of the house, these are the walls. The house that unites us separates us. That's why identity is never far from security. We turn against anything that can come to destabilize the 'sweet home'. The right to the Promised Land is the right to the womb for all; and the exile, metaphor of native expulsion, illustrates the constraint where we are to grow, mature and learn at our own expense. What's the afterlife, in a nutshell? To get back below, to repair the trauma of being born.

Régis Debray
(The Sacred Fire)


#41416
Protestants, it is said, serve free thought when they are in the minority (the camisard of the Cévennes in France), and the most stifling conformism when they are the majority (the willing pastor of Hitler's Germany). Depending on whether it is practiced in defence, from weak to strong, or dominant, from strong to weak, the same creed can change sign, and help with dissent, become the next factor of obedience. It is therefore good, before weaving wreaths, to consider, not doctrine or martyrologe, but arithmetic and the balance of power. It is not uncommon for minority people (pre-Existing Christianity or State Communism) to continue to enjoy, once transformed into official or established religions, the sympathies that surrounded them when they were hunted down or heretical.

Régis Debray
(The Sacred Fire)


#41417
New technologies should not be despised because they are new or technological. Technique is not a bad word. She has always entered into marriage with an aesthetic. 'p.240).

Régis Debray
(Summer interviews)


#41418
The place of the places [Jerusalem] is for me a place, not of pilgrimage, but of a journey to the heart of hatred, to the end of hatred. (p.190).

Régis Debray
(Summer interviews)


#41419
Secularism does not fall from the sky, it is the fruit of an extraordinarily complicated history. (p.175).

Régis Debray
(Summer interviews)


#41420
There was a time when the Republic was sacred and the nation was so sacred that millions of men sacrificed for it. For me, the sacred belongs to a totally profane order of things. (p.164).

Régis Debray
(Summer interviews)


#41421
Where there is collective, there is a shared belief. It is the belief that makes it possible for men to act as a group, that makes the individual see himself as a member of an entity capable of acting collectively. (p.162).

Régis Debray
(Summer interviews)


#41422
School is not a reflection of society. It is an apprenticeship in social inadequacy. It is there to take us out of the family, out of heredity, to become all equal before knowledge. (p.108-109).

Régis Debray
(Summer interviews)


#41423
Transmitting means knowing how to go from moment to time. (p.96).

Régis Debray
(Summer interviews)


#41424
The tools of abstraction are analytical thinking which is written thought. Oral societies have no one God,;the only God is I say produced but in any case induced by writing societies. (p.90).

Régis Debray
(Summer interviews)


#41425
Technology invents man. (p.79).

Régis Debray
(Summer interviews)


#41426
The technical conditions of the flow of ideas today become frankly embarrassing for the men of ideas. (p.55).

Régis Debray
(Summer interviews)


#41427
The great enemy of progress is playfulness. A game-and-play revolution is a counter-revolution. [...] Nothing is less retrograde than tradition and to be faithful to a tradition is to think about the future. (p.12).

Régis Debray
(Summer interviews)


#41428
It is because he remembers the past that a revolutionary wants a future that somehow equals the more or less legendary past he has in mind. The curator recognizes himself that he has no nostalgia. (p.11).

Régis Debray
(Summer interviews)


#41429
Culture . . . is basically only the cult of the great dead. (p.10).

Régis Debray
(Summer interviews)


#41430
We have populated our valleys with nymphs and muses, and we are scripting our environment. We burn our initials on shale, sanctrate mountains and rivers, and a simple spring in limestone country is immediately a source of miraculous waters and mother of all life. It is our way of domesticating space and time - by coating it with unreality. And when we believe we are coming out of a mythology to touch the real - at last - we have swapped a myth whose harmfulness we have just discovered (the war of races, the superiority of our nations over its neighbors or the advent of the world proletariat), against another (saving democracy, the emancipatory West, the universal reign of human rights), which seems to us to be common sense. , especially as it is suitable for today's business.

Régis Debray
(The Sacred Fire)


#41431
the Unesco charter says the truth when it states that "conflicts originate in the human mind", but it is doubtful that "the solution of the absurd conflicts that tear us apart" lies in the abandonment, via education and culture, of a mortal irrationality (ideologies and prejudices), to the benefit of a reality without any addition to which knowledge for all would give us access tomorrow.

Régis Debray
(The Sacred Fire)


#41432
The animal endowed with reason is the only one that kills its congener out of conviction, and not under the influence of need. To have honor, reason, prestige, not life saves. The only one who turns his aggression into an institution, a duel or a holy war. Or his instinct in duty, patriotic or mystical, because he commands his behaviors to convictions, or his actuality to the unusual - visions, legends, things gone or expected. Between the niche where he lives and the material universe, between his whole and the whole, he slips airy nothings, which weigh more than the fact.

Régis Debray
(The Sacred Fire)


#41433
We are somewhat or no, overprotected Europeans, by 'Cotard syndrome'. This French psychiatrist has attached his name, since 1882, to a singular delirium, in the process of trivialization: melancholic immortality. The sick imagine themselves doomed to an endless survival, without possible death. Far from exalting them, this assurance plunges them into a deep depression. These zombies have no name, no attachment, no country. They're floating. Reality fades away. And the soul with it. Club Med in perpetuity. Those who believed in God have no idea. And they suffer, imploring the treating physician to deliver them from immortality. Basically, there are only two categories of beings who can afford the luxury of not believing in anything: autistic people and gods.

Régis Debray
(The Sacred Fire)


#41434
The triumph of the 'on' over the 'we', to which the apotheosis of the 'me' is, the softening of political mores (more legitimacy resulting from the riot or insurrection), the automobile, selfish interior, and the insurance contract lead the regulars of the 'war games' to zero death to forget the basements, sweat and blood, of transcendence.

Régis Debray
(The Sacred Fire)


#41435
The news shows how sheepish animism is capable of a society of so-called individualists, as soon as it smells of powder. We're a block.

Régis Debray
(The Sacred Fire)


#41436
The principle of secularism places freedom of conscience (whether or not to have a religion) upstream and above what is called "religious freedom" in some countries (that of being able to choose a religion provided one has one).

Régis Debray
(Religious teaching in secular schools)


#41437
Teacher ethics, which applies to the presentation of doctrines, philosophy, as well as that of social systems, in history, stipulates the parenthesis of personal convictions. Knowing a reality or doctrine is one thing, promoting a standard or ideal is another.

Régis Debray
(Religious teaching in secular schools)


#41438
It has been proven that an objective and detailed knowledge of holy texts as well as their own traditions leads many young fundamentalists to shake the tutelage of fanatical, sometimes ignorant or incompetent authorities.

Régis Debray
(Religious teaching in secular schools)


#41439
The Republic does not have to arbitrate between beliefs, and the equality of principles between believers, atheists and agnostics is a fortiori valid for confessions.

Régis Debray
(Religious teaching in secular schools)


#41440
The first of the quiproquos: the teaching of the religious is not a religious teaching.

Régis Debray
(Religious teaching in secular schools)


#41441
And it is here that the history of religions can take on its full educational relevance, as a means of connecting the short to the long term, by rediscovering the sequences, the long engenderings specific to humanitude, which tends to erase the audiovisual sphere, repetitive apotheosis of the moment. For what we call, probably wrongly, inculture among the younger generations is another culture that can be defined as a culture of extension. It gives priority to space over time, to the immediate over time, drawing the best share of new technological offerings (sampling and zapping, cult of the direct and the immediate, instant editing and ultrafast journeys).

Régis Debray
(Religious teaching in secular schools)


#41442
There is, as we can see, a history and geography of the unworthy, as well as the odious. The rate of voluntary homicide has never been lower in France (1.9 per 100,000), where it has never been more about violence. Coming from an industrialized country where it is 70 per 100,000, much like in the Middle Ages, a Colombian (or Brazilian) landing at our house during the period of electoral tocsin does not believe his ears.

Régis Debray
(The Sacred Fire)


#41443
The religion in the middle of the anti-religious ended up discouraging anathema as much as enthusiasm. It makes some smile, parody, and sneer others, counterfeit. It can also attract, quite legitimately, very honest people who are losing their belongings that the dilution of neighbourhood, trade and country identities leaves behind. Those for whom a life in the first person of the singular will never be entirely successful cannot find their account in the association of philatelists of the department or in the club of supporters of Juventus.

Régis Debray
(The Sacred Fire)


#41444
In our academies with grotesque silos, political study turns its back on religious fact. Hence, the "politicalists" give their language to the cat when an impatient asks them what 'fraternity', that key word which, like so many others, has more value than meaning, can mean concretely. It is not the fault, in the eldest daughter of the Church, of scholarly reflections on the three sacramental words of our secular parish ("the holy motto of our fathers," said Pierre Leroux, the inventor of the word 'socialism'). What relationship can still be imagined, in the 21st century, of the 'Fraternity', the most cherished of republican nostalgia, but which sneakily evades the taking of jurists and philosophers, with 'Liberty' and 'Equality', more conducive to the establishment of academic and constitutional net: ternary clausule, ternary rajout, concalent synthesis, internal ankle to unite These binoculars, as we know, are a bad mess. Hence the need for a disinterested third party who can serve as a "facilitator" for an ontologically torn Republic between egalitarians and liberals. Freedom, which is defined as "the ability to do anything that does not harm others," has conditions of practice set by law. It is expression, meeting, company, press, etc. Similarly, we talk about equality before the law, employment, taxes, etc. Fraternity has no definition, no area of jurisdiction, no decree of application. Canon law might sort it out, but who's putting their nose in it? The word that resonates sounds hollow. 'Fraternity' remains an opera without a libretto.

Régis Debray
(The Sacred Fire)


#41445
In Ligugé, France (Vienna), the oldest monastery in the West, founded in 363 by St. Martin de Tours, where no birth has ever taken place, live, work and pray in 2003 a few dozen Benedictines, but in Nauvoo, Illinois, or in Dallas, Texas, free reproduction, there is no trace of Icarians. Time, which sifts through everything, has rendered its verdict: religious consistency, utopian inconsistency. The avant-garde according to Bakunin - who dreamed of men "firmly united in a Secret Society and acting everywhere and always with a view to the same purpose and according to the same programme" - the monastic cell came closer than the revolutionary nucleus. Strange. As if the monk had not found a rival to his measure in the communizing, yet great admirer of Thomas More (who had his plaque on the walls of the Kremlin).

Régis Debray
(The Sacred Fire)


#41446
The more zin-zin, the better. This would be the moral of this immoral fable - flowering of spiritual and thaumaturgic sects, decrepitude of secular sects of the same age. Stamped they were, our utopian socialists, these sweet, unarmed prophets (in which Marx was not wrong). But not enough. Between John Smith, an alcoholic psychopath, and Fourier, a sober neurotic, posterity has decided. Mormons 'and co.' fart health, and do 'big business'. Fourier and son is in depression and passes theses.

Régis Debray
(The Sacred Fire)


#41447
Monastic life is a social subversion that its excuse introversion. Each party in the presence finds its account to whether it remains wall color: our capitalist society, because if this obscene life were to be a little more staged, it would reveal to us the obscenity of what we hold for decency even (sex, football, noise, money). And the institutes themselves, because, to live holyly, live hidden. Therefore we do not have to put the monks and nuns in prison, for violating good morals, they went there with themselves, and with good heart.

Régis Debray
(The Sacred Fire)


#41448
Our late modernity recalls in many ways the Late Antiquity, so rich in eroticism, exoticism, syncretism, effusions, sects and mysteries from the deep East. More than in their country of origin, spirituality has the wind in our sails. They offer meaning at a discount and without commitment on our part, as at the head of the client (who will expect from a paid internship in the Dordogne that he transfuse in six days what has produced in the distance the work of the centuries). And in contrast to these inner walks, we see the prosperity of quasi-religions without spirituality (which does not mean without moral values), as today the globalized cult of sport, or the right-of-hommist creed, or even in the past, communism, this brief Islam of the modern West. These imitation religions without a third dimension, with a short shot, have less lift than the holders of the title, but if the holder falters, they can always provide a replacement - summon the crowds, galvanize energies, sew identities.

Régis Debray
(The Sacred Fire)


#41449
The proclaimed eclipse of transcendence has stimulated rather than discouraged our quest for "indivisible and universal values," "intangible references," "supreme principles," or "founding fathers," whose presumptuous and ingenious modernity once promised us good riddance.

Régis Debray
(The Sacred Fire)


#41450
The Christian religion is a gigantic pyramid of saints, rites, dogmas, which was built "base in the air", resting on a pinhead: the crucifixion of an obscure thaumaturge, passed on the unnoticed moment of his contemporaries. In Jerusalem, it is like a tragedy with unity of action, place and time. Protagonist: God, place: 2 km2, time: between revelation and the end of time.

Régis Debray
(A candid in the Holy Land)


#41451
To counter nothingness, the species has always taken the right side, that of illusion. If we are to speak out against it, it is because, under its half-scout, half-luronne, half-evangelical, half-libertarian appearances, it announces a breath of air and guarantees a rat hole.

Régis Debray
(Praise for borders)


#41452
The more you expropriates consciences, through the dream or information industry, the more you give them the desire to build a separate cabin, through handmade crafts, as is literature. Every literary language is asocial in that it is more than a means of communication. It transcends its instrumental function, becomes a form in itself, capable of surviving the disappearance of its subject, the wear and tear of political passions, the evanescence of motives. "Journalist" is the one who delivers his message, and leaves; "writer", the one who, in order to remain, is as interested in manner as in matter. Logic of collective demand versus logic of personal supply. By which the man of the media reassures, if the writer offends. The former gives pledges to his group of affiliations because it presents the real in its judged form; the second puts us in front of reality, but each for himself, nothing is decided (...) by unmasking language, by deindustrializing culture. By encouraging us, by the force of example, to take a step back from the environment, to make our own glasses. To deliver the man from his tribe, to give back his own voice to each one, to remove him even for a moment from the collective purr and need, to signal to him that there is somewhere of the unsubstitute, is exactly what the media cannot do for the simple reason that they have the function of doing the opposite: to plunge the fish back into the jar. The emancipatory force of a work on words is in short measured by its virtue of disengagement. It alone can break moral intimidation as a method of thought, repelling the violence of general ideas that violate the singularity, beings and situations, dissolved in the agreed emphasis of the mercantile agit-prop. Literature would then unconsciously produce chronic misfits for mass consumption. An immoral mission, if one wishes, in the light of consensus, but deeply ethical, in the light of consciences. This ability to depoliticize depends on the treatment, not the subject. When a Nabokov writes about butterflies, he helps us take the government of ourselves. When a follicular pity on the bottom miners, its agreed lamentos prolong alienation. Both Nabokov has readers, and the author of bestsellers a clientele. (page 129-130)

Régis Debray
(Modern catacombs)


#41453
When you go online to engage in hundreds of thousands of people, you don't indulge in anyone. We're watching over his puppet.

Régis Debray
(Modern catacombs)


#41454
The epistolary relationship requires 1) not to be too disturbed from morning to night, 2) to have enough to make ends meet. [...] The exercise is voluntary. Flaubert, the lucky one (four hundred letters between him and George Sand), had a cook and annuities. The end of the "good" at home, in the intellectual middle bourgeoisie, 'is no stranger to the exhaustion of this generosity of heart and spirit which consists of taking his time and a blank sheet to take news of a third. When it comes to shopping and frichti every morning, to support a long correspondence is a kind of holiness, bordering on neurosis.

Régis Debray
(Modern catacombs)


#41455
Reality is what resists us and taunts our plans on the comet.

Régis Debray
(Praise for borders)


#41456
"Our places of criminal justice, protected by both the gendarme and their aplomb, do not need a Bible placed on a table, as in the United States, nor a crucifix hanging on the wall, as in Italy, to intimate silence and respect. The theatrical ordering of the courtroom means that we have to stand well once we cross the double padded door to take a seat in the seating room or the appel-call room, where anyone does not settle anywhere, such as in a church. »

Régis Debray
(Youth of the sacred)


#41459
"In a century of politics yesterday, a myriad of revolutionaries without revolution; in a century shaken by Tech, today, a string of revolutions without revolutionaries"

Régis Debray
(From one century to the next)


#41460
Extracting a stock from a stream is, through the collection, the standard process of good acculturation, which makes the insignificant pass in the realm of meaning.

Régis Debray
(Introduction to meditology)


#41461
Summer befits Paul Valéry, an unrepentant solar, a Mediterranean who urges us to run to the wave by reappearing alive.

Régis Debray
(A summer with Paul Valéry)


#41462
"There may be a psychosomatic explanation for the difference in temperaments. The emotion in geography is intimate. It is born of loneliness or contemplation. She taunts the metro-boulot-herd, for trekking in the Himalayas or the Siberian taiga. Historical emotion is choral and is born of communion. It is the thrill given to us by a multitude at the elbow-to-elbow, a procession in unison (..) p.60

Régis Debray
(From one century to the next)


#41499
The advantage of the mission over the mandate: the power has a CDD, influence, a CDI.

Régis Debray
(Bankruptcy balance sheet)


#41500
An obscene fossil that border, perhaps, but that stirs like a beautiful devil.

Régis Debray
(Praise for borders)


#41501
Our territory is expanding, our calendar is shrinking; the horizon recedes, the depth cancels out; and new generations circulate on the web more easily than in chronology.

Régis Debray
(Source inconnue)


#41502
When the monarch has Heaven as his witness, he has Bossuet as his evening visitor; when he thinks of Vercingetorix, he has Malraux

Régis Debray
(The miscalculation)


#41503
The border will never end because it is inherent in the rule of law and even when it takes the funeral form of the Styx and the Nocher Charon passing the dead across the river, it is good to live.

Régis Debray
(Praise for borders)


#41504
Regis visits a contemporary art exhibition. See and hear as one is invited at the entrance of each room, through large monitors, theoretic artists, when asked about their relationship to their practice, time, space, body, materials, death, etc., answering with platitudes and common places, with a vocabulary of thirty words, suggests that before implementing art education courses it would not be bad for National Education to allow these waste clearers to leave reading and writing (ART PRESS and LIBERATION are not always enough to fill this educational gap).

Régis Debray
(Clearances, Volume 2: A candid at his window)


#41505
A group of belongings is formed for good of the day when it closes,

Régis Debray
(Praise for borders)


#41506
In The Shape of a City, Julien Gracq recalls that "the state of latent and continuous friction electrifies relationships." Civilizational smear-frotta causes eczema. Religious fundamentalisms are the skin diseases of the global world where cultures are touch-touch.

Régis Debray
(Praise for borders)


#41507
In the immediate future, turning the button when the time comes for the news requires a little self-sacrifice. It is easier to free yourself from sex and coke than from the desire to know.

Régis Debray
(Mrs. H.)


#41508
The arrogance of the present has at least relieved us of a tongue of wood, that of Monsieur-c-will-be-better-after, which can easily compete with Monsieur-it was-better-before, O tempora, o mores, oh sad world reduced to acquisitions, delivered to hashtags and without a escape line!

Régis Debray
(Mrs. H.)


#41509
It is no coincidence that nine out of ten revolutionaries went through a long stage of immobility in prison, thus training themselves in the impavid and long-term designs. The story belongs to those who, having got up early, do not catch the wiggle after breakfast.

Régis Debray
(Mrs. H.)


#41510
Propices times when cabinet people are allowed to hold a butt in one hand and a feather in the other; where the idiot of the family does not have to choose between reading the good authors and confronting the killers, between the tribune and the cellar.

Régis Debray
(Mrs. H.)


#41511
Personalities, journalists, fly-gob: each floor of the pyramid rests on the other two. What would a people without paparazzi, a paparazzo without voyeurs, a voyeur without a skylight or Gala? Everything is in our pyramid; distinction, yes, apartheid, no; it is the honour of our democracies to build bridges between the landings, and a star star in each cradle, giving the viewer the opportunity to spend a day behind, to become a full-fledged look.

Régis Debray
(Mrs. H.)


#41512
"The righteous" is the one by whom divine justice must be fulfilled, imminently, without knowing exactly when, except that it is for very soon. Times are near. And since it's about the remission of our sins, we're playing big. One second of inattention, and more eternal life.

Régis Debray
(Mrs. H.)


#41513
What happens when history evil takes you? Nothing. We're waiting. We never tire of waiting. And when what we've been waiting for doesn't happen, we keep waiting, another mirage, and then a third. When I have no red, I put green. More pink? Blue.

Régis Debray
(Mrs. H.)


#41514
When a man keeps in mind all that it takes to last a little post-mortem, each avanie is a rising sun, each rise in rank a bulb that jumps.

Régis Debray
(Mrs. H.)


#41515
A well-informed man of faith does not give in to flattery. He holds fame for a dirty little quarter of an hour, fatal to sustainable development.

Régis Debray
(Mrs. H.)


#41516
A God makes man, it does not abandon his faithful along the way and it puts ants in the legs; it forces you to keep an eye on things, without kissing your shoulder, and to go to great pains to do good. A confirmed baptized is not passive in The Hand of God; his salvation is the common operation of the Creator and the creature, and his book of hours, the civil calendar. His destiny is called History. For a Muslim, the games are made, after the night of fate nothing very interesting can do without: things will follow their courses alone, inch'Allah.

Régis Debray
(Mrs. H.)


#41517
It was sinful out of optimism: politicians are on a daily basis; the great man, once a century, and when the little one is late on the way, a rabbit is put on him.

Régis Debray
(Mrs. H.)


#41518
You have to be naïve as an Englishman to imagine that Wellington won the Battle of Waterloo. With his "dreary plain", it was Victor Hugo who cleaned up the ground, and Cambronne, the affront. Gamelin against Rommel, useless, we are not big. Elected against Goebbels, let's go, it's tenable. Alexandrian, our high land, doesn't lie. Why envy the recurrent supremacy of the Teuton, this frustrated and heavy being with a shaved neck, if the hairy Asterix can always come out of its trunk a bugle with a brilliant zigoto to run after him. Or an accordion, for Belleville's piafs. Let's leave Berlin with finances, steel and machine tools. Let's keep the Mumm red cord, the rhyme to Jermadeth and the pirouettes titles. The rhyme will win.

Régis Debray
(Mrs. H.)


#41519
At an age when clampin is normally intended for "disruption of all senses," "lightning skies," "dazzled snow" and "hair of the handles," I swore in petto to give priority to the defence of the territory. We missed the great lady, we had to fix it. And since the Frenchman loses the first round because he is no longer strong (the battle of the Marne having pumped the reserves of energy), but wins the second because he keeps the shape, my line Maginot would be in verse, but this time it would hold.

Régis Debray
(Mrs. H.)


#41520
Well-being regained its rights, which introduced me to the classic distribution of roles in these crusades over and over again. The military promises the moon, the ministers walk the Beijing, the gazettes follow suit, and we all applaud in rhythm, with good heart. The number likes, the audience drools, and we start again. Suez, Algiers, Baghdad, Kabul, Tripoli, tomorrow the sequel.

Régis Debray
(Mrs. H.)


#41521
After the fall, the relapse. You couldn't fool with the dark about things that my good masters and family would only let me see.

Régis Debray
(Mrs. H.)


#41522
The flesh is sad, the horizontal too, especially when you no longer read books; and the rather limited distractions of cynicism.

Régis Debray
(Mrs. H.)


#41523
How can history be kept alive in your heads if, Solzhenitsyn in alibi, we abandon the economy of salvation by seeking salvation in the economy?

Régis Debray
(Mrs. H.)


#41524
Like it or not, we are witnessing today in the West the ebb and flow of the politics of emotion and the great return of Realpolitik.

Régis Debray
(What is left of the West?)


#41525
The great advantage of Western political thought is that it is never frozen in cement and sometimes knows how to evolve. She remains the daughter of Liberty. When the American electorate realized that George W. Bush's Near Eastern politics was leading to a stalemate, he changed course to 180 degrees to entrust the executive to Barack Obama, the exact opposite of his predecessor.

Régis Debray
(What is left of the West?)


#41526
(...) The mountain where God lives, the predestined site of unity and the pinnacle of the score, where five hundred video cameras nestled under the roofs keep an eye on the children of Abraham? A message of universal love whose followers work to hate the neighbor and cousin? You can't just moralize. Where the black face of a god of light is discovered in the open, it is better to put the chromo aside, and the preaching-preacha, to face the real - metal barriers, barbed wire and fortified terraces. Strange: the boundary of the Infinite. The residence of the Unlimited converted into a closure paradise where the struggle to occupy every inch of land is every minute. Jerusalem: a city where we don't talk to each other, where we don't even see each other from one neighbourhood to another; where the concern of the break, between the four smaller ones who share the city (Jewish, Christian, Armenian and Muslim) is the most obsessive. If the Lord stood upstream of his tribes, the good understanding would reign between those who pray to him in churches, in mosques and in the Wailing Wall (...) "Jerusalem Syndrome," pp.139, 140.

Régis Debray
(God, a route)


#41527
The strange animal, which prefers to give meaning to the world, through gesture and speech, rather than taking it for what it is, thereby testifies to a constitutive ability to paranoia, fantasy, system spirit, collective hallucination, and other originalities as devastating as they are creative. The enchantment of the world, by the way, means its ensauving no less than its embellishment. It is the abyss of the lived by the symbol that puts us simultaneously below and above the animal. Below by dangerousness, and above by creativity. The mammal capable of self-sacrifice is ipso facto to the murder of the other, and if it had not been able to exterminate (its congener, without biological necessity), it would not have been able to believe to pray and fast. His vulnerability specific to the suggestions of the supersensitive (of which the divine is a variant) makes the human primate brilliant, unpredictable, extravagant, but thus formidable for those of his fellows who do not attach to things the same meanings as him (and who are the majority).

Régis Debray
(The Sacred Fire)


#41528
We target "violence on television," neglecting the violence of the sacred scriptures. No doubt, in videopheres, do images have more impact than words, but how many under sixteen years would still have access to the literary and religious treasure of humanity if the CSA's "youth" signage ("designed to alert viewers to the inadequacy of certain television programmes for young audiences") applied to our textbooks? It is to be welcomed that the Advertising Audit Office does not subject the primitive scenes of our symbolic universe (Oedipus, Medea, the Atrids, Romulus and Remus, Erin, the Golden Calf, the conquest of Canaan, etc.) to the same criteria as our television spots.

Régis Debray
(The Sacred Fire)


#41529
Our metropolises make two mirrors available to the emancipated man, which should lead him to think more often about what he is, not about what he would like to be: the zoo and the cathedral. You never waste your time walking around, and especially going back and forth (between Notre-Dame and the Jardin des Plantes, when you are Parisian, the journey can be done on foot). 'Man passes man infinitely': and the menagerie confronts us unceremoniously with what goes beyond the monkey side, and 'Messiah' by Handel, to what goes beyond the angel side. If our species were ever to give itself a flag - to distinguish itself from the neighbors - it would be blood and gold. At home, bipeds without feathers, we kill the congener, and we love the All-Other. You quadrupeds, you don't worship anyone and only kill strangers. The human mammal is better surrounded by the All-Other and the near. Following the evolution of hominids, from Homo erectus (-700,000) to Sapiens sapiens (-35,000), forces to unite the two ends of the chain, the chimpanzee and the ascetic, the den and the crypt. Whose cross-section produced the vertically stationed omnivorous primate, you and I. Let's say that we must take the god Ra or the Brahman seriously, as well as the rhesus macaque or the little bonobo, if we want to be able to spot without fuss or pretences by which the vertical monkey, with its nimbe and its smears, differs from the non-human cousin.

Régis Debray
(The Sacred Fire)


#41530
Primo Levi reports that during a s e l e c tion for the gas chamber he heard his neighbour whispering a prayer to "Joseph". He began to understand that he was the little father Stalin, not the father-in-law of Jesus.

Régis Debray
(The Sacred Fire)


#41531
Each variant of the father of the Eternal Father has its spells, an electromagnetism specific to this or that kind of spirit. Among the attractions of Judaism: the absence of dogma, family worship (the table making altar), the practicality of misvoth, observances without obligation of belief, cohesion in perils, an unparalleled seniority. Among the seductions of Islam: doctrinal simplicity and flash conversion (a sentence to pronounce), polygamy (for men), the absence of clerical monopoly, free competition from schools, ignorance of original sin, comfort of legal consultations, the amenity of paradise (houris or ephebes). More familiar are, in Europe, Christian amenities: a God to tuttut, the sensuality of images, the openness to the feminine, the least weight of the Scriptures, which are not divine diktats but only inspired, the valuation of the individual and the ability to negotiate with the absolute, less unknowable, inaccessible and implacable than Allah. Those who suffer in their shoe may look for another one at their foot. And it is not the shoe that will be attacked, in case of misfortune, but the foot. An obsessive will feel comfortable in a religion of the Law, Judaism or Islam; christian faith will get along better with an imaginative or a whimsical. The individual who likes to act in conscience will rather find his happiness in Luther. The conformist, the man of order, at the mosque. The hazard of characterology, mystery of affinities..."p.417 in Folio

Régis Debray
(A candid in the Holy Land)


#41535
Giving up on oneself is a rather futile effort: to surpass oneself is better to start by taking responsibility.

Régis Debray
(Praise for borders)


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