« 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. »
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Régis Debray
Life and death of the image |
Régis Debray
Life and death of the image
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« Never has politics in France been so "deshistorized" as it is today. To wonder whether a certain neglect for the people and a certain indifference to history do not maintain some secret relationship. »
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Régis Debray
Left-wing dream |
Régis Debray
Left-wing dream
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« 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. With a Fool's face with no doors or windows, he makes a God's world, with a clear-eye. It's more airy, less discouraging. »
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Régis Debray
A candid in the Holy Land |
Régis Debray
A candid in the Holy Land
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