« 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. »
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Régis Debray
The Sacred Fire |
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The Sacred Fire
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« 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. »
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Régis Debray
The Sacred Fire |
Régis Debray
The Sacred Fire
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« 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. »
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Régis Debray
The Sacred Fire |
Régis Debray
The Sacred Fire
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