A through its chapters full of humor and sensitivity, this book lucidly reality concrete in which we live. It leads us to open our eyes and finally to consider as outliers situations that we have finally found normal so we were told that they were.
Thus capitalism, to succeed, must be constantly expanding. The proof is that when growth is stagnant or a little as it reduces, problems arise immediately (unemployment, declining living standards, etc..) Specialists, both in economics and in politics, does then a single word in his mouth: he must resume growth. But JL Coudray says that this growth is not exponential at infinity and that will inevitably one day it will be hampered in its tracks, even if only because of the limits of the earth's surface.
Our entire Western society (in becoming the global model) is based on high productivity. Always produce more and sell more. But the mercantile design (which stems directly from the spirit shopkeeper) perverts our subjective relation to the world. We no longer see with our eyes but with the sensitivity of merchants offering their junk as the only possible happiness on this earth. For example, if I look at an industrial site, I can only find it ugly. Yet I am so conditioned by the fact that technology is necessary, that I will not see this site as its technical efficiency and that I will accept his ugliness.
In his book, JL Coudray covers a range of topics in brief chapters that make us think. He talks about the suburbs, for example, empty, soulless place that is neither the city nor the countryside where all the little flags are only models, toy, which mimic the real house that the owner (strong indebted elsewhere) will never possess. Or objects in series (everyone wants and eventually have the same coffee or even a refrigerator) that give the illusion to abolish social inequality. For we are pleased to see that even the underprivileged have finally improved their standard of living can buy technology products. But we forget that these products have often been made possible by the sacking of nature and human exploitation (plunder of the Third World, low wages, etc..).
And television? Once there was a chain, managed by the state. Today there are hundreds and I choose the program that I like, that one who speaks to me. The proliferation of these programs simply proves that the state has lost its leadership role and that the authority has now moved to an infinite number of multinationals.
This overabundance of programs is found on the Internet (where I am saturated with pages to read and when I finally do more than "surf" without any further) or in 700 books published each fall.
dare refuse Technology (which brings most gadgets), would, according to experts, advocating a return to the time of the caves. Suddenly, everyone is silent and accept this basic principle, never questioned. It must be said that the individual is pampered by the market society, since the tu constantly to make him believe it is important. Whether the President of the Republic or the presenter of JT, they all seem to be aimed at only me, which obviously flatters my ego (it is no longer at the time of De Gaulle, who admonished the citizenry with his "French, French ..."). This applies even to the trade literature, which seems to intimate terms with the player. The author has become a "buddy", which uses the spoken style that is more inaccessible and as a writer of genius of yesteryear.
JL Coudray deals with many other themes in his book yet. Advertising, of course, but also the genetic filing (which makes us look like cattle), speed, climate change, destruction of nature or the work ethic (the latter having become a necessity since Adam left paradise). Neglecting the spiritual and art, modern man lives only for the objects he produces, which brings him back to the days when he was only cutting flints. Because that's when they had free time than men had Lascaux began painting on cave walls. Today, our world is governed by the speed (because of global competition) which does not bode well for sure.
In addition, our planet becomes overpopulated, not so much in itself, but because of the maldistribution of wealth. Indeed, a country is considered overcrowded if some of its inhabitants have no access to resources. Now, with liberalism, there will soon be only a fraction of the population has access to the comfort and decent food. The other, the poor, will therefore be considered surplus. Yet this same liberalism defends the idea that the private interest is indirectly serving the public interest. " The merchant is the company selling its products selfishly." With such a principle, no need to govern, just let the market.
course, there will be some excluded, but they deserved their fate will be excluded because they were unable, because of laziness, cowardice or stupidity. Unnecessary, therefore, interest in their case. Moreover, their help would be meaningless in a society that says that competition is the only possible relationship between the men. "Any relationship other than financial perverts the market. The man, in its ethical, religious, cultural and social, is an obstacle to liberalism. "Therefore, every feeling is a waste of energy. As for protectionism that states can no longer perform to ensure the free movement of goods, it is now played by the multinationals themselves, the main beneficiaries of this system.
In dismissing their employees to earn more, these same companies are supporting the weight of unemployment in the community. This is also the same when they pollute, thus we can say that the rich live on welfare as the poor.
What is the solution to all these so dysfunctional? Well first of all stop believing that change is synonymous with positive change. Even in art, it has come to say without knowing that it takes off and works today are necessarily better than those of yesterday by the fact that they innovate. Nothing is less certain. In any case, it is clear that technological progress, it considers that the entire universe is winning. Therefore, come and talk about preservation of nature seems to be a speech obsolete. Yet the mere stop and contemplate a flower afraid to bring more happiness than to live at a frantic pace to earn money and buy items often unnecessary. Therefore, in a society like ours, doing nothing is truly becoming a militant action.
Feuilly
Jean-Luc Coudray, "The Future is our garbage (the alternative to decline)," Sulliver, February 2010
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