jeudi 9 octobre 2025

The 4 forms of expression of love

Annelies Bruell;

The four forms of expression of love


The question: "How can we recognize the work of destiny in our children and in our co-workers?" and the question that comes next, "How can we ourselves become an instrument for them to fulfill their destiny in a positive way?" can be approached in multiple ways.

I have chosen as a red thread through this labyrinth of possibilities the four forms of expression of the love that is woven between beings. What inner knowledge of destiny can these four manifestations of love give, and what happens on a therapeutic level when we consciously implement any of these four forms of love.

I will begin by describing these four forms: Eros – Storgè – Philia – Agapè.

Eros is that form which emanates from another being and touches my own inner being. Eros is magical. It is perfectly well expressed in Schuré's "Sacred Drama of Eleusis". Persephone is seated in a cave embroidering flowers and inanimate animals on a veil, when Eros comes to tempt her outward by touching the earth with the tip of his arrow, thus calling to life a sweet-smelling flower. Eros is love of the senses, love awakened from without. The love power of Eros is related to sense impressions which can be transformed into life-filled soul forces.

Storgè is the love that takes care, the gaze towards the other, the guardian. Storgè reveals a quality of soul that allows me to relate to those around me in the right way. This is why Storgè for an old person is different from Storgè for an infant, and everything else is Storgè for the earth. When we cultivate Storgè in ourselves right habits take hold; the gestures found in the love of the child for his grandparents, of the father for his son; but also in the love we have for our garden, our tools, our furniture, our clothes. Of course, we find here "the devotion to detail", the irradiation of our soul forces in all our surroundings. Perhaps the purest expression of Storgè can be found in the farmer who, despite wars and catastrophes, plows the earth and plants his seeds.

Philia referred to here should not be confused with the Philia of "Mystery Dramas". Philia is the love that lives in the friendship born of concern for another human being. In the reciprocity of this love one acquires an intimate knowledge of the other, allowing oneself to bear fruit through this friendship, but remaining completely oneself in its specificity. The soul of the other resonates, we hear it. A very fine example of this love-Philia is the friendship that united Goethe and Schiller.

Agape is the most spiritual form of love, barely perceptible physically. The person must take one more step. She was awakened from without, she nurtured and protected, she lovingly watched the souls of others. It must now turn into a disinterested receptacle. Through the power of Agape we need to create a free inner space, in which the inner being of the other can appear. I have to open myself inside so that "You" can live in me. Isn't Saint John leaning over Jesus' chest an archetypal image of this love?

When one begins to feel the different characteristics of these four aspects of love, one also feels the connection of each with the physical body, the etheric body, the astral body and the self. Or, if we start from the human soul, their link with the soul of sensitivity, the soul of heart, the soul of reason and the soul of conscience.

In these lectures on karma, Rudolf Steiner talks about two basic moral dispositions that must be observed by anyone who wants to study karma. I will add that these are the basic conditions for anyone who turns his mind to the fate of his fellows. These predispositions are: respect and the absence of fear.

Respect is the delicate and timid attitude of the soul that marvels at the secrets of the universe, woven like threads from a distant past into the present life.

When, as pedagogue-curative and socio-therapist, we turn actively towards the destiny of a person, we must be filled with courage, we cannot be held back by fear. Because if in all sincerity we turn to the destiny of a child entrusted to us, we immediately realize our own weaknesses, our failures, our hidden desires; it's a dull and very uncomfortable feeling. We need soul courage to look through the illusions and masks that hide reality from us. In the series – Eros, Storgè, Philia, Agapè – at the level of Eros respect is the teacher and courage the companion, at the level of Agape boldness becomes the guide and respect is the discreet and faithful companion.

I would like to show more precisely using a few examples of how these four forms of love work.

1) What happens in the life of a small child if Eros, sensual love has no place? Do we not see present before our eyes these innumerable children already old, gray and sclerotic? Their faces are withered and starved because the joy of the senses has not been given to them. Their senses have never been awakened. I am not speaking only of the senses of the environment, sense of heat, of taste, of smell of sight, the senses of maya and of beauty, but especially of the lower senses. These children have never been cuddled, never felt the happiness of the sense of movement. The higher senses, especially the sense of thought and the sense of self of others, were not experienced through human contact. Radio, TV, cassettes had replaced them.

The second question that should preoccupy us whenever we turn to one of the four aspects of love is: "What happens if the educator consciously acts with one of these four aspects of love?"

What happens when the educator stimulates his own love of the senses? Dr. Lorenz said at a conference that one can "develop the understanding of karma without clairvoyance by the impressions of our senses alone."

In the realm of love-Eros this means that I open myself internally to the other; that with awareness I receive the messages transmitted to me by my five ordinary senses, as well as by my higher senses.

Every characteristic of the child speaks to me intensely: his light, tiptoe gait, his energetic step that rushes forward, his gesture of always wanting to cling to things and people, his fingers wide open and spread, his mania for pulling up his pants, his slight hesitation that punctuates the end of each of his sentences...

If the curative pedagogues welcome each of these sensory revelations with respect, with astonishment, then there will awaken in them a true knowledge of the heart and not an intellectual interpretation – this has one meaning, that another. Their sense of thought will unite all of these separate sensory observations into one meaningful whole.

As teachers of future healing pedagogues we will have accomplished a great task when students, enlivened and sensitized by artistic work, can be filled with wonder before a child, wondering how his individuality can master such a sick body. Through this attitude of wonder, an instinctive knowledge will awaken in everyone to perceive where and how they can begin to complete what is missing in the development of the child.

The importance of the responsibility of the educator is clearly expressed in these words of Rudolf Steiner: "Sensory experiences form the organs of the child".

2) What nourishment do we bring to the child through love-Storgè? We structure his earthly home, the envelopes in which the child must live. We help the child fulfill his destiny in his own body, in his own environment; When, in our centers, we establish right habits, the child can be helped to reinforce his envelopes, he penetrates himself with regular rhythms of life, with repetitions; The characteristic of Eros was "to awaken", that of Storgè is to "let grow".

In our centers in Scotland, we receive a very special type of child: although they received a lot of affection from their parents, they nevertheless grew up without any Storgè love. If one visits parents at home, one finds oneself in a room without any warmth or comfort, there is no furniture; the TV is in a corner, there is no table or chairs; everyone sits down. Children from such backgrounds are often open and naive, warm and affectionate, but at the age of puberty they have enormous social problems. They get sucked into sexuality and have no control over themselves. They could not consolidate their envelopes through righteous social habits; the rising force of astrality springs forth unopposed in their physical functions.

What does the curative pedagogue do when consciously acting with Storgè love? We have seen that wonder was the teacher of Eros; Storgè can be deepened when we ask ourselves the question: "what do the objects and tools around us represent for us, in ourselves? That is: how does a broom ask to be handled? What kinds of attention do silk and linen require? What makes a saw always sharp for woodworking? ". We then become attentive to habits of use. This requires us to bring our soul to life in the objects we use.  Compassion, that is to say, to make our soul live in what a person expresses, is, in a certain way, only one facet of this attitude of soul.

Perhaps it can be said that our efforts to vivify Storgè love allow the ether of life to sparkle in our environment.

3) Philia love guides us to the heart of the soul; With Philia we take into ourselves the other in his ordinary soul form, in what we call his persona. Many children come to us from neat surroundings where everything seems to sparkle with cleanliness, and yet these children seem empty; the beauty of seasonal festivals, concerts, plays, leaves them indifferent. Often it can be noticed that after some time living with us, they become particularly attached to an adult and, thanks to this human bond, their withered soul begins to live. It is not fair to say that children only come to us because they need us: we need them and their need; In this reciprocity of need for each other, a Philia gift of love is offered to the whole world.

All young people at the age of puberty reject the love of Eros and the love of Storgè of their parents, but with what timidity they solicit the charms of Philia. Who does not recognize this story of a young girl who, after a superb scene and angry words spoken against her mother, having obtained money to buy her clothes herself, goes for the first time to buy her clothes alone and shyly on the way back, she asks her father, "Say, do you like my new blouse?".

What process does the educator engage in when with Philia love he bends down to all the slight anomalies that live in the souls of these children: the disjointed thoughts, the oversights, the non-completion of actions? etc... He discovers that under certain conditions, he has exactly these same problems. His sense of responsibility, his conscience tells him: only by striving to overcome these weaknesses in yourself will you generate the strengths that will help the child to overcome them also in them. This induces that the soul of the child can resonate more harmoniously. What lives in the instinctive behavior of the child, in his character, his temperament, is guided to a more harmonious melody when the educator tries to create a balance by his own efforts. Again it is possible for us to cautiously turn our gaze to the work of the ether of Son.

Eros – Awaken; Storgè – let grow; Philia – Balance

4) Agape love does not focus like Philia on what the Healing Pedagogy Course calls "the superficial part of the soul" where the persona lives, but it allows the child or adult to experience of his true being.

In current schools of psychology, there are very interesting reflections on this Agape-love. D. Winicot, for example in his essay "The Mirror Role of the Mother" describes the first smile of the child, and goes on to say that the child does not smile at his mother, but at the image of the baby that the mother carries in her soul. It is like a first confirmation of oneself.

Similarly, in current counseling centres, the essential contribution of therapists is no longer their own interpretation, but consists of offering a mirror that allows parents to get to know themselves better.

Anyone who works with students and guides them knows how radically their support must change when the student is between 28 and 30 years old. The trainer must take his advice and be filled with dedication and interest, listening and letting go so that the young adult can take the step of moving from "Man know yourself" to "Man know yourself (Mensch erkenne dich - Mensch erkenne dich selbst).

There is another area where, in the midst of other children, the higher being of each child can be illuminated, because it is addressed in the most intimate way. It's at the Sunday service.

Moreover, Camphill's wish to have pedagogical meetings devoted to a particular child, requires – if this meeting is to have any real meaning – a very rigorous application of love-Agape.

It is not easy to describe what influence the mask of love-Agape can have on children. Perhaps it is fair to say that this form of love allows the higher being of the child to incarnate at its best. As Mr. Schmidt Brabant once said, "The incarnation of a disabled person can only socially offer real gifts to humanity when his eternal being is recognized as living within him, here and now."

Here I must draw attention to a misinterpretation of love-Agape that we have in our time. Many young people today have a natural gift of tolerance, allowing the being of the other to remain protected. They seem to be in symbiosis with the other's self and yet, very often, the other's true higher being cannot radiate. One could say with Saint Paul: "Now we see through dark glass, but then we will see face to face." Now I know in bits and pieces, but then I will know just as I myself am known." It is as if the mirror that these young people received as a natural gift had not been cleaned and polished by their own efforts, their own abnegation, their strength of sacrifice. That's why they see only a faint glow; fragments of the ego and fragments of the persona become entangled

How can the educator or the social therapist create in themselves this free space, this space where the Ego is purely altruistic? In the same way as during a meditation, my own Self must be awakened at the very heart of the void that I will have created in my soul. When we put ourselves at the service of Agape, only social conscience can guide us. This form of love is no longer stimulated by my friendship, my interest, my care, my enthusiasm which springs up to create, but only, by the need of other human beings.

Perhaps one might dare to say that where human beings through their inner efforts approach this goal, "Then I will know, as I myself am known," there arises darkness, the Ether of light, indicating the Being of light, the flow of love radiating from Christ.


Translation from English to French by Béatrice Leduc

re-translated by Google translate, April 2023

 


Annelies Bruell, born in Germany in 1927, grew up in Holland where she studied law and the German language; She lived and worked at Campphil in Aberdeen from 1957. One of her responsibilities was the training of educators. She was a member of the Training Group in Curative Pedagogy and Sociotherapy at the Goetheanum;

Love and Truth

There is an essential difference between truth and love, and it is the opposite of what most of us used to believe:

Truth can never exist alone. It is a joint effort between at least one person who expresses it and one person who understands it. Sometimes the effort is greater on the side of the one who expresses it, sometimes on the side of the one who understands it, and sometimes appearances are deceptive!

Which leads us to love, which can exist, not of course in isolation but always exclusively on its own foundations. To love is a completely sovereign decision, perhaps the only sovereign decision accessible to us.

Thus, expressing (or “doing”) a truth is an act of love, and understanding it is also an act of love. These 2 free acts are necessary for the truth to exist. But love began before, and above all, it does not depend, on either side, on any condition. She is free and sovereign.

(Inspired from Alain Badiou)

samedi 4 octobre 2025

How to deal with AI?

AI, computers and softwares in general, are demanding that we further loosen the relationship between language and thought. 

In fact computers and softwares are enabled by this loosening of this relationship, following the ground-breaking work of Alan Turing in 1936, when he designed an intellectual computer on paper, and then using this imaginary but working computer, he found the answer to his question: Are all numbers computable? He proved, from the computer he intellectually designed, that the answer is no: There are numbers that we can prove do exist, and at the same time we can also prove that they can not be calculated. One might suspect this question was in fact an excuse for designing this computer. 

Anyway, Turing was among the first to isolate in full details the thought process as a separate object, detached from any material or experiential reality, other than itself, and describing it with such accuracy that it can be materialised, represented with materials. What we have called later "the Turing machine" is the first time a material representation represented not an experiential concept like drawings or words, not an act of thought like a number, not a process like algebra, but the very act of representation itself.

Having isolated this act and represented it in a fully clear and complete way, almost like we isolate chemical elements or viruses (and after having built ad-hoc calculators for British military intelligence to successfully decipher the German submarines communications), Turing proceeded, in the last decade of his life, to build the first physical computer, capable of physically operating and not just on paper.

This isolation of the process of representation in a material object, demands that we enter in a new relationship with our thoughts. We must, if we want to stay free and maybe even alive, apprehend our thought in a way that is more detached from language than it was before computers and AI.

Printing and mechanical reproduction of images has made a similar demand, and before that, drawing and writing.

Each time, the language itself has become an object of language. 

Practically speaking, for architects today, AI and softwares demand that we loosen further the relationship between our thoughts and a given particular language. We must freely move from a software to another, from scale drawing to hand drawing, from calculation to drawing and back, and even from a material to another, and from a shape to another.

If we don't do that effort we run the risk indeed, of becoming trapped in the machine, as is the unavoidable goal of everyone working with AI and softwares: To make them ever more totalitarian -as Lucien Sfez brilliantly described with this word: Tautism, acronym of totalitarian, tautology, and autism, because this constant move towards totalitarism is the only way to make softwares more efficient, and that's not a political choice, it's an unavoidable necessity of the very concept of computers or "Turing machines".

As it turns out, AI which seeks to weaponise our identities, to lock us into our languages, is creating a situation where we must do a conscious and deliberate effort in the opposite direction, and when we meet someone, find ways to understand that person beyond her identity, find a path to that person beyond her and our language. This is a way to de-weaponise our languages and our identities, like a narrow, meandering and dangerous, but very effective, path towards practical love, in the middle of the forest of our misunderstanding and hate, on which AI feeds itself.

Because beyond our languages and our identities, we do not have much else, and by harnessing them, AI holds in its power our core. Destroying our languages and identities would be destroying ourselves. So we have to love them instead, following this narrow path to the other person, this path that AI, like these numbers that Turing has shown exist but cannot be calculated, is unable to understand.

Hats off, Alan Turing! Your first paper was the best.

https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Turing_Paper_1936.pdf

mardi 23 septembre 2025

War footprint

 Exhibit 1:


🇷🇺🇺🇸🇪🇺 ENERGY WARS IGNITE: A New World Order is Rewriting Global Oil & Gas Rules

This is a US-led power grab to rewire the world's energy grid for global dominance.

The American Agenda: Pressure & Profit

Washington aims to rebalance global energy demand toward US producers by:

🔸Pressure on Europe: Forcing a rapid transition away from Russian energy.

🔸Tariffs on China/India: Punishing continued purchases of Russian oil.

Brussels is trapped

🔸It agreed to the first demand, signing $250B in US energy purchases.

🔸But tariffs on China/India are suicidal, risking energy costs and retaliatory blows to EU industry.

Trump's pressure has clear goals:

🔸Minimum Goal: Monopoly for US firms in the EU + leverage to control Russian supply routes.

🔸Maximum Goal: Drag Europe into a full economic standoff with China.

Russia: Target and Inescapable Partner

🔸Existing infrastructure remains.

🔸US LNG cannot overcome geography, seasonality, or logistics.

🔸This fuels secret negotiations and potential deals.

China and India: Exploiting the Pressure

🔸They are negotiating new discounts on Russian energy.

🔸They benefit from price arbitrage, turning Western pressure into an economic advantage.

EU Fractures: Centers vs. Peripheries

🔸Core (von der Leyen): Pushes accelerated phaseouts and new sanctions.

🔸Periphery (Hungary, Slovakia): Seek exceptions, fearing industrial collapse without Russian crude.

Europe's Impossible Choice

🔸Rapid Rupture: Industry crippled by high costs and an Asian tariff war.

🔸Slow Rupture: Living on "exceptions," losing agency to Washington, and enduring constant uncertainty.

Conclusion: Energy is the Foundation

Oil and gas are one of the primary factors in strategic choices. Reshuffling supply routes reflects a new world order where energy is the foundation of geopolitics. This realignment is a permanent shift, defining the landscape for the long term.

@NewRulesGeo, 23.09.2025


Conclusion for an architect :

The wars of the 21st century are wars over gas, while the wars of the 20th century were wars over oil.

Iran, Iraq-Kuwait, Syria-Qatar, "Islamic State," Israel, Venezuela, Ukraine... nothing but gas fields and pipeline routes. This explains the geography of the battlefields.

These stories about carbon footprints, about "wars of civilizations," are for the little people. Decision-makers run on gas. Solar 😂... no thanks!

The real reason for ecological architecture and organic farming is definitely not to "reduce our carbon footprint": All our food, all plants, all animals, are made primarily of carbon!

The real reason is to avoid fueling wars. It pisses them off, this independence, this uniform slipping off our shoulders while they try to hold it in place with pins, glue, nails... and the uniform keeps slipping, falling to the ground, and no one picks it up, the children step on it...

Architecture made of earth and bamboo isn't about reducing the "carbon footprint"... it's about reducing the "war footprint."

dimanche 3 août 2025

Reclaim your health!

The most accurate word for the architecture I'm trying to do is "hygienic" (in English), or "ayurvedic" (in Indian languages). It means a healthy architecture. 

But I can't use often these 2 words, because the English version will summon images of phenyle, stainless steel, PVC windows and glazed tiles, and the Indian version, superstitious notions of legalistic vastu, where the correctness of an arrangement depends on the delimitation of legal property lines!

Anyway, we are following the advice of our Ayurvedic family doctor, and recently for so-called "long covid" we are also following the low-cost and easily available methods described in these two papers:

"Long covid": These 2 protocols work surprisingly well!

Hulscher, McCullough et al. (2023):

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10663976/

Roberto Zeballos et al. (2025):

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12266371/

lundi 21 juillet 2025

François-Régis Legrier

François-Régis Legrier, 

Revue Défense Nationale, février 2019

"Au XIXe siècle, le sort d'une bataille mettant en jeu quelques milliers d'hommes était réglé en une journée - Austerlitz par exemple; au XXe siècle, il faut compter en semaines - que l'on pense à la poche de Dunkerque en 1940; au XXIe siècle, il faut près de cinq mois et une accumulation de destructions pour venir à bout de 2 000 combattants ne disposant ni d'appui aérien, ni de moyens de guerre électronique, ni de forces spéciales, ni de satellites*. Telle est la réalité de la guerre aujourd'hui qui doit nous conduire, décideurs politiques et chefs militaires à un examen critique salutaire sur notre façon de concevoir et faire la guerre.

Certes, la bataille d'Hajin a été gagnée mais de façon très poussive, à un coût exorbitant et au prix de nombreuses destructions*."

Article complet:

https://disk.yandex.com/i/7D4GCPWrM0ZgIw

Notes:

* note 1: Si l'état islamique ne possédait pas leurs propres satellites, il disposait bien de renseignements fournis par les satellites des puissances occidentales.

* note 2: 80% de la ville de Rakka a été détruite.

mardi 1 juillet 2025

Another beautiful meditation by Yeshayahu Ben-Aharon

...a different language, but deeply, the same thing! Whether you call it "resistance" or "gift to the gods", now is not the time to sleep, but to fight, and to give our best, and to trust our humanity!

https://www.ibecoming.co.il/eng/Blog/941/The-Laying-of-the-Renewed-Foundation-Stone-as-Reversed-Cultus

Yeshayahu Ben-Aharon writes in a warm and fully explicit manner what many authors have expressed in more round-about ways: We are not alone when we think. We bear entire responsibility for our thoughts, but to infer from that that we are alone, is to allow a wrong guest to sneak in, uninvited and unnoticed.

lundi 30 juin 2025

jeudi 12 juin 2025

Merci Rima Hassan !

 

Se rend-on compte qu'une Palestinienne, Rima Hassan, députée française et européenne, née dans un camp de réfugiés palestiniens, est en train de sauver l'honneur de la France, humiliée par Netanyahu depuis des mois, à coup d'insultes contre la présidence de la république ou d'arrestation de gendarmes ?


Ce que Rima Hassan est en train d'accomplir est extraordinaire: une véritable révolution des consciences dans un Occident endormi. C'est une Arabe, une Palestinienne qui donne une leçon à la macronie soumise à Israel. Une eurodéputée et 3 citoyens français kidnappés en eaux internationales, détenus ILLÉGALEMENT depuis 3 jours par un État dirigé par un homme sous mandat d'arrêt de la CPI, sans un mot de condamnation de la France. C'est du jamais-vu.


Elle a subi des violences morales et physiques, et a été placée en isolement solitaire, cellule insalubre, sans fenêtres, pas d’accès à la cour. Elle refuse de signer quoi que ce soit, préfère la prison à la soumission. Rima ne se contente pas de résister : elle nous enseigne le véritable sens de la dignité, de la persévérance et du droit au retour. Elle a écrit « free Palestine » sur le mur de sa cellule, dans une prison israélienne. Voilà ce qu’est le courage !


Elle entame une grève de la faim en protestation contre la violence de sa détention en Israël. Silence des autorités françaises, qui continuent de livrer des armes aux génocidaires.

En France, aucun envoyé spécial, aucune tribune de l'intelligentsia de gauche si prompte à donner des leçons par ailleurs, aucune émission sur les grandes chaînes de télévision pour dénoncer cette situation inédite. Tout le monde se tait, tout le monde a peur. 

Voltaire : " Pour savoir qui vous dirige vraiment, il suffit de regarder ceux que vous ne pouvez pas critiquer."


Espérons que la mobilisation mondiale en cours empêche les israéliens de la tuer ou de l’empoisonner.


Pendant ce temps…

La semaine prochaine se tiendra à l’ONU une énorme réunion internationale pour reconnaître l’Etat Palestinien et plaider pour une solution à deux états, réaction des USA : « Les pays qui prendraient des « actions anti israéliennes » après la conférence seront considérés comme agissant en opposition aux intérêts de la politique étrangère américaine et pourraient faire face à des conséquences diplomatiques de la part de Washington. » L’administration du président américain Donald Trump MENACE les gouvernements du monde entier… incroyable vassalisation du pays le plus puissant du monde.


Francesca Albanese (ONU), hier:

Israel tué 120 Palestiniens en 24 heures.


Les égyptiens, à la demande d'israel et sous pression US, ont bloqué la marche de la caravane d'aide qui avait démarré en Tunisie et s'était enrichie de citoyens du monde entier.


On peut tous faire notre part: boycottez les entrprises qui ont du sang palestinien sur les mains, la liste est sur BDS. C'est efficace, c'est important.

vendredi 11 avril 2025

Covid and morality

If I had been the devil, I would have created the covid. Because I don't know anyone who got vaccinated for an immoral reason. Everyone got vaccinated for preserving their ability, not to enjoy, but to perform their duties: To continue earning for your family, to be able to travel to look after your dependants, sometimes, to conform to the conspiracy theory that you would "stop transmission" and not be a danger to others, and in very few cases that I know, with the hope to protect your own health, which is of course not immoral at all, but not as altruistic as the majority of people's motivation to get vaccinated.

Now, if you set-up conditions that force people to harm themselves out of their higher, altruistic ideal, that is a definition of torture.

Covid has been a mass torture of humanity, a devilish enterprise.

We should not abandon morality. A person who acted out of goodwill should never regret her action, whatever the cost.

But we must understand that intelligence and morality are weapons at the service of each-other. Being moral is not an excuse for not being intelligent, and being intelligent is not an excuse for not being moral. How we make these two forces protect and save each-other is the most difficult work, the work of becoming human.

lundi 24 mars 2025

Michel Rocard, Scott Ritter

Premier ministre Michel Rocard :

"C’est une affaire à millions de morts, l’hypothèse étant que ça commence nucléaire."

https://www.liberation.fr/france/2012/03/02/michel-rocard-on-est-dans-l-imbecillite-politique-collective_799992/


Weapons inspector Scott Ritter:

“Striking Iran isn’t just ripping up treaties, it means that the U.S. would break the taboo that’s been in place since Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the use of the Nuclear Weapons and we will become, by definition, the worst nation in the world, the most evil nation in the world!”

WHY WOULD US FIGHT IN YEMEN?

Interview for Judging Freedom

https://www.youtube.com/live/DSfF59Y6Bhc



mercredi 19 mars 2025

Pepe Escobar

https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/03/19/hard-rains-gonna-fall-from-west-down-to-east/

Pepe Escobar summarizes our situation like rarely before.

The overall feeling is that Europe is (still) at the centre stage. But that is NEW. Before, Europe WAS the centre stage. Europe was looking at India, China, America, Africa with unlimited passion and lust. Now it is the turn of these countries to look at Europe. But there will be no symmetry. As Escobar writes, Russia is not Faustian. India and China, or Africa, even more evidently less! Escobar is silent about the US. I believe they are not Faustian. Their trajectory is different. Europe is not anymore the centre stage, it is AT the centre stage. Everyone looks with pity, interest and indeed, compassion: How far will Europe go in self-destructive hubris?

lundi 17 mars 2025

Stephan Korinth

Excellent article par un jeune journaliste Allemand indépendant, co-fondateur de ce journal en Allemand avec certains articles traduits en Anglais. 

Ca bouge !!! La vieille Europe n'est pas encore morte !!!

https://multipolar-magazin.de/artikel/the-long-lineage-of-russophobia

samedi 15 mars 2025

Question for today

What would have happened if the US had continued supporting Germany after 1945?

What would have happened if the US had continued supporting East Pakistan after 1971?

What would have happened if the US had continued supporting Cambodia after 1979?

vendredi 14 mars 2025

Achille Mbembe vs Carl Schmitt

"This is not war in the Clausewitzian sense of two sovereign actors vying for victory. It is war in the Schmittian sense, where one side is an object rather than a subject, a battlefield rather than a player. The U.S. does not merely use Ukraine. It governs the conditions of its life."

"The logic of necropolitics, as theorized by the Cameroonian historian Achille Mbembe (b. 1957), is laid bare in the choreography of these negotiations. It is not just about war but about the management of death itself, the strategic control of who is allowed to live and who is left to perish. For Ukraine, existence is contingent upon its usefulness to larger powers, a pawn whose suffering is not a tragedy but a calculated necessity."

Constantin von Hoffmeister, March 2025

https://www.eurosiberia.net/p/necropolitics-ukraine-and-the-trump-brokered-negotiations

Achille Mbembe knows a thing or two about architecture:

https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/coloniality-infrastructure/410015/the-earthly-community/

 

dimanche 9 mars 2025

Racisme du passé et du futur

Il y a beaucoup de malentendus sur la question du racisme parcequ'il y en a deux formes, fondamentalement différentes dans leurs motivations : Le racisme qui juge les gens en fonction de leur passé familial, leurs "gènes", tout ce qu'on attribuait autrefois à la "race", et le racisme qui juge les gens en fonction de leur avenir, ce que les politiciens appellent parfois "la communauté de destin", ou ce dont on parle lorsqu'on dit que certains groupes de personnes, ou institutions, "ont vocation" à faire certaines choses plutôt que d'autres.

Appeler "racisme" la deuxième forme est une analogie, car ça n'a pas grand-chose à faire avec la race, la génétique ou le passé, mais est directement lié à la géographie. C'est un jugement de la personne qui n'est pas motivé par son héritage, ni génétique ni culturel, mais par l'endroit où elle vit.

C'est cette forme moderne de racisme géographique qui explique les guerres aujourd'hui, et non pas le racisme à l'ancienne, basé sur la couleur de peau ou le patrimoine culturel.

Plusieurs philosophes ont caractérisé, à leur manière, ce racisme qui motive les guerres et la politique aujourd'hui. Jacques Rancière l'appelle "le racisme froid", et Alain Badiou l'appelle de manière interchangeable "le racisme d'état" ou "le racisme intellectuel".

Il est important de comprendre les buts et les moyens du racisme froid, ou racisme intellectuel, si l'on veut échapper à son emprise et ne pas se laisser embrigader dans la grande mobilisation générale, la militarisation des identités qui sème la misère et les catastrophes aujourd'hui. 

Sauver l'identité, forme visible, et par conséquent la seule que l'on peut aimer dans la pratique, de ce qui est le plus sacré en chacun de nous, est notre tâche aujourd'hui.