{"id":65740,"date":"2003-09-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2003\/09\/17\/et-si-gw-etait-un-ado-attarde\/"},"modified":"2003-09-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-09-17T00:00:00","slug":"et-si-gw-etait-un-ado-attarde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2003\/09\/17\/et-si-gw-etait-un-ado-attarde\/","title":{"rendered":"Et si GW \u00e9tait un \u201cado attard\u00e9\u201d ?<\/em><\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Et si GW \u00e9tait un ado attard\u00e9 ?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

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\t17 septembre 2003 Les Guignols de l’Info ne sont pas si b\u00eates, lorsqu’ils ont fait de la marionnette de GW Bush un adolescent attard\u00e9, insupportable, sans cervelle et ainsi de suite. Un article tr\u00e8s court d’un psychiatre am\u00e9ricain pr\u00e9sente, tr\u00e8s rapidement et tr\u00e8s clairement, la th\u00e8se selon laquelle l’administration GW fonctionne psychologiquement comme un adolescent (An administration that thinks and acts as a child, de John A. McKinnon, dans l’International Herald Tribune du 17 septembre<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tCet article est lumineux, peut-\u00eatre sans que l’auteur en ait une pleine conscience. Nous le proposons en consultation instantan\u00e9e ci-dessous pour que le lecteur puisse mieux r\u00e9aliser par lui-m\u00eame ce que nous voulons dire. Il est par exemple utile de relire certaines analyses, comme celle d’hier sur la psychologie binaire et manich\u00e9iste de cette administration<\/a>) \u00e0 la lumi\u00e8re des constats de McKinnon.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tNous aurions tendance \u00e0 aller plus loin que McKinnon. Nous pensons que cette psychologie d’adolescent attard\u00e9 caract\u00e9rise non seulement l’administration GW mais \u00e9galement l’establishment<\/em> US. (On peut se rappeler par exemple que Bill Clinton \u00e9tait d\u00e9crit, d’une fa\u00e7on tr\u00e8s convaincante, comme un adolescent par le journaliste Richard Bernstein dans un article du New York Times<\/em> de novembre 1996, mais pas encore un adolescent attard\u00e9, plut\u00f4t un adolescent sympathique.) Plus encore, et c’est de loin le plus important : l’hypoth\u00e8se de McKinnon concerne aussi et surtout la psychologie postmoderne, qui r\u00e9fute le lien entre le pass\u00e9 et elle, qui est totalement individualiste et n’appr\u00e9cie le monde, les amis, les lois, etc, qu’en fonction d’elle-m\u00eame, etc.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tDu coup, McKinnon ouvre, sans doute involontairement, des horizons passionnants. Surtout, il conduit \u00e0 une question fondamentale : la puissance des communications qui v\u00e9hiculent le message postmoderne de fa\u00e7on syst\u00e9matique et massive, peut-elle modifier la psychologie d’une fa\u00e7on structurelle ? McKinnon \u00e9voque la question en passant et de fa\u00e7on compl\u00e8tement indirecte (\u00ab Temporarily (under stress) or chronically (for those who never grew up), adults can think like immature teen-agers.<\/em> \u00bb). Nous pensons qu’il s’agit d’un point fondamental, et qui entre directement dans une \u00e9ventuelle d\u00e9finition de notre concept de virtualisme. Nous pensons que le texte de McKinnon conduit \u00e0 envisager une r\u00e9ponse positive \u00e0 cette question fondamentale : oui, les conditions de la vie moderne, des communications, du conformisme n’autorisant qu’une seule id\u00e9ologie (en r\u00e9alit\u00e9 non-id\u00e9ologie), aboutissent \u00e0 un ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne que nous baptisons virtualisme et qui pourrait effectivement se transcrire dans la pratique, non pas en une situation d’opinions, de jugements, etc, mais en une situation de perception fondamentale supposant une modification structurelle de la psychologie.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tBien entendu, nous reviendrons constamment sur cette question. En attendant, voici le texte de McKinnon, qui a l’immense m\u00e9rite de rapprocher, hors du verbiage herm\u00e9tique des sp\u00e9cialistes, le cas clinique de la psychologie de l’adolescence attard\u00e9e du cas g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de la politique \u00e9trang\u00e8re US dans notre \u00e9poque de crise de civilisation. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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An administration that thinks and acts as a child<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

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\tBy John A. McKinnon, International Herald Tribune, 17 september, 2003<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tMARION, Montana. Troubled teenagers fail at the tasks of a modern adolescence because they try to solve sophisticated problems with an unsophisticated approach whose elements routinely include a childish sense of time, lack of empathy, florid narcissism, selfish ethics and concrete logic.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tThey are usually not stupid, nor ill – not the kids I’m talking about. But they fail across the board at school, at home and among their peers – because their approach is childish.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tI point this out because I want to talk about adults, and specifically about the Bush administration and its \u00a0\u00bbapproach.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tTemporarily (under stress) or chronically (for those who never grew up), adults can think like immature teen-agers. To persuade you, I’ll describe this flawed approach:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tPresent and Future: Immature teen-agers think the future a destination to be reached by magical thinking. They want to \u00a0\u00bbbe\u00a0\u00bb astronauts, but see no reason to do tonight’s algebra assignment.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tPresent and Past: Immature teen-agers think the past a fairy tale not usefully connected to the present. You can’t teach them history.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tLack of Empathy: Immature teen-agers treat \u00a0\u00bbfriends\u00a0\u00bb with consideration, but only if they dress the same way and can be imagined to think and feel \u00a0\u00bbjust like me.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tNarcissism: Immature teen-agers are selfish, self-preoccupied, self-oriented and self-important. If they want it, they think they’re entitled to have it. And so they don’t need to ask, and if they ask they don’t think the answer has any business being no, and if it’s no they are entitled to badger, bully, blackmail, bribe or or attack to compel compliance. For there is only one person in the relationship – \u00a0\u00bbme.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tSelfish Ethics: Troubled teen-agers often think they ought to be allowed to do as they like and take what they like, and that it’s all right to do so if they can get away with it. In pursuit of self-interest, they are shameless.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tConcrete Logic: Immature teen-agers are so impressed that they no longer believe in the Tooth Fairy that they congratulate themselves for \u00a0\u00bbrealism\u00a0\u00bb when they ignore (because they don’t yet understand) mature ethical abstractions such as honor, tolerance, integrity, the environment, or the good of our community. Mistaking metaphor for literal fact, they have little sense of humor, but insist upon concrete interpretation of rules and other texts, even when such concreteness betrays the spirit of those rules. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tI have no wish to be rude, and I recognize that neither political party has a monopoly on childishness. But I can’t help seeing in this description a synopsis of the Bush administration’s approach.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tWhether the administration is talking about medical care or tax cuts, homeland security or social welfare, energy or the environment, democracy (in Florida, California, Iraq or the West Bank) or the separation of church and state, or the liberty of citizens and the rights of prisoners under the Constitution, the approach has been arrogant, self-important, unempathic, careless of the future and ethically primitive.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tIn this election season, the maturity of our approach to national and international affairs ought to take priority over party, class, race, region, creed or personality. Inasmuch as the maturity of our leadership is an American issue, it should unite us.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tWe might even agree that we need an approach that includes clear, plausible goals embedded in coherent, fully debated plans before actions are taken that affect our children’s lives, our resources and our honor; a firm grasp of history’s haunting of the present, its constraints upon future options; true empathy, not patronizing sentimentality, for those not like us; respect for others and other nations; a social ethic that soars above greedy immediate self-interest; a quiet respect for integrity, separateness, privacy and liberty, and a sense of humor, irony and humility.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tWhy does this matter so much?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tFirst, because a childish approach fails. It doesn’t even work for high school sophomores. There is no reason to think it will work for our nation.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tSecond, because even in high school others despise strutting narcissism, personal obtuseness, bullying relationships and selfish ethics. Faced with arrogance and selfishness, others refuse to help us, passively resist, applaud our humiliation and disdain all those associated with that arrogance.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tAs we come up to elections for legislative seats and for the office of president, let’s put aside partisanship so as to rise above party labels and disgraceful sound bites. Let’s see if, together, we can elect and re-elect those who think and behave like adults.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tThe writer, a psychiatrist, is co-founder and chairman of Montana Academy, a residential school for troubled adolescents in Montana.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\t[Notre recommandation est que ce texte doit \u00eatre lu avec la mention classique \u00e0 l’esprit, Disclaimer: In accordance with 17 U.S.C. 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only..]<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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