{"id":66224,"date":"2005-02-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2005\/02\/07\/comment-lamerique-est-en-train-de-changer\/"},"modified":"2005-02-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-07T00:00:00","slug":"comment-lamerique-est-en-train-de-changer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2005\/02\/07\/comment-lamerique-est-en-train-de-changer\/","title":{"rendered":"Comment l’Am\u00e9rique est en train de changer<\/em><\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Comment l’Am\u00e9rique est en train de changer<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

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\t7 f\u00e9vrier 2005 Il s’impose de rapprocher deux informations qui nous en disent long sur l’Am\u00e9rique, bien qu’elles ne soient pas directement de type politique, au sens strict et n\u00e9cessairement \u00e9troit du monde ; mais, politiques, elles le sont vastement lorsqu’on embrasse le concept dans sa diversit\u00e9 et sa profondeur.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t• La premi\u00e8re nouvelle, c’est cet article dans le Guardian<\/em> du jour, nous expliquant que, bient\u00f4t, le Kansas pourrait consid\u00e9rer que Dieu a cr\u00e9\u00e9 l’homme<\/a>, techniquement et rationnellement parlant, et que la th\u00e9orie de l’\u00e9volution n’est pas un fait scientifique mais une th\u00e9orie parmi d’autres, et, en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral selon l’esprit de cette \u00e9ventuelle nouvelle loi du Kansas, une th\u00e9orie qui a mauvaise presse. Le Kansas n’est pas une exception ou un accident puisque le m\u00eame d\u00e9bat l\u00e9gal, au niveau de la l\u00e9gislature de l’\u00c9tat, est engag\u00e9 dans 17 autres \u00c9tats de l’Union.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\t\u00ab Somewhere along the line, the students have been told the theory of evolution is not valid, he said. In the last few years, I’ve had students question my teaching about cell classification and genetics, and there have been a number of comments from students saying: Didn’t God do that?’ In Kansas, the geographical centre of America, the heart of the American heartland, the state-approved answer might soon be Yes. In the coming weeks, state educators will decide on proposed curriculum changes for high school science put forward by subscribers to the notion of intelligent design, a modern version of creationism. If the religious right has its way, and it is a powerful force in Kansas, high school science teachers could be teaching creationist material by next September, charting an important victory in America’s modern-day revolt against evolutionary science.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb Similar classroom confrontations between God and science are under way in 17 states, according to the National Centre for Science Education. In Missouri, state legislators are drafting a bill laying down that science texts contain a chapter on so-called alternative theories to evolution. Textbooks in Arkansas and Alabama contain disclaimers on evolution, and in a Wisconsin school district, teachers are required to instruct their students in the scientific strengths and weaknesses of evolutionary theory. Last month, a judge in Georgia ordered a school district to remove stickers on school textbooks that warned: This textbook contains material on evolution. Evolution is a theory, not a fact, regarding the origin of living things.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb For the conservative forces engaged in the struggle for America’s soul, the true battleground is public education, the laboratory of the next generation, and an opportunity for the religious right to effect lasting change on popular culture. Officially, the teaching of creationism has been outlawed since 1987 when the supreme court ruled that the inclusion of religious material in science classes in public teaching was unconstitutional. In recent years, however, opponents of evolution have regrouped, challenging science education with the doctrine of intelligent design which has been carefully stripped of all references to God and religion. Unlike traditional creationism, which posits that God created the earth in six days, proponents of intelligent design assert that the workings of this planet are too complex to be ascribed to evolution. There must have been a designer working to a plan that is, a creator.<\/em> \u00bb <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\t• La seconde nouvelle, c’est un article (dans le New York Times<\/em>\/l’International Herald Tribune<\/em> du jour) sur quelque chose d’impensable pour un Am\u00e9ricain courant: un courant d’\u00e9migration pour des motifs politiques fondamentaux<\/a>; c’est-\u00e0-dire des Am\u00e9ricains de pur type, dans le sens de la psychologie et de la conception du monde notamment, qui ne supportent plus de vivre dans le pays qui a \u00e9lu et r\u00e9\u00e9lu GW Bush, qui suit la politique qu’il suit, qui a les pratiques qu’il a, etc.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\t\u00ab I love the United States, he said as he stood on the Vancouver waterfront, staring toward the Coastal Range, which was lost in a gray shroud. I fought for it in Vietnam. It’s a wrenching decision to think about leaving. But America is turning into a country very different from the one I grew up believing in.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb In the Niagara of liberal angst just after Bush’s victory on Nov. 2, the Canadian government’s immigration Web site reported a surge in inquiries from the United States, to about 115,000 a day from 20,000.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb After three months, memories of the election have begun to recede. There has been an inauguration, even a State of the Union address. Yet immigration lawyers say that Americans are not just making inquiries and that more are pursuing a move above the 49th parallel, fed up with a country they see drifting persistently to the right and abandoning the principles of tolerance, compassion and peaceful idealism they felt once defined the nation.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb America is in no danger of emptying out. But even a small loss of population, many from a deep sense of political despair, is a significant event in the life of a nation that thinks of itself as a place to escape to. Firm numbers on potential immigrants are elusive. The number of U.S. citizens who are actually submitting Canadian immigration papers and making concrete plans is about three or four times higher than normal, said Linda Mark, an immigration lawyer in Vancouver.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\tNous avons intentionnellement plac\u00e9 les deux articles dans cette chronologie parce qu’il y a un d\u00e9roulement logique. La premi\u00e8re nouvelle est une indication de plus, et celle-ci d’une tr\u00e8s grande force, de la volont\u00e9 de changement du pays, et un changement portant sur une mati\u00e8re fondamentale (l’enseignement des origines du monde). C’est \u00e0 cause de ce changement-l\u00e0 que des Am\u00e9ricains commencent \u00e0 quitter les Etats-Unis dans une volont\u00e9 de migration fondamentalement politique, sinon philosophique.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tNous ne nous attarderons pas \u00e0 d\u00e9battre du fond du d\u00e9bat ouvert au Kansas et dans 17 autres \u00c9tats. Ridiculiser la th\u00e8se de l’ intelligent design<\/em> au nom \u00e0 la fois de l’intelligence et de la tol\u00e9rance, impliquant que cette th\u00e8se est stupide et que la volont\u00e9 de l’enseigner aux d\u00e9pens de l’\u00e9volution est un acte d’intol\u00e9rance, n’est pas ici le vrai d\u00e9bat ; cela l’est d’autant moins que c’est un d\u00e9bat fauss\u00e9 ou bien ambigu, lorsqu’on consid\u00e8re l’\u00e9tat d’un monde dont les conceptions modernistes, pr\u00e9tendant \u00e0 l’intelligence et \u00e0 la tol\u00e9rance et s’opposant au retour du cr\u00e9ationnisme, portent l’essentiel de la responsabilit\u00e9. A l’inverse, d\u00e9bat fauss\u00e9 et ambigu \u00e9galement pour les partisans du cr\u00e9ationnisme, qui soutiennent \u00e0 100% une administration Bush dont l’action ext\u00e9rieure, tant politique qu’\u00e9conomique, implique dans son caract\u00e8re de globalisation une d\u00e9structuration des traditions et des structures historiques, dans un mouvement si radical qu’il pourrait \u00eatre identifi\u00e9 \u00e0 ce qu’il y a de plus maximaliste dans le postmodernisme, jusqu’\u00e0 \u00eatre qualifi\u00e9 de trotskisme postmoderniste.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tCe qui nous importe pour l’instant est de relever que l’Am\u00e9rique est r\u00e9ellement entr\u00e9e dans une \u00e8re de bouleversements profonds, et \u00e0 une tr\u00e8s grande vitesse. Les effets constat\u00e9s ici sont encore marginaux mais il est manifeste qu’ils poss\u00e8dent une dynamique d’expansion. Ils pourraient rapidement s’amplifier, notamment sous la pouss\u00e9e d’\u00e9v\u00e9nements ext\u00e9rieurs eux-m\u00eames d\u00e9stabilisants pour l’Am\u00e9rique. L’acc\u00e9l\u00e9ration du mouvement ultra-conservateur qu’on constate, additionn\u00e9e \u00e0 bien d’autres facteurs renfor\u00e7ant la m\u00eame dynamique, n’aura pas comme seul effet une \u00e9migration politique, \u00e9v\u00e9nement pourtant d\u00e9j\u00e0 consid\u00e9rable pour l’Am\u00e9rique, et lui-m\u00eame d\u00e9stabilisant dans la mesure o\u00f9 la raison d’\u00eatre mythique de l’Am\u00e9rique est d’\u00eatre une terre o\u00f9 l’on se r\u00e9fugie. Au-del\u00e0, une cons\u00e9quence dramatique possible est un affrontement civil \u00e0 l’int\u00e9rieur de l’Am\u00e9rique. L’apparition de l’existence s\u00e9rieuse d’une telle possibilit\u00e9 est un \u00e9v\u00e9nement \u00e9galement dramatique et d’une importance politique consid\u00e9rable.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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