Amid the debris and regret, Gary Younge finds a city losing its soul<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tIl est en effet question d’\u00e2me. La mort qu’apporte le capitalisme am\u00e9ricaniste, le capitalisme pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment de cette sorte pr\u00e9datrice, est quelque chose qui agresse effectivement la structure fondamentale et la spiritualit\u00e9 de la vie. Il n’est pas suffisant d’\u00e9crire que ce capitalisme tue, parce qu’on peut tuer par inadvertance, par inconscience, etc., et que l’Histoire est pleine de ces circonstances qui ressortent de la trag\u00e9die dont elle est faite. Il faut constater que cette forme morbide d’action m\u00e9caniste porte en elle quelque chose qui ressemble au go\u00fbt d’une mort particuli\u00e8re, une mort st\u00e9rile et niveleuse, une mort entropique qui semble capable de rendre effectivement inf\u00e9cond tout ce qu’elle touche, qui semble rendre in\u00e9luctables les effets pr\u00e9dateurs qu’elle engendre \u00e0 terme.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tIl y a l\u00e0 un ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne bien plus qu’\u00e9conomique, certes. Nous sommes au niveau de l’agression par syst\u00e8me et par fatalit\u00e9, sans but autre que le nihilisme de la destruction, contre la psychologie qui est ainsi r\u00e9duite et encha\u00een\u00e9e, contre les structures de l’organisation du monde. Nous sommes dans le champ d’une attaque totale, \u00e0 l’image de la guerre totale lanc\u00e9e m\u00e9caniquement contre tous les \u00e9l\u00e9ments constituants de la civilisation. Cette situation doit susciter des r\u00e9flexions d’ordre spirituel sur la substance de ce ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne dont les hommes, y compris les cr\u00e9atures m\u00e9diocres qui le manipulent, semblent \u00eatre les jouets. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tCe qu’\u00e9crivait en conclusion Younge le 29 juin doit nous faire sentir la profondeur de ce ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne, combien il s’apparente \u00e0 une \u00e9vocation de la Fin des Temps. On y retrouve, derri\u00e8re tous les clich\u00e9s du postmodernisme clinquant, derri\u00e8re le go\u00fbt de l’apparence et de la tromperie type-village Potemkine, tous les ingr\u00e9dients des catastrophes postmodernes.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00ab Were it not for the T-shirts, areas such as the French quarter, the Garden district and elsewhere uptown seem almost normal today. The fallen trees have been cleared, the graffiti threatening to shoot looters scrubbed off. On a Sunday morning at the Boulangerie on Magazine street referred to mockingly as the aisle of denial white and wealthy patrons enjoy croissants and creamy lattes. You could almost believe that Katrina, like Pam, was just a scare story to knock the city into shape.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb But if there has been one thing more amazing than how New Orleans has changed since Katrina, it is how much it has stayed the same and how little the clean-up has achieved. The hurricane season has already begun, and it’s an open question whether the city is any better prepared this year than it was last. Driving through the Lower Ninth after her return from North Carolina, Antoinette K-doe kept stopping the car and staring at the post-apocalyptic sight of the neighbourhood where she grew up. It looked as if Katrina had arrived just a week ago: whole houses had been washed off their moorings and into the road; cars had been washed into the houses; trees had been blown on to cars. And there they were still. We’re the richest country in the world, K-doe said. I don’t understand how we can’t fix this up. In March alone, nine bodies and a skull were found among the city’s rubble. It was only earlier this month that they finally resumed mail service to the handful of Lower Ninth residents who have returned. But the postman keeps finding addresses without houses and houses without doors.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tIl serait ironique et ce ne serait que plaisante justice que le premier anniversaire de Katrina, \u00e0 la fin du mois, attire l’attention des moyens de communication sur ce qu’est devenue La Nouvelle Orl\u00e9ans. Il serait ironique que la chute dans les sondages de GW Bush commenc\u00e9e il y a un an avec Katrina, se poursuive et s’acc\u00e9l\u00e8re cette ann\u00e9e avec la reconstruction, pour le premier anniversaire de la catastrophe et \u00e0 deux mois des \u00e9lections g\u00e9n\u00e9rales aux USA. Apr\u00e8s tout, il s’agit de frapper ces gens l\u00e0 o\u00f9 ils placent le plus pr\u00e9cieux d’eux-m\u00eames.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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La Nouvelle Orl\u00e9ans, comme l’Irak et l’Afghanistan 20 ao\u00fbt 2006 Un an apr\u00e8s Katrina, il est frappant de constater combien le destin de La Nouvelle Orl\u00e9ans est parfaitement trac\u00e9 selon le sch\u00e9ma destructeur et pr\u00e9dateur que le capitalisme am\u00e9ricaniste porte au fond de lui-m\u00eame. Les m\u00eames m\u00e9thodes, les m\u00eames effets qu’en Irak et en Afghanistan… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4363,3934,3356,5805,2632,1368,2622,2642,4760],"class_list":["post-67902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faits-et-commentaires","tag-capitalisme","tag-chaos","tag-desordre","tag-entropie","tag-globalisation","tag-katrina","tag-la","tag-nouvelle","tag-orleans"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}