CommonDreams<\/a>.) Il en arrive \u00e0 une conclusion importante et tragique, qu’il offre \u00e0 ses lecteurs. Cette conclusion, c’est que 9\/11, ce fut comme une pr\u00e9figuration de la fin de la civilisation et, au-del\u00e0, un avertissement que la civilisation est mortelle.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tOn comprend la m\u00e9taphore tragique et l’on serait m\u00eame inclin\u00e9 \u00e0 la partager. Mais il y a, comme chez tout Am\u00e9ricain, f\u00fbt-il un James Carroll, cette \u00e9trange attitude instinctive de ne pas diff\u00e9rencier l’Am\u00e9rique du monde, comme si le monde pouvait \u00eatre r\u00e9duit \u00e0 l’Am\u00e9rique et comme si l’Am\u00e9rique pouvait \u00eatre, \u00e0 elle seule, le monde. Ce que nous dit Carroll, Paul Val\u00e9ry nous l’a d\u00e9j\u00e0 dit, \u00e0 nous Europ\u00e9ens, au printemps 1919, apr\u00e8s le carnage de la Grande Guerre et comme un commentaire tragique du carnage de la Grande Guerre : \u00abNous autres, civilisations, nous savons maintenant que nous sommes mortelles<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tSi nous avons oubli\u00e9 cet enseignement de la Grande Guerre, nous autres Europ\u00e9ens, comme les Am\u00e9ricains qui ne s’en sont jamais avis\u00e9s, c’est \u00e0 cause de l’enfermement de notre \u00e2me, de la d\u00e9cadence de notre conscience historique, de l’arrogance de notre puissance technique en contrepoint de la crise de notre esprit. Nous comprenons parfaitement ce que Carroll nous dit. Nous comprenons aussi que l’avertissement de 9\/11 n’a finalement servi qu’\u00e0 mettre encore plus en lumi\u00e8re quelque chose qui, dans cette civilisation, semble irr\u00e9m\u00e9diablement attir\u00e9 par le n\u00e9ant de la destruction. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00abBut I believe now that the immediate trauma Americans experienced that first morning was still more primitive than that. Beyond politics, beyond nationality even, what humans saw in that flash was a glimpse of nothing less than the end of the world. Here is the final meaning of the name World Trade Center what happened that day was a world-event, almost certainly the first fully realized one in history. The collapse of the Twin Towers on themselves was a manifestation of the radical contingency of the human project itself. The terrorists were mere instruments of this world-historic destruction, far exceeding as it did any outcome they could have imagined. Their purposes were mundane, even irrelevant, when compared to the transcendent epiphany that resulted from the unprecedented combination of venality, accident, technological innovation, and instantaneous global communication.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbWhat did we see? Not merely the end of the majestic towers, although their majesty was essential to what we saw. Not merely the mortality of those men and women whose bodies could be glimpsed in free fall (hemlines and neckties fluttering), although their mortality was absolute. We saw the stunning courage of a legion of heroes, rushing right before our eyes into selfless jeopardy, and we saw, finally, how such heroism was futile. In that destruction, we saw the destruction of the mainspring of meaning and hope — not the clash of civilization, but the end of it. This was more than a sense of individual mortality, the sure knowledge of a coming death that each one carries. We humans live with that by assuming the open-ended continuation of other lives, our children and their children on into the indefinite future. But on 9\/11, we saw the future itself as mortal.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 12 septembre 2006 \u00e0 06H41<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
James Carroll donne sa r\u00e9flexion profonde sur le sens de l’\u00e9v\u00e9nement du 11 septembre 2001. (Dans le Boston Globe du 11 septembre, relay\u00e9 par CommonDreams.) Il en arrive \u00e0 une conclusion importante et tragique, qu’il offre \u00e0 ses lecteurs. Cette conclusion, c’est que 9\/11, ce fut comme une pr\u00e9figuration de la fin de la civilisation… <\/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":[2],"tags":[354,370,3369,3423,3928],"class_list":["post-67986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-354","tag-370","tag-carroll","tag-civilisation","tag-valery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67986","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=67986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}