{"id":68821,"date":"2007-05-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2007\/05\/22\/peur-et-fascination-de-son-propre-aneantissement\/"},"modified":"2007-05-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-22T00:00:00","slug":"peur-et-fascination-de-son-propre-aneantissement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2007\/05\/22\/peur-et-fascination-de-son-propre-aneantissement\/","title":{"rendered":"Peur et fascination de son propre an\u00e9antissement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><h2 class=\"common-article\">Peur et fascination de son propre an\u00e9antissement<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t22 mai 2007  Il est bon de rappeler r\u00e9guli\u00e8rement l&rsquo;\u00e9volution des grandes tendances (surtout psychologiques) de notre monde postmoderne, l\u00e0 o\u00f9 elles se trouvent le plus expos\u00e9es \u00e0 notre vision. Ici, il s&rsquo;agit du virtualisme et il s&rsquo;agit de l&rsquo;Irak qui en est le champ d&rsquo;exp\u00e9rimentation privil\u00e9gi\u00e9, et Washington D.C.,  le syst\u00e8me de l&rsquo;am\u00e9ricanisme,  avec un pied dans chacun de ces domaines.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t Le texte de Robert Parry, sur <em>ConsortiumNews.com<\/em>, du <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consortiumnews.com\/2007\/051807.html\" class=\"gen\">18 mai<\/a>, est excellent dans cette mesure o\u00f9 il nous permet d&rsquo;observer l&rsquo;\u00e9volution du concept virtualiste extraordinaire de la guerre contre la r\u00e9alit\u00e9. Parry titre fort justement son article \u00ab<em>Rejecting Reality in Iraq<\/em>\u00bb,  comme si, appel\u00e9e \u00e0 la barre et entendue comme t\u00e9moin somme toute, la r\u00e9alit\u00e9 \u00e9tait finalement rejet\u00e9e,  comme non conforme en un sens. Comment de tels ph\u00e9nom\u00e8nes si extraordinaires peuvent-ils se produire d&rsquo;une fa\u00e7on d\u00e9sormais r\u00e9guli\u00e8re, malgr\u00e9 la puissance de la r\u00e9alit\u00e9 (la catastrophe irakienne) ?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tL&rsquo;int\u00e9r\u00eat \u00e9galement est que Parry appuie son texte sur un rapport du RUSI (Chatham House), de si grand renom, qui, effectivement, base son exp\u00e9rimentation sur cette exhortation : il serait temps de voir la r\u00e9alit\u00e9 en face (<em>Accepting Realities in Iraq<\/em>)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00ab<em>In its May 2007 report, Chatham House asserts that a fundamental weakness in Bush&rsquo;s Iraq strategy has been the failure of the United States and its allies to appreciate the severity of the political and security problems in Iraq.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>This analytical failing has led to the pursuit of strategies that suit ideal depictions of how Iraq should look, but are often unrepresentative of the current situation, the report said, arguing for strategies that at least recognize the underlying realities.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tApr\u00e8s cette incursion d\u00e9rangeante dans la r\u00e9alit\u00e9 (et l&rsquo;\u00e9vidence que les exhortations de Chatham House n&rsquo;ont aucune chance d&rsquo;\u00eatre entendues \u00e0 Washington), on peut mentionner la description de la situation r\u00e9elle aux USA que nous propose Parry. Cette situation r\u00e9elle est bien entendu une situation de contestation fondamentale de la r\u00e9alit\u00e9 au profit de la fiction virtualiste pr\u00e9valente.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00ab<em>Indeed, today&rsquo;s intractable crisis in the Middle East is arguably more dangerous because of the divergence between the harsh realities in Iraq and the more pleasing false reality that has been cultivated in Washington.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>In particular, Bush&rsquo;s Republican base continues to believe that the war in Iraq is going well, that the surge is bringing America closer to victory and that the biggest problem is that liberal bias in the news media is obscuring all the President&rsquo;s successes.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>At the first two debates of Republican presidential candidates, the loudest applause went to tough talk about the war on terror, including the need to torture suspects and to expand the Guantanamo Bay prison complex. Even the mildest, most indirect criticism of Bush&rsquo;s policies was met by stony silence.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>It&rsquo;s as if a substantial part of the U.S. population has joined a Jonestown-like cult, willfully cutting itself off from the real world and accepting the truth handed down by the cult leader, in this case the President of the United States.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t()<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>Possibly Bush&rsquo;s biggest mistake in Iraq  besides his initial decision to invade  has been his stubborn refusal to adjust U.S. policy to Iraq&rsquo;s worsening reality. He has always looked for glimmers of sunlight and berated experts who pointed toward the darkening storm clouds.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>So, instead of avoiding the war in the first place or finding a relatively quick exit, Bush kept placing his false hope in the ambitious plans of the neocons who saw Iraq as the first step in throttling Muslim governments viewed as impediments to U.S. regional power projection or as threats to Israel.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>Back home, the Iraq War and the war on terror also proved useful as political devices to convince many Americans that they had no choice but to surrender their civil liberties to Bush and the neocons in exchange for supposed protection from terrorists.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>Although more and more Americans have come to see through these arguments, a large portion of the U.S. public  the Republican base  still buys into the neocon worldview. As this chasm grows between the real world and their faux reality, the Bush cult seems to have set up permanent residence in what might be called an ideological Jonestown.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t  William Pfaff, lui (sa chronique du <a href=\"http:\/\/www.williampfaff.com\/modules\/news\/article.php?storyid=224\" class=\"gen\">17 mai<\/a>), analyse le comportement de la direction am\u00e9ricaniste depuis le 11 septembre 2001 et en tire la conclusion que la guerre en Irak n&rsquo;a aucune raison de se terminer pour les USA. Un \u00e9l\u00e9ment fondamental, selon Pfaff, c&rsquo;est la peur,  c&rsquo;est le facteur le plus grave, ainsi donnant raison \u00e0 trois-quarts de si\u00e8cle de distance \u00e0 Franklin Delano Roosevelt [FDR]. (Le 5 mars 1933, jour de la prise de fonction de FDR: \u00ab<em>La seule chose dont nous devons avoir peur, c&rsquo;est de la peur elle-m\u00eame.<\/em>\u00bb) <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00ab<em>No door can be closed this time because both Democrats and Republicans have interiorized the idea of the global war against terror. Integral to that is fear. As the president has repeatedly reminded Americans, Terror will again strike the United States. Polls indicate widespread anxiety about new attacks of Middle Eastern origin, or by Moslem individuals.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>A debate among Republican presidential candidates at the University of South Carolina May 15 posed the following question, as if this were a matter of normal expectation and response: three shopping centers across the country are bombed, with huge casualties. How far should the U.S. go in torturing suspects?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>That this question did not seem unusual to an everyday American audience indicates how deep the fear has gone. John McCain, one of the few Americans actually to have been tortured, was the only one of the ten candidates to say there should be no torture. He explained that it&rsquo;s not about the terrorists, it&rsquo;s about us&#8230;what kind of country we are. The obfuscation of the other nine candidates revealed what kind of country they thought the United States is.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>This Great Fear will keep America in the Middle East. It is formal doctrine that the U.S. must be militarily dominant everywhere so as to fight extremism.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>It must also control areas of strategic significance, possessing energy resources. Whatever happens inside Iraq, to its government and society, American forces can be expected to fight to remain in the four huge strategic bases that have been constructed in that country.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t()<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>A Middle Eastern military presence has become an essential part of the American conception of security. Faithful to Bush&rsquo;s belief in war against terror, the menace to the U.S. is not a state or military power. It is something that does not exist as a material entity. It is bipartisan policy to dominate the world out of fear of extremism, which of course is unconquerable. You have only to listen to the debates of the declared Democratic candidates. Whatever happens in Iraq, the troops will not be going, because the fear will remain.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<h3>Le syst\u00e8me est-il fascin\u00e9 par la fatalit\u00e9 de sa propre liquidation? <\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tD\u00e9crivant le commencement de tout, c&rsquo;est-\u00e0-dire l&rsquo;attaque du 11 septembre, et les buts et les sentiments des protagonistes, les terroristes et le c\u00f4t\u00e9 US, Pfaff observe le processus qui conduit effectivement \u00e0 la mise en place d&rsquo;une r\u00e9alit\u00e9 virtualiste : \u00ab<em>So the affair began with fantasy on both sides. But when you believe in fantasy hard enough, and act as if the fantasy were true, you can impose that fantasy upon reality. That is what has happened.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tCela se traduisit par un changement fondamental d&rsquo;\u00e9tat d&rsquo;esprit, de conception, de perception du monde (\u00ab<em>The war has caused a deep shift in American thinking and popular fears, and produced structural and doctrinal changes in American foreign policy and the American conception of global strategy. This has been true in most American expert opinion, as well as among politicians and voters.<\/em>\u00bb) L&rsquo;on con\u00e7oit et l&rsquo;on comprend ais\u00e9ment combien et comment une telle situation nouvelle, impos\u00e9e et accept\u00e9e avec la brutalit\u00e9 qu&rsquo;on sait, et surtout organis\u00e9e, format\u00e9e avec une brutalit\u00e9 \u00e9quivalente, conduit \u00e0 des cons\u00e9quences psychologiques consid\u00e9rables. C&rsquo;est ce que Pfaff nous dit implicitement lorsqu&rsquo;il parle de cette peur qui a envahi la psych\u00e9 am\u00e9ricaniste, voire l&rsquo;Am\u00e9rique elle-m\u00eame, qui a compl\u00e8tement gauchi la psychologie am\u00e9ricaniste.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tAyant \u00e0 l&rsquo;esprit la remarque de FDR en 1933, on observera combien la sc\u00e8ne \u00e9tait pr\u00eate pour cette transformation de la perception qui conduit on dirait presque <strong>naturellement<\/strong> au virtualisme, combien la psychologie am\u00e9ricaniste <strong>appelait<\/strong> cette nouvelle approche psychologique du monde machin\u00e9e, provoqu\u00e9e par la peur. Il y a l\u00e0 quelque chose du mat\u00e9riel psychologique caract\u00e9risant l&rsquo;Am\u00e9rique originelle.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tIl est remarquable que la peur soit l&rsquo;\u00e9l\u00e9ment d\u00e9terminant pour d\u00e9crire la situation psychologique dans ces deux grands \u00e9v\u00e9nements dominant l&rsquo;histoire moderne,  et l&rsquo;histoire tout court, certes,  des USA : la Grande D\u00e9pression et 9\/11. L\u00e0-dessus, la construction virtualiste autour de 9\/11 semble simplement aller de soi. Il y avait eu une construction virtualiste de FDR autour de la Grande D\u00e9pression repr\u00e9sent\u00e9e comme l&rsquo;Ennemi,  mais elle \u00e9tait beaucoup plus fond\u00e9e, beaucoup plus justifi\u00e9e et aussi, paradoxalement pour ce processus, beaucoup plus humaine (gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 FDR, justement),  et donc, en ce sens de l&rsquo;\u00e9vidence, sans les caract\u00e8res d\u00e9shumanisants du virtualisme. Les moyens pour parvenir au virtualisme dans le cas de 9\/11, ceux de la communication, sont si gigantesques que le processus d&rsquo;\u00e9volution a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9galement gigantesque ; le conformisme qui est la base de la psychologie US, et qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 notablement renforc\u00e9 par la communication,  s&rsquo;est av\u00e9r\u00e9 le deuxi\u00e8me \u00e9l\u00e9ment gigantesque indispensable pour permettre et m\u00eame favoriser cette \u00e9volution. La  d\u00e9shumanisation est compl\u00e8te, <em>dito<\/em> l&rsquo;absence de mesure et de perception \u00e9quilibr\u00e9e. Quoi qu&rsquo;il en soit de son \u00e9tat psychologique, la direction US observe et per\u00e7oit aujourd&rsquo;hui le monde avec le regard d&rsquo;un fou.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tLa description que donne Parry de la situation est bonne, mais sa description psychologique est plus contestable. Il laisse l&rsquo;impression qu&rsquo;il y a un <strong>choix<\/strong> dans le chef des dirigeants US. Il donne l&rsquo;impression d&rsquo;une partie \u00e9clair\u00e9e dans le public US, d&rsquo;une autre partie obscurantiste. Il donne l&rsquo;explication d&rsquo;une nation sous influence, comme dans une secte avec un culte, mais avec les dirigeants de cette secte manipulant cette influence. Nous pensons que ce n&rsquo;est pas le cas. Si cela put sembler l&rsquo;\u00eatre dans d&rsquo;autres occurrences, et encore avec des nuances n\u00e9cessaires, cela ne l&rsquo;est plus aujourd&rsquo;hui. La peur que Pfaff mentionne comme facteur psychologique principal, si elle touche le public, touche <strong>surtout<\/strong> la direction. Si le public est touch\u00e9 par le virtualisme, c&rsquo;est essentiellement la direction qui en est la victime (victime consentante, certes,  et alors?). Il n&rsquo;y a pas de complot ni de manipulation sinon accessoirement et par inadvertance, et c&rsquo;est bien le facteur le plus grave. Les incertitudes, les h\u00e9sitations, le d\u00e9sarroi, les mauvais sondages sont l&rsquo;expression des effets des coups de boutoir de la r\u00e9alit\u00e9 contre la construction virtualiste.  La catastrophe irakienne est \u00e9difiante \u00e0 cet \u00e9gard et nous fait mesurer la force de ces coups de boutoir.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tLe facteur int\u00e9ressant que Pfaff met en lumi\u00e8re, c&rsquo;est l&#8217;emprisonnement de la direction US dans sa propre peur, et que cet emprisonnement se situe exactement dans cette situation qui menace de mort le syst\u00e8me. En Irak, effectivement, le syst\u00e8me risque gros, il risque sa puissance, son influence, sa stabilit\u00e9, jusqu&rsquo;au risque que tout cela conduise \u00e0 la possibilit\u00e9 d&rsquo;un effondrement, un <em>collapsus<\/em> par effets directs et indirects induits. La situation est extraordinaire en ceci, comme l&rsquo;explique Pfaff, que c&rsquo;est justement dans son engagement en Irak que le syst\u00e8me voit la seule possibilit\u00e9 de sa survie. C&rsquo;est l&rsquo;effet de la cohabitation prodigieusement perverse de la r\u00e9alit\u00e9 (la catastrophe irakienne) et du virtualisme (n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 de rester en Irak car l\u00e0 se trouve le nud de la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 et de la puissance US).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tMesurez donc ce caract\u00e8re extraordinaire de la situation. Le syst\u00e8me est convaincu, par sa peur originelle et le montage virtualiste dont cette peur a accouch\u00e9, que sa survie d\u00e9pend d&rsquo;un engagement dans une situation qui rec\u00e8le tous les ingr\u00e9dients de son effondrement. Plus qu&rsquo;un suicide, c&rsquo;est une auto-liquidation rituelle (l&rsquo;aspect culte, effectivement) par la fascination pour sa propre mort. Tout se passe comme si le syst\u00e8me avait en lui l&rsquo;acquiescement \u00e0 la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 de sa liquidation, comme une vague mais irr\u00e9sistible conscience qu&rsquo;\u00e0 c\u00f4t\u00e9 de sa puissance existe une telle perversit\u00e9 engendr\u00e9e par cette puissance que la chose n\u00e9cessite sa propre liquidation.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peur et fascination de son propre an\u00e9antissement 22 mai 2007 Il est bon de rappeler r\u00e9guli\u00e8rement l&rsquo;\u00e9volution des grandes tendances (surtout psychologiques) de notre monde postmoderne, l\u00e0 o\u00f9 elles se trouvent le plus expos\u00e9es \u00e0 notre vision. Ici, il s&rsquo;agit du virtualisme et il s&rsquo;agit de l&rsquo;Irak qui en est le champ d&rsquo;exp\u00e9rimentation privil\u00e9gi\u00e9, et&hellip;&nbsp;<\/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":[354,370,6701,3228,3083,3583,3184,2891,857,4464,5030,1131,610],"class_list":["post-68821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faits-et-commentaires","tag-354","tag-370","tag-attente","tag-crise","tag-depression","tag-fascination","tag-fdr","tag-grande","tag-irak","tag-parry","tag-peur","tag-pfaff","tag-virtualisme"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68821","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=68821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}