Le commentateur et historien William Pfaff a pris sa plume la plus exc\u00e9d\u00e9e et l’a tremp\u00e9e dans une verve au vitriol pour d\u00e9crire le paysage am\u00e9ricaniste de l’avant-p\u00e9riode \u00e9lectorale. Les candidats sont repr\u00e9sent\u00e9s comme des zombis, plus ou moins ahuris et plut\u00f4t plus que moins, r\u00e9p\u00e9tant, ou plut\u00f4t \u00e2nonnant un discours pasteuris\u00e9 et pass\u00e9 au moule du conformisme GW-9\/11. Le titre de son article du 3 octobre<\/a> nous en dit d\u00e9j\u00e0 beaucoup, avant de passer \u00e0 la substance de sa r\u00e9flexion: \u00abDehumanizing America’s Presidential Candidates<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abThe candidates of both parties have already lost much if not most of their human recognizability and have increasingly come to resemble synthetic creatures uttering programmed opinions that relate to a virtual rather than real national and international society.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbAs a result of this two-year campaign passage to which these candidates are submitted, some already display strange behavior, incidents of uncontrolled or inappropriate public behavior, like Hillary Clinton’s inhuman laugh and Ralph Giuliani’s revelations of his private life.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbIt is as if they might already be experiencing near-death out-of-body episodes, floating above the audiences or television studios and incredulously witnessing themselves answering the same meaningless questions for the millionth time, with a million more times to come before the campaign ends a year from November, and already near madness. The presidential campaign is an ordeal we should not inflict on sentient beings, even laboratory rats.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbIt is a phenomenon of what Marx would not have recognized as post-modern capitalism, since this degree of dehumanization of individuals would have been unimaginable in a nineteenth century economic or political system. But today, the United States, under the Supreme Court-imposed doctrine that money spent on television political advertising is constitutionally protected free speech, has created a presidential election industry concerned totally with profit and virtually nothing with principle.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbIf principle does survive the process, as it sometimes does, this surely is evidence that God has not yet forsaken the American nation.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbThe electoral industry’s procedures are designed to adapt initially sane individuals to become golem-like creatures (to cite rabbinical literature), or Dalek clones (in the Brit pop-culture tradition), still human-like in form and meant to seem human to others, but actually simulacra of humanity, their brains and morality drained from them by the ultimate re-make surgery.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tLe diagnostic est impitoyable et rend compte sans aucun doute de la victoire de 9\/11 et de GW Bush, le triomphe de la m\u00e9diocrit\u00e9 impos\u00e9e en fait de pens\u00e9e politique. Il n’est pas impossible qu’\u00e0 ce r\u00e9gime-l\u00e0, les psychologies elles-m\u00eames soient touch\u00e9es, conduisant les esprits \u00e0 r\u00e9ellement penser<\/strong> aussi bas que l’exige le syst\u00e8me. Nous d\u00e9couvrons alors que la combinaison de GW avec 9\/11 n’a fait qu’exprimer avec ses fastes et ses exaltations une compl\u00e8te homog\u00e9n\u00e9isation de la politique US et du monde politique washingtonien. Bien entendu, de tels candidats-robots ne peuvent que suivre les perspectives qu’eux-m\u00eames ont trac\u00e9es pendant la campagne, c’est-\u00e0-dire l’\u00e9nonc\u00e9 d’une politique standard qui devient d\u00e8s lors une politique-robot, et que Pfaff se fait un plaisir de nous \u00e9noncer sans grande surprise (voir aussi notre F&C<\/em> du jour<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tLa campagne 2008 s’annonce infiniment plus contrainte et emprisonn\u00e9e sur le fond des choses que celle de 2004 o\u00f9 l’on osait tout de m\u00eame envisager la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 de mettre fin \u00e0 la folie irakienne. Tout se passe comme si la paradoxale grande ombre de GW, improbable gardien du nouveau dogme 9\/11, r\u00e9gnait d\u00e9sormais sur Washington. Il est tr\u00e8s possible que nous soyons en train d’assister \u00e0 un grand ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne de lobotomie par la communication et la consigne de conformisme, affectant jusqu’aux psychologies des \u00e9lus de la d\u00e9mocratie. La victoire du virtualisme pourrait alors \u00eatre proclam\u00e9e. C’est \u00e0 ce point que certains en viendraient peut-\u00eatre \u00e0 regretter que que la Grande R\u00e9publique d\u00e9pende d’un syst\u00e8me insensible<\/a> aux tentatives de putsch.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tIl ne nous reste plus que les surprises et l’impr\u00e9vu.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \tMis en ligne le 5 octobre 2007 \u00e0 16H44<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Le commentateur et historien William Pfaff a pris sa plume la plus exc\u00e9d\u00e9e et l’a tremp\u00e9e dans une verve au vitriol pour d\u00e9crire le paysage am\u00e9ricaniste de l’avant-p\u00e9riode \u00e9lectorale. 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