Voici un texte caract\u00e9ristique d’une \u00e9poque (notre crise g\u00e9n\u00e9rale) et d’une situation (aux USA). Il est de Chris Hedges, de Truthdig.com<\/em>, ce 13 septembre 2010<\/a>, avec des r\u00e9f\u00e9rences (entretien) de Ralph Nader. Ci-dessous, le d\u00e9but du texte…<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abThere are no longer any major institutions in American society, including the press, the educational system, the financial sector, labor unions, the arts, religious institutions and our dysfunctional political parties, which can be considered democratic. The intent, design and function of these institutions, controlled by corporate money, are to bolster the hierarchical and anti-democratic power of the corporate state. These institutions, often mouthing liberal values, abet and perpetuate mounting inequality. They operate increasingly in secrecy. They ignore suffering or sacrifice human lives for profit. They control and manipulate all levers of power and mass communication. They have muzzled the voices and concerns of citizens. They use entertainment, celebrity gossip and emotionally laden public-relations lies to seduce us into believing in a Disneyworld fantasy of democracy.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbThe menace we face does not come from the insane wing of the Republican Party, which may make huge inroads in the coming elections, but the institutions tasked with protecting democratic participation. Do not fear Glenn Beck or Sarah Palin. Do not fear the tea party movement, the birthers, the legions of conspiracy theorists or the militias. Fear the underlying corporate power structure, which no one, from Barack Obama to the right-wing nut cases who pollute the airwaves, can alter. If the hegemony of the corporate state is not soon broken we will descend into a technologically enhanced age of barbarism.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbInvesting emotional and intellectual energy in electoral politics is a waste of time. Resistance means a radical break with the formal structures of American society. We must cut as many ties with consumer society and corporations as possible. We must build a new political and economic consciousness centered on the tangible issues of sustainable agriculture, self-sufficiency and radical environmental reform. The democratic system, and the liberal institutions that once made piecemeal reform possible, is dead. It exists only in name. It is no longer a viable mechanism for change. And the longer we play our scripted and absurd role in this charade the worse it will get. Do not pity Barack Obama and the Democratic Party. They will get what they deserve. They sold the citizens out for cash and power. They lied. They manipulated and deceived the public, from the bailouts to the abandonment of universal health care, to serve corporate interests. They refused to halt the wanton corporate destruction of the ecosystem on which all life depends. They betrayed the most basic ideals of democracy. And they, as much as the Republicans, are the problem.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bb It is like being in a pit, Ralph Nader told me when we spoke on Saturday. If you are four feet in the pit you have a chance to grab the top and hoist yourself up. If you are 30 feet in the pit you have to start on a different scale.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbAll resistance will take place outside the arena of electoral politics. The more we expand community credit unions, community health clinics and food cooperatives and build alternative energy systems, the more empowered we will become.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbTo the extent that these organizations expand and get into communities where they do not exist, we will weaken the multinational goliath, from the banks to the agribusinesses to the HMO giants and hospital chains, Nader said…<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tIl s’agit d’une volont\u00e9 de rupture totale avec le syst\u00e8me ; il est certes question du corporate power<\/em>, mais il ne s’agit en aucun cas d’une sp\u00e9cificit\u00e9 quelconque, d’une organisation particuli\u00e8re, parce que le corporate power<\/em> n’a aucune unit\u00e9 mais simplement un assemblage d’int\u00e9r\u00eats \u00e9normes allant dans le sens de toutes les tendances d’affirmation de puissance d\u00e9structurante, c’est-\u00e0-dire le syst\u00e8me comme nous le comprenons, agissant en aveugle, sans \u00e9viter des concurrences pr\u00e9datrices en lui-m\u00eame, voire des tendances suicidaires g\u00e9n\u00e9rales dont il faut savoir profiter ; syst\u00e8me de la mati\u00e8re d\u00e9cha\u00een\u00e9e, syst\u00e8me du technologisme, comme d’ailleurs le laisse entendre plus ou moins volontairement Chis Hedges lorsqu’il \u00e9crit dans cette phrase o\u00f9 il emploie l’image de corporate state<\/em> qui, l\u00e0 non plus, n’a aucune valeur sp\u00e9cifique : \u00abIf the hegemony of the corporate state is not soon broken we will descend into a technologically enhanced age of barbarism<\/em>\u00bb La barbarie de l’\u00e2ge du technologisme triomphant si l’on veut, et d’ailleurs nous y sommes d\u00e9j\u00e0.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tIl s’agit \u00e9galement d’une sp\u00e9cificit\u00e9 des USA que la diffusion de ce sentiment de plus en plus radical qui ne voit d’autre issue que la rupture compl\u00e8te avec le syst\u00e8me, c’est-\u00e0-dire l’insurrection furieuse contre le syst\u00e8me. A cet \u00e9gard, les Am\u00e9ricains sont en avance sur les Europ\u00e9ens, qui parlent encore d’opposition, de r\u00e9forme, etc., et ils sont en avance parce qu’ils sont confront\u00e9s \u00e0 un syst\u00e8me beaucoup plus achev\u00e9, tant dans ses caract\u00e8res les plus monstrueux que dans la puissance de son application. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tLe cas de Chris Hedges est int\u00e9ressant parce qu’il est assez exemplaire pour substantiver la th\u00e8se. En 2007 encore, Hedges<\/a>, venu du journalisme officiel, Prix Pulitzer, envisageait la crise en termes d’affrontements politiques classiques qui le mettaient dans le camp d\u00e9mocrate, contre la mont\u00e9e du fascisme<\/a> repr\u00e9sent\u00e9 selon lui par la droite chr\u00e9tienne int\u00e9griste derri\u00e8re GW Bush. Aujourd’hui, toutes ces d\u00e9licatesses sont termin\u00e9es, \u00abDo not fear Glenn Beck or Sarah Palin. Do not fear the tea party movement, the birthers, the legions of conspiracy theorists or the militias. Fear the underlying corporate power structure<\/em>\u00bb On conna\u00eet aussi la certaine sympathie qu’il montre \u00e0 l’endroit des n\u00e9o-s\u00e9cessionnistes<\/a>, surtout du Vermont, qui est son Etat natal. Ce parcours ultra-rapide d’un journaliste extr\u00eamement exp\u00e9riment\u00e9, ayant une position privil\u00e9gi\u00e9e, vers une position de rupture syst\u00e9mique, est une bonne mesure de l’avancement rapide de la crise, particuli\u00e8rement aux USA, et de la mont\u00e9e d’un affrontement, non plus entre deux mondes ou deux conceptions du monde, mais entre deux m\u00e9taphysiques du monde, l’une, totalement d\u00e9structurante et repr\u00e9sentant effectivement la source de tous les maux<\/a>, l’autre figurant une r\u00e9sistance qui s’affirme psychologiquement \u00e0 tr\u00e8s grande vitesse, qui sera n\u00e9cessairement radicale, structurante, etc., par simple antinomie. Ce type d’\u00e9volution implique la probabilit\u00e9 grandissante d’une insurrection totale de la psychologie contre l’agression totalitaire du syst\u00e8me, insurrection qui est bien autre chose que le jeu des affrontements id\u00e9ologiques que nous avons connus au XX\u00e8me si\u00e8cle. La gravit\u00e9 des \u00e9v\u00e9nements ne se mesurera plus au nombre des victimes, aux guerres et autres \u00e9v\u00e9nements de cette sorte, mais bien \u00e0 la probl\u00e9matique g\u00e9n\u00e9rale de l’effondrement ou pas d’un syst\u00e8me du monde qui ne repr\u00e9sente rien d’autre que l’activit\u00e9 fondamentale du mal dans l’Histoire de la civilisation occidentale arriv\u00e9e dans sa p\u00e9riode terminale de la modernit\u00e9 (ce que nous appelons la deuxi\u00e8me civilisation occidentale).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \tMis en ligne le 14 septembre 2010 \u00e0 15H17<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Voici un texte caract\u00e9ristique d’une \u00e9poque (notre crise g\u00e9n\u00e9rale) et d’une situation (aux USA). Il est de Chris Hedges, de Truthdig.com, ce 13 septembre 2010, avec des r\u00e9f\u00e9rences (entretien) de Ralph Nader. 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