{"id":72938,"date":"2011-04-20T12:02:23","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T12:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2011\/04\/20\/armageddon-chic\/"},"modified":"2011-04-20T12:02:23","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T12:02:23","slug":"armageddon-chic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2011\/04\/20\/armageddon-chic\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Armageddon Chic<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>L&rsquo;id\u00e9e g\u00e9n\u00e9rale pour caract\u00e9riser notre temps est que, dans notre temps, <strong>toutes<\/strong> les forces du syst\u00e8me de la communication semblent converger pour accr\u00e9diter, <em>nolens volens<\/em>, s\u00e9rieusement ou non, cette id\u00e9e de l&rsquo;apocalypse, ou bien d&rsquo;Armageddon, ultime bataille entre le Bien et le Mal. La tendance <em>Armageddon Chic<\/em> (sorte de mode Armageddon) semble r\u00e9sister \u00e0 toutes les temp\u00eates et \u00e0 toutes les pr\u00e9visions (pr\u00e9dictions) non rencontr\u00e9es. L&rsquo;expression <em>Armageddon Chic<\/em> est largement utilis\u00e9e par <em>Dirty Magazine<\/em>, notamment pour pr\u00e9senter un <a href=\"http:\/\/dailydirtydiary.com\/post\/3855853103\/lvmh-mask\" class=\"gen\">masque \u00e0 gaz<\/a> type Apocalypse et sign\u00e9 Louis Vuitton.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tSur <em>Antiwar.com<\/em> ce <a href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/vlahos\/2011\/04\/19\/feels-like-armageddon-2\/\" class=\"gen\">20 avril 2011<\/a>, Kelley B. Vlahos pr\u00e9sente un texte sur ce th\u00e8me, pour caract\u00e9riser une \u00e9poque qui se caract\u00e9rise par le go\u00fbt tr\u00e8s prononc\u00e9 et irr\u00e9pressible pour l&rsquo;Apocalypse et la fin des Temps.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00ab<em>On Thursday, May 21 the world as we know will come to an end. There will be a massive earthquake, and millions of us who have been deemed saved will rise up through the clouds and the ozone and straight to heaven. The rest of us, those left behind, will bleed it out and die in torment. Then, on Oct. 21 the entire universe will be destroyed by fire.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>So goes the prophecy of one Harold Camping, who has caused a sensation from coast to coast with his springtime end-times predictions. A long-time Christian radio broadcaster, Camping, 89, reportedly made a similar prediction for 1994. When the world did not end (the 1994 government shutdown doesn&rsquo;t count), Camping crunched the biblical numbers again and got this date for the so-called rapture, which scholars, prophets and all manner of snake oil salesmen and Holy Rollers have been trying to nail down forever.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>If May 21 comes and goes and the only thing torn asunder is the nation&rsquo;s credit rating then all references to the Great Disappointment will turn from President Obama to Harold Camping, at least in some circles, and then only for a solitary turn in the 24-hour news cycle, if that. This isn&rsquo;t 1844, and frankly, since September 11, 2001, everyday for Americans has been one more in preparation for Armageddon, so one misfired apocalypse will hardly register anywhere but in the persistently hyperbolic blogosphere<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tCette mention de 1844 (22 octobre) et du <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Great_Disappointment#October_22.2C_1844\" class=\"gen\">Grand D\u00e9sappointement<\/a> indique aux USA une date annonc\u00e9e comme celle du retour du Messie par le pr\u00eacheur  baptiste William Miller, et \u00e0 laquelle le Messie fit faux bond,  d&rsquo;o\u00f9 le d\u00e9sappointement en question. Aujourd&rsquo;hui, peu importe, indique Vlahos, toutes ces dates annon\u00e7ant Apocalypse, Armageddon &#038; Cie, qui ne donnent rien, qui allongent la liste des d\u00e9sappointements ; peu importe, car rien ne semble devoir nous d\u00e9courager d&rsquo;attendre cet \u00e9v\u00e8nement cataclysmique Vlahos remarque justement, comme nous le signalions plus haut, que <strong>toutes<\/strong> les forces existantes de promotion du syst\u00e8me de la communication, vont dans le m\u00eame sens, qu&rsquo;elles soient politiques, commerciales et publicitaires, \u00e9sot\u00e9riques, complotistes&#8230; Le gouvernement am\u00e9ricaniste m\u00e8ne, depuis 9\/11, une politique d&rsquo;apocalypse ; le Syst\u00e8me, dans sa composante capitaliste, en fait ses choux gras, aussi bien dans ses productions hollywoodiennes dites <em>block busters<\/em> que, apr\u00e8s tout, dans les masques \u00e0 gaz Vuitton pour l&rsquo;Apocalypse ; les opposants au gouvernement am\u00e9ricaniste et au Syst\u00e8me, annoncent eux aussi un tel \u00e9v\u00e9nement, cons\u00e9quence de l&rsquo;ignominie du Syst\u00e8me et seul moyen v\u00e9ritable pour an\u00e9antir ce Syst\u00e8me ; ceux qui veulent \u00eatre moins hyperboliques et symboliques, et en rester plut\u00f4t aux faits, sont \u00e9galement conduits \u00e0 des pr\u00e9visions de la m\u00eame sorte Le syst\u00e8me du technologisme lui-m\u00eame, par la formidable puissance qu&rsquo;il a emmagasin\u00e9e, et la diffusion de cette puissance dans tous les domaines, entretient, volontairement ou pas, cette perception en sugg\u00e9rant que tout \u00e9v\u00e9nement inattendu prendrait des dimension apocalyptiques \u00e0 cause de cette puissance.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tSigne des temps ? Nous dirions plut\u00f4t : marque du Syst\u00e8me, comme l&rsquo;on dit d&rsquo;une marque de fabrique et d&rsquo;une marque d\u00e9pos\u00e9e. Le Syst\u00e8me du d\u00e9cha\u00eenement de la mati\u00e8re et de l&rsquo;id\u00e9al de puissance ne peut se percevoir, dans son accomplissement final, qu&rsquo;il s&rsquo;agisse d&rsquo;un accomplissement de transmutation ou d&rsquo;un accomplissement auto suicidaire, que dans un <em>Big Bang<\/em> dont la repr\u00e9sentation la plus \u00e9vidente se trouve r\u00e9alis\u00e9e, selon les normes du m\u00eame Syst\u00e8me, dans l&rsquo;entreprise hyper capitaliste finale Apocalypse, Armageddon &#038; Cie. Tout cela vous est expliqu\u00e9 de fa\u00e7ons diverses, comme l&rsquo;on explique diversement le fait que, depuis le 11 mars 2011 (tremblement de terre + <em>tsunami<\/em> + catastrophe nucl\u00e9aire du Fukushima), les ventes d&rsquo;abris souterrains antinucl\u00e9aires, ou dirait-on d&rsquo;abris anti-Apocalypse, ont augment\u00e9 de 1.000%,  aux USA, bien s\u00fbr, o\u00f9 l&rsquo;on est pass\u00e9 directement, semble-t-il, de l&rsquo;<em>American Dream<\/em> \u00e0 l&rsquo;<em>American Apocalypse<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00ab<em>Tens of millions of people believe in a literal apocalypse, which involves earthquakes, storms, disasters of global proportions and especially disasters related to the Middle East, said Stephen O&rsquo;Leary, associate professor at the University of California, in a recent interview for CNN. He was trying to explain why sales of underground bomb shelters are up some 1,000 percent since revolution rocked the Middle East and the recent earthquakes and tsunami in Japan. But, [O&rsquo;Leary] added, Some believe that this is just a turbulent time and they have to go somewhere to ride it out.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>Elan Yadan, a clothing store owner in Los Angeles, is one of the many customers who rushed to find a bunker last week. Yadan secured a spot for his family in a Vivos&rsquo; shelter, putting down four deposits totaling $20,000$20,000 that had been earmarked for a down payment on a new house. I honestly didn&rsquo;t want to do it, but unfortunately it looks like the worst expectations about the world are starting to come true, said Yadan, who had been reading about Mayan predictions of a global meltdown in 2012. With the things happening this week, it&rsquo;s better to be safe than sorry. And what good is a house if you don&rsquo;t feel safe?<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tLa psychologie est consid\u00e9rablement envahie par cette conception, ou bien dirait-on infect\u00e9e, ou encore fort heureusement marqu\u00e9e c&rsquo;est selon. Nous sommes entre la <em>narrative<\/em> grotesque, l&rsquo;entra\u00eenement du syst\u00e8me de la communication, le complot en sens divers, la marche in\u00e9luctable d&rsquo;\u00e9v\u00e9nements extraordinaires qui fait croire qu&rsquo;effectivement <em>sapiens<\/em> a \u00e9gar\u00e9 la boussole du contr\u00f4le de l&rsquo;univers par sa toute puissante raison. Il y a \u00e0 boire et \u00e0 manger, \u00e0 rire et \u00e0 pleurer, dans ces diverses consid\u00e9rations, il n&rsquo;y a surtout rien de fix\u00e9 ni rien d&rsquo;assur\u00e9 et la psychologie finit par s&rsquo;accoutumer \u00e0 cet \u00e9tat des choses, et \u00e0 susciter la perception d&rsquo;une certaine fatalit\u00e9 dans l&rsquo;entra\u00eenement des \u00e9v\u00e9nements, et \u00e0 ne plus craindre l&rsquo;in\u00e9luctable effondrement d&rsquo;une civilisation, d&rsquo;un Syst\u00e8me, d&rsquo;un monde, que sais-je encore&#8230; En un mot, l&rsquo;on s&rsquo;y fait, et l&rsquo;on comprend aussi bien que l&rsquo;on s&rsquo;y fasse.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00ab<em>In part the world is on edge because the world<\/em> <strong><em>is<\/em><\/strong> <em>on edge: global warming, declining living standards, actual threats, etc. But fear has always been a powerful motivator in American politics, offers writer Conn Hallinan in an email to Antiwar.com. You know, Camping might have a point. I mean not that the world is going to end May 21the baseball owners would never allow itbut if people are feeling like a Christian Scientist with appendicitis, one can hardly blame them.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>Activist blogger and lawyer Ken Krayeske suggests that people are more than ever succumbing to the apocalyptic zeitgeist, even embracing it. The past ten years have really worn us downthere is no doubt about it, he said. I think it&rsquo;s become easier to live in a state of fear than a state of confidence. Breaking fear takes courage and that courage is no longer easy to come by.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tAinsi <em>sapiens<\/em> est-il devenu spectateur de son propre destin. Il ne peut l&rsquo;imaginer autrement qu&rsquo;apocalyptique, ce destin, parce qu&rsquo;il va de soi que c&rsquo;est le cas Comme dit l&rsquo;\u00e9crivain Conn Hallinan, on peut difficilement le bl\u00e2mer de telles pens\u00e9es.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tCela \u00e9crit, sans trop de coquilles esp\u00e9rons-nous, il nous reste donc \u00e0 nous caler confortablement dans nos fauteuils, devant notre petit \u00e9cran qui ne cesse de grandir, et \u00e0 observer la suite des \u00e9v\u00e9nements.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><p>\tMis en ligne le 20 avril 2011 \u00e0 12H00<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>L&rsquo;id\u00e9e g\u00e9n\u00e9rale pour caract\u00e9riser notre temps est que, dans notre temps, toutes les forces du syst\u00e8me de la communication semblent converger pour accr\u00e9diter, nolens volens, s\u00e9rieusement ou non, cette id\u00e9e de l&rsquo;apocalypse, ou bien d&rsquo;Armageddon, ultime bataille entre le Bien et le Mal. La tendance Armageddon Chic (sorte de mode Armageddon) semble r\u00e9sister \u00e0 toutes&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":[2],"tags":[831,4012,2604,2651,2985,4967,11051,2878,11049,3099,6750,11050],"class_list":["post-72938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-a","tag-apocalypse","tag-des","tag-du","tag-fin","tag-gaz","tag-masque","tag-monde","tag-predictions","tag-psychologie","tag-temps","tag-vuitton"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72938","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=72938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}