{"id":74053,"date":"2011-09-12T09:59:09","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T09:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2011\/09\/12\/le-zero-et-linfini\/"},"modified":"2011-09-12T09:59:09","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T09:59:09","slug":"le-zero-et-linfini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2011\/09\/12\/le-zero-et-linfini\/","title":{"rendered":"Le z\u00e9ro et l&rsquo;infini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Au premier abord, la chronique que Tom Engelhardt consacra \u00e0 9\/11, \u00e0 deux jours du dixi\u00e8me anniversaire, nous avait paru excellente en elle-m\u00eame. Il s&rsquo;agissait,  il s&rsquo;agit de \u00ab<em>Let&rsquo;s Cancel 9\/11<\/em>\u00bb, du <a href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/engelhardt\/2011\/09\/08\/lets-cancel-911\/\" class=\"gen\">9 septembre 2011<\/a>. Le titre lui-m\u00eame donnait une bonne id\u00e9e de l&rsquo;audace du projet : Annulons 9\/11<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tEn voici un large extrait, simplement la premi\u00e8re partie du texte. Tout l&rsquo;esprit de la chose s&rsquo;y trouve.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00ab<em>Let&rsquo;s bag it.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>I&rsquo;m talking about the tenth anniversary ceremonies for 9\/11, and everything that goes with them: the solemn reading of the names of the dead, the tolling of bells, the honoring of first responders, the gathering of presidents, the dedication of the new memorial, the moments of silence.  The works.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>Let&rsquo;s just can it all.  Shut down Ground Zero.  Lock out the tourists.  Close Reflecting Absence, the memorial built in the footprints of the former towers with its grove of trees, giant pools, and multiple waterfalls before it can be unveiled this Sunday.  Discontinue work on the underground National September 11 Museum due to open in 2012.  Tear down the Freedom Tower (redubbed 1 World Trade Center after our freedom wars went awry), 102 stories of the most expensive skyscraper ever constructed in the United States. (Estimated price tag: $3.3 billion.)  Eliminate that still-being-constructed, hubris-filled 1,776 feet of building, planned in the heyday of George W. Bush and soaring into the Manhattan sky like a nyaah-nyaah invitation to future terrorists.  Dismantle the other three office towers being built there as part of an $11 billion government-sponsored construction program.  Let&rsquo;s get rid of it all.   If we had wanted a memorial to 9\/11, it would have been more appropriate to leave one of the giant shards of broken tower there untouched.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>Ask yourself this: ten years into the post-9\/11 era, haven&rsquo;t we had enough of ourselves?  If we have any respect for history or humanity or decency left, isn&rsquo;t it time to rip the Band-Aid off the wound, to remove 9\/11 from our collective consciousness?  No more invocations of those attacks to explain otherwise inexplicable wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and our oh-so-global war on terror.  No more invocations of 9\/11 to keep the Pentagon and the national security state flooded with money.  No more invocations of 9\/11 to justify every encroachment on liberty, every new step in the surveillance of Americans, every advance in pat-downs and wand-downs and strip-downs that keeps fear high and the homeland security state afloat.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>The attacks of September 11, 2001 were in every sense abusive, horrific acts.  And the saddest thing is that the victims of those suicidal monstrosities have been misused here ever since under the guise of pious remembrance. This country has become dependent on the dead of 9\/11  who have no way of defending themselves against how they have been used  as an all-purpose explanation for our own goodness and the horrors we&rsquo;ve visited on others, for the many towers-worth of dead in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere whose blood is on our hands.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>Isn&rsquo;t it finally time to go cold turkey?  To let go of the dead?  Why keep repeating our 9\/11 mantra as if it were some kind of old-time religion, when we&rsquo;ve proven that we, as a nation, can&rsquo;t handle it  and worse yet, that we don&rsquo;t deserve it?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>We would have been better off consigning our memories of 9\/11 to oblivion, forgetting it all if only we could.  We can&rsquo;t, of course.  But we could stop the anniversary remembrances.  We could stop invoking 9\/11 in every imaginable way so many years later.  We could stop using it to make ourselves feel like a far better country than we are.  We could, in short, leave the dead in peace and take a good, hard look at ourselves, the living, in the nearest mirror.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tL&rsquo;on aurait pu s&rsquo;arr\u00eater l\u00e0, peut-\u00eatre avec un commentaire d\u00e9veloppant ou appr\u00e9ciant le th\u00e8me expos\u00e9. Mais il se trouve que, le jour m\u00eame o\u00f9 Engelhardt mettait sa chronique en ligne, lui vint une r\u00e9ponse de Washington, D.C., du majestueux Congr\u00e8s, sous la forme d&rsquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/rules.house.gov\/Media\/file\/PDF_112_1\/Floor_Text\/911RES_003_xml.pdf\" class=\"gen\">une r\u00e9solution<\/a> pass\u00e9e par la Chambre des Repr\u00e9sentants. Elle a \u00e9t\u00e9 initi\u00e9e par Eric Cantor, le chef de la majorit\u00e9 r\u00e9publicaine de la Chambre, et vot\u00e9e avec l&rsquo;accompagnement d&rsquo;un non moins pompeux communiqu\u00e9 du <em>Speaker<\/em> John Boehner. Ces deux hommes sont des repr\u00e9sentants absolument classiques de le&rsquo;<em>establishment<\/em>, selon les normes am\u00e9ricanistes, extr\u00eamement respectables, grands amis d&rsquo;Isra\u00ebl (surtout Cantor),  dans tous les cas, l&rsquo;Isra\u00ebl d&rsquo;avant les incidents du Sina\u00ef, qui attaquait l&rsquo;Iran toutes les trois semaines,  absolument corrompus (surtout Boehner) par tout ce que Washington D.C. compte de lobbies. Ils sont \u00e9galement ces chefs de la majorit\u00e9 r\u00e9publicaine qui ont conduit, avec l&rsquo;aimable complicit\u00e9 de Barak Obama, le pouvoir dans l&rsquo;impasse en forme d&rsquo;op\u00e9ra-bouffe de l&rsquo;accord sur la dette<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tMais lorsqu&rsquo;il s&rsquo;agit de 9\/11, ils se rassemblent et se retrouvent, et Cantor n&rsquo;a fait qu&rsquo;exprimer le sentiment unanime de l&rsquo;<LMI>establishment<D> et du Syst\u00e8me en proposant cette r\u00e9solution qui r\u00e9affirme que le peuple am\u00e9ricain n&rsquo;oubliera jamais (\u00ab<em>reaffirms that the American people will never forget the sacrifices made on September 11, 2001, and will never bow to terrorist demands<\/em>\u00bb). En d&rsquo;autres termes, le vu d&rsquo;Engelhardt sera rencontr\u00e9, exactement \u00e0 l&rsquo;inverse de ce qu&rsquo;il est. Non seulement on n&rsquo;oubliera pas 9\/11 mais on ne veut jamais l&rsquo;oublier.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tLa r\u00e9solution semblerait m\u00eame vouloir ordonner la r\u00e9surrection du pass\u00e9 jusque dans ses d\u00e9tails les plus sympathiques, puisqu&rsquo;elle remercie solennellement tous les pays qui ont exprim\u00e9 leur sympathie aux USA dans ce moment douloureux, et qui <strong>continuent<\/strong> \u00e0 le faire, dix ans apr\u00e8s, et \u00e0 combattre pour la libert\u00e9 aux c\u00f4t\u00e9 des USA Existent-ils vraiment des pays qui continuent quotidiennement \u00e0 g\u00e9mir aux c\u00f4t\u00e9s des d\u00e9put\u00e9s et des s\u00e9nateurs en souvenir de ce jour fatal ? Quelle \u00e9poque int\u00e9ressante&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00ab<em> (5)<\/em> [E]<em>expresses thanks and gratitude to the foreign leaders and citizens of all nations who have assisted and continue to stand in solidarity with the United States against terrorism in the aftermath of the attacks on September 11, 2001, and asks them to continue to stand with the United States against international terrorism<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tEngelhardt \u00e9crit cette phrase, notamment : \u00ab<em>This country has become dependent on the dead of 9\/11&#8230;<\/em>\u00bb ; il aurait pu \u00e9crire <em>addicted<\/em> au lieu de <em>d\u00e9pendent<\/em>, pour \u00eatre encore plus pr\u00e9cis, pour bien illustrer l&rsquo;id\u00e9e d&rsquo;une d\u00e9pendance sous l&#8217;empire d&rsquo;une mati\u00e8re qui capture et encha\u00eene la psychologie. Cela est vrai presque d&rsquo;un point de vue clinique, cette d\u00e9pendance, mais nous ne dirions pas qu&rsquo;il s&rsquo;agit du pays, ou de ce qu&rsquo;il en reste. La mascarade grotesque qui, hier, a t\u00e9tanis\u00e9 le monde entier et r\u00e9duit la fonction de journaliste (journaliste-Syst\u00e8me, certes) \u00e0 celle d&rsquo;une sorte de guide de syndicat d&rsquo;initiative pour visite guid\u00e9e pour les contingents de touristes,  encore que cette comparaison ne rend pas justice \u00e0 la culture comptable des vrais professionnels,  cette mascarade est bien plus un sursaut path\u00e9tique du Syst\u00e8me lui-m\u00eame pour ranimer une ic\u00f4ne informe dans laquelle il place sa survie. On comprend bien entendu le sentiment d&rsquo;Engelhardt, et aussi que sa suggestion sacril\u00e8ge pour briser le carcan de ce qu&rsquo;il d\u00e9signe justement comme une religion (\u00ab<em>our 9\/11 mantra as if it were some kind of old-time religion<\/em>\u00bb) soit la seule voie pour tenter de ralentir, sinon retenir l&rsquo;irr\u00e9sistible Chute. On comprend \u00e9galement qu&rsquo;il n&rsquo;a gu\u00e8re d&rsquo;espoir que cela se fasse, et qu&rsquo;il n&rsquo;a pas tort.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tIl y a cet ab\u00eeme extraordinaire de profondeur, cette faille formidable de largeur, qui s\u00e9parent cette comm\u00e9moration et tous les bavardages pompeux qui l&rsquo;accompagn\u00e8rent, de la v\u00e9rit\u00e9 de la situation du monde, de la v\u00e9rit\u00e9 de l&rsquo;activit\u00e9 et de la mati\u00e8re mal\u00e9fiques et destructrices du bloc am\u00e9ricaniste-occidentaliste, du syst\u00e8me de l&rsquo;am\u00e9ricanisme et du Syst\u00e8me tout court. Il est \u00e9crasant d&rsquo;\u00e9vidence que de telles disparit\u00e9s de perception constituent une tension formidable pour les psychologies, qui va encore acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer le destin d&rsquo;effondrement de notre Grand Tout d\u00e9mocratique. Il est difficile de s&rsquo;avancer plus avant dans les commentaires, tant cette circonstance n&rsquo;en a nul besoin pour exposer ce qu&rsquo;elle est. La seule, l&rsquo;unique tentative qu&rsquo;il reste \u00e0 faire pour nous sauvegarder du d\u00e9sastre, serait que l&rsquo;\u00e9minent Eric Cantor songe\u00e2t \u00e0 pr\u00e9senter une nouvelle r\u00e9solution o\u00f9 il statuerait que, non seulement les Am\u00e9ricains n&rsquo;oublieront jamais, mais qu&rsquo;en plus il serait ordonn\u00e9 \u00e0 l&rsquo;univers que la comm\u00e9moration de 9\/11 aurait d\u00e9sormais lieu tous les jours, comme elle a eu lieu hier, 365 fois par an (366 fois tous les quatre ans). Ainsi la <em>narrative<\/em> m\u00e9taphysique deviendrait-elle, physiquement et au jour le jour, la nouvelle v\u00e9rit\u00e9 de l&rsquo;univers.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><p>\tMis en ligne le 12 septembre 2011 \u00e0 09H58<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Au premier abord, la chronique que Tom Engelhardt consacra \u00e0 9\/11, \u00e0 deux jours du dixi\u00e8me anniversaire, nous avait paru excellente en elle-m\u00eame. Il s&rsquo;agissait, il s&rsquo;agit de \u00abLet&rsquo;s Cancel 9\/11\u00bb, du 9 septembre 2011. Le titre lui-m\u00eame donnait une bonne id\u00e9e de l&rsquo;audace du projet : Annulons 9\/11 En voici un large extrait, simplement&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":[354,370,10216,3359,8390,1381,2702,5812,8049],"class_list":["post-74053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-354","tag-370","tag-cantor","tag-chambre","tag-commemoration","tag-engelhardt","tag-mensonge","tag-resolution","tag-subversion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74053","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=74053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}