Resisting is creating | Gilles LUNEAU | TEDxLimoges

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resist resist for me this is it
the result of a reflection that
is needed when the republican triptych
freedom equality fraternity is
reached by injustice by
multiple attacks con we know
and that causes me to feel
revolt that was well well widely
explained by one by my predecessors
but to resist is also immediately
to confront oppression
identify him know how are we going
confront him and we also find ourselves
immediately to the submission
from some of the people to the oppression the
submission is the way we
obey obey it’s it’s finally
accepted a link with an authority
superior is enough to think
five minutes to the way we
works to see in the business
how we have an alienated proportion
our our ability to act and think
freely to realize it
before continuing to share my
reflections I would simply like
remember a few sentences of
etienne of the boetie who in the middle
of the fifteenth century wrote the speech
of voluntary servitude and I’m going I
will read them for not for poly do
offense
this is I quote I would just like
understand how it can be that so much
boer time old men boer
so many cities so many nations endure
sometimes a single tyrant who has
power to harm them unless he
fly well landed and that it could
do them no harm if he does not like better
all suffer from him only from the
contradict
this master bringing only two eyes
tomorrow a body and nothing more than
born the last of the inhabitants of the number
infinite of our cities what he has more
these are the ways that you him
provide to destroy you
from where does he draw all those eyes that you
spies if not of you how is he
time tomorrow to hit you
if he does not fingerprints
does it have power over you who is not
you even what harm could it you
to do if you were the concealers of the
thief who are plundering the accomplices of the
murderer who are killing you and the
traitors of yourself and 201 dignity
that the animals themselves do not
would not stand if she smelled you
could you deliver if you try
not even to deliver you only from
Want it
when we support like that this type of
abuse when we submit to it we
wonders anyway sure I want
to say we finally say it’s not
it’s not just the fear of losing
a salary or a situation where even the
afraid of a little chef who does that
also a real part of conformism
social way in which we blend into
the mass
it’s so so easy in
our societies in our democracies
to blend like that into the mass of
take shelter in the horde and and
finally carried away outside
now
the contractual bid that we could
that we were able to pass there we carry it with
we and diminish as citizen 7
this submission she draws she can
in conformism
but at the same time at the same time it
is it is in the report we have at
neighbor I mean we are we are like
it
isolated locked up and that begs the question
finally how to break
its like the importance that there can be
to become again a man with two acquitted
the animal has finally assert itself
as a free com m to recover from
power over his life on his daily life and
finally be yourself and the sam
to be oneself that makes me that makes me
think about what henry david was saying
thoreau
the American writer who wrote
mid- 19th century
he is the father of disobedience
civil and who was saying if I’m not
me it will be that too
reflect on the design of the
freedom that we inherited with the
Declaration of Human Rights and
citizen of 1789 who basically says that
the freedom of others stops where
begins that of the neighbor
I have a little trouble with that I find
that it is a freedom of owners
which defines it as an enclosure where
could certainly be left free to
all to all our desires my condition does not
not overflowing but but finally it’s
an extremely individual design
and I do not necessarily have this
design is freedom I think
that freedom is never
acquired that it’s a permanent struggle
between the individual and the collective between
power and counter-powers between
lobbies and private interest has
never acquired and it shows all the
days in the economy it shows in
in the unfinished fight of women for
equality in the work that is seen
in the terrorist attacks
it shows in the state of emergency and 60
millions of French put under control
computer science has never acquired and
that’s why that’s why there’s
fight struggles that’s why
that there are parliaments in democracy
for a chat but it’s also for
that there are sometimes people in
the street
resist resist it’s also when we
commits itself like that in the fight
launched a sign thrown a sign at the
company by telling ourselves we’ll see if
I’m right if it’s okay
hatch resistant people who
do not know and from the moment that it
snaps like that we’re going from
dsk was there awareness
individual the revolt before in this
that I was saying an attack on the
freedom and justice
a small group a collective movement
I think the resistance is
legitimizes in the collective movement
if not before it’s just a
individual resistance that deserves
be welcomed but but I mean
that she comes back she goes back into
history with the collective
it’s also in the collective that we
is a little family con that we find
people who think like us with whom we
sharing ideas with whom
projects are developed
feelings of belonging
it’s also where we take our share of
responsibility for defending the property
common
to resist is nevertheless also
put in danger
it’s never easy to leave
comfort we will say a little lukewarm of the
submission and say no and we end up
to assume the confrontation has gone
not always very simple it’s a
intellectual comfort we can be wrong
we can be downright wrong and
to isolate oneself socially is a real leap
in the unknown at the same time at the same
time we discover in the unknown who has
often much more diversity well
more harmony in this diversity
that the few parcels of certainty
we could have before so
finally resisted it’s pretty happy
we are there we find pleasure
we find pleasure Thursday z euros
will heal power over his life and this
pleasure this freedom you see she
is done in the sharing in the exchanges
by multiplying the links with others
really freedom is more links
and that brings us back to what was being said
Bakunin who said freedom
of others being mine to infinity this
more links today we have more than
never need one realizes in a
life in a society I will say at least
in the western or globalized world
where the centers of power are
diluted we see it well in
the company we know has never been
nobody’s fault it’s always
still far away from us it’s 1,500
of direction that she is far away it’s the
shareholders this is this is it we have
even more boss very rarely to
who can tear off China
so this dilution there it gives a
feeling helpless about life
daily helplessness that
do damage, that is to say that I
to say
the literature is full of the disease
people who lose their bearings on
says who needs meaning that nothing
no longer going because people know
more where to give head and know
all spotted apart from selling themselves
we will say electorally to any
who then this loss of bearings
before asking the question of
loss of landmarks should be asked
the question of why people get
lose themselves eventually and there we
comes back to people who lost in the
mass as well as that the mirror of the
others who are like them there is no
necessarily resistance figure or
advertising mirror with its
nonsense with the pac to the ideas of
television hero short the loss of
meaning it’s mostly a disease of
the inconsistency of life and that that
finally shows that the human being
is not reducible in place of
subjects in the horde in which one
wants to sign it and that he finds his
balance in the quest for
independence in this affirmation
is that this independence is not
a manifestation of selfishness
we get along well in otherness
it is the otherness that gives us
consciousness of existing as beings
singular finally be free it’s
constantly question freedom and
be aware that as much as a right
freedom is first and foremost an effort
I exercise my freedom without limit by
report to others
on the other hand, there is a limit
unsurpassed it is imposed to me by the
nature it is she who finally gives
the perimeter
the perimeter of life is where we
measure the size of the human being
ephemeral passage on earth
his arrogance too when he exceeded
the limits of nature and that she
remember and when we integrate like that
that is to say in a broad sense the finitude
of the planet
it gives us room in the cosmos
it makes us aware of the
part of responsibility that we have
with respect to others in the
finally working
ecosystems but not ours
of responsibility in relation to the
planet and the planet
today she is living a crisis without
previous
what is it at the human level
you natural resources it was
mentioned tonight I’m going to do it
quickly but we all have in mind
the financial economic crisis
social demographics and then epide
learned from the biodiversity that is
it reaches catastrophic versa
resources we need
water resources the crisis
climatic which is gigantic that is
in front of us and that happens very quickly
in short, is it still necessary to speak of
crisis because a crisis
in good French that means we are
able to find solutions
implement them and come back to
the previous state or to listen to
scientists and we can believe them and
i say giec scientists six or
seven thousand scientists who since 20
year exchange their work is
validate each other
whatever the countries from where from where
they come so we go beyond the
national antagonisms
these scientists tell us there will be
no turning back we have so much
so exceeded all the thresholds of a
of ecosystems every threshold of
biodiversity all the gas thresholds to
greenhouse effect in the atmosphere it
there will be no turning back
it is necessary to have the doctor in mind and
it’s really we definitely
changed our earth our living environment
that’s what they call entry into
the warehouse in the era of
the Anthropocene so there is no speech
having one is on the battlefield of
the lost war that we led to
nature
we’ll have to go out we’ll have to
find ways to know peace
how are we rebuilding while still being
with forgiveness in mind that
we will never return to the state before
there because improvement of the break
r is not necessarily catastrophic one
is still we still have a few dozen
of 20 years to get started
but it’s a gigantic turn
you must have read it all
towards the abandonment of the fossil it is
gigantic
the turn is huge and in this turn
immense is imperiously fast
there will be big losers and
socially economically winners
everyone did not win we will get
find face very things
difficult we risk wars there are
already wars for water
could quote there was the first death
of water in France is dead as events
must remember that the clash on
the stevens dam is a story
of water on the water sharing so that’s
not so far that we could talk
of conflict the decennial rice between
israel and palestine it’s also a
question for part and dad and not some
least control of the water of the
region
so that ‘s going to be fixed in advance
in our democracies in the debate
public and public policies that
should who should get out
but it still opens because
that a public debate that supposes that
conceives very clarified about the
forces in my presence I think I
did not hear much but
resists and that supposes forces in
presence
it assumes the fight not fight
inevitably violent me I have a real
supporter of plainclothes police not
violent but it supposes to have
identified depositions and and from
rub one to the other and so this
turn it opens the news field
resistors
there immediately immediately
means that you must immediately
seize what we can to stop
to dig new fields of
oil to stop taking out gases from
shale stop pesticides and
insecticides very briefly all that
was done with oil or gas
natural must stop also the
financialization of all and because we
ends years it also happens patents
on the life we are breaking
the said we are cutting
the man in pieces in pieces
spare parts to claim us
make a man raised brief all these
violations
there what I defined as a case of
freedom to know the limits
natural because we could
massively say stop the delirium of
the technoscience on our lives that is
which led us into a stalemate
current where we are and who
would still claim to get us out he’s gonna
have to also stood face to Sète
this gigantic shift to the selfishness of
wealthy countries like us compared to
poorest countries because
naturally the temptation is to
know how to remember ourselves but we
will not save ourselves without saving
the others here it makes me think
I had not planned but it makes me
think of one to a beautiful quote from
of reborn boss who was was a
ecologist is who and who said we have
need one in substance we need to
save the condors do not have to save
the condors but we need the path
to achieve this to save us
same and I think we’re in this
situation of efforts and so for
finally conclude to my eyes
to resist today it’s really
to invest himself massively
completely in the metamorphosis
ecological of industrial society
here is to create multiplied
alternative initiatives are full of it
there is a crowd at all levels of
village of valets de ville
sap has further scaled that
not go to the state level so he
must release the energies
imaginations
I like to quote miguel benasayag who
happens to be a companion of
reflection and who says
to resist is to create, but you have to
know that it’s a real nod to
gilles deleuze who had said create
is resist and after these two
beautiful words very very very
modestly I would add that resist
it’s starting today to make tomorrow I
thank you
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