The new religion shelled

"[...] We leave the religion in its various forms (theological, political, secular, etc.) Would we therefore entered in remission? I will try to demonstrate that it is not. As often, it is as we believe free, liberated, living in a society with decidedly liberal accents, as we enter a new form of alienation. Which sets in, in this case, as well as our Liberal system is being transformed into a new dogma. "

Here's how the test begins, sometimes demanding reading, in which Dany-Robert Dufour convene psychology, sociology, psychoanalysis, philosophy, law, art and language for us to demonstrate that liberalism is a religion as a other. The book is divided into ten parts, nod to the ten commandments, which each relate to one aspect of the beautiful modern, progressive society in which we live.

Commandment number one: you let yourself be led by selfishness. In this chapter, Mr. Dufour explains the concept of ego-gregariousness, an amount of selfishness acting flock or herd life by believing free; the author speaks of individuation (or be counted for, but in a group, the "herd") which unfortunately overtaken individualization (the conquest of autonomy, but out of the herd within a group), the evolution of the company could have to achieve if bad roads had not been borrowed. The philosopher moves on the evils of television, "third parent" that encourages egos to develop, together with the group attitudes.

Commandment number two: you will use the other to achieve your end (the exact opposite of Kant's maxim: "Act so that you treat the other as an end and never as a means"). In this chapter, Mr. Dufour explains that the differences between the sexes and generations have jumped, and any difference has been replaced by an absurd egalitarianism. "The other is me," so I can use it as I wish; where, following the demise of the generational barrier, the explosion of pedophilia.

Commandment number three: you'll be worshiping all the idols of your choice, provided you worship the supreme God: the Market. Man is a being religious in nature; a being that needs to be transcended by something greater than himself, since he was born "premature", ie incomplete; Men need to tell stories. The market today has no need of History; it develops itself, outside of all history, it is fixed on the present. The ego-gregarious herd thus follows that ideology, but even when we observe new pseudo-religion popular in the Western world, as the new Protestant churches and supermarkets where the faithful / clients get in trance before you go buy the last book of the popular televangelist (Louis XIV thank you for having driven Protestantism in France), Zen Buddhism, or sects, in the skit mocked the Nameless, which grow next to a whole new "literature" spiritual and esoteric discovery of the sense of self. In short, despite the emptiness of our time, people need to believe in something, and the market provides them a variety of "religions" that help them survive (which is believed to vegetarians, genuine new martyrs of the faith animal ... Having tried to talk to them, I know what I say!)

Commandment number four: you do not fabriqueras Kant to itself to exempt you to the herd layout. Following the analysis of religious fact. Adam Smith was a theologian before being an economist; and if the famous (and smoky) "invisible hand" was none other than a divine manifestation? Great huh?

Commandment number five: you will fight any government and good governance prôneras you! Every institution is to fight (State, family, school) since it is an obstacle to development market (since it is not based on selfishness); from there the surreptitious introduction of new terms from the world of doing business in the public sphere. Dufour demolishes Bourdieu and other pseudo-thinkers gravediggers of the homeland, which we gargle of civil society to release to mask the fact that today, everything must be for sale and purchase.

Commandment number six: offusqueras you master any position to educate you, where we agree with the analyzes of Jean-Claude Michéa in Teaching of ignorance and modern conditions. All men are equal, regardless of their age or gender, so a teacher does not have to take her back because "I" am his equal; I do not need to master, because I need anyone, first bad school is a prison, na na nère! Thank you Bourdieu, incidentally, did not fail to put his kids to Louis-le-Grand or Henri IV to give them a solid education.

Commandment number seven: you will be ignored by the grammar and vocabulary you barbariseras. The chapter made me jump the most, in the sense that I am very attached to the language, and especially to its conservation; you can say I'm one of those fascist-reactionary xenophobic-cannibals-wicked-villains-etpasbeaux who can not stand to see added slang words each year in Le Robert. In this chapter, Mr. Dufour noted changes as a result of Renaud Camus (and many others) in syntax and grammar; encouraged change, it must be said, by all pseudo-intellectuals who claim that the key is to communicate, and that, anyway, language is contained in the unconscious, in neurons, so do not bother play-reactionary fascists with Grevisse in hand and a whip in the other (for my part I prefer a good flamethrower). Those who try to speak well are somehow pretentious mannered imbued with their person, and certainly rich villains who want to establish their domination. Note the staggering contradiction of Bourdieu, who has always, first, fought any form of institution, but who made an academic career that can be described as perfect, and second, who always fought such "frills" language specific to mannered fascists who always want to complicate everything to continue to dominate, while he was criticized in his lifetime by the excessive use of neologisms it was then that his ideas were completely expressible in a "normal" vocabulary; good, Bourdieu was a sociologist magazine (only in French magazines), the kind that exposes great ideas for best kiss her students, so it is true that it asked some effort, since his acting face was not enough .

Mr. Dufour then focuses on characteristics of Newspeak; there are six:

- The loss of musicality in relation to language "normal";
- The disappearance of neutral (silly feminization function names);
- The technical nature of the language, or the input (the invasion) bulk of the company's vocabulary in everyday life;
- The disappearance of the markers of authority (the author is interested, for example, the word "coach");
- The destruction of grammar, with the invention of new connectors-sur-compounds, the inability to properly use logical connectors (essential to expose a critical idea), and the emergence of a new "Syntax" founded anacoluthon on, but not in a literary purpose, needless to say!

I heard one day on the bus, a girl tell her mother on the phone (she was bawling on the phone, but is needless to say it?) "If you'd tell me, I did it" . Less than ten words, and time faults and especially modes; I taught in China, and my students always understand the first time, without ever making a mistake, the three possible uses of this type of structure.

I conclude on a note acid in the presentation of this book, there must be three semicolons in three hundred pages, and the rest of punctuation is quite "modern"; I were always taught to never start a sentence with "gold", "but" because, "" Indeed, "" however, "" nevertheless ", etc., not" cut "the idea exposed in the middle of its development.

You find a small dictionary of newspeak on the site Polémia: doublevé doublevé doublevé dot dot as polémia :). Type "Newspeak" in the search bar.

Commandment number eight: you violeras laws without getting caught. Hilarious chapter which Ali and Booba are the modern heroes, who all understood the logic of the market to use, unscrupulous, and "fuck" others. Rappers, like their "counterparts" top of the social scale, financial, have it all, and therefore will continue to proliferate for a long time ...

Mr. Dufour gives us an interesting analysis of both existing rights in the Western world, namely the Roman law, because transcendental based on moral imperatives and the "right" Anglo-Saxon, called "Common Law" (which has nothing to do with the "Common decency", quite the contrary!), and most litigious commercial law, based on negotiation, and makes the lawyer the key figure of the judiciary. The "legalization" of society is in fact the logical consequence of "everything is for sale or purchase" ...

Commandment number nine: You will sink forever the door already open by Duchamp. Chapter devoted to the "art" contemporary, which is not an art but a whim ego: everyone is an artist; everything I touch becomes art; art must speak of my navel, not be something transcendental. Painting, sculpture, dance, theater, cinema, everything is "I", "me" and "myself".

Commandment number ten: you will free your instincts and you will seek an enjoyment without limits! Since 1704, a Mandeville advocates the liberation of impulses to maintain the cohesion of society; Adam Smith will join with its concept of "self-love" or the selfish interests which should allow the company to move forward, since everyone has the same interests, he does not want to risk compromising .

An invigorating test which we only speak too little, written by a philosopher that the company would benefit from hearing more often, but alas, certainly will never be a Bourdieu or BHL ... Thought is not dead in France, it is only confidential; Below is a small list of authors and books analyzing our society:

- Jean-Claude Michéa: Impasse Adam Smith: Brief remarks on the inability to overcome capitalism on his left, The Empire of the lesser evil: Test on liberal civilization, The Orpheus complex: The left, ordinary people and religion of progress, teaching of ignorance and modern conditions the doublethink: Back on liberal issue;

- Christopher Lasch (whose studies were introduced in France by Mr. Michéa): The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy, The culture of narcissism;

- Philippe Muray: Tests: The Empire of the Good, after history, spiritual exorcisms, Festivus Festivus;

- Renaud Camus: decivilization, The great cultural loss, Syntax, either in the language / Praise of shame / Whisper

- Jean-Pierre Lebrun: A world without limits: Malaise tracking in subjectivation, Ordinary Perversion: Living together without others;

- Charles Melman: The Man Without gravity: Enjoy at all costs;

- Guy Debord: The society of the spectacle;

- Jean Baudrillard: Simulacra and Simulation, Consumer society;

- The author of this essay: The individual who comes ... after liberalism, La Cité perverse: Liberalism and pornography, many men is completed: In some current and future consequences of the death of God.

I forget a lot certainly, but this short list is already likely to interest those studying passionate empty! I bet that one day the false ideologues thinkers, Bourdieu, Deleuze, Foucault, BHL, Barthes, Sartre and others (the sort that!) Will be stored, to make room for critical thinking the healthier we we really need to address the country.

Good reading!