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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 will 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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