On my left and networks
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Oct
Edgar Morin book brings together 23 sparse but revealing texts, some unpublished, others that complement the book this extraordinary philosopher who call Earth-Homeland, meeting fundamental reflections for our time and especially for our country.
Among many deep thoughts, find a key on page 16: “An invisible component of the crisis is policrisis thought,” Morin calls policrisis: interdependent crises of the economy of Western civilization, the traditional civilizations, the development, we are dealing with placebos cancer of a society in decay.
This crisis can be called a cultural crisis, especially in the West is clearly evoked by Morin: “We must effectively designing the ambivalence of globalized development. It introduces material progress in all areas, but it causes spiritual and moral “developments (Morin, On my left, p. 16).
He is convinced that we can benefit from the “virtues of the knowledge society”, “but which is in fact a society of dispersed knowledge and compartmentalized, whose dispersion and compartmentalization prevent reattachment of this knowledge in order to consider the fundamental and global problems our century. ”
Morin who fought in the French resistance against the Nazis, which is a global name of progressive thinking, condemns the thought of what he calls “resentful Left” and “caviar left”, unaware of the massive challenges we called in our time, says Morin “the policy is both very exhausted and overwhelmed with problems of thought,” here and throughout the world people are thinking about a small world around us, the “party” that twist and not in large social and national problems, while very in some small alms to shut the mouths of the hungry.
Globalizing Morin is to “promote the economic, social, cultural, everything moves towards joint cooperation unity of mankind,” the rest is football crowd.
