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International Movement for a Libido Ecology (I.M.L.E. / M.I.E.L.)
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'Regarding the human issues, do not laugh, do not
cry, do not become indignant,
understand.'
Spinoza
... understand the contemporary Western society: its values, how
it operates, in relation to the
psychology of the populations which constitute it and who, in return, are formatted by
the society.
It is advisable to study
and to understand this society, which is currently standing as a dominating model for the rest of the world.
The task consists in particular on exposing its mechanisms and bringing to light
its instruments of
domination and reproduction, acting as well on the economic and
political order of the world as on the individuals.
All the societies, following the example of the institutions which
compose them, driven by a kind of instinct of self-preservation, try, consciously or not, to reach the greatest stability,
and to reproduce and extend as Simone Weil
indicates in her comments on the causes of freedom and oppression. It is this
ideal state of stability which reach the
"utopian" totalitarian societies imagined by Aldous Huxley and George Orwell in their
masterly works of science-fiction, so close to our consumer society or to the Stalinist model. However, until now all the human societies
changed or were destroyed in more or less brutal crises.
Whether it will manage to achieve its hegemonic goal tending to
govern every human action and every human thought or whether it will fall
brutally victim
of its contradictions, it is towards a totalitarianism and a
cruelty of an intensity never yet met that the Western society drives humanity. This is why still lucid individuals
undertook the ambitious task to oppose its complete extension and
to make it "land carefully", to prepare a transition towards a new
model which can ensure the survival of mankind as well as the safeguard of
the capacities of the individuals.
'Have no doubt that a small group of conscious and determined citizens can change the world.
As a matter of fact it is the only force which
ever succeeded in doing it.'
Margaret Mead
Mankind, such a recent creation in the history
of the evolution the life on earth, driven, intoxicated by his technical ingeniousness
to transform the planet, is not yet able to control the use of it on a rational
base.
Even if this evolution took place only within some societies,
in particular benefiting from favorable geographical conditions, the military
and economic superiority which came from the control of these
techniques gave to this society, known as 'Western', the power to extend
its empire on almost all parts of the planet. Through the modes of globalized production, financing and exchange that it set up as
well as by
the fascination the illusion of material well-being exerts on populations reduced to indigence,
maintained by its communication media, it tends to
exclude any alternative and become the only possible model for all human societies.
However this society known as 'Western', that can also be described as materialist, capitalist, imperialist, middle-class,
patriarchal, monotheist, scientist, 'of the show', of consumption...
is primarily morbid. Built on puritan and anthropocentric
religious values, it resolutely turns its back on a nature which it
conceives only like the object of its domination, devaluing and repressing with this same logic the body and sexuality.
Blinded by a disembodied "reason" (thus
deprived of senses!), it could only
generate neurotic and atomized individuals, predisposed to obedience. This model of society
tends to the artificialization and the negation of life.
This society which claims itself democratic, but functions more and
more on a totalitarian mode, hidden by the consensus or the
resignation which is widely spread in the population, carries in its bosom Fascism
which is inherent to the repression of the vital energy of the individual.
It even failed to bring a material well-being to the majority of
its population, increasing more and
more quickly the social inequalities and the precarious living conditions,
driving those which have few resources to waste them
(or to get indebted) in an illusory race to the material
happiness always shifted away by new needs created by advertising.
Lastly, in its unrestrained race to growth, and because of its
incapacity to reflect on the use of science and technology, it seriously
threatens ecological balance of a planet with limited resources and
limited capacities of self-purification, already involving a massive
morbidity within the populations.
Seeing politicians and officials in charge mostly unable to be free themselves from the
'single thought', sometimes primarily worried by
their egoistic and clientelists interests, or sometimes even
coming directly from (or going to) the trans-national firms, it is more than ever
the responsibility of the
citizens to carry out the thinking and the acting.
Without carrying the illusions of a revolution leading to 'singing tomorrows', and knowing that
exposing the truth
is not enough to mobilize individuals melted in the mass, while
fighting constantly against the most harmful and so widely spread idea of fatalism and impotence, it appears essential to
prepare a transition towards a radically different model of society.
One should conceive the re-appropriation by the population of the control of her destiny and
of the evolution
of the society by adopting a logic of self-management, particularly through to the
constitution of an associative network enabling the recreation of social and
solidarity links.
A viable model of society will allow the restoration of the whole link of man with nature.
It will have to
promote individuals in full possession of their living capacities and thus suited
for freedom and conscious of the place which they
occupy in the balance of the living world.
The indigenous societies knowing how to preserve a balance with their
surrounding natural environment and with their inner nature should be an essential source of
inspiration towards this step.
Technological development being a determining element of the
evolution of the societies, it is advisable to be all the more vigilant to this
subject, in particular in order to prevent massive and
irreversible damage to live and to prevent techniques of mass-handling
impossible to ward off to be born.
Lastly, Reich having shown that sexual repression is the neurotic cement of this
society based on the principle of exploitation of man and nature, it appears to me that one of the
essential axis of
action is to fight massively against this repression, in particular for the youngest. A project of
renewal of the society which would
not include among its fundamental objectives the sexual brightening
of each
individual would be bound to fail.
It is to contribute to build this project and to preserve its viability that I invite you to join our energies within the association: "International Movement for a
Libido
Ecology".
The President of the association, July 2003.