Are we headed straight for “crash” as Orelsan asserts in The Smell of Gasoline? “I avoid images that are too dramaticsays François Jullien, they are somewhat complicit in a certain passivity“. The philosopher prefers action to passivity, that which consists in making another way possible, in “repossibiliser“as he himself points out.
Certainly, but why this feeling of imminent crash? “What makes our era, unlike the previous ones, is that we can no longer draw a plan of the ideal city. […] This is no longer possible because to model, you have to be able to isolate. However, in the contemporary, globalized world, we can no longer isolate. On the other hand, to project the plan of the ideal city, which today is no longer possible, there would have to be a consistent future on which to project it. But this consistent future has come undone“. Faced with this observation, the human returns to the present and takes pleasure in “morose way“.