La démocratie américaine seraient-elle en train de se réveiller ?! Cet article du Time Magazine, qui me semble symboliquement de la première importance, propose un extrait du prochain livre d'Al Gore intitulé "The Assault on Reason".
Dans la suite de son intervention concernant le réchauffement climatique,
c'est très logiquement qu'il y développe cette fois un argumentaire en
direction d'une véritable "écologie de l'esprit" (cf.
Bateson).
Il y dénonce, entre autre, la manipulation de masse et l'effet catastrophique
de la télécratie américaine sur le psychisme de ses
compratriotes, particulièrement lors du déclenchement de la guerre en Iraq, et
y rappel la responsabilité individuelle de chacun dans la
lutte contre les effets délétères de ces processus socio-systémiques
émergeants.
Extraits :
"American democracy is now in danger—not from any one set of ideas, but from unprecedented changes in the environment within which ideas either live and spread, or wither and die. I do not mean the physical environment; I mean what is called the public sphere, or the marketplace of ideas."
"While American television watchers were collectively devoting 100 million hours of their lives each week to these and other similar stories, our nation was in the process of more quietly making what future historians will certainly describe as a series of catastrophically mistaken decisions on issues of war and peace, the global climate and human survival, freedom and barbarity, justice and fairness. For example, hardly anyone now disagrees that the choice to invade Iraq was a grievous mistake. Yet, incredibly, all of the evidence and arguments necessary to have made the right decision were available at the time and in hindsight are glaringly obvious."
> Book Excerpt: The Assault on Reason sur le site de Time Magazine.
