The veil is torn, the empire is crumbling, fortunes are being lost, powers are being overthrown! The beautiful stories we were told are revealed for what they were: pure ideology justifying the unjustifiable domination of the powerful. This is no reason to believe in nothing anymore, or to believe that ideas rule the world, and to fall back into the same rut by simply switching from one ideology to another, just as blind and barbaric.
Instead of getting lost in the sky of ideas, we must take advantage of the crisis and the bursting of the financial bubble to return to reality, to come back down to earth, to the critique of everyday life, and therefore first and foremost of work, which occupies a large part of it. We must not give up on taking our revenge or on continuing the emancipation of humanity, but we will not get out of this by making reckless promises or dreaming of utopias. It is by focusing on what constitutes the very experience of life, in the exploration of possibilities, with all its contradictions and disappointments, its ups and downs, its shadows and lights, its strengths and weaknesses.
We know much less than we think we do. Thought is slow and our rationality is limited. It is difficult for us to be our own contemporaries and understand our current situation. Yet we need only look up from our keyboards to see all the upheavals we are experiencing. There have been others, no doubt, and every era has its malaise, but it is not quite the same every time. For example, we have moved from guilt neurosis to the depression of heightened individualism, which nevertheless indicates progress in our autonomy, in which digital technology has played a role, but we must admit that dematerialization, constant connectivity, and the speed of communication have a disorienting effect, plunging us into a completely different world, which can be quite unsettling.
Since the fall of communism, the lack of alternatives has paralyzed any social movement of any significance, such as the struggle against the CPE, which found no political outlet other than an illusory defense of permanent employment contracts, with no effect on the growth of precariousness. The causes of our failure do not lie in the supposed strength of our opponents, but in the weakness of our proposals and our archaic attitudes toward ecological issues and the considerable upheavals we have experienced since entering the information age!