WORLD WORLDWIDE CANADA - news journal UPDATE - (en) Canada, Collectif Emma Goldman -Resilience is dead (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

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same and send us your news and opinion letters. ---- We have probably
never heard so much about resilience as we do right now. We are told
about resilient hydroelectric networks, resilient businesses, resilient
finances and economies and a whole bunch of other crap that would make
Boris Cyrulnik furious. His concept has been gutted of all substance, of
all depth to make it a marketing tool and a portmanteau word in the
personal development industry. The term has come to encompass any form
of ability to regain strength after an ordeal, all this from a narrowly
individualistic perspective; the one that defines the successes and
failures of our bourgeois society. Thus, the broken ones of the system
would not believe strongly enough in human potential. The abused, the
violated would not make the effort to visualize and project themselves
into the "successful" version of themselves. The American dream, in
other words. Resilience has become a bullet in the rifle of the society
of the spectacle.

If the brain is plastic, its primary nourishment is found in social
interactions. We learn by connecting with others. We recognize and
identify ourselves through our connections to others. It is no different
when it comes to recreating ourselves following traumatic experiences.
But what types of social relationships do capitalist exploitation and
systems of oppression engage us in on a daily basis? Every day, our
abilities to weave and create these essential connections are a little
more broken. The child without reference points in front of his parents
glued to their screens is only an image that symbolizes all the evil of
our time. I will not say that psychotherapies and antidepressants are of
no use given the situation. On the other hand, we could start to say
that there is an urgent need to consider the collective development of
new social relationships to get to the root of the problem. Alienation
makes us forget things as simple as taking the time, taking care, mutual
aid, being there and then, rebelling against Domination. It seems to me
that resilience is dead and buried by its recuperators. From popular
agitation, from each of our revolts in experimental groping and from
critical and combative social movements, we can make sparks.

Sylvain B.

https://ucl-saguenay.blogspot.com/2024/10/la-resilience-est-morte.html
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