“INDIFFERENCE” – Social Ecology ABC

If we look no further than France’s social reality, we can see that nothing is going right. But we also see that revolts follow one another in a sectorized fashion, remaining virtually unconnected. This is where we see just how well the old domination technique of dividing populations, pitting them against each other, still works. By remaining limited to one’s own personal horizon, ignoring all that lies beyond it, and remaining passive whenever one feels that one is not directly concerned, one ultimately endorses all repressive logics. 45,000 over-armed police officers deployed in the field can indeed temporarily “pacify” the suburbs. The same people “pacified” the yellow jackets movement, then the pensions movement, as well as multiple sectoral revolts, all equally legitimate, under the vaguely worried but ultimately indifferent gaze of all those who weren’t or, rather, didn’t feel directly concerned, at the time. A comment thread on a news website read: “It’s quiet in the countryside”. Nothing delights the system of domination more than the persistent silliness that if you’re not directly “on fire”, everything’s fine…

As Communalists, we owe it to ourselves to bear this awareness in mind when we envision the world we hope for, because this indifference is also what we absolutely must overcome.

Translated by TerKo with the help of a free translation tool.

Rebounds:

• “INDIVIDUALISM” – A Primer on Social Ecology (Coming soon)
• “GUILT” – Social Ecology ABC
• INDIVIDUAL, INDIVIDUALISM on the anarchist encyclopedia