A-Infos (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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