« Protestants, it is said, serve free thought when they are in the minority (the camisard of the Cévennes in France), and the most stifling conformism when they are the majority (the willing pastor of Hitler's Germany). Depending on whether it is practiced in defence, from weak to strong, or dominant, from strong to weak, the same creed can change sign, and help with dissent, become the next factor of obedience. It is therefore good, before weaving wreaths, to consider, not doctrine or martyrologe, but arithmetic and the balance of power. It is not uncommon for minority people (pre-Existing Christianity or State Communism) to continue to enjoy, once transformed into official or established religions, the sympathies that surrounded them when they were hunted down or heretical. »
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Régis Debray
The Sacred Fire |
Régis Debray
The Sacred Fire
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« The tools of abstraction are analytical thinking which is written thought. Oral societies have no one God,;the only God is I say produced but in any case induced by writing societies. (p.90). »
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Régis Debray
Summer interviews |
Régis Debray
Summer interviews
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« The great enemy of progress is playfulness. A game-and-play revolution is a counter-revolution. `...` Nothing is less retrograde than tradition and to be faithful to a tradition is to think about the future. (p.12). »
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Régis Debray
Summer interviews |
Régis Debray
Summer interviews
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