Here I am slowly spining a yarn of Bernard Charbonneau 🧶
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‘The people do not exercise power. Instead they cast a vote in the ballot box, a kind of magical operation by which they ensure a freedom that is no longer present in their daily actions. Political life comes forward as resignation.’
Bernard Charbonneau in L'État (1949)
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Who was Bernard Charbonneau? 🧶
Bernard Charbonneau was raised in the Bordeaux bourgeoisie. He obtained his agrégation in 1935.
In 1945, he decided not to pursue an academic career and, ‘eager to live in the countryside, he obtained a position at a small teacher training college in the Pyrenean foothills, in Lescar, France, where he remained until his retirement’. (written by Daniel Cérézuelle, in ‘Ecology and Freedom: Bernard Charbonneau: Pioneer of Political Ecology’, Lyon, Parangon/Vs, coll. ‘après-développement’, 2006)
He viewed technical progress as the source of ever-increasing organisation, and therefore greater conformity, hence less freedom. He was a close friend of Jacques Ellul for six decades.
In his own words (in Combat nature no. 106, August 1994): https://lagrandemue.wordpress.com/2019/11/20/bio-graphie/
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‘It is not a Sunday in the countryside that we need, but a less artificial life.’
—Bernard Charbonneau, in « Le sentiment de la nature, une force révolutionnaire », 1937
It is our disconnection from nature that gives rise to the feeling that we lack something, that an essential part of our existence is missing.
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"Because the discontent of the people is not strong enough to get to the bottom of things, to the point of wanting to regain the powers they had lost, each election brings back the same hope: that of a government that would finally serve those who elected it."
Bernard Charbonneau, in "L'État" (1949)
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