Free seed

You can't stop people from thinking what they think. But this is the choice of surface moralisation.

By encouraging the repression of thoughts denounced as "bad", we only consolidate social hypocrisy and risk withdrawing a great deal of freedom of expression through porosity and hazardous assimilations in other fields such as the arts, derision and humour. In short, poetry in all its forms, even the most trivial and childish, is absolutely necessary for certain intelligences. The human being is a complex whole, not a surface binarity. It is a biotope in itself in which, just as in the nature that surrounds us, any thoughtless or convenient change has its consequences. No more than there are inherently harmful animals, there are no 'bad' feelings. It is all a matter of proportion and taming one's own savagery. My own hatred is more about inner adventures than mass destruction. It would be inconsistent and dangerously ineffective to see myself only as the lamb I am not.

The effectiveness of condemning the expression of thoughts considered harmful is an illusion. A homophobic, sexist or racist act must be judged as a crime or an offence according to its seriousness and punished accordingly. The expression of a thought, on the other hand, will always be for me a matter of personal freedom and I am loathe to see it come under the scope of any law, even when it is supposed to protect me.

One can only gnaw at what one considers to be the stupidity of others, but that's how it is.

This is the only guarantee that all opinions have a place, even though it may hurt where I think it hurts.

This is the only guarantee that humanity will not sink into universal self-righteousness, which is as useful for changing mentalities and combating violence as the sand that has accumulated, it seems, around the head of an ostrich.

Our brain needs many contradictions and paradoxes to develop and refine its functioning. Our worst imaginations are just as useful as the others for dreaming and designing. Reflection and the artistic field are the paths we usually take to make our inconsistencies vibrate into a suddenly more audible music.

The desire to convince, even with the most laudable of motives, will always be more akin to advertising, or even politics, than to creation. Knowing how to have fun and laugh at everything will always be the prerogative of the individual who is as free as it is possible to be.

Education, even popular education, is a tyranny like any other. In some cases, more benevolent or more sincere than others, but always a power that seeks to erect itself.

The desire to educate themselvesIn contrast, in its full pronominal scope, it is inalienable. It can lead to many mistakes, but it is ultimately more conducive to the shaping of a sensitive but stable temperament and to a better knowledge of oneself. Empiricism sometimes leads to dead ends, but it always leads to knowledge in the flesh.

Taking care of your buttocks is a public service.

I do not seek comment. I am not looking for debate, discussion or discord. I'm simply bearing witness to a place where it seems difficult to listen to the hardliners, especially when it concerns them.