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Fencing Diary D-10

Demanding, demanding, demanding

The word seems to be softening through its variations until it becomes a more than acceptable notion. Do we not speak with respect of a high requirementwhile the relentless I demand seems to send a chill down the spine of many. But it is the same root.

The wolf and the lamb
Jean de La Fontaine
 

The reason of the strongest is always the best:
We will show it later.

A Lamb was quenching its thirst
In the stream of a pure wave.
A wolf appears on an empty stomach looking for adventure,
And that hunger in these places attracted.
Who makes you so bold to disturb my drink?
Said this animal full of rage:
You will be punished for your temerity.
- Sire," replies the Lamb, "may your Majesty
Don't get angry;
But rather that it considers
That I go thirsty
In the stream,
More than twenty steps below Her,
And that therefore, in no way,
I cannot disturb his drink.
- You are disturbing her," said the cruel beast,
And I know you've been badmouthing me the past year.
- How would I have done it if I had not been born?
The Lamb said, I still hold my mother.
- If not you, then your brother.
- I don't have one.
- So it's one of yours:
For you do not spare me much,
You, your shepherds, and your dogs.
I've been told: I have to get even.
There, deep in the forests
The wolf takes it away, and then eats it,
Without further ado.

... animal full of rage ... You disturb her ... I still head my mother ... Without further ado.

Certainly, La Fontaine does not intend to make his wolf sympathetic to us. I must say that he is, in a way, sympathetic to mine. I have nothing against this logical lamb, who argues rather well and in good faith. Only, as fierce as he is, I understand this anthropomorphic wolf in his aggressive impulses.

He is a devouring wolf only in the form of the fable, but deep down he spews his hatred of society, the outcast presented as a loner and not in a pack, onto the unlucky lamb for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. I am not advocating hatred for its own sake, nor revenge, but, since the world is not simply divided into good and bad guys, I hear his fed up to serve as the head of the turkey for the society of men, which does not hesitate to slaughter the sheep, which, in both cases, have only the crime of being born sheep.

We would therefore be facing the ideal victims. One is entitled to ask oneself who, of La Fontaine or of the wolf, is in the worst faith in this fable which I like very much, but which seems to me, in illustrating injustice and abusive cruelty, to have chosen its examples badly.

How can we forget that the embodiment of the powerful is a wolf preying on the flock of shepherds, not a monster of gratuitous violence? Unless the malicious and subtle mind of the author leads us to think that the powerful are only powerful because they are given the power (in this case, the situation). Can the sheep, however numerous, do anything about it? Do they even think for a moment of caring? Well, no. It doesn't concern them, until some skulking, starving wolf comes to prey on the weakest among them. Will they demonstrate? Will they start a revolution against the unjust practices of wolves and men against their species? I don't think so. Sheep they are, sheep they will remain, even if one day they rush off like one... sheep, in a panic because a gunshot or the sound of thunder has put them off their guard.

This is how we spend most of our time. As long as we can graze peacefully and the grass is fat, what do the people want? Nothing, it seems to me. Only trouble and hassle drive us to action, and even then, action is the term used here for gathering en masse to express our individual discontent. This lacksrequirement.

The wolf alone, in this case, is demanding, even if we judge it to be overly authoritarian. Driven both by resentment and by instinct, he asserts his prerogatives. The only difference with the lamb and the shepherd, carefully set aside, is that the powerful animal is endowed by nature with the right tools. Should we conclude from this, or rather, as in the case of the fable, preface it with the statement that 'The reason of the strongest is always the best'? Would it not be more accurate to say the reason of the most deceitful.

The only perverse and genuine subject of the story is the man, who is barely mentioned, accompanied by his dogs, but who does not appear. Like any good politician, he knows not to intervene openly at the time of the events, but rather to denounce them in order to better decry the scapegoats or those responsible afterwards. The manoeuvre will thus have so much more weight on the poor sheep, who are delighted to be convinced that the shepherd, whose good red face they regularly see, and his dog, which is practically part of the family, are there to protect them from dangerous predators.

Are there that many of these ferocious threats on legs and do the shepherds really defend us from them?

Yes, demanding is scary. To demand what one feels is one's due requires strength and courage. And unless you want to invade Poland, demanding does not seem so undignified to me when you get tired of playing the eternal role of the recriminating villain. But why not be likened to the wolves, who are known to be more fearful than cruel, when you are lonely and sometimes reluctant to socialise?

There are 'wolves' and 'wolf', aren't there? But there are also more trampling buffaloes and ambush snakes than wolves.

When the project is to survive, rather than to live, through its incessantly abused creation, just like in the fable detailed by my spyglass, there are no more debates that hold, no more discussions that have any reason to exist. One accepts things as they are or one leaves the game.

After the age of majority, I don't know any more lambs in the field of social relations. Let's stop trying to believe in the innocent ideal outside of armed conflicts, gratuitous aggression or totalitarian regimes. For those who want to break out of this easy archetype, the convenient " I didn't do anything "It is not enough to be questionIt has become too easy to talk about it, but it is necessary, at the risk of being less so. glamour and nice, to assume to be a wolf, not as a reductive symbol of authority, but as an animal with its own needs and to show it.

In the landscape, many shepherds, many small reptiles; certainly a few egotistical wolves that are unpalatable and a maximum of ruts and stones on the path that is rarely cleared beyond everyone's level.

This is the panorama of our beautiful regions that we discover when we set foot on land. You have to get rid of the prejudices of others when you decide to take the back roads. In these remote areas, the carnivorous fauna is sparser and for good reason, breeding is less intense.

It's no scoop that artistic creation brought to light with picks and brushes doesn't interest many people. The archaeology of the self is not necessarily very spectacular. You have to look closely to see anything. No one has to sweat to get there. There will always be the grand gestures, the world festivals, the spectacular works, the food of admiration to gloat over one's need for art. There is no need to venture onto arid islands with uncertain surroundings in the eyes of too many people. In essence, it is the place of the famous "headache" that it would be useless, we claim, to go there. common senseto practice too much. The difference is hard to make, even for those close to him who would like to expect more accessibility at each show, between art that sells, and so much the better, and art that seeks to be the opposite of all laws.

But there are some great laws; I don't reject them all. The laws of physics and sometimes from physics. The mathematical systems of music, as well as the unavoidable rules of attraction of bodies.

Like the wolf, the artist in production is governed by the laws of its functioning. Refusing to understand them, pretending to ignore them or to respect them in the name of innocence of the spectator or actor lamb who was only go thereThe only way to understand creation is to misunderstand it.

The all too often heard, "I didn't understand that" or "I didn't know that" are not in the ears of those who organise.

You had to 'know', you had to take the step to understand. This is, as it were, part of the job. It is only possible to discuss things on the basis of common knowledge. To be informed about the boundaries of a project and the content of what is really at stake is, in my opinion, a minimum and it is with this aim that I write and communicate.

In the face of so muchrequirementThe answer is often a silent withdrawal. So, without more concrete, inventive, tangible and effective proposals, in short, without more generosity and effort of spirit on the part of the unfortunate onlooker, well, yes, the wolf takes him away and then eats him without further ado.

There is no time for inconsistency, reservations, half-heartedness or hesitation. It is essential to admit it, the setting up of a creative project, whatever it may be, requires a serious commitment, certainly out of the ordinary and uncommon, but everyone will agree, I believe, at least I hope so, to accept the idea that creating is not an activity lambda.

From this point of view, the fundamental error of the lamb is undoubtedly to have had, from the height of its claimed innocence which was to give it all the rights, the fatuity to think that nature, in spite of its diversity and its fantasy, would ignore the laws. In no serious field is naivety a right.

David Noir

David Noir, performer, actor, author, director, singer, visual artist, video maker, sound designer, teacher... carries his polymorphous nudity and his costumed childhood under the eyes and ears of anyone who wants to see and hear.

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  1. Patrick Speck

    ....And yet....naïveté in the sense of the child has its good points....and yet....this same naïveté in the sense of man contains this part of "possibilities"....this part of expectation...but this cannot, once again, be an endpoint ....So, naive, yes, in the sense of ignorance....as a transition-stage....but to grow up and become however Conscious and Predator-vindicator in order to build oneself the nest of one's little happinesses ....and never to be subjected to the authoritarianism-softness of a society?!?

    1. David Noir

      For me, it is for many a matter of words. My rejection of the 'naivety' maintained in adults comes precisely from the fact that they are no longer children. He cannot, with sincerity, relive the state of "ignorance". It is in this sense that I make the difference with "candour", which remains a quality of freshness that does not imply acting "as if" one were not what one is. In my opinion, there are no "false naiveties", but "false naiveties". In adulthood, the result of so much repression, access to oneself is no longer so direct and requires adaptation work if we wish to find a spontaneous welcome to things, ideas and beings. Most of the time, our education has been too harmful, too unencouraging and terrorising from this point of view, so that unfortunately, we can do without the great diversions that self-awareness requires and simply be satisfied with states that we want to believe are unchanged. There has been a mutation of the person during growth; it is not a question of turning back, but of re-examining the concepts and the words that carry them, by asking oneself if there might not be some diopter adjustments to be made in order to have a clear image of oneself. I advocate it and try to do it so as not to die a fool; which in itself, it must be said, would be of little importance ;).

  2. Patrick Speck

    Yes, Candour is more accurate and above all more reliable......Naivety is a defect....a serious defect, and it is not with this that the installed concepts will fall from their steles. While armed with a healthy candour we will undoubtedly win with this extra soul?! ....Thanks for the readjustment David ...

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