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Most days I don't care about my nationality ; however today I'm happy to share something with this man

Posted by Marine on November 28, 2008 at 9:50am
I'm not the kind of person who randomly wishes a public man a happy birthday - well, not anymore. However, I want to celebrate the 100th birthday of Claude Levi-Strauss today. He's one of the few French people worth listening to...and I'm afraid France will be a much darker place when he's gone... Lazy people that we are... Wasn't that what Brel used to say ? That stupid people are in fact lazy ? Ah, so many beautiful thoughts...« Ce que je constate : ce sont les ravages actuels ; c'est la disparition effrayante des espèces vivantes, qu'elles soient végétales ou animales ; et le fait que du fait même de sa densité actuelle, l'espèce humaine vit sous une sorte de régime d'empoisonnement interne - si je puis dire - et je pense au présent et au monde dans lequel je suis en train de finir mon existence. Ce n'est pas un monde que j'aime. »« What I notice are the current ravages ; it's the frightening disappearance of living species, whether vegetable or animal ; and the fact that by the fact itself of its actual density, the human species lives under some kind of self-poisoning regime - so to speak - and I think about the present and about the world in which I am ending my existence. It is not a world that I love.»
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