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“By sacrificing the essential for the urgent, one ends up forgetting the urgency of the essential.”

by Pier Marton | Jun 14, 2010 | Books, France, Idées

Quotations by Edgar Morin/Citations d’Edgar Morin, among which:
À force de sacrifier l’essentiel pour l’urgence, on finit par oublier l’urgence de l’essentiel.
(Éthique (La méthode 6), p.51, Seuil, 2004)

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To ride the unbalance* between:
1. excellence and a kind, singular and porous identity that contains some of the scruples, humor, humility, musicality & the beauty of a harsh and confusing, yet benign and rich reality – away from distractions.
2. the stupidity and blindness of complacency, violence, injustice, pretense, egos, short-term… wishful… and group “thinking,” and empty talk – in all of their surprising embodiments. And the false sense of fullness all of this provides.
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An appeal for a world NOT so caught up in anthropo/ego/euro/ethno/oculo/esthetico -CENTRISM.
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1. Beware of those who claim to be strong – they are often dangerous.
2. Unmask the hoax of “centrality” – ask an “EX-centric” for assistance?
3. Perceive the arrogance of normalcy: everybody, in one way or another, is handicapped… which brings us back to 1.
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*Not unrelated to “There is beauty and there are the humiliated. Whatever difficulties the enterprise may present, I should like never to be unfaithful either to the second or the first.” — Albert Camus