An atypical dialogue. Jean Lauxerois, France - Sergiu Simion, Romania (I)
Preamble
The protagonists of this non-formal dialogue and freed from official constraints that puts into question the problems of the countries and societies of which they are part, including the Europe in which we live, are the French philosopher of European stature Jean Lauxerois and a Romanian psychologist (respectively the author of this blog).
Usually and according to a traditional etiquette, this dialogue initiated in 2015 following the appearance on theContributors.roof an article written by the philosopher Jean Lauxerois about the anti-corruption fight in Romania and its symbol Laura Codruta Kovesi (Jean Lauxerois - Hercules in Bucharest (against corruption) ), would have been just a usual one that usually closes after at most a few kind emails exchanged by both parties.
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Jean Lauxerois inaugurated a new type of analysis of contemporary and European political and social systems by constructing a timeless grid for evaluating societies that are positioned, in relation to their degree of development and evolution, on an imaginary scale of humanity.
In this sense, he made an impressive intellectual radiography of a political and social system such as the French one ( http://blogs.mediapart.fr/edition/contes-de-la-folie-ordinaire/article/280511/un-pays-malade-de-jean-lauxerois ), but this type of evaluation can be applied equally to any country in Europe or the West, including former communist countries.
This analysis of political systems is doubled by an impressive analysis of cultural systems. In another context, Jean Lauxerois analyzed the development of Europe at the intersection of the culture of ancient Hellas, ancient Rome, Orthodoxy and Catholicism, going as far as analyzing the major problems of today's Europe.
The complementary perspectives, the truly overwhelming erudition, the naturalness, certainty, clarity and conciseness of expression in the most abstract philosophical problems make accessible to us the most difficult questions of the genesis of modern Europe, which were usually accessible only to its cultural elites.
Equally, Jean Lauxerois advocates for the return of European societies and Europe as a whole to the original meaning of the notions of community and community ties, as a necessary stage in a process of social reconstruction because only through the real encounter with the other and real intra-community ties can the initial meaning of the social ethos be restored as a necessary condition for the restoration of an authentic social ethic.
From this perspective, the very complex phenomenon of the uprooting of the West is analyzed and, by contrast, the most beautiful tribute is paid to Romania and the Romanians, which shows that foreigners see very clearly what many Romanians no longer want or can no longer see in their country, identified by many only with the clichés and the grotesque image offered by the media, conscience directors and trainers. of opinion of the moment.
" Romania today gives us a lesson in courage, rigor, and probity. This country – for several years now I have been discovering its substance and I have chosen to learn its beautiful language – could be an example for the whole of Europe. "Jean Lauxerois2015
The beginning of the dialogue
No matter how ignored, criticized or disregarded it may be, Romania today gives us a lesson in courage, rigor and probity. This country – for several years now I have been discovering its substance and I have chosen to learn its beautiful language – could be an example for the whole of Europe. As a philosopher and a French and European citizen, I would like to praise a remarkable woman, who heads an institution no less remarkable, and who finally allows Romania, but also us, to have some confidence in the future.
This woman is Laura Kövesi. Appointed in 2013 as chief prosecutor of the DNA – the National Anticorruption Directorate –, already rewarded in 2008 for her efficiency in the fight against cybercrime, and honored in November 2014 by the New York Times with an article praising her competence and results against corruption, this young magistrate embodies a new Romania and another possible democracy, one that would know how to combine power and ethics, efficiency and integrity, development and responsibility.
Like other countries, Romania is threatened by the gangrene of mafia corruption that gnaws at the state at all levels, proliferates throughout the political sphere and discourages their best intentions. Scandals are a chain: influence peddling, abuse of office, rigged tenders, bribery and kickbacks, scams with European funds, real estate business, mafia cronyism, conflict of interest, incompatibility of positions, false declaration of assets, illegitimate enrichment… The palette is almost endless. Romanians are suffocating in the putrid stench of overwhelming business that has been relentlessly expanding its empire of twenty-five years ago on the ruins of communism. A Hercules had to come to clean the Augean stables. Laura Kövesi or Hercules in Bucharest.
The wind began to blow in a different direction. First, we must praise another woman who preceded Laura Kövesi on the path of this metamorphosis, and without whom nothing would have been possible: Mrs. Monica Macovei. In 2004, former President Băsescu – whose discernment and high views we must salute at least on this point – knew how to respond to the anxieties and requests formulated by the European courts, choosing Monica Macovei as Minister of Justice. This honest and determined magistrate managed to endow the country's justice system with institutions that were necessary for the public good. First, she had given the DNA, which had remained an empty shell, independence and power; then, in 2007, she had created the National Integrity Agency (ANI), tasked with controlling the asset declarations of 300,000 civil servants and elected officials, all of whom were subject to this procedure. So it was the merit of Monică Macovea, now an MEP, to pave the way and change the face of things.
But the wheel has turned even more since Hercules is now at work, showing a competence and energy accompanied by an unparalleled probity. It is easy to understand how Laura Kövesi has become the most feared woman in Romania and why she constantly has close protection at her disposal, since she has already protected several ministers, county presidents, members of parliament, heads of public companies: among them, in particular, some top figures and moguls, such as Voiculescu, the former collaborator of the Securitate, turned billionaire businessman, sentenced to decades of prison, or like Adrian Năstase, the former Prime Minister, sentenced to four years, or, more recently, the media figure Elena Udrea, the former Minister of Development and Tourism, investigated and under arrest, placed in preventive detention, after the Chamber of Deputies voted to lift her immunity. Even beyond individuals, the latest DNA investigations show the corruption of politicians organized in networks, with colossal sums of money at stake – as in the so-called “Microsoft” case. Interesting point: the Chief Prosecutor not only conducts investigations and obtains the conviction of the guilty, but in addition, she demands that the money they stole be returned to the State. Thus, well-thought-out justice has a very concrete consequence: while the country is desperately seeking to increase budgetary resources, it is no small feat for the Romanian state to be able to recover the billions embezzled by profiteers and embezzlers of all kinds, who have shamelessly gnawed or squeezed it.
Of course, nothing is yet achieved, and one can suspect that swindlers, score-setting, toxic compromises take part in these scandals that are flourishing today – not to mention the game of the intelligence services. But it doesn't matter! Following the surprising election of Klaus Iohannis as president of Romania last November, the work of Laura Kövesi, helped by a good team, remains irreplaceable and indispensable, because it can contribute in a special way to giving a little hope again to a part of the country, namely the youth. Democracy in general, and Romanian in particular, needs strong symbols today. The issues regarding public money and political accountability are high stakes at stake from now on. It is time to realize how necessary ethics is for the development of a country, not only because corruption impoverishes it materially, but also because it discourages the numerous talents, who too often are urged to leave their country to seek a destiny elsewhere - such as young, educated and very well-trained doctors, who, more than ever, are leaving in large numbers to practice medicine in Western Europe.
In the field of corruption, however, Europe and the US are right to be vigilant, even demanding. It is time for politicians to be aware that the future of their country is at stake now. If, unfortunately, they were to seek to restrict the powers of the DNA – as some are already claiming – if they were to intend to discredit Laura Kövesi, claiming that her successes open the time for the “republic of prosecutors” – as a supposed “responsible” politician literally said – then the risk would be great that the door that is ajar today would be closed again. In this case, Hercules could not be content with cleaning the Augean stables, but would have to get rid of the Hydra of Lerna; but it would be no less to be feared that some would not want to get rid of Hercules himself, the victim of some new Nessos’s shirt – even if the value of the “bodyguards” in the Romanian police is well known…
Just as Romania, Europe, weakened by prolonged self-doubt, needs exemplary, determined and upright figures today. As for financial crime, which, in the East and the West, poses a more real threat than is believed, the war necessarily involves the fight against political corruption. When the crisis is open in the East, when Romania and Bulgaria want to enter the Schengen area, when countries like Ukraine and Moldova, threatened by Russian imperialism, consider Europe to be the only recourse, Europe must show itself radically different from this mafia totalitarianism that dreams of spreading its tentacles, subjugating peoples in the name of the facade ideology that circulates under the brand of "Euro-Asianism". We need other Laura Kövesi. This young woman is exemplary because she helps to build a seductive idea of a Europe capable of cleaning its stables and giving confidence to both the peoples of which it is composed and to those who wish to join it. It is time for politicians to understand that only in the truth of our substance, that is, only in the ethical sense of the political community, is the energy of the future rooted for us.
Editor's note: The article was written by the author in Romanian and French. The French version appeared in the newspaper La Croix .
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Romania's current moment was hard to predict 10 years ago. Beyond the value of the moment, I still believe that this miracle has more to do with chaos theory than with the exceptional merits of some people. Why do I say this? First of all, President Basescu started the wheel, but things are a little different. He could not win the elections against Nastase, who at that time had a "party-state" at his disposal unless he annoyed the voters with the only thing that could not be hidden under the press: corruption. That is why he polished his anti-corruption speech to get points for the future, I think because I am convinced that he did not expect to win from the first time. However, when he won, he realized that the campaign slogan was a real expectation and since Europe was harassing us with corruption, he thought of a diabolical plan. That is, to take people from outside Bucharest who would not have had a taste for heights if it were not for him and to bring them to justice, supposedly independent. Justice was built with the appearance of autonomy but people were strategically placed. If you want proof of what I write, think about the Bute gala a few years ago and only now has Basescu's pupil, Madam Udrea, been paying. Basescu, as a great player, knew how to make sacrifices. Craiova Mayor Solomon, Madam Ritzi were victims who had to show that justice is independent. What Basescu did not foresee is that justice really has the power to take care of him and the thirst and need for cleanliness of the Romanians remained. That is why he managed to impose a party that would carry his halo further as Iliescu did and the construction of the PDL suffered an implosion in the PNL. What he wanted was fulfilled, that is, a more united right and a right-wing and anti-corruption president as much as he can, but he is not happy. Why? Well, he is not manipulating them as he planned and that is driving him crazy. However, his and Udrea's screams must be listened to. Isn't SRI - DNA still forming an alliance with political leadership? Why did the Bute case remain under the press? Why are other cases reported by the government now under the press? This anti-corruption crusade is very good, but isn't there a risk that Kovesi is not Joan of Arc but just a good politician like Hoover with files for everyone when necessary? There are questions that need to be asked. There are convictions that are still questionable. Intoxicated by the idea of commentary justice, the people forget that it's not bad to be more circumspect. Nobody criticizes the idea of justice. It's good for politicians to understand that politics is not necessarily a matter of making money. Politics is also about vocation. But let's get carried away by the joy that finally a lot of people are paying for 25 years of theft can lead to a false justice:one that hunts witches regardless of the evidence and the rights of the accused and that does not solve the idea of justice because everyone can end up accused once in their life and because they got behind the wheel and even more tragic would be for this much praised and applauded justice to actually make a selection between witches according to criteria of political opportunity. I believe that the ghost of both tragedies listed haunts us. Probably chaos theory will also solve this problem… Or not
Sorry for the few mistakes.
Beyond the generous and impeccable content of this beautiful article, the elegance of having it published in Romanian should be applauded.
Au-delà du contenu généreux et impeccable de ce bel article, il convient de saluer l'élégance de l'avoir publié en roumain.
Extremely beautifully said.
Objections can only arise to the fact that I prefer the praise of institutions to the praise of individuals. But it is true that institutions are made up of individuals.It is worth noting that the author of this wonderful article-essay is one of the (few) foreigners who see, in Romania, something other than "hordes of troglodytes" from the Wild East who "threaten" Western civilization. And who fill the screens of the West with thrilling, marketable images...
Chapeau, monsieur Lauxerois!Generally, a eulogy is addressed to a person. (Of course, it can also be applied to an institution, but I dare to think that "Elogium of the National Anticorruption Directorate" would be a bit ridiculous). Otherwise, what should you admire first? Clarity, courage to affirm or almost childish enthusiasm? If a novelist had written it, we would have accused him of naivety. Voila... A breath of fresh air.
Laura Kövesi has impressed an entire country in recent years. Ms. Kövesi's work reminds politicians that they are not eternal and offers them the guarantee that their deeds will be carefully inspected. Romania is not a village without dogs and we, the ordinary people, are tired of having incompetent or corrupt politicians at the head of the state.
Of course, Traian Basescu, together with Monica Macovei, created the necessary conditions and pushed forward the frontal attack on the scourge called corruption, and the appointment of Ms. Laura Kovesi proved not only inspired, but also providential, but let's not forget that the many and difficult files are worked on by dozens of almost anonymous prosecutors from whom heads of other important but inactive or politically active prosecutors can be recruited (see the Prosecutor General's Office). This will be possible when we get rid of the cancer called the PSD!
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Sergiu Simion <….>
to Jean Lauxerois <…>
date: Apr 16, 2015, 6:34 PM
re: Article published on Contributors.ro ( Jean Lauxerois - Hercules in Bucharest (against corruption)
https://www.contributors.ro/hercule-la-bucure%c8%99ti-impotriva-corup%c8%9biei/
Dear Mr. Lauxerois,
I am writing to you first of all because you have clearly formulated in a single article what Romanian intellectuals (but who had this moral duty) have failed to say in 25 years and one of the proofs is the very lack of reaction to such material that attacks topics that are still taboo in Romanian society.
The essential issue under discussion is the validation of a system of humanistic, moral and normal values and from this perspective not only Romania, but even the whole of Europe is in a deep crisis. Russia is taking advantage of this crisis, which it certainly supports very strongly. treacherous, but also with great intelligence.
The consequence is that humanistic values and European values (i.e. the values of European nations) are under the strongest attack ever known and its place of deployment is the virtual space which is fundamentally different from the public space of the past.
At present, it is a vital problem for Europe (but it is equally valid for any of its countries) to structure, maintain and defend a system of values to which people can adhere and which can mobilize their energies implicitly defining the rules and limits of the social game in competition with other value systems.
However, the greatest danger for Europe is not represented by Russia which is at its border, nor by Islam which attacks everywhere and nowhere, but by the resetting of its own system of values and their replacement by their opposite, a resetting and replacement which can consume its last resources and give it the coup de grace.
After the experience of the 25 years already passed by my country (I am not talking about the experience - horror of communism), I am convinced that they will continue to do so until the complete reset of the old political and social system, respectively until the normalization of the current value system ( http://www.asymetria.org//modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1122 ;
https://sergiusimion.blogspot.com/2011/08/pariul-cu-istoria.html ).
The drama of Romania and many other European countries is that citizens want and can bring about change, but the political and social systems and the impersonal structures that manage them first of all do not want to, and secondly cannot.
My final question is whether, as a philosopher and French and European citizen, you do not consider it necessary to create a new type of transparent organization / network / pan-European social group that, apart from current political groups, traditional NGOs, etc., would unite the civic energies of Europe in support of maintaining humanistic values and European and national values.
The reason why such a European approach should be initiated is the very destructive scenarios that are already being implemented at the borders of Europe, but also within it.
With respect,
Sergiu Simion
https://sergiusimion.blogspot.com
Biographical notes
http://psiholtd.freeservers.com/cv.htm
Bibliographic notes
The Conspiratorial History of Psychology and Psychosocial Control in Postcommunism__________________________________________________________________
( https://web.archive.org/web/20170206102326/http://agero-stuttgart.de/REVISTA-AGERO/CULTURA/istoria%20conspirativa%20de%20SS.htm )
Jean Lauxerois__________________________________________________________________
to: Sergiu Simion
date: Apr 17, 2015, 8:24 PM
re: Article from Contributors.ro
Dear Mr. Simion,
First of all, thank you very much for your email. I discovered it today and I am very happy that this article can encourage a debate with people like you. For me, it is a "historic" date, the first time that I write and publish a text in Romanian at the same time...
I apologize: today - arriving in Paris - the time is too short to answer you in an appropriate way. Tomorrow evening will be better and I promise that my response will take into account all the aspects you evoke.
With respect and best wishes.
Jean Lauxerois
Jean Lauxerois__________________________________________________________________
to: Sergiu Simion
date Apr 19, 2015, 9:32 PM
re: Article from Contributors.ro
Dear Mr. Simion,
Thank you very much again for your email, because, going beyond the strict framework and context of the article, you managed to go straight to the essential, and to highlight the issues that arise on the political horizon of Europe and the countries that make it up.
Indeed, the issue is that of a transformation of the world and of a necessary change of direction regarding the values that guarantee the construction of our future.
We must seize the opportunity and not take the wrong path. Or internal collapse or metamorphosis? In any case, metamorphosis requires a serious examination of the values that we want to choose. And in today's Europe, nothing is clear. Everything remains dark and that is enough for an imminent disaster.
If today's world is a new space, made up of increasingly diverse and diverse networks of all kinds, which do not care about the old hierarchical institutions, which are less and less efficient, even paralyzing, we must find new conditions and rules for common life ("living together"). In this sense, the most important issues are political responsibility, democratic control, social creation, and justice.
On this ground, a change is inevitable, because justice in particular is archaic and outdated (in our case, the model is Napoleonic!...) And modern democracy has forgotten the fact that justice founded Greek democracy (speaking of the "rule of law" is not enough at all!). Today it is time for us to think about this aspect and indeed Europe can be the new framework for a rethought justice.
In this direction, I agree with you one hundred percent: I need a new type of organization, "outside the current political groups, etc....", "to coalesce the civic energies of Europe". It is an emergency, against damblala or tyranny, that is, chaos.
Sincerely,
Jean Lauxerois
Sergiu Simion
to: Jean Lauxerois
date : Apr 20, 2015, 8:38 AM
re: Article from Contributors.ro
Dear Mr. Lauxerois,
I confirm receipt of the email and thank you for your answer which honors me. Hoping that you will excuse the delay (fundamental issues are at stake and I have personally been waiting for such a discussion for many years), you will receive my answer during today or at the latest tomorrow morning.
With respect and best wishes,
Sergiu Simion
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Sergiu Simion
to: Jean Lauxerois
Date: Apr 21, 2015, 10:27 AM
re: Some opinions and a proposal__________________________________________________________________
Dear Mr. Lauxerois,
Thank you once again for the answer received, which is extremely honored for me because it comes from a European personality of your stature.
The satisfaction is all the greater as your field of competence concerns the foundations of Greek and European philosophy and culture, and from this point of view you are best able to evaluate the intellectual grandeur of past eras and the tragic decline of the present ones.
In other words, you have the tools, the possibility, and the opportunity to be able to correctly evaluate what is currently happening at the European level, and all the more you have the assets to be able to correctly evaluate, also through the objectivity of detachment, what is happening in a country like Romania.
I used the opportunity offered by your article, so elegant and at the same time so necessary for my country, which you published in Contributors.ro , to open a discussion with you about the problems that stir every thinking conscience in Europe, and therefore in Romania.
From this point of view, you are not only very open and receptive to these issues, but you also have the necessary authority to formulate opinions that can be heard in the European context and in those intellectual circles that are not circumscribed by political and conjunctural interests.
Specifically, following my experience as a teacher and later as a practicing psychologist (for 12 years I was in contact with Canadian specialists at the Cernavoda Nuclear Power Plant), I thought that your admirable initiative to get closer to Romanian culture and civilization is an opportunity to get in touch with some aspects of Romanian society that are less accessible to those who have not been in direct contact with such a complicated architecture of a post-communist society in transition to democracy and capitalism, such as Romanian society.
In other words, the endemic corruption in Romanian society (and this is only the tip of the iceberg) is explained primarily by what we call "civil society in civil", namely a social system based on the community of intelligence services derived in turn from the former Securitate (the secret police of the communist system), but this situation is not specific only to Romania.
Secondly, the endemic corruption in our country is explained by the involuntary and tacit complicity of citizens whose mentality is captive in what we could call a "virtual cage".
Personally, I had the opportunity to compare TV programs from Germany and Spain, for example, with TV programs from Romania and I was horrified (Romanian programs are clickbait: sensory and sexual overstimulation constantly promoting subculture, primitivism, vulgarity, verbal and social aggression). It confirms exactly what Tom Gallagher said about them: “No responsible parent here should expose their child to Romanian television programs.”
In this case, we are talking about an extreme media manipulation through which citizens no longer have access to reality and a normal system of values, moral and social logic are abolished, and people remain captive in a kind of mental prison in the wearer that generates passivity and social depression.
To summarize, the most serious problem of Romanian society (it is true, not only its) is the moral crisis, respectively the destructuring of the value system, and here (I say this with immense sadness and without setting myself up as a public accuser) the cultural figures of Romania and its intellectuals have failed in a quarter of a century since the Revolution to validate a normal value system, I would say even the opposite (just one example: the mining riot of 1990 was politically and intellectually endorsed precisely by the then Minister of Culture who did not even resign, but who is still considered a director of conscience, opinion leader and social and moral benchmark).
The explanation is simply biological and evident. Due to the instinct of preservation, individual value systems cannot be reset as easily as social systems. As a consequence, adherence to the system of democratic and European values is often a feigned (declared) one and not a real and profound one.
Finally, there are two reasons little known in the West (Note 1 and Note 2 below) for which the most serious problems of Romanian society (and not only) come from the alteration of the value system.
The first refers to the system of abnormal social values (shocking for a normal and democratic mind) occultly promoted by the communists through the application of secret directives from Moscow (the document referring to these was accidentally discovered in Poland in 1981).
The second refers to the way in which the Romanian communists (and not only) applied the criminal psychopolitical techniques also originating from Moscow and which are still just as shocking to a normal and democratic mind. The document is actually a speech by LP Beria in Moscow in 1936, and is just an introduction to a synthesis made by Sergiu Grossu (a Romanian dissident who lived in France) about the social engineering techniques used by the communists.
Both are essential for an overall perception of the Romanian society in a state of parabiosis and for understanding the role that the chaos (sometimes directed) absurdity, irrationality, indeterminacy and unstructuredness had in our political and social life. These system coordinates transformed the Romanian society) into a true social laboratory and testing ground for the techniques of social engineering, resetting and inverting the normal system of values, and the Romanian citizens into human guinea pigs.
From this point of view, a few examples are eloquent:
- The Romanian Constitution of 1991 practically legalized theft through a phrase that has become famous: "...the wealth acquired (no matter how!) is supposed to be legal".
- From 1990 until now, Parliament has drafted over 50,000 laws (no normal mind can process such a quantity of information, so a citizen can become a criminal at any time without permission).
- The Romanian Penal Code recently "invented" the institution called "cumulation of punishments for multiple offenses" (the offender only serves the highest punishment for the n offenses committed; release for "good behavior" (or writing "scientific papers" in prison) if he has served a third of the sentence; release of the offender if he is over 60 years old; the maximum sentence that can be given in our country (including for murder!) is a maximum of 20 years, etc.
For these reasons, I believe that the main war of Romanian society (maybe also of Europe) is now being fought in what Plato once called the world of ideas, but which currently exists as a virtual environment, more precisely an n-dimensional informational hyperspace that tends to overwhelm human processing capacities. This n-dimensional hyperspace has managed to put practically all people in virtual contact, but at the same time to alienate each other and even tend to overwhelm the real world by the fact that more and more activities move from real space to virtual space.
The bet with history is to what extent people can manage to build optimal social networks in their proximity and through which to achieve their objectives when they have almost infinite possibilities to come into contact with everyone else, but very few solutions for efficient social aggregations and for maintaining cohesion.
My proposal comes exactly in this framework. Following my social and professional experience and by carefully comparing the attitudinal (value systems) and behavioral differences existing between Canadians (Western system) and Romanians (Eastern European system) I have long had the idea of a project for a transparent organization / social network / social group / club, etc. completely different from the usual ones and whose operating algorithm (designed on psychological bases) should take into account cultural differences, but at the same time provide a common foundation for the entire network.
Such a structure has the advantage of proposing from the start the “minimal rules of the game” for all participants, including procedures for identifying and maintaining consensus.
I have been developing the network algorithm for many years (but it can be easily updated), the only impediment being related to the implementation costs of the database which for objective reasons I no longer had the possibility, nor the social leisure, to cover by my own efforts (the simultaneous publication in France, Germany and the USA of the article on “The Conspiratorial History of Psychology and Psychosocial Control in Postcommunism” was practically equivalent to giving up the profession of psychologist and abandoning my career).
The network project is presented in broad outline here ( http://aon-bibliotecababel.blogspot.com/2009/04/aon-biblioteca-babel.html ) and can constitute in different fields (social, cultural, etc.) a starting point for an arborescent organization, practically for a network of networks.
Finally, I thank you for the exemplary and elegant way in which you have addressed a vital issue for Romanian society in the public space, but also for the rare opportunity you have offered me to have such a dialogue (and in Romanian!) with a personality of your stature.
At the same time, I sincerely regret that I no longer have the necessary skills to write in the beautiful French language that I mastered well over 40 years ago when, together with authors dear to me (Montesquieu, Voltaire, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Eugene Ionesco, Albert Camus, Maupassant, Stendhal, Balzac, Moliere, Proust, Andre Malraux, Andre Gide, Andre Maurois, etc. ..,) it delighted my entire adolescence.
I have long believed that people can overcome barriers and defeat social systems (including political systems) because real battles are no longer fought on the battlefields of old, and unconventional methods are already the rule and not the exception.
Hoping that I have not taken up too much of your time with these personal opinions, I affirm my interest and availability for any social project that can overcome contemporary political, social and cultural blockages and for any discussion on this topic.
With respect and best wishes,
Sergiu SimionNote 1
It refers to the system of abnormal social values (shocking to a normal and democratic mind) occultly promoted by the communists using secret directives from Moscow (the document referring to these was accidentally discovered in Poland in 1981 and was later published by Christopher Andrew & Oleg Gordievski in the UK:
NKVD DIRECTIVES of 1947 for the countries in the Soviet orbit
http://sergiusimion.blogspot.ro/2009/06/directivele-nkvd. html
Source:
http://romania-rusia.info/DirectiveleNKVD.asp
Christopher Andrew & Oleg Gordievski - KGB. The Secret History of Its Foreign Operations from Lenin to Gorbachev , ALL Publishing House, Bucharest, 1994, p.487-492
Note 2
It refers to the speech given by LP Beria in 1936 in front of American students who came to Lenin University in Moscow for the Psychopolitics course:
Speech given by LP Beria
http://sergiusimion.blogspot.ro/2013/03/77-de-ani-de-la- inaugurarea-cursului-de.html
Source:
Sergiu Grossu – Brainwashing. The Psychopolitical Plot of Communism
( http://www.procesulcomunismului.com/ marturii/fonduri/grosu/ spcreier/ )
Jean Lauxerois
to : Sergiu SimionDate: Apr 22, 2015, 12:46 AM
re: Some opinions and a proposal
Dear Mr. Simion,
I received your email this evening and read it with great pleasure. Impressive.
Now I am taking the time to read it again, and to think about your proposals, in connection with all the abundant links you give at the end – a collection that seems extremely rich!
When I am finished, I will come back so that we can move forward together in conversation.
With respect and thanks.
Jean Lauxerois
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Sergiu Simion
to: Jean Lauxerois
date : Apr 22, 2015, 12:38 PM
re : Un pays malade de Jean Lauxerois
Dear Mr. Lauxerois,
Congratulations on this superb article of yours that I have just discovered ( http://blogs.mediapart.fr/edition/contes-de-la-folie-ordinaire/article/280511/un-pays-malade-de-jean-lauxerois ) and which offers me the joy of a true intellectual delight.
I reserve the pleasure of reading it leisurely ("festina lente") because I have been waiting for such articles for years.
As a personal opinion, I believe that Europe now has a vital need for such syntheses and such personalities.
With respect and best wishes,
Sergiu Simion
Jean Lauxerois
to: Sergiu Simion
Re : A sick country
date : Apr 23, 2015, 12:19 AM
Dear Mr. Simion,
Thank you for this surprise and for the congratulations! Very honorable of you.
All the more so since it was not so easy for me after the publication, you can imagine...
As a thank you: here you have attached a "sick country" part 2: but this text was never published.
With renewed respect and best wishes.
Jean Lauxerois
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Jean Lauxerois
to: Sergiu Simiondate: Apr 29, 2015, 4:19 PM
Re: Some opinions and a proposal
Dear Mr. Simion,
I have read all the documents you sent me. Very impressive. Thank you very much!
I have learned a lot about the problems of Romanian society, about the social engineering techniques used by the communists. Absolutely unknown to us. And absolutely necessary. I am glad that I discovered this side of things...
Regarding your proposal: it is a beautiful project, on a large scale, very ambitious, very well thought out. I am sure that this tree structure is an unprecedented basis for a new type of dialogue, at least European.
However, at the moment, I wonder how this project is to be brought to fruition. In particular, I do not see clearly who is able to be of help. At the European level? Do you already have a slightly more precise idea about all this?
Otherwise, for a future discussion with you, which is necessary, it would perhaps be good to choose a few topics, such as – for example – democracy and corruption, the risk of a new totalitarianism, the bankruptcy of intellectuals in Europe, ethics and politics, European values for tomorrow, and so on... Vast program!
With respect and all my best wishes,
Jean Lauxerois
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Jean Lauxeroisto : Sergiu Simion
date : Fri, May 6, 2016, 3:04 PM
re: April summary material
Dear Mr. Simion,
With a little leisure I was finally able to read an important part of the "synthesis material" that you sent me in April.
Impressive and unexpected!
I discovered
1/ with admiration: your discernment and very subtle capacity for analysis regarding such a complex and dark phenomenon.
2/ with amazement: the infernal mechanism, very clearly described, that the institution operates to destroy people who "whistle in church" (beautiful expression - I'm glad I learned it on this occasion!).
All this was an aspect unknown to me: your argumentation reveals a disturbing face of post-communist Romania. It is worth pondering in depth. In addition, the resort to techniques of pressure, threat and blackmail proves how dubious psychology in general is a discipline, especially when it turns out to be linked to power, manipulation and propaganda. It has a boundless force of destruction.
A suggestion: perhaps it would be interesting and effective for you to write a synthesis text about this reality, briefly summarizing the main argumentation. But just a suggestion...
It would be an urgent matter for us too, although the situation is special. Psychology is emerging, ever more, as a discipline very present in society, when it is now becoming an outdated therapeutic – especially in the field of addiction (of all kinds), which I know quite well, and which seems to me today to be a contaminating and dangerous phenomenon for our civilization.
So hats off and congratulations for your theoretical insight and persistent resistance.
Thank you once again for your trust, and I don't forget the beautiful promotion of the article about orthodoxy on your personal blog.
With respect and best wishes.
Jean Lauxerois
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Sergiu Simion
to : Jean Lauxerois
Sat, May 7, 2016, 2:03 PM
Re: The article about Orthodoxy
Dear Mr. Lauxerois,
First of all, I confess that your article about Orthodoxy is perhaps the best and most complex text about Orthodoxy, Orthodox spirituality and Romania that I have read in the last 25 years. At the same time, it is also a very complex spiritual self-portrait that you offer to others.
Reading this article, I understood how mutilating the atheist and rationalist education in our country was, which eradicated Orthodox spirituality and in this way dehumanized and removed an entire people from its origins.
Moreover, I realized that in our humanities and social sciences faculties this lobotomy was practiced that devastated the interior of their graduates, resulting in what only the Bolsheviks in the USSR dreamed of and managed to put into practice, namely a science without conscience and researchers without deontology, respectively amoralism and moral insanity as the worst symptoms of the "Marxist schizophrenic earthquake that distorted the coordinates of the normal development of our compatriots".
I have quoted here the words of a former Romanian political prisoner who lives in France and with whom I had a very interesting dialogue
( http://sergiusimion.blogspot.ro/2014/02/cicerone-ionitoiu-un-dialog-intre.html ) because it can offer you another perspective on the very complex Romanian reality.
Finally, I confess that I still need time to delve deeper into your article that opens up truly fascinating perspectives on the roots of European history, culture and spirituality and that is why I limited myself to a brief presentation.
The reason is simple. Unlike the simple peasants of Transylvania and Moldavia who maintained their spirituality through the simplicity of tradition, my generation and many other generations have actually been disconnected from these ancestral roots. To sum it all up in one sentence, your article opens a door to another world that was not accessible to Romanians during communism.
As for the "Little Treatise on Spamology and Psychology", this is just a small example of the virtual armageddon that is now taking place in Romania where the real wars between people and the system are no longer fought in the light of day.
In this war, individuals are alone because psychology in Romania has nothing in common with Western psychology except its name, its goals being completely different, it becoming a weapon of social control and vile manipulation.
I don't know what your opinion is on the problem of addictions, but here psychoanalysis was resurrected out of systemic interests, being the only discipline in the West accepted by the communists since its emergence.
In short, and beyond the slogans for the ears of the West, the media and virtual reality have created in Romania a false public agenda, a pseudo-reality and a "safety net" through which citizens spin in circles, being completely disconnected from true information, objective reality and decision-making mechanisms. This was not possible without the complicity of the social sciences in which psychology plays a leading role, which is why the field was practically confiscated.
Psychology has thus become a weapon of social control that must be controlled in turn. The anonymous comment I received on one of my articles and which I quote below shows the state of affairs in a domain confiscated by other structures:"One of the missions of the secret services is to have permanent control over society, in general, and institutions or organizations in particular, and the most efficient way is that through which a (former) worker infiltrates, under various forms and in various positions, the institution or organization in question. In general, it is preferred that he access a management position. In appearance, the intelligence structure seems to have given up on its own employee, but it uses him as long as his performance is not negatively influenced by any illness, any flagrant violation of the law or disclosure, and the transfer to the reserve does not mean that the intelligence structure has given up on him. Let's not forget that psychology is a weapon and that any weapon must be controlled. How? Through ... the officers who lead COPSI (College of Psychologists in Romania -nn). https://sergiusimion.blogspot.com/2010/06/ce-vraji-mai-fac-psihologii-romani.html?showComment=1321718007959#c3395928666639859197
For this reason, I don't think I can follow up on your suggestion ("perhaps it would be interesting and effective for you to write a synthesis text about this reality, briefly summarizing the main arguments. But just a suggestion...).
I have no where or how. My voice is singular in the context here and, except for my personal blog, I have no other way of expressing myself. I have no contacts with the official cultural media and personalities in our country (and to be honest, I'm not even concerned about this issue). In addition, in the mass media there is a careful selection of topics that reach the general public, in fact a real "spiral of silence".
A recent example is eloquent. British professor Tom Gallagher, known until now for his extremely pertinent analyses of the Romanian political reality, recently wrote a surprising article in which he renounces his previous system of democratic values and writes a dithyrambic article about a Romanian sociologist turned politician, to whom he gives a more than flattering profile
( http://revista22.ro/70253585/poate-eminena-cenusie-de-la-cluj-s-transforme-politica-romneasc.html ).After reading the article, I wrote a comment on my blog in which I made a complete analysis of the profile of the political figure praised by Tom Gallagher:British professor Tom Gallagher about Romanian sociologist Vasile Dâncu
http://sergiusimion.blogspot.ro/2016/05/profesorul-britanic-tom-gallagher.html
I wanted to publish this comment on the Revista 22 website, but the settings made by the administrators do not allow longer comments or the posting of external links. So there is no censorship, but different opinions cannot be published.
In this situation, I wrote an email to the British professor in which I presented my point of view and my comment. I received the response by email the same day. I quote:"I am grateful for the interest you have shown in my article.
but there is one thing I need to clarify.
I was NOT actually recommending that Mr. Dincu is the solution for a new movement that could unblock the frozen political situation in Romania.
Instead, I was saying that he might easily be a candidate to head a new initiative because his 'negatives' appear to be smaller than those of most other figures who are in the front rank of politics.
I did not offer a view about whether Mr. Dincu could be a positive influence in political life."
which is more than significant.
In conclusion, I would like to point out another fact that shows that everything is moving forward, but the systems are still spinning in circles. In the case of the most famous Russian dissident, Vladimir Bukovsky ( "a man of a gigantic moral stature") and who is still alive and is a moral landmark of contemporary Europe, murder would not be enough for the system that wants his annihilation.
But the antidote against such a man has also been found. Russia informed Europol, which informed the British police that there are indecent images of children on Bukovsky's computer ( http://www.romanialibera.ro/actualitate/international/afacerea-bukovski--montata-de-kremlin--415578 ), and that's it!"This is the man the British prosecution is today charging with child pornography offences, for pictures "taken or obtained by him" depicting indecent images of children. These images were allegedly found on his laptop, Jeny Hopkins, the head of the Crown Prosecution Service, declared in April 2015, that the prosecution of Bukovsky was "in the public interest". Almost immediately, Vladimir Bukovsky filed a defamation complaint, demanding material and moral damages."
" Putin knows very well that, despite the indifference to major causes, which has descended upon us like a disease of the century, Bukovsky first had to be killed in effigy, knocked off his pedestal, that his legendary biography had to be slandered, dragged into the misery of abjection, which is so familiar to Putin and his mafia."
https://www.contributors.ro/do-or-die-vladimir-bukovski-%C8%99i-fe%C8%9Bele-evlavioase-ale-democra%C8%9Biei-occidentale/
The last article quoted is written by Doina Jela, a well-known writer from our country, who also interviewed Vladimir Bukovsky. Strangely, in the very article that describes "character assassination" and is in favor of Bukovsky, lamenting the situation he finds himself in, Doina Jela forgets to mention (I did it in a comment at the bottom of the article) the exact link to the petition in support of Vladimir Bukovsky ( https://www.change.org/p/high-court-of-justice-of-england-and-wales-save-vladimir-bukovsky ) which shows how few people are concerned about the fate of the last great dissident of Europe who would rather die than have his image tarnished.
It is a very strange world we live in.
As for me, I am grateful for the chance to have such dialogues and I have remorse for the fact that I am sometimes forced to talk to you about topics that are unbearable for me, but for a conscience that lives in a world and in a universe that I hope is more normal than the one here.
With respect and best wishes,
Sergiu Simion
Jean Lauxerois
to: Sergiu Simion
Date: May 18, 2015, 11:36 AMRe: Some opinions and a suggestionDear Mr. Simion,I have just arrived in Paris and am able to answer you at length.Again, I apologize for the lack of a prompt response: you understood the reason and thank you for your kindness.But I thought this episode was an opportunity to talk a little longer about the subject of stubbornness, that is, about time... The quote you made is perfectly appropriate: "L'Art est long et le Temps est court." (Baudelaire, "Le Guignon").I would like to follow in that direction, because the issue of time, as far as I can see, is related to what you say about the relationships you evoke:" ... but all the members went from initial enthusiasm to a state of expectation where they wanted everything but me and for the moment I left things on standby. "Very interesting, because this case, unfortunately, is not rare, it is very common. I have personally known it many times, and in this sense we must consider that it is not accidental.In our era, the contradiction between the speed of communication and the world of thought is fatal and fatal. They are two incompatible spheres. The confusion arose in our country because the so-called intellectuals thought it appropriate to use the mass media, and did not realize that this behavior is not without consequences. The illusion is that of believing that - I quote - " the immense potential offered by the virtual environment, the informational hyperspace " is a world in which thinking would be 1/ more accessible 2/ more efficient 3/ and more connected to action. But it is not so, especially because thinking requires a different time and a different rhythm. But not only that: thinking is made up of a different substance...So this contradiction (and illusion) creates a kind of deception and discouragement (" from the initial enthusiasm ..."). Even if we write an article in a newspaper from time to time, even if we take part in a discussion on the radio or TV, we are not at all efficient, despite our narcissism. And I fear that your project, although very well thought out, will ultimately be a source of misunderstanding (about the exact purpose...).On top of that, ideas get lost in the sea of the internet, a trap where, paradoxically, everything is preserved and erased at the same time. Who gets what? Storage memory is not an active memory. And in a world like this, Logos becomes logoria, Word becomes chatter.In this sense, it would be better not to leave on standby the fundamental themes, which today are not the main ones despite appearances, and in any case are not in the middle of the general concern. I feel sincerely honored to discuss these themes with you. We will see if we manage to establish a fairly coherent and substantial platform, which would be useful for the AON project.With respect and best wishesJean Lauxerois
Sergiu Simionto : Jean LauxeroisDate: May 19, 2015 at 10:40Re: Some opinions and a suggestion
Dear Mr. Lauxerois,
The virtual environment, namely informational hyperspace, is truly a terrible trap due to its immense potential in the first instance and the illusion provided according to which thinking would be "more accessible 2 / more efficient 3 / and more linked to action."
From this point of view, your statement that " thinking requires a different time and a different rhythm. But not only that: thinking is made up of a different substance..." is essential.
Therefore, the distinction between the possibility of communication, the connections that can be established between people, the virtual communities that can emerge, the projects that could be put into practice and the quality of the intellectual approaches involved, respectively the "substance of thought", as well as the quality of the human groups and communities that could put them into practice is mandatory.
In general, the Internet is increasingly affected by what I call the "Babel syndrome" (everyone talking about everything at the same time, but no one listening to anyone), the Facebook madness being the most eloquent example:
"... ideas are lost in the vast sea of the internet, a trap where, paradoxically, everything is preserved and erased at the same time... Logos becomes logorea, Word becomes chatter."
The same thing happens with cultural values and human values. We are currently facing what we can call a reset of value systems and especially of moral values. More precisely, we are not living in an era of decadence like the one at the end of the Roman Empire, but an era of nihilism and anarchism. This era characterized by moral relativism and "moral insanity" gives equal status to normality and abnormality.
In the case of Romania, I have even identified what I called the gradual degradation (intentional or not) of public language, public communication and public space in general, but this topic deserves a separate treatment because I consider it a system strategy.
On the other hand, there is the problem of non-involvement and disengagement as forms of social alienation and the atomization of human relationships:
"... but all the members went from initial enthusiasm to a state of expectation..."
"Very interesting, because this case, unfortunately, is not rare, it is even very common. I have personally known it many times, and in this sense we must consider that it is not accidental."
________________________________________________________________This is one of the reasons why we designed this algorithm to support, protect, and maintain communication channels and value people within a group and community.
Finally, I believe that returning to fundamental themes is vital for the individual, group, community and society, being the only possible form of therapy for the current state of collapse of values and evident political and social depression at a global level.
For now, I have noted with great joy that you have already inaugurated a line of analysis of political and social systems that presents a global diagnosis for East/West systems and inaugurates in Europe what we can call a cross-border cultural psychopathology.
I made a modest presentation of this line of analysis here:
http://sergiusimion.blogspot.ro/2015/05/un-pays-malade-de -jean-lauxerois-une.html In my opinion, your analysis could be the debut of a European intellectual club of a completely different nature when, for example, intellectuals in my country (almost all the official ones are left-wing) promote anarchist theses both in Romania and abroad *)
I will return to these issues in detail.
Finally, the dialogue we started is of a completely different nature.
My next letter to you will be towards the end of the week because tomorrow I am leaving Bucharest for approximately 3 weeks.
With respect and best wishes,
Sergiu Simion
*) Notes
http://www.contributors.ro/politica-doctrine/o-revolta-
morala / I fought them vigorously on Contributors.ro ( http://www.contributors.ro/politica-doctrine/o-revolta-
morala /#comment-219451 ) and on my blog ( http://sergiusimion.blogspot. ro/2014/12/de-la-revolta- morala-la-apologia_15.html )
Jean Lauxerois
Sergiu Simionto : Jean Lauxerois
date : May 22, 2015, 11:37 AM
Re : Dialogue delay
Dear Mr. Lauxerois,With regret and for reasons beyond my control, I am unable to access the internet for about a month. I am away in the village and unfortunately I cannot access the internet from my laptop here. I wrote this email to you from a phone that has internet, mine does not. I will write to you immediately when I solve this problem.Once again, I regret the situation created, I can't wait to resume the dialogue, it's hard for me without the press and the internet, but I have nothing to do.With respect and best wishes,Sergiu Simion
Jean Lauxerois
to : Sergiu Simiondate : May 22, 2015, 5:51 PM
re : Dialogue delay
Dear Mr. Simion,
Thank you for your message. We will resume the dialogue when we can: nothing is in a hurry.
In addition, I am also leaving tomorrow for the country, to my mother-in-law's, where - I found out - the Internet in the region has broken down, because... (I'm serious) the gypsies stole 600 meters of copper on the telephone cables!!
So, for the next week, I am also without Internet access on my computer... Only on my mobile phone, but it is not convenient for more substantial messages.
So we are in the same case, and we are making fun of trouble (as they say, I think, in Romanian) - with patience.
With respect and best wishes.
Jean Lauxerois
Jean Lauxeroisto : Sergiu Simion
date : May 24, 2016, 12:05 AM
Re : Article about OrthodoxyDear Mr. Simion,
Once again your lines are an honor and a pride for me. I did not expect that this interview about Orthodoxy and Romania would be received as "the best and most complex text" that you have read in the last 25 years...
From your side, this so impressive praise goes straight to my heart, and I realize that I also have a great chance to have such an attentive interlocutor. Very rare in our world, when in the name of alleged communication, all kinds of opinions are crowded together that almost no one really reads.
Once again and from the bottom of my heart with special gratitude.
As for Cicerone Ionitoiu, I have already heard of him because a few years ago a meeting with former political prisoners was organized here in Paris, in connection with the Orthodox church. Wonderful people, very young at heart, with an incredible spiritual vigor. It was an event for me. Unfortunately, more and more people are dying out: a memory on the verge of extinction...
Otherwise, I read on your blog the article you wrote about "Carla's dreams" ( nn - https://sergiusimion.blogspot.com/2016/05/intre-lacomie-obscenitate-cinism.html ). Horrifying, terrible. A perfect diagnosis that I completely share. Through others, I see that drug promotion is done in a public way with the complicity and cowardice of officials. A shame for all of us, and a hell promised to the youth.
Finally, the two books I mentioned will be published soon. If you give me a postal address, it would be a joy for me to send them to you.
With special respect and best wishes.Jean Lauxerois
Sergiu Simionto : Jean Lauxerois
date : May 24, 2016, 10:38 PMre: Article about OrthodoxyDear Mr. Lauxerois,
The feeling given by recognizing the value of a man, a book, a text is an absolutely special one, and in the case of discussing a subject as complex as the triad of Orthodoxy, Orthodox spirituality and Romania, even more so.Romanians cannot be understood outside of Orthodoxy even if after 50-75 years of communism and post-communism they are no longer bigoted believers, and even more so, fanatics.
As a distinguished doctor told me in the 1970s: "Romanians, even if they are no longer believers, are Christians even in their cells". This is why the repression was so cruel here.
Returning to the present, the dominant feeling that I believe is floating in the air here (and not only here) is what used to be called "fin de siècle" and now would be translated as "end of the world".
Romania, as a country, has progressed materially in an impressive way compared to 1989-1990 (at least there was hope then...), but as a society (culture, system of moral and spiritual values, etc.) it has evolved in an absolutely dramatic way, even towards the pathological, more precisely it has been subjected to a social cataclysm and a systematic process of dehumanization.
Moreover, the feeling that you had at the meeting with the Romanian political prisoners in Paris I also had at the meeting with the former political prisoners here in 2006 (at that time I met two legendary people here - Ion Gavrila Ogoranu and Vasile Paraschiv - already gone from us) when I gave a speech at a Conference in Pitesti.After meeting them and seeing how they think and what they know, I truly understood how serious the situation of Romanian society actually is.
Finally, I feel deeply honored by your gesture, it will be a real delight to get to know your books in the original and I remain deeply grateful in advance. I mentioned my address at the end of the letter.
With great respect and best wishes.
Sergiu Simion
Address ...
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Jean Lauxeroisto : Sergiu Simion
date : Jun 13, 2016, 1:06 PMRe : Books Dear Mr. Simion, The package (with two books) left today from Paris. I sent it to the address you gave me. I hope it will be without any problems. With respect and best wishes. Jean Lauxerois
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Sergiu Simionto : Jean Lauxerois
date : Jun 13, 2016, 4:59 PMRe : Books
Dear Mr. Lauxerois,
Thank you very much for this gesture that honors me greatly. I am currently in the country, but at the end of the week I will also come to Bucharest. In any case, I will let you know immediately when the package arrives and I receive the books.
In these turbulent times, I am excited to meet your passions and concerns in person in the French cultural space.
With respect and best wishes,
Sergiu Simion
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Sergiu Simionto : Jean Lauxerois
date : Jun 17, 2015, 11:41 AM
re : A dialogue between East and West
Dear Mr. Lauxerois,
With due apologies for the delay in responding (for almost a month I have been in the country where there is a different time than the urban one) I have finally managed to solve the Internet connection problem and I can now respond to your last e-mail and to the remaining pending issues that I propose to address systematically.
First of all, I must state that, without any exaggeration and without knowing that it will ever take place, the dialogue with you has been prepared throughout my professional and social career because the society in which I have lived and live is totally refractory (and it is by no means a singular case) not only to the fundamental themes for a thinking consciousness but also, in particular, to the problems of the human being.
If we were to summarize the outstanding issues (and we will have the time necessary to approach each of them analytically), from your and my perspective, they would be briefly the following:a) "... democracy and corruption, the risk of a new totalitarianism, the bankruptcy of intellectuals in Europe, ethics and politics, European values for tomorrow, and so on..." "
... the issues that arise on the political horizon of Europe and the countries that make it up.
The problem is indeed that of a transformation of the world and of a necessary change of direction regarding the values that guarantee the construction of our future.
We must seize the opportunity and not take the wrong path. Or internal collapse or metamorphosis? In any case, metamorphosis requires a serious examination of the values that we want to choose. And in today's Europe nothing is clear. Everything remains dark and this is enough for an imminent disaster.
If today's world is a new space, made up of increasingly diverse and diverse networks of all kinds, which do not bother with the old hierarchical institutions, which are increasingly less efficient, even paralyzing, we must find new conditions and rules for common life ("a "(live-together"). In this sense, the most important issues are political responsibility, democratic control, social creation, and justice.
On this ground, a change is ineluctable, because justice in particular is archaic and outdated (in our case, the model is Napoleonic!...) And modern democracy has forgotten the fact that justice founded Greek democracy (talking about the "rule of law" is not enough at all!). Today it is time for us to think about this aspect and indeed Europe can be the new framework for a rethought justice.
In this direction, I agree with you one hundred percent: I need a new type of organization, "outside the current political groups, etc....", "to coalesce the civic energies of Europe". It is an emergency, against dambla or tyranny, that is, chaos."
"..a transformation of the world and a necessary change of direction regarding the values that guarantee the construction of our future.
We must seize the opportunity and not take the wrong path. Or internal collapse or metamorphosis? In any case, metamorphosis requires a serious examination of the values that we want to choose. And in today's Europe nothing is clear. Everything remains dark and that is enough for an imminent disaster.
If today's world is a new space, made up of increasingly diverse and diverse networks of all kinds, which do not care about the old hierarchical institutions, which are less and less efficient, even paralyzing, we must find new conditions and rules for common life ("living-together"). In this sense, the most important issues are political responsibility, democratic control, social creation, and justice."
"In your blog, I noted with great interest what you write about the crisis of political systems "which, bizarrely, seem to adopt the closure, imprisonment, and specific encapsulation through definitions of communist and post-communist systems..."
This would be a possible direction for a transversal West/East work, regarding the evolution of the so-called contemporary democratic system - and, moreover, the nefarious role of intellectuals (the poverty of their thinking) in the face of the "drift" (or "decadence" - but this word should not be used too often) of democracy in the West... "b) "Finally, I believe that returning to fundamental themes is vital for the individual, group, community and society, being the only possible form of therapy for the current state of collapse of values and evident political and social depression at a global level. "
What is truly astonishing is the negative convergence (Western corruption versus Eastern European corruption, respectively through moral and human regression) of two totally different political and social systems. The Strauss-Kahn case, seemingly singular, actually shows not only the problems of France but also of the West and is widely reflected in the endemic, systemic corruption in Romania and the former communist countries.At a global level, this is a frightening signal of the dehumanization of contemporary political and social systems and the increasing weight of impersonal structures as a syndrome of global alienation.
A concise synthesis of the issues in question could be the following:1) The idea of a European-type intellectual organization/group/club that would directly or indirectly reaffirm the fundamental themes and values of Europe and of each European country in particular
2) The idea of an East-West dialogue
If these ideas will be materialized in the emergence of a club/group/ or future organization, the final target may then be the activation of AON-BB.
These ideas circumscribe a new type of social approach that is not found in the usual approaches of the European Union, in the political approaches of the East or the West and in the civil society approaches of both systems.
Perhaps the easiest and most appropriate form of presentation of this approach could be a specialized platform, website or blog dedicated specifically to this activity.
In this case, a possible model may be this older attempt through which I tried to promote this type of non-standard dialogue: https://web.archive.org/web/20060613053426/http://agero-stuttgart.de/REVISTA-AGERO/COMENTARII/Tema1%20-%20Dialoguri.htm
If necessary, I will return with details on this older initiative.
Finally, an interesting proposal - and at the same time a real challenge if you agree - would be to make public our dialogue (in my opinion extremely interesting and of great substance) which could be circumscribed to such a project.
Subsequently, the solution would be a standard interview-guide to which we would respond in a series, both you and I (possibly you can invite other people) so that a comparison could be made between the situation in France, Romania and other countries.
I think that such a dialogue would capture the attention of those interested in both countries and systems and at the same time would implicitly offer immunity and protection to the participants in the dialogue.
If the idea seems feasible to you, a special blog on a platform such as wordpress.com could be the best, fastest and easiest solution (in the fall I may have the time to dedicate time to this problem).
With the regret that I cannot be very prompt in my answers (here where I am, I work a lot physically - a real detoxification of the body and mind, but precisely because of that the time to write about captivating issues is much less) I await with great interest the evaluation that you will make of the above proposals and even more your suggestions.
With respect and best wishes,
Sergiu Simion
Postscript.
We are now living perhaps the most interesting times (an old Chinese proverb says that this means a curse) and the political, social and cultural storms that are now crossing Europe and in fact the entire civilized world have an inevitable price, namely that of raising to the surface, and often, exactly the garbage.
An old Romanian proverb describes this type of human behavior with the phrase "like lice on the forehead". On the other hand, an old and strange Chinese proverb says that "the wise are always last". This is actually found in the biblical precept "The last will be first".
All are in fact illustrations of the domino principle and of the political, social and cultural consequences of the general reset of the value systems that we are currently witnessing.
Jean Lauxeroisto : Sergiu Simion
date : Jun 17, 2015, 12:14 PM
re: A dialogue between East and West
Dear Mr. Simion,
I am happy to receive your email. Thank you very much.
Now it is me who must delay the answer, because I am leaving today... to Romania! My mother-in-law (on the maternal line she is Romanian) is now old (88) and does not know the monasteries of Bukovina (which I discovered 4 years ago). It is impossible! I think it is the last opportunity for her to discover this amazing wonder.
Therefore, I too "with due apologies", please wait until the beginning of July to move forward with our dialogue.
With respect and best wishes.
Jean Lauxerois
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Sergiu Simionto : Jean Lauxerois
Date: Jun 17, 2015, 12:47 PM
re: A dialogue between East and West
Dear Mr. Lauxerois,
Thank you very much for the feed-back. I look forward to it, there is time for everything and I am very happy to have this extraordinary dialogue which means a lot to me.
Many things are waiting to be discussed and there is no need to rush, we gain enormously if we apply the oriental method of "stopping the moment".
I confess that the dialogue with you condenses themes that I have been thinking about for over 40 years and I have not had the chance to discuss them here.I am very happy that you have also discovered my country, just as I discovered your country in my adolescence and I congratulate you for the chance you are offering to an 88-year-old Romanian.
In Romania, there are people who have lived in the mountains and have never seen the sea, people who have lived in the sea and have never seen the mountain, etc.My mother (82 years old), a Romanian language teacher, has never seen the monasteries in Moldova.
This was life in these lands, in this part of the world and on this line of the universe (I hope you will forgive this unintentional lyricism).
With respect and best wishes,Sergiu Simion
Source :
https://sergiusimion.blogspot.com/2021/01/un-dialog-inedit-jean-lauxerois-franta.html (2021)
"Romania today gives us a lesson in courage, rigor and probity. This country - for several years now I have been discovering its substance and I have chosen to learn its beautiful language - could be an example for the whole of Europe."
Congratulations for the courage to rediscover for the Romanians (for the umpteenth time?) their own country, their own language and culture, and the confidence in all of this and in their future, but also for showing as representatives of the European intelligentsia the merits of people (in the order in which you mentioned them) such as Laura Kovesi, Monica Macovei and Traian Basescu.
Since no one is a prophet in their own country, instead of being respected and honored, all three are constantly attacked and denigrated because, unfortunately, the democratic game is applied to us in this regard as well.
The approach you have initiated is one of conscience and intellectual probity, but precisely for that reason it can also become a target in the terrible informational war that is grinding Romania and the minds of its citizens.
Honestly, I am waiting with great interest to see how many people, and how, will comment "undercover" (under a pseudonym) on this eulogy to Romania in a disinterested and honest manner.