Embrace and Strength

Adam 2022-10-10 11:05:25

In the face of death, it seems to have abandoned all sorrows and crux of the matter. On the final road, giving care and strength, giving warmth and embrace, is far more powerful than disinfectant, needle and ventilator. How to give dignity to the greatest extent is the greatest encouragement to patients. Of course, all prerequisites come from their own will. Although we have been avoiding the issue of life and death, especially for Chinese people, it seems that this is really taboo. However, when faced with a given future, why not prepare early and be less panicky when the day comes. This preparation has both a psychological level and a practical situation. All the effort made today is to make that day appear less clumsy, because you never know which tomorrow or the accident will come first. The only thing that can be done is to live the present seriously, prepare psychologically for everything that may happen in the future, and have enough endurance to bear all the results. This is true strength and true strength.

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  • Rémy: [in French] Contrary to belief, the 20th century wasn't that bloody. It's agreed that wars caused 100 million deaths. Add 10 million for the Russian gulags. The Chinese camps, we'll never know, but say 20 million. So 130, 145 million dead. Not all that impressive. In the 16th century, the Spanish and Portuguese managed, without gas chambers or bombs, to slaughter 150 million Indians in Latin America. With axes! That's a lot of work, sister. Even if they had church support, it was an achievement. So much so tha the Dutch, English, French, and later Americans followed their lead and butchered another 50 million. 200 million dead in all! The greatest massacre in history took place right here. And not the tiniest holocaust museum. The history of mankind is a history of horrors.

  • Rémy: We've been everything: separatists, supporters of independantists, sovereignists, sovereignity-associanists...

    Pierre: At first, we were existentialists.

    Dominique: We read Sartre and Camus.

    Claude: Then Fanon, we became anti-colonialists.

    Rémy: We read Marcuse and became Marxists.

    Pierre: Marxist-Leninists.

    Alessandro: Trotskyists.

    Diane: Maoists.

    Rémy: After Solzhenitsyn we changed, we became structuralists.

    Pierre: Situationists.

    Dominique: Feminists.

    Claude: Deconstructionists.

    Pierre: Is there an -ism we haven't worshipped?

    Claude: Cretinism.