Over a year that ends, we often take a stealthy look. Do not dwell too much. You never know how many things that we forced to bury the memory could once again appear, like these impromptu, malpolated and irritating "pop -up" windows on the internet. The exercise that can be carried out is to concentrate very strongly to extract important events; The events that will understand why they have counted so much; How they proved to be decisive. It is also important not to lose sight of the moment when the event appears.

The vision of man rarely exceeds the tip of his nose. In the best of cases, it can appreciate its length. Now life is history. Written and write. How to explain that man has a vision of his life so limited? Because of the limit imposed by life, it will be said. Pride plays an eminent role too. Man believes he knows. Because he believes he knows, he plans to prospect a road at the end of this road. He thinks he has accomplished what he does not know. Forgetting, and therefore the recall of this humanity forces us to regain contact with original sin, extraordinary factor of understanding of human life; always forever tool. The weakness of man, the heart of his humanity, embodied, felt, transpired by original sin, dispenses the true force of man when he considers himself injured by this concept. Man believes to see his weakness in his strength. His strength is his weakness. Man's weakness could, should become his "augmented reality"; As we say in computer science of a product which, in addition to offering you a basic function, gives you associated services depending on the date where you are. Augmented reality is not a magical concept as its name makes it believe, it is rather a kind of concept in reduction of life, applied to machines. Life and technique have always been linked since the creation of the world-what is cunning if not a technique? And the scale trays on which life and technique have never stopped oscillating according to the weight that one or the other was granted. Life consists of pure life - qualified as nature - and technique. Or is that what we are trying to make us believe? Indeed, the year 2011 was marked by a deep dispute that has lasted for a long time and is not ready to finish between culture and nature. This time, she takes the form of textbooks and a theory, that of the genre. In 2011, a "vital" question was well at the center of discussions, which was included something invigorating. With gender theory, we replayed an essential question: what in life is in nature and culture? In other words: can we separate nature from the technical part of our life (technique being what is not natural, we can throw education, education, civilization, etc.). The question is what there is still human quantities when we threw even the three examples that I quote in the previous sentence? Gender theory is a technique. A technique that wants to discover the human and clean it from their technical tinters. Like a snake that bites its tail. As an ideology. Gender theory brings interesting reflections when she confines herself to studying exogenous populations integrating into a new country. There are in particular studies on comprehensive Indian women in North America in North America. There are exciting studies concerning cultural conditioning applied to native or exogenous populations by dominant civilizations. Studies that will certainly constitute a beneficial and fertile background for other researchers or for writers who will build the foundations of their work on it. But that these studies lead to believe that everything is corrupted by culture shows once again, if necessary, that man believes himself too easily allowed and all powerful. The researchers forget a decisive criterion: the soul. It is neither nature nor culture that make civilizations, it is the soul. The combination of nature and culture, or rather the alchemy of nature and culture. I use the term alchemy because the share of unknown is so important that it is not in any way a recipe. A being is neither a man nor a woman says gender theory, not false. A being is the alchemy of a nature and a culture that intersect, feed, kill themselves and become so tenuous that it is impossible to say what is one or the other. There is the essence of life there, summarized in a word terribly in fashion: organic. So alive. A being is neither a man nor a woman, because he is incredibly more. It is what escapes us completely. We understand that pointing the weakness of man is not here lessened or lowering it, but taking it in all its splendor, in its entirety, if it is possible since it is in the image of God, and that it should never be forgotten. There are so many studies of man who without even realizing it the man from their research. Grisée by technical discoveries that will not resist time. If we want to qualify life, and therefore man, we must say that it is as weak to resist the temptation of evil as it is possible for him to reach "supernatural" heights. This big gap could be considered as fatality if man had not in his possession an immeasurable force: free will. Free to choose the path he takes, he can decide what is good for him. He can be wrong. He can regret. He can blame himself. He can feel guilty. He can hate himself. He can forgive himself. He can recover. He can get up. He can relive. It can start again. He can succeed ... he can live. Oh this life that we could speak endlessly without ever starting to define it! Researchers, whatever they are, like to delimit it too much by a technical framework, this is so reassuring. Almost all of the philosophy of this blog (and of course "France against robots" The Bernanos book) is thus contained in this fight between the technical framework and life, life that never ceases to spray science. There is an immemorial fight at stake here.

In 2011, there were a lot of embezzlement against life. As always since the dawn of humanity. Nothing very abnormal. Centuries have seen the man destroy, exterminate, try to stifle life for good. But life is reborn in the following season. Sometimes grieved, often growled, hard, feverish, always curious. Life will always escape all theories of gender, because theories are life seen under the microscope. And life is not looked at, it ... lives. In 2011, there were embezzlement against life, but there was life too. Envirt against life are part of the "Manie" as someone said. In 2011, there was life through deaths too. There are deaths that I talked about on this blog. People frequented or not. Always important people. The dead we are talking about or that we regret, whether we know them personally or not, are always traveling companions. After a certain age, "in the middle of the way of life" as Dante said, deaths write the story that shrinks. I have not talked about Montserrat Figueras and Valdimir Dimitrijevic that I will miss. Dimitri will always be there, present in the DNA of "the age of man". And I will continue to get drunk on the voice of Montserrat wills as long as a breath runs through me. I cannot really estimate the contribution of Montserrat Figs to my life. If I had not known it, I would not be dead, but if I had not known it, I would not be the same. Nature and culture? With Dimitri, during a weekend, I discovered Serbia, the Belgradoises, Dobitsa Tchossitch, a certain heterodoxy from the interior ... Indicable memory. Lots of life.

What is a year that ends if not the revelation that nothing changes? And isn't this revelation based above all on the observation that life continues to flow between all the living parts like blood in its bodily continuum? And for the Catholic, life is still infinitely stronger since it continues to live even through the dead in the communion of saints.

But as surprising as it may seem, if I do a brief overview of the past year, two memories come back in mind. From 2011, I remember the death of Steve Jobs, an abandoned Métis (the Métis are often abandoned) who is born in a world that does not recognize him, who does not want him, and that he will calligraph the intuition. In 2011, I remember the “Tree of Life”, the quudging filmed poem which gives the definition of two life paths: that of nature and that of grace. Nature and culture, you say?

PS. With this article, I’m hitting a new category: “Theory of life”. In response to gender theory, the ideology of life.