Great Confusion is a Essai of Gerard Ayache published in 2006.

Confusion like paradigm

In this work, the author supports the thesis which confusion is the Paradigme of our time. According to him, the companies in which we live undergo vibrations which shake their bases; each alive human being on this planet knows doubts in the least of its daily acts. He wonders about his personal destiny as on that of his species. Science like the thought live the end of their certainty, the real-world to which we are accustomed since millenia leaves the place to a populated universe of virtualities and extreme brittlenesses, our faith in the values and the ideologies preaches in a populated desert of mégapoles, nomads and tribes. The uniformity of the economic models gains all the continents of planet. In return, large waves of violences and passions are raised, modernity and cruelty combining itself in the same spasms. Our time discovers with stupor the Hypermonde and is propped up on a civilisationnelle rupture which does not have of equal, perhaps, that which proceeded to the advent of industrial civilization.

Hyper-information

Gerard Ayache supports his argumentation on the report which our universe of representation is worked by an organic force which fractalise literally the world, which refracts it in a multitude of combinations and images. This force is the Hyper-information. Its power is well beyond technologies which carry it and from the economic forces which try to overcome it; its nature is anthropological. The Information cannot be any more heard like a linear relation, an intermediation between two poles of an axis of communication. Hyper-information is well beyond this simplification. It upsets the nature of our report/ratio in the world, it transforms our practices to represent it and to act on him, it makes us change social skin. Its scale is that of planet like that of the conscience of the human being itself, tangled up recipient of a flow which it animates and which animates it. Its space time is at the same time the universe and the abyssals zone of the brain of the man. This force is not controlled, it is not controlled despite everything the efforts made by the most powerful organizations to domesticate it; it is.

The consequence of the hyper-informational change is confusion i.e. the handing-over in perpetual question of our plans of reading and interpretation of reality, our values and our ends. The confusional syndrome is expressed by our incapacity to perceive our real situation, to control our space time, to include/understand our individual and collective destiny, to elucidate the paradoxes of our companies.

The hypermonde

For the author, the confusional basic wave is with work under our eyes; it develops each day of advantage and leaves at the edge of its bed the alluvia of an obsolete company, vestiges of time present, whether each one discovers with amazement or incomprehension: dislocated truths, fossilized values, fractured people, broken up tribes… Hyper-informational flow swells and progresses unrelentingly. Ambivalent, it creates confusion but it carries in him the germs of a strange Hypermonde: release of the word, abolition of the limits established since of the centuries between the individuals, awakening of a planetary humanity, collective Intelligence divided in a world Network, Méta-information, released direct citizenship of the national sanctuary and myth représentationnel.

The human revolution

The great confusion described by Gerard Ayache gives an emergency character on a recasting of the Politique, in its ethical bases but also in its approaches of human, new, the complex and the unforeseeable one. The author calls answers rather than sovereign initiatives. He shows the vanity of the established certainty and the monolithic visions. He opens tracks to us to make a true human revolution.

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