Th is may help us to u nderstand the reason behind the Sarkozy government's plan fo r a future ' M useum of the H istory of F rance ' , whi ch would b e a so rt of health cl i n i c fo r times past completi ng the one for times present, memory of which fades so quickly now, with a real danger of amnesia due to the fragile supports fo r the dead memories of our computers.
Th en again , let's not fo rget that the eternal p resent of Einstei nian relativity is not the same as the p rese nt that ruled the day, wh en l igh t was st i l l d i sti nct from darkness . It is th e real i n stant, confirming what D ietrich Bonhoefer claimed last century: 'Technology has declared war on the d ay . '
Contempo rary with the B litz, that verdict beauti fully defines the probable translation of the ' i l l u m i nism' of the Ancien ts' sun worship i nto the ' i nstantaneism' of the tech no-worsh ip of the postmodern people we've all become .
We'd actually do b etter to swi ftly abandon the grand ill usi o n of a future ' M use urn of H istory' and substitute, in its stead, a Mi nistry of the Times, a great m i n istry of the rel ativity of b o th the weather, Ie temps qu 'il fait, and o f p assi ng time, Ie temps qui passe, time now passing so quickly. AERO PO LITICS would then cleverly complete the C H RONO PO LITICS of the time behind the G EOPOLITICAL interactivity of our real-time com munications.
THE GREAT ACCELERATOR
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