Here, too, comparison with the religious orders is fruitful . lhe liturgy, ' the acts of the people', contemporary with the third millenn i um , revives, as though in secret, the liturgies of the people of believers. B ut where the Church of Christendom managed to create an equality based on Faith wi thin a wide diversity o f living conditions and spiritual riches thanks to the statics of deep-rootedness in fixed property (that of the monastery, a true laboratory of the future of our emploi du temps), the dynamics of the revol ution in transport, and especially in comp uter transmissions, has abolished this form of social unity - in favour o f the synchronization of common sensations. In this INTERACTIVE COMMUNISM, the real instant of audiovisual telecommunications dominates the all-too-real space of social communications, and the standardization of religious beliefs and behaviours is erased thanks to the simul taneity of common feeling, wi th the 'community of interests' shared by all now yielding i ts political primacy to this community of emotion based on an individualism that is fundamentally transpoli tical.
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