Being suicidal was once a psychological state, b ut it can consequently turn sociological, when we deregulate the way we regulate time and its rhythms, their mode d'emploi, to the point of causing anxiety, the permanent anguish of communities, as is already happening in telecommunications companies where the harm done by stress has become fatal .
'We m ust insist that the future does not belong to fear', President Obama told the United Nations in his address o f September 2009 . He was talking about the maj or risks o f n uclear proliferation . B ut, more intimately, this statemen t should also apply to the issue of our mode de vie, our way of life, the everyday life of a period marked by precariousness and the instability of the TEMPO driving local communities in the grip of the fear caused by the devastating progress in interactive technology. That progress is nothing more than the progress of a deliriously b ustling eagerness, not to say a collective rage, triggered by a sudden panic that's turned into a PANDEMIC. A pandemic that has everything to do wi th the real ity efect o f acceleration of information and its sudden demands. For, the INSTANTANEITY of the disarray of each one of us will soon contaminate the way of life of all .
THE GREAT ACCELERATOR
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