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Babel, the World Wide Web

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L'exposition du Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille vaut le détour. Elle nous jète au visage l'allégorie - que nous avons tous plus ou moins clairement à l'esprit - de la tour de Babylone (ziggurat) qu'on retrouve dans l'Histoire de -1700 à nos jours. Elle est passionnante car elle se retrouve dans la plupart des religions et cultures du berceau méditerrannéen, i.e. du monde moderne. Il devient évident en se promenant entre sculptures, photomontages, gravures et vidéos, qu'elle ne symbolise rien de moins que les civilisations et leurs déclins. Elle refait surface à chacun de ces tournants historiques, nous rappelant qu'à chaque fois que les hommes s'unissent aveuglément autour d'un système unique, ils finissent par en oublier leurs identités et leurs valeurs, pour devenir ce que David Riesman appelle "la foule solitaire". Autant d'individus qui ne savent plus vivre ensemble et se comprendre, faute d'avoir su prendre le risque ...
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Smart Consumerism Definition

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Muji is known to provide with simple, efficient and rather cheap products. Thus it has been for long taken for a "jap house fashion" shop. It is not, not a fashion, nor a minimalist style (subjet to change thus faster renew of products). It's a real phylosophy of consumerism, simply described in this small dedicated website, a lesson for our way to see things ::: http://www.muji.com/message/
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Obama to Luther King - yet another "Yes we can"

Here is a 40min discours by Barack Obama to the NAACP (most influencial right defender association since 100 years in USA), concerning racial issue regarding american values and today's politics. I found it as usual very just and touching, but unusually putting the light on the president's views on race issues. As a matter of fact Obama didn't talk much about this issue during the elections, as he was probably afraid to take too much side for a community and risk to miss a concensius, which i can understand. But truth is that he could have tried the shot, in my opinion his vision of this is very relevant once more, as it puts in perspective all american values and the very definition of the american dream ! He takes care not to seperate colored communities in fight against present system, but reafirms american values that can help them integrate better, and reassure them that on the other side government is legiferating in the same direction. No more say, see for yourself :...
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