Cold, me? Never!
Good evening to you all,
comments this morning on radio rising gas prices had almost apocalyptic tone. Beyond self-recrimination of "everything increases," it was almost the defeat of civilization before the cold that was mentioned. The statistics of one in ten French renouncing heating normally save was particularly impressive. In total, this would six million people that would be required reduction. Some thoughts me then came to mind, as the situation seems unusual, as the reactions are not trivial:
1 - The so-called "snowy the episode" hit minds. He is no stranger to this feeling a cold polar , a new ice age descends on us. This is especially troubling that science rehashing another danger, quite the opposite, contradictory: the "global warming . The ice melt is expected, with the image of polar bears on ice floes drifting, but the weather makes us understand the opposite!
2 - This rediscovery of the cold is painful because this natural element is the least liked of all the natural elements: it brings nothing to humanity (not the prejudice that suggests that it kills germs ), it is completely sterile. The rain is devastating but contributes to life, the wind is strong, but it pushes the bad clouds, fire ravaged it illuminates and warms, fuck the snow but it is beautiful to see. Only the cold hurts without compensation, without any positive . Surprise that you do not like it!
3 - Poverty is defined entirely in the words of the song Coluche for Restaurants du Coeur " Today we no longer have the right to be hungry or be cold . Hunger and cold are the two legs of poverty. In France, hunger was almost floored and it remains cold, which it is difficult to escape even when one is easy. Being cold, the pain we are the closest currently of poverty. That is why we dread.
4 - There is a collective unconscious at work behind it, a reminder of civilization is by beating the fire, knowing that replicate the warmth that companies are humanized. Before, people clung to each other to capture the body heat in dark caves, or folded in animal skins. Heat changed everything, she comforted, enlightened and even cooked food: it was the beginning of culture, men ceased to be animals when the heat was released by fuel energy reproducible at will, by simple technique. Confused today we feel the cold as an advanced civilization decline, a defeat for humanity, we do not support.
5 - This fear, anxiety sometimes, always an obsession from the cold could not that in the event in the contemporary world, where for the first time the "heat room" (funny expression, very revealing) was installed everywhere, houses, shops, offices, elevators, utilities, etc.. It was not so long ago, in many domestic interiors, all rooms were not heated, the heat held in one or two, where it was needed, where they lived most often, the rest being delivered to the cold, which is resisted with hot water bottles, blankets and coarse wools.
Comfort drove all that, we now look like the watch the thermostat. With the displacement car, the contact of man to cold is reduced to very little, very little time. We're unaccustomed. In public meetings that I organize, I know that temperature is an important criterion, which can create resentment. In general, people do not warm enough, complain of the cold. Indeed, they willingly use the euphemism that allows better face reality, "it does not hot" instead of "he cold."
"Cold me? Never!" Do you remember that advertisement with Damart, which had its heyday and has persisted. We can resume our account and that the cold will not reach us, but as a wish, hope, protest. "Never again ," they said after the horrors of the Second World War. " Never Cold " is what goes for the views and spreads throughout the body politic. The new asceticism, it is this: to resist the cold.
Good evening
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