{"id":10487,"date":"2012-02-23T16:13:44","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T15:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/philosophy-claude-levi-strauss-hubert-reeves-andre-franquin-black-thoughts.html"},"modified":"2025-11-19T19:47:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T18:47:28","slug":"philosophy-claude-levi-strauss-hubert-reeves-andre-franquin-black-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/philosophy-claude-levi-strauss-hubert-reeves-andre-franquin-black-thoughts.html","title":{"rendered":"When Death Comes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-22317 size-full\" title=\"D\u00e9tail d'un gisant, cath\u00e9drale de Roscoff, Finist\u00e8re, Bretagne, France - juin 2016 - photo Mila Z pour Eden Saga - Tous droits r\u00e9serv\u00e9s\" src=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mort-gisant-roscoff-mz-2016-688po.jpg\" alt=\"mort-gisant-roscoff-mz-2016-688po\" width=\"688\" height=\"413\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"chapo\">Death, only the living talk\u00a0about. And by definition they know nothing.\u00a0<em>&#8220;The day when <a class=\"link\" href=\"\/en\/greek-mythology-zeus-created-woman-all-gifted-pandora-s-box.html\">Pandora<\/a> opened her box, all the evils came out to beat down on us&#8221;<\/em>, said <a class=\"link\" title=\"Greek poet, author of the Theogony.\" href=\"\/en\/greek-mythology-hesiode-nemesis-hubris-five-mankinds.html\">Hesiod<\/a>. All evils except one: hope. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">So it would be a calamity, this hope of which Christians have made a <a href=\"#\">theological virtue<\/a>?<span style=\"color: #00cc00\">\u00a0<\/span>Apparently yes. Anyway, if we have no hope, it&#8217;s thanks to Pandora. For\u00a0Roman Catholics, theological\u00a0virtue is the most important virtue to ensure the salvation of the soul. They profess three theological virtues: \u00a0faith, hope and charity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>&#8211; Death is lemon yellow and smells like vanilla<\/em><br \/>\n<em>&#8211; You sure about that?<\/em><br \/>\n<em>&#8211; I take the bets! <a href=\"#\">(source)<\/a><span class=\"note\">Jean Rochefort, in Le Mari de la Coiffeuse<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><blockquote class=\"perfect-quotes\"><p>There is no pessimists There is only well informed optimists.<\/p><footer class=\"blockquote-footer\">Patrick Timsit<\/footer><\/blockquote><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">French anthropologist, ethnologist and philosopher, Claude Levi-Strauss, born in Brussels on November 28th 1908, has passed away on November 1st 2009, \u00a0age 100. He is one of the founders of\u00a0structuralism. His best-seller, <em>Tristes Tropiques<\/em>, is an unforgettable experiment.\u00a0Like Einstein, Levi-Strauss\u00a0was known to lots of people\u00a0who had never read him. He didn&#8217;t care: <em>&#8220;As long as they do not confuse me with the pants!&#8221;<\/em> At the end, he was a victim of Pandora&#8217;s syndrome: no\u00a0hope.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-20554 size-full\" title=\"Banksy -- Stencil on the waterline of The Thekla, an entertainment boat in central Bristol  --   By Adrian pingstone - Photographed by Adrian Pingstone, Public Domain, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=1338147\" src=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/banksy-mort-canot-688po.jpg\" alt=\"banksy-mort-canot-688po\" width=\"688\" height=\"413\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em>&#8220;What I see is the current devastation. It is the frightening disappearance of living species, of plants or animals. \u00a0<\/em><em><br \/>\nBecause of its density, the human race lives under a regime of internal poisoning. And I do think about the present and the world in which I am currently finishing my life. This is not a world I love.&#8221; <\/em>said<span style=\"color: #00cc00\">\u00a0<\/span>Claude Levi-Strauss in a television interview still visible on the web.<\/p>\n<p class=\"clear\">What a terrible testament &#8230; And the astrophysicist Hubert Reeves writes: <em>&#8220;The world is infested with humans&#8221;.<\/em> As if we were vermin, rats or lice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">When\u00a0life come to an end, some\u00a0great minds\u00a0cannot help expressing their rejection of the world and human race, such a rat race to their eyes &#8230;\u00a0while others remain confident until the end.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"perfect-quotes\"><p>Isn&#8217;it a disgrace To see the human race In such a rat race?<\/p><footer class=\"blockquote-footer\">Bob Marley<\/footer><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"clear\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-20555 size-full\" title=\"Le comte de Champignac se d\u00e9sole de la perte de l'oeuf du M\u00e9sozo\u00efque --- Copyright Andr\u00e9 Franquin, Tome et Janry, \u00e9ditions Echo Vision 1989, Paris. Copyright Eden Saga 2016. Tous droits r\u00e9serv\u00e9s.\" src=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/franquin-tome-janry-688po.jpg\" alt=\"franquin-tome-janry-688po\" width=\"688\" height=\"413\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"clear\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Shortly before his death, I was lucky enough to\u00a0meet Andre Franquin, a great artist full of bitterness and humility.\u00a0Andre Franquin, born in 1924, Belgian-French author of comics as Spirou, Gaston and the Marsupilami, he was both a hilarious and gagman gifted artist. He died in 1997. The 9th art is inconsolable ever since.<\/p>\n<p class=\"clear\">Succulent plants with improbable forms had invaded his lounge in Brussels. <em>&#8220;They have inspired me many gags for Id\u00e9es noires&#8221;<\/em> he told us with his half smile. He really radiated sympathy, kindness and humility. In his twilight years, after several bouts of depression that had compromised his work for Spirou, Andre Franquin had left the schoolboy humor of Gaston Lagaffe and of the Marsupilami to express his dark side. Published by Fluide Glacial, his <a href=\"#\"><em>Id\u00e9es noires<\/em><\/a><span class=\"note\">Black Thoughts<\/span> is one of the best comic books ever written in Belgium. Like Levi-Strauss, at the very end, he did not feel any more at home on this earth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Yet <a class=\"link\" href=\"\/en\/geobiology-feeling-cosmo-telluric-energy-vril-earth-chakras-barefoot-on-sacred-earth.html\">the world\u00a0is what human make it<\/a>. These days, it is far from satisfactory, indeed. But hey, this finding is not an excuse to give up.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-22234 size-full\" title=\"Finist\u00e8re, France -- photo Mila Z pour Eden Saga -- tous droits r\u00e9serv\u00e9s\" src=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/craignez-la-derniere-200po.jpg\" alt=\"craignez-la-derniere-200po\" width=\"200\" height=\"333\" \/>The earth needs men. It might be time to remember how much we need it. This is not hope that we lack, but success. All evils are upon us, what a big deal! We had noticed. If there is anything we can do, a major project, a challenge to succeed in together, <a class=\"link\" href=\"\/en\/native-american-mythology-united-humans-on-earth-rainbow-prophecy-rainbow-warriors.html\">united on Earth<\/a>.\u00a0And if in addition it could be concluded by January 1st 2013 in a big Day of the Living, it would cock a snook at the end of the world.<\/p>\n<p>When death comes, it is not uncommon to see human beings, especially the famous ones, give in to a pessimism sometimes pathetic. What? These great men have lived a lifetime guided by principles, ideals, generous and positive morals, how can they <a class=\"link\" href=\"\/en\/flu-climate-crisis-pollution-depression-fear-fury-terror-resist-to-bad-trippers.html\">stoop to anxiety<\/a>? They are excusable, we are all doing this. This society has banned the death, it has hid all its unpleasant traits, all the wrinkles, up to the last trace.\u00a0Our religions are less and less big success and can not prepare us for the ultimate expiry. They are careful not to talk about it.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody, indeed, seems to care. Everyone acts as though he was immortal.\u00a0When by chance a national hero dies, athlete, filmmaker, actor, singer or other media beloved child, everyone is inconsolable &#8211; for a day or two. Death does not exist, the dead either. Everything goes faster and faster, one news chases away the other one, we go on, we go to something else.<\/p>\n<p>E la nave va, And the Ship Sails On, move on, nothing to see. Where is hidden death? Do not seek it under the carpet, no, it sleeps in our lungs, every time we breathe we can hear it moaning.<\/p>\n<p>Castaneda gives us the ultimate advice: take your death for advisor. Accept that you are mortal. Learn to feel the presence of your death, that never leave you throughout your life.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">It awaits its time, your death is your double, always two steps behind you, a little to your left.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Your death is your double, repeats the <a class=\"link\" href=\"\/en\/altamira-lascaux-painting-wild-animals-egregores-domestication-a-shaman-way.html\">shaman<\/a>. Death is your half. If you ignore it, you&#8217;ll never be what you are: <a class=\"link\" href=\"\/en\/mythologies-religions-virgin-maria-isis-creator-gift-humanity-soul-divine-athena.html\">a divine seed<\/a>. If the seed does not die, wheat will not grow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Death is another birth. We are minds committed in a material world. Life is not limited to the material. Eternity which is in each of us just waits to emerge and reach the whole earth.\u00a0Look for her in the hollow of the moment. Do not wait for her after death if you have not lived near her in life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Dying to oneself, renouncing, releasing everything, for the great adventure of the beyond. The little death, we live it every night when we sleep. To sleep is to die a little. You must know endless die to yourself to make a blank page, carefully, each morning. Rise from the ashes like the phoenix of the legend. The great death, that is the <a class=\"link\" href=\"\/en\/initiation-tarology-little-mysteries-isis-rebirth-former-lives-catharsis-tarot-arcana-thirteen.html\">Arcanum XIII<\/a>, that is the spring cleaning, that is the old man&#8217;s death, the death of Adam Kadmon for the rebirth of <a class=\"link\" href=\"\/en\/mythology-egypt-azhar-ousir-isis-horus-seth-amenta-slosman-double-country-osiris.html\">Osiris<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Amen, Alleluya, <a class=\"link\" href=\"\/en\/initiation-monotheism-polytheism-native-americans-dance-of-shiva-great-spirit-wakan-tanka.html\">Mitakuye oyasin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mankind lives under a regime of internal poisoning, said Claude Levi-Strauss<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3282],"tags":[2036,882,75,2037,2034,76,32,2035,77,2038],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10487"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49168,"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10487\/revisions\/49168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}