Tous résistants dans l’âme, by Dr Louis Fouché
Inspired by filmed interviews with Stéphane Chatry, founder among other things of the YouTube channel Ethique TV[1], this book[2]explores the dangers but also the opportunities hidden behind the crisis that has preoccupied us for 2 years. It offers us a precious collection of the profound thoughts of Louis Fouché, a resistance fighter at heart.
There is certainly no need to introduce Dr Louis Fouché, a leading figure ofReinfo Covid[3], a collective of carers, doctors, philosophers, artists and citizens aiming to inform about covid and to play an active role in resolving the crisis. More than a citizens' organisation, it is a genuine non-violent resistance movement, launched when it was created in 2020, to return to proportionate health management and also to a more respectful society.
A worldof Ourown
This pandemic is indeed the symptom of a society in transition, the end of a system that has had its day and now needs to be redefined. If these questions occupy or worry you, this book will allow you to look at them with an enlightened eye. Dr Louis Fouché's analyses and perspectives encourage us to focus with courage and determination on the role each of us can play in building a new world, more respectful and more caring.
A message of courage
The Chinese ideogram for the word crisis is made up of two characters, one for danger and the other for opportunity. The period we are going through seems to be at the crossroads of two paths, and it is up to us alone to take the one that seems most just to us.
Louis Fouché worked for 15 years as an anaesthetist and intensive care doctor in a major burns unit in Marseille. By way of introduction, the story of Louis Fouché's private journey and the open letter co-written with his wife immediately initiate us into the wisdom needed to face this great turning point for humanity and to come together, because ‘there is nothing we can do alone’. While the author's intention is to sound the end of an era and to reflect on the one to come, above all it aims to share a message of courage to cross the threshold into a more desirable world.
Essential questions
Health and neoliberalism, transhumanism, the totalitarian surge and freedoms are then dissected with the clarity that characterises Louis Fouché, before he gives us his ideas for taking back our power and no longer simply enduring.
Our relationship with the living world, human permaculture, social ties and the role of activist arts are some examples of the solutions proposed.
While the subjects covered in this book are varied, key words such as collaboration, exchange and cooperation stand out very clearly as essential qualities that we are invited to cultivate starting today in order to build the world of tomorrow.
A book to read and reread without delay.
By Géraldine Louis, columnist at BAM!
[2]Fouché, Louis (2021):Tous résistants dans l’âme.Editions Guy Trédaniel, ‘Champs’ series, 238 pp., €17.
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