'Social cohesion' means to acquiesce, to unite individualities around a common agreement or, at the very least, an agreement on what is common.
Whether democratic, autocratic, theocratic, or ideological, a society is defined by adherence — even implicit — to a culture, beliefs, and a shared imagination. And La Boétie reminds us that even a state of servitude feeds on the servility of its community.
But community does not mean exhaustivity, far from it. And beneath the apparent consensus, the embers of refusal always smolder!
Le Feu Follet, as an archaeologist of written thought, has delved beneath the discourses of assent that create our societies, to extract the works of resentment that destabilize them.
Whether dissidences that herald upheaval or vain struggles that remain underground, dreams of justice or fantasies of chaos, the propositions are sometimes sterile, but opposition is always fertile. In this era of great divergences of visions about the future, a look at the past warns us that while the Yes is unifying, it is salutary to preserve the No!
