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VIDEO. Fabrice Midal: “Today, the whole world is burning out”
“Burn out is the exploitation of oneself, until the moment when one bursts”. The philosopher and author of “The Bud Theory”, Fabrice Midal gives us the keys to getting out of discouragement, an illness that affects many people in recent times. – (Raw.)
“Burn out is the exploitation of oneself, until the moment when one bursts”. The philosopher and author of “The Bud Theory”, Fabrice Midal gives us the keys to getting out of discouragement, an illness that affects many people in recent times.
“The heart of my book is to try to start from life: but what is it to be alive? There is a philosophical misunderstanding today. We have the impression that being a human being means being able to perfectly control everything. And that is inhumane. This is truly one of the keys to the barbarity of our world” explains Fabrice Midal, philosopher and author of “The Bud Theory”.
He adds : “We have to manage everything: manage our stress, our emotions, our affects, boost our health capital. We are being blinded and forgetting about life. We have as a horizon a sort of model of irrational rationality, of control over the whole of reality which will take us straight into the wall.”
For the philosopher, “to be alive is to take the risk of freedom, of leaving the roads of thought”. “Today, the whole world is burning out. It’s not just individuals, it’s the Earth. Now, what is burnout? It is the instrumentalization first of oneself, until the moment when one bursts. And today, the whole Earth is in the process of burning out because we are in such an obsessive relationship of profitability towards it” explains Fabrice Midal.
“It was by agreeing to stop this obsession with fitting into the mold that suddenly, I saw many other paths”
“We are discouraged because we have the impression that we will never be strong enough, effective enough, efficient enough, that we will not have managed our stress, our emotions well enough. And second axis of discouragement: this new society, in which we are, is entirely built on the theft of our attention, social networks, all of our phones, etc. Our ability to pay attention has diminished enormously. We are more and more impatient and this eats us from the inside and contributes to our discouragement.”
“The philosophical analysis of the situation allows us to understand why discouragement is structural and allows us to understand that the response to discouragement is to learn to become human again, to rediscover the ability to know what we love, what we want, what we feel, to return to something that inhabits us, to reestablish an alliance with the life that is there, precisely instrumentalized, and instrumentalized life is no longer life” concludes the philosopher.