After the controversy over the rescue during the demonstration last Saturday in Sainte-Soline, let’s explore the imagination of the ambulance – which we can not imagine that it does not arrive in time.
In normal times, it happens like this: we are injured, we bleed, we need treatment and an ambulance is there, which takes the injured person to the hospital, as in this title from Indochina in 2017. However, in Sainte-Soline, last Saturday, the injured would have waited in vain for the ambulance because the police would have forbidden them to approach – it is a controversy that has been talked about on France Info for several days.
The simple fact of imagining that we could have prevented the emergency services from rescuing the wounded between life and death immediately refers to images, fantasies, a whole mythology of vital urgency and the desperate expectation that the e try to reason – because we can’t help it – after a few generations of democracy, prosperity and efficient public services, we can’t imagine that the ambulance won’t arrive. Moreover, the singer Otto made it a sort of mantra in 1994.
In the episode of These songs that make the news this Saturday, you hear excerpts from:
Indochina, Kimono in the ambulance2017
Otto, The Ambulance1994
Jean-Baptiste Guegan, The Kiss of Judas2022
Elodie Frege, The belt2006
Francoise Hardy, Do not shoot the ambulance1982
Alpha Blondy, Don’t shoot the ambulance2007
Rohff, They don’t know us2015
Akhenaten, My precise features2001
Michel Cloup, my ambulance2022
Claudio Capeo, Ambulance2016
TSF, Ambulance1992
Otto, The Ambulance1994
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