A Declaration of the Rights of Human Beings by Vaneigem Raoul;

Author:Vaneigem, Raoul;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: PM Press
Published: 2019-11-06T16:00:00+00:00

2. The life yet to be created will be an adventure not without risks or immune to deviation, but at least we can rely upon the will to live and its consciousness for a strength that can safeguard us against the suffering, dread, and physical and mental decline that are the lot of those who passively accept the decrees of a fate without purpose.

Commentary

From childhood on, the adventure of existence owes the sureness and firmness of its first steps to a drive for life that only love and human consciousness can protect from perversion. Nothing turns out to be impossible for anyone who learns to identify their personal fulfilment with the ineluctable advance of life forces.

Stripped of its original fatalism, the es muss sein (it must be), which Beethoven made his leitmotif, ceases to foster submission and instead becomes part of a stubborn will, an inexorable determination to brand circumstances with the marks of our desire. For this reason we pledge to introduce an element of personal predestination into fate that can only enhance its final form.

We cannot rule out traps or pitfalls; we can only hope to have enough strength to free us from traps and enough foresight to avoid pitfalls.

The danger is all the greater on account of our exaggerated inclination to fear it and our too feeble resolve to subjugate it with poetic power. Such is the wretched attitude which our integration into the old world instilled in us from birth, sowing phobias in children that adulthood reaps in the shape of anxiety, nightmare and mental disturbance. The first hours, the first months, the first years of life can never be too vigilantly protected and cherished.

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