Avec tous ces écrans devant lesquels nous passons beaucoup de temps, nous oublions notre contact avec le monde autour de nous. Tel est l'un des messages de David Abram dans son dernier livre. Et je suis de plus en plus persuadé qu'il a raison. Que nous perdons le contact avec le monde réel, celui-ci s'éloignant de plus en plus à travers cette "cascade de médiations" qui sont censées nous y faire accéder mais qui, en réalité nous en séparent de plus en plus. Il en découle de graves conséquences pour l'éducation.
« Among educators, it requires that we begin to rejuvenate the arts of telling, and of listening, in relation to the geographic place where our lessons actually happen. For too long we have incarcerated the potent magic of linguistic meaning within an exclusively human space of signs. Hence an American youth may attend a high school in New England or California, or perhaps a small boarding school at the edge of the Rockies—yet this will make little difference, since she’ll be taught largely the same things in each location. Since truth has come, over the centuries, to reside on the printed page, knowledge (it now seems) floats entirely free of place. Even if we research our facts via the latest search engine, surfing from webpage to webpage as we assemble our assignment, still this knowledge has little to do with the animate terrain hollering outside the window. The wildness of where we are remains muzzled, the local earth still mostly a mute and passive backdrop against which human happenings unfold. Can we renew in ourselves an implicit sense of the land’s meaning, of its own many-voiced eloquence? Not without renewing the sensory craft of listening, and the sensuous art of storytelling. Can we help our students to carefully translate the quantified abstractions of science into the qualitative language of direct experience, so that those necessary insights begin to come alive in their felt encounters with cumulus clouds and bleaching corals, with owls and deformed dragonflies and the intricate tangle of mycelial mats? So that the potent evidences steadily emerging from the sciences are no longer employed mostly by profiteering corporations for whom the land is strictly a set of numbers, but by people, young and old, mobilizing to halt such reckless developments? Most important: Can we begin to restore the health and integrity of the local earth? Not without restorying the local earth. The replenishment of oral culture would thus bring a new realization of the primacy of place and proximity, a recognition that genuine community is not, first and foremost, something we create online with those who share our specific values, but something that must be practiced on the ground with our actual neighbors. This would be a tall order for many modern persons, given the contemporary passion for insularity, for tall fences and electronic gates. » (de Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology, par David Abram)
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