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I took a lesson last night at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Regency Square Syndic meeting. Perhaps, it was a well learned lesson in humility and a trim to my overlarge ego. It took me some time to get to sleep after I climbed on my bed, my mind kept running like an engine. I could not stop myself from reflecting on the 3hours and a half session with my fellow co- owners. I was drained and felt non resourceful after attending to two of the co-owners. I really had to make a very special effort to contain myself from busting my temper. I applied my turbo brakes. My self- esteem dropped. My feelings were hurt. I sensed the reptilian portion of my brain flashing lights to start off. How is it possible that I have landed so low? I had two cases to deal with.

CASE 1

To be accused of incompetence, I readily accept, as nobody is perfect. But to accuse the Conseil Syndical under my chairmanship of cooking the books with the Syndic in public, ( which of course is false and unfounded)and taking us to task on a transparency issue, just because he was refused the right to take a copy of the accounts was really too much. Especially after the steps taken last year to change the bye- laws to give the Conseil Syndical additional powers to control closely the Syndic, we felt that our good faith was targeted. This was beyond my understanding! I could not read the motivation that drove such actions, in spite of all the supposedly knowledge & competencies (NLP) I have acquired in human behavior. The night through, in my mind, I scanned back to the past scene many times to identify signs and markers that I could possibly attribute to this unexplained behavior. I could not find a sensible answer. What has made this grieved soul so sour to accuse us? Is it possible that we inadvertedly caused him some pain? What has triggered such a foray to my integrity as well as that of the Conseil members? From my previous dealings with this fellow owner, I could only term him as eccentric and full of ego. I had the intuition that the AGM would be a tough one. (Refer to my previous blog on co-propriete).Luckily, I took the precaution not to chair the AGM and to avail of the possibility of nominating a meeting chairman. In the end, the incomprehensive behavior got the other owners to rally against him to bully him: I felt sorry for him.Why would somebody otherwise so intelligent get himself in such a predicament?

CASE 2

The second ache was caused by another co-owner who, according to me, was easy to deal with. From my past interactions with him, I had read his recurrent motives and have remedies for his unwanted behaviors. He only needs to be in the limelight and for this; he would take the floor on any subjects. Any experienced chairperson knows how to deal with over bloated characters with a voracious need for recognition and how to give them a rope to hang themselves. In addition,my impatience grew to break point level last night because the appointed chairman did not act fast enough to contain him.He souped up the precious time of all and got every body bored with his trivia. In hindsight, I have to admit that I should have briefed the acting chairperson beforehand.

Writing this blog now and sharing my heart, I feel, is my therapy for soothing the sour taste of last night.

Does the name Pacelli ring a bell to you? Pacelli brings back to me a horde of souvenirs of my childhood. I still can see in my mind’s eyes, up to now, the copies of Paris Match magazine clued to the wall of the class room in the attic of my primary school where I used to attend classes with Monsieur Laval. There was this picture of Pope Pius XII born Pacelli in company of the famous celebrities of the day and head of states. He was dressed up with his papal tiara and seated on his throne.

With great pomp and reverence, Monsieur Laval told us that the pope had passed away and we were given the details there of and procedures that had to be followed by the church for the election of the new pope. I must have been very impressed by his story as up to now I can relive this moment vividly and with very great details. The cardinals will be assembled in a conclave in Vatican to pray, to discuss, and vote for a new Pope. After each meeting, if no consensus was reached a dark smoke will be released from the chimney of the Vatican. White smoke would be released only if the new Pope was elected.

There are many reasons to my very special interest to the life of Pope Pius XII:

-Pope Pius XII was born on the same date as I did: 2^nd March;

-He was made Pope on the 2^nd March 1939;

-The Pope of my early childhood and post 2^nd world war reconstruction;

-He moved for the church to allow the moral use of family planning through the rhythm method;

-and was an energetic proponent of the theory of the Big Bang.

Pope Pius XII leadership of the Catholic Church during World War II and the Holocaust remains the subject of continued historical controversy. Before election to the papacy, Pacelli served as secretary of the Department of Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs, papal nuncio and cardinal secretary of state, in which roles he worked to conclude treaties with European nations, most notably the Reichskonkordat with Germany. After World War II, he was a vocal supporter of lenient policies toward vanquished nations, including amnesty for war criminals. He also was a staunch opponent of communism.

Pius is one of few popes in recent history to exercise his papal infallibility by issuing an apostolic constitution, Munificentissimus Deus, which defined ex cathedra the dogma of the Assumption of Mary. He also promulgated forty-six encyclicals, including Humani Generis, which is still relevant to the Church’s position on evolution. He also decisively eliminated the Italian majority in the College of Cardinals with the Grand Consistory in 1946. Most sedevacantists regard Pope Pius XII as the last true Pope to occupy the Holy See.

Got this one from Bulldogreporter.com and thought to share it with you guys. Guess some of you do not give a damn to the impact of your postings. Is it true? I do want to keep track of my readership.
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There’s an old business adage that if you can’t measure it you can’t manage it.

Most marketing campaigns have some sort of measurement and ROI parameter built in. But social media marketing is so new and ’wild west’ that in many cases measurement goes by the boards.

Michael Brito, Senior Marketing Manager at Yahoo! offers some ideas on how to measure a social media marketing initiative:

These are the yardsticks for general engagement

My curiosity today had its fill. Whilst doing some research on the internet, I discovered the rebirth of Le Cernéen. Yes! Indeed the news paper which was created in 1832 and disappeared a decade or so is back. I could feel again the same spirit that used to glow the flame of the soul of this paper which has taken the modern digital medium for publishing. Le Cernéen in its last days as a daily newspaper was edited by Jean Pierre Lenoir who was in a way the mouthpiece of the Franco community or at least he then defended the opinions of the community. He is a very interesting outgoing person, very independently minded, creative and quick-witted and more importantly writes very well in French. I had the opportunity to have spent some of my teenage years rubbing shoulders with him. Together with Denis Piat, another critical author of Le Cernéen, we were juniors working for the same boss. Jean Pierre took from his father who was a very cultured man who used to run and owned “La Libraire le Trefle” in my younger days.

I am all for the multiplicity of opinions, of ideas and of perspectives. It is important to confront the reading of my reality to the realities of others, to enhance my vision of things. After all, is not my reality only an illusion of true reality corrupted with my blindness and my imperfect knowledge or understanding?

Living in Mauritius, in such a diverse society, we are blessed to be able to see, if we so wish, in multicolour shades through the eyes & understandings of multi-social norms. It would be wasteful not to draw benefits from “la societé Arc en Ciel”.

The story which retained my interest today was:

THE IDIOT’S GUIDE TO UNDESERVED WEALTH:

HOW TO BECOME A MILLIONAIRE IN PARADISE ISLAND.

Psst! Wanna make a fast buck whilst doing next to nothing? Read these instructions carefully and if you follow them to the letter, you too can become a millionaire many times over and simultaneously add a thin veneer of intelligence to what is essentially a dull and insipid personality. The instructions are very easy to follow, so easy in fact that government advisers who, as we all know are not blessed with the greatest intelligence or wit, have no problems at all to implement them fully whenever the need for personal advancement that is not based on merit or qualifications becomes necessary.
First of all, physical looks do not seem to matter at all as it is generally assumed that even the ugliest person will somehow compensate for his shortcomings in the appearance department by projecting the aura of authority and commanding physical presence that he believes automatically follows any job provided by his political master. Some people will venture the rather cruel opinion that personal advancement based entirely on political patronage is inversely proportional to physical looks and intelligence, and the uglier and dimmer you are, the higher the chances of finding yourself parachuted into a position that provides no great benefits to the country but which is guaranteed to enrich you immensely. I do not subscribe to this uncharitable view as I am sure there must be some rare exceptions (oh, all right then, some very, very rare exceptions)that somehow struggle to be the exception to the rule…
So, armed with a face that only a mother could love and an intelligence level that consistently fails to register anything of note on numerous I.Q. tests, the next step on the road to riches and faux grandeur is to embark on a symbiotic relationship with a politician who seems destined for high office after a general election. Here again you must choose a politician who matches you in the looks and intelligence department, i.e. as ugly and as stupid as you are. One note of caution though : never, ever allow your monstrously huge ego to overshadow that of your political partner in crime. This is an absolute no no, as apparently no Mauritian politician will ever tolerate the possibility that there may be numerous people out there who are far more intelligent than the specimens we regularly send out to servi nou pei. The cardinal principle that you must never deviate from is simply this: the politician is never wrong and any pronouncement by your master, irrespective of the new depths of inanity that are reached with every successive statement, must always be met with an innocent look of astonishment at the sheer genius of the man; if, for example, he tells you that he has a son who is a medecin and a daughter who is a medicine, you must suspend disbelief and marvel at the surprisingly procreative abilities of such a stupid man.
Now that the basic qualifications of intelligence and good looks (or lack of) have been met, you must learn to match bullshit with bullshit. That is not as difficult as it seems. You must always assume that the politician will voice rubbish of the bovine variety every time he opens his mouth, and therefore all you have to do is have a small number of made to measure replies to anything that he says; as long as you remember to say ‘Yes, minister, that is such an intelligent move on your part’ to any crackpot ideas that emanate from a febrile head soaked in last night’s booze at the almost daily manz boir event that is a must for anyone proclaiming to serve the nation, you will be ok, and that may even add another 10% to the mandatory 25% annual salary gratuity that is given to any lick spittle irrespective of actual performance.
The only other qualification that is most prized apart from arse licking is the ability to stab friend and foe in the back; this usually manifests itself in telling blatant lies to your ministerial godfather about the political affiliations of friends, rivals, and enemies. The minister is, of course, too stupid to differentiate between a bare faced lie told solely to deal with deep, personal, psychological problems and genuine information that will help the minister to do his job with a modicum of efficiency. The robin has a natural ability to flaunt its red breast of jealousy and innate inferiority complex and will do anything to worm its way into any position that it believes will serve its purposes exclusively, and will therefore forego any of the notions of loyalty, friendship, and faithfulness that binds most ordinary mortals into a common bond of shared purpose and sincerity.
Of course, you must make the potential minister believe that you ‘carry’ a large number of votes, and this is best achieved by appealing to the nasty, casteeist,communalist instincts that unfortunately still afflicts so many of our citizens in this apparently civilised democracy. If, for example, you happen to be a Rajput, you convince the minister that you can guarantee him the votes of all the Rajputs at election time; it does not matter that everyone apart from the putative minister know that this Rajput represents only himself and nobody else. If you happen to be a Moslem, then claim complete allegiance to the Holy Quran and vociferously condemn any proposed legislation on anything to do with the private sex lives of our citizens whilst spending every Friday and Saturday evening getting blind drunk in the distinctly ungodly atmosphere of our nightclubs. The crucial tactic to maintain here is to feed the ministerial delusion that his political future lies in your hands which contains the votes of all those who happen to share the identity conferred on them entirely by the accident of birth.
Finally, when the votes are counted, make sure you are there when your man is hoisted on the shoulders of his supporters to welcome his victory; it will help if you have one or two nephews shouting your name within his earshot so that he is now convinced that his good fortune is entirely due to your hard work and your influence within his constituency. When he hugs you in public to show his gratitude for your so called hard work, whisper gently the magic names of any of the numerous parastatal organisations that litter Paradise Island and look forward to an astronomical salary and expenses package that has no bearing whatsoever to your qualifications, experience, or aptitude for the job; and you will also get a 25% gratuity of annual salary irrespective of your performance, and which is paid whether you work well or to the abysmally low standards that have characterised your work record so far. This should guarantee you a salary of around Rs1 million for the month of December alone and a total annual salary package of between Rs 3 and Rs 4 millions a year. Not bad for someone who could barely write his name before polling day…
But if you want to be really clever, you should capitalise on an atmosphere of friction between yourself and the Board of directors; if you are really lucky, you will be invited to resign and you will be able to go home with a cheque for around Rs2 millions which astonishingly contains a gratuity payment for a future performance that cannot be evaluated as you no longer work for that organisation! If your name is Dan Maraye, you must look at yourself in the mirror every day and thank your lucky stars that you live in Paradise Island where your political masters are experts at creating paradise for the chosen few.
Of course, if you had a conscience, or if you really loved your country, you would not follow the route planned above and will instead do whatever you can to create the wealth that this country desperately needs. But how many of us are willing to take that road?

We all know that on average we shall live much longer than our parents. The question is how will we coop with old age and possibly restricted physical movements? Would there be need to be taken to a nursing home or not?

The Europeans are launching a pilot project under the name of MonAMI to study this issue. With technology they intend to make older people more autonomous within their own home. I found that the technologies deployed were clever and ingenious.

Objective

The overall objective of MonAMI is to mainstream accessibility in consumer goods and services, including public services, through applied research and development, using advanced technologies to ensure equal access, independent living and participation for all in the Information Society.

Aim

The MonAMI project will demonstrate that accessible, useful services for elderly persons and persons with disabilities living at home can be delivered in mainstream systems and platforms. This will be done in close cooperation with users and by involving key mainstream actors throughout the whole process.

Background

Previous European projects have shown that technological augmentation of the living space can help elderly people and people with disabilities to carry out daily living tasks increase their quality of life, thus reducing the need for institutional and other care. Unfortunately, the results of these projects have often stayed in the laboratory or only been implemented on a small, local scale.  MonAMI will build on these experiences and aim for large-scale mainstream deployment.

Could we have some of the technologies imported to Mauritius? Entrepreneurs there could be an opportunity to exploit?

My last week’s blog on Joseph TMK and Chinese culture got me back on the track on my studies of East & West culture, East & West thinking and their founding philosophies. Over the last few days, after a brief discussion with a reader of my blog, I was prompted to go back to my memories to revisit my observations of the similarities and differences of the East & West. It definitely helps to write down my thoughts to crystallize them.

These steps recall me of my teenage years when hungry for learning and knowledge; I enrolled to a philosophy introduction course given by Jesuits fathers at Centre St Ignace in Rose hill. For weeks on, I religiously attended the Saturday lectures and studied with all my might to increase my knowledge of the subject. These efforts in a way opened up my curiosity & brain and gave me this impetus to keep on learning. Ever since, I stayed a keen learner.

I recall the lectures of Father de Roton on Socrates and Plato who were the forefathers of Philosophy and how they founded the western mode of thinking.

The last few days then I went back to my books to read up about both Socrates and Plato to refresh my memory. Socrates himself although a great teacher did not hand over any writings, his immense contributions were through the works of his disciplines Plato, Xenophon, Aristotle and Aristophanes.

Perhaps his most important contribution to Western thought is his dialectic method of inquiry, known as the Socratic Method or method of elenchus, which he largely applied to the examination of key moral concepts such as the Good and Justice. It was first described by Plato in the Socratic Dialogues. To solve a problem, you would ask a question and when finding the answer, you would also have an answer to your problem. This led to the beginning of the Scientific Method, in which the first step says to name the problem in the form of a question. For this, Socrates is customarily regarded as the father of political philosophy and ethics or moral philosophy and as a fountainhead of all the main themes in Western philosophy in general.

Could we teach the Socratic Method to our youth of today? Could we bring Socrates and Plato back to life for our population of Mauritius?  I would wish that the authorities of Education in Mauritius could hear me.

Depuis bientôt 2 ans  j’habite dans un appartement en  Copropriété. En plus, je vis en ce moment l’expérience d’avoir pris la responsabilité d’être le président du conseil syndical de notre Copropriété. Pour l’expérience, j’avoue que c’en est une bien belle ! Je considère que les mauriciens en général n’ont pas l’habitude de  vivre en Copropriété et ne  sont pas conscients des contraintes à  vivre dans une proximité rapprochée et d’avoir besoin de partager en permanence l’utilisation des facilités communes.

Des propriétaires qui refusent de payer les charges communes votées par l’assemblé des propriétaires, nous en avons. La Copropriété se trouve dans l’obligation de les traduire en justice ! Des voisins qui essaient de tirer les draps vers eux en voulant toujours plus que les autres, nous en avons. Des resquilleurs qui squattent votre parking privatif dès que vous êtes absents, nous en avons aussi !

Pour accéder à mon appartement, je suis obligé d’utiliser un passage commun et ce, en respectant les règlements dictés par la Copropriété. Vu la proximité de mes voisins, je dois être vigilant  pour ne pas les incommoder. La même règle s’applique également aux personnes qui me visitent.

Comment faire comprendre les règles de la bienséance aux récalcitrants agressifs et changer les comportements de certains co-propriétaires ? Comment faire évoluer leurs mentalités vers un plus grand respect des autres, de leur biens, avec une courtoisie acceptable ? Déjà, malgré une sélection occasionnée par le coût élevé des appartements, nous avons des propriétaires qui ont peu de sens civique; je pense aux immeubles NHDC où est entassée une population sans éducation civique, et belligérante. Bien sur être nantis ne veux pas dire avoir un savoir faire social !

Pour certains,  vivre en communauté et en copropriété n’est pas simple.

Comme nous sommes régis par le code français en matière de copropriété à Maurice, je reproduis ci- après quelques éléments & définitions glanés sur l’internet :

Principes de lotissement

La copropriété est divisée en lots.

Un lot de copropriété est composé de manière indissociable :

• d’un élément privatif ou partie privative : appartement, garage, local commercial, cave, etc. réservé à l’usage exclusif de son propriétaire.
• d’une quote-part des parties communes et des équipements communs de l’immeuble (sol, couloirs, escaliers, toiture, gros-Å“uvre, ascenseur, etc).

Certaines parties communes, dites “parties communes générales”, sont la propriété de l’ensemble des propriétaires et sont destinées à l’usage de tous : toiture, murs, espaces verts, etc. D’autres, dites “parties communes spéciales”, sont réservées à certains propriétaires (ceux d’un bâtiment déterminé).

La quote-part des parties communes dont chaque copropriétaire est titulaire est exprimée en tantièmes (millièmes, 10 000°, 100 000°, etc.) et est évaluée en proportion de la valeur de son lot par rapport à l’ensemble des autres lots de l’immeuble. Les parties privatives, les parties communes et les tantièmes sont définis par l’état descriptif de division et le règlement de copropriété, qui est un document ayant valeur de contrat à l’égard de chaque copropriétaire. Les parties communes, qui sont en principe listées dans le Règlement de Copropriété, sont gérées par le Syndic, conformément aux décisions prises en Assemblée Générale par les Copropriétaires, selon les règles de majorité prévues par la loi.

Principes de fonctionnement

Copropriétaire

L’ensemble des copropriétaires est regroupé au sein du Syndicat des copropriétaires. Le syndicat des copropriétaires est constitué de l’ensemble des copropriétaires, sans exception. Doté de la personnalité juridique (c’est donc une personne morale), il administre les parties communes, assure la conservation de l’immeuble et la défense des intérêts collectifs. Il est responsable des dommages causés aux copropriétaires ou aux tiers.

Syndic

Le Syndic a la charge de gérer l’immeuble et les équipements communs.

Il est le mandataire du syndicat des copropriétaires. Il n’est pas le représentant de chaque copropriétaire, individuellement. Le Syndic est désigné par l’Assemblée générale. Son mandat est renouvelé tous les trois ans au maximum. Il a trois missions :

1. il exécute les décisions de l’assemblée générale et applique les dispositions du règlement de copropriété ;
2. il administre la copropriété : gestion de l’immeuble (souscription des contrats de fourniture et d’entretien, engagement du personnel) et gestion comptable (recouvrement des charges de copropriété et règlement des fournisseurs) ;
3. il représente le syndicat des copropriétaires dans tous les actes civils et en justice.

Conseil syndical

Le Conseil syndical est un organe de liaison entre les copropriétaires et le Syndic.

Sa mission est d’assister le Syndic et de contrôler sa gestion. Il a un rôle consultatif et n’a pas de pouvoir de décision. Ses membres sont choisis parmi les copropriétaires et sont élus par l’Assemblée générale. Pour exercer sa mission, il peut prendre connaissance et copie auprès du Syndic de tous les documents se rapportant à la gestion et à l’administration de la copropriété.

Le conseil syndical est généralement dirigé par un président. Dans certaines copropriétés, le président du conseil syndical tient un rôle public de représentant des copropriétaires.

Le conseil syndical peut, si besoin est, se faire assister d’un technicien de son choix, dont les honoraires sont à la charge de l’ensemble de la copropriété.

Résident, Bailleur et Locataire

Règlement de copropriété

Assemblée générale

If I was asked what the word Deoband meant? My reply: Deo from my latin based drawer of my brain gives God and band means a gang. I would very ignorantly conclude: the gang of God. For fun, I curiously asked my wife last night the same question. Her reply was Deo for deodorant and band for a group of things. She thus concluded: ‘Is it a new deodorant brand?”

Having recently read some documents on Islam and the forces and influences of Islam in the present world, the word Deoband has now a new meaning to me. The annoucement of the future visit of Tariq Ramadan and the last conference I attended on the new faces of Islam are still working in my mind and giving a boost to my interest on the subject.

Why did I choose this word? Deoband. Well, it is because of my dear Muslim co-citizens of Mauritius.It is one of the school of Islam which has inspired the converted Muslim Indians. We can safely affirm that with a very few exception the totality of Muslims in Mauritius were Indian converts of Hanifi school of thought.

For having worked a number of years with many of my Muslim friends and for having over ten years work and dealt with the Haj & Umra pilgrimages, I owe it to myself and my Muslim friends a better understanding of the happenings in the world of Islam. I had the opportunity to attend talks with Haj organisers in Jeddah from different countries. I have to admit that converted Indian Muslims are not treated on the same footing as the Arab Muslims.

As the fastest growing population of 19% or over in Mauritius, Muslims mostly Sunnites, are most certainly a group that we have to be aware of. Besides, it is common knowledge that the influence of this section of the population in respect of the economy and society is far greater than its proportional number.

The comparison in the treatment of Muslims in India and in Mauritius is a very worthwhile exercise. Much has to be learnt as the majority of the population considers India as mother India for having originated there, and the secular governments are both democratic.

The Mauritian government has, in a way, been more generous or lenient to the Muslims by allowing foreign mullahs to work in the country whilst India has kept away from external sources. In the past, most of the mullahs were from India. Recently,for the last decade or so, there are a number of Islamic teachers from Pakistan or from Egypt working in Mauritius. Funding from other than Indian sources may well have helped the Muslim community to move away from the ties of Indian sources. Hence we have now a variety of Muslims with different schools of thoughts and following: Al Azhar from Egypt,Wahhabi from Saudi Arabia,Memons from Kutch,Hanifi from India…etc

All Muslims believe the Qur’an is error-free, but they differ on how to apply the Sunnah in order to interpret and understand the Qur’an.

In its issue of June 28, CG Lynch commented in CIO — Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales discusses what it takes for effective groups to work, why speed is a big deal and more.He summed up: the 5 winning strategies of online collaboration.

1) You need mechanisms in place for effective collaboration. Certainly, people can post bad things onto a wiki, a message board, or a mailing list. The real question is, what systems are in place to deal with this? The mechanisms of a wiki have proven highly effective and have to do with the ability of the community to revise the content or revert to a prior state, and the ability to block communication by people who are causing trouble.

2) Online identity is important. But requiring people to use real names online seems to be a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist. When people decide to interact anonymously with no stable identity, then bad behavior is the usual result. The safeguard mechanisms mentioned above can address such a situation. Meanwhile, contributors who use a steady pseudonym can and do gain reputation capital in a way that establishes credibility just as a real name would offline.

3) A successful collaboration requires a shared vision. A good example of this is a successful wiki called wowwiki.com , a wiki about the online computer game World of Warcraft. There, participants work together successfully because they have a shared vision of the kind of work they are trying to complete: a comprehensive guide to all things World of Warcraft. We see the same pattern over and over: A charitable goal like that of Wikipedia is not necessary. Neutrality is not necessary. But a shared vision is.

4) Organizations are becoming flatter. Flat hierarchies are incredibly powerful and, due to technologies like wikis that allow peer-to-peer communication without a lot of barriers, flat hierarchies are taking hold across the business world. Maybe some people are hesitant, but there is an overwhelming adoption of collaborative technologies going on right now. If old-fashioned CIOs are not seeing this, they should be replaced.

5) Speed is incredibly important. A fast and flexible system will always beat a paranoid system that wants to get everything right before publication.

« Tout le monde devrait écrire » est le titre d’un livre de Georges Picard.

J’ai trouvé que le commentaire de Pascale Arguedas sur le livre de Georges Picard a fait écho à ma pensée. Ecrire mon blog m’a permis de cristalliser mes idées. L’écriture, chaque fois, me demande de mettre en une forme réfléchie et congruente ma pensée. Dans mon exercice de publication, je suis tenu à une rigueur et je suis obligé de choisir dans les nuances et la pondération. La relecture du mon texte me met et me remet dans les souliers du lecteur éventuel de mon blog. Ce qui m’exige un esprit critique à l’égard de mon texte. Un travail de contrôle de l’exactitude de mes propos, et le choix du style utilisé m’ont aidé à construire peu à peu et perfectionner mon écriture.

Voila un des bienfaits de blogger.

Je livre à votre réflexion les propos suivants de Georges Picard :

« […] l’écriture acharnée qui force à réfléchir reste l’une des armes les plus solides contre la sauvagerie et l’impuissance. Chacun avec ses moyens peut facilement s’en emparer. » Écrire devrait donc être une vocation désintéressée…

« Pour être au clair avec soi-même, pour savoir de quoi sa propre pensée est réellement capable, l’épreuve de l’écriture paraît cruciale. Peut-être publie-t-on trop, mais il n’est pas sûr que l’on écrive suffisamment. Tout le monde devrait écrire pour soi dans la concentration et la solitude »

« Aujourd’hui, la littérature est entrée en résistance contre un ennemi qui n’a pas de visage, qui n’a que l’identité vague et grise de l’indifférence. Cela ne doit pas décourager la passion d’écriture, au contraire. C’est justement parce qu’il n’y a rien à attendre du médiatique et du social en général, qu’écrire ressemble de mieux en mieux à une vocation désintéressée. »