Human resources

Pierre Lamalattie proposes a visit of the universe of human resources. He stresses the cleavage between depreciated interior lives and the overvaluation of work relations: on one hand, intimacy, peace and the secret aspiration to be and create, on the other hand, the noisy worship of action, pretenses and image. He is particularly interested in the universe of the executives, which are no doubt, among the wage-earners, those whose loss of freedom and image consciousness are the most obvious.

The majority of his compositions appear as curriculum vitae, actually CVs of a particular kind. All the debatable qualities that our contemporaries like to put forward are jostled: technical knowledge, taste for action, passion for collective life, etc. There remains however a feeling of emptiness, an intimate nostalgia, the intuition of another vocation for Man.
Economy is the great business of the men of our time. It requires looking at the world in a pragmatic way. Something must be done with it. It is necessary to implement all kinds of techniques to draw benefit from the resources at our disposal. Any thing which deserves attention is as a resource.

There lies the problem. There is no more question of imagining that spirits or geniuses would live in all things. No more question of finding a soul or beauty in inanimate objects. Simply put, there is no more question of religion, poetry, nor of art. Sentimentality has left the stage! One must keep to what's essential. Things must become resources. And everything has become a resource. Indeed hasn't Man himself become a "human resource"?

 

 

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