At the beginning of the new course, it cannot be said that the general atmosphere is joyful. Even without listening to the news, it is enough to go to a library: more and more books about the warrior can be found: Studies on the conflicts of two warring worlds of the 20th century so far; Gerlos colonial effects; contemporary wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya; evolution of warlike strategies; new ways of making war; “straight” wars; abuses; surgical attacks; numerical guerrillas; underwater wars; unsafe communication; psychological conflict. Among them, Gaïdz Minassian has published Les Sentiers de la victoire (The Paths of Victory), an essay in which the writer analyzes twenty centuries of conflict and asks an interesting question: “Can you still win a war?” To answer, he explains that victory is a complex notion and that, above all, today there are no more massive and quick wins accepted by all. Current wars are unimaginable, without military or political triumphs, and in their shadow there are unimaginable conflicts of public opinion and perception.

We do not suffer what lives here in Afghanistan, which is obvious. In our neighborhood, an Afghan family, father and mother has been installed with three children, and they say that we have a cane to live in lucky peace. However, tension, aggression, mistrust, violence is felt everywhere. The government wants to put citizens under the control of the other and increases numerical vigilance: from the Jagoi, it has asked us to highlight our intimate, social and professional lives on the net. We feel looked at, even if the punishable are unbeatable, and that is not healthy.

Is that a type of guerrilla? Not yet. But it looks like it's close. Asurantzek has also included in the regular contracts now proposing “war damage”. But war, who? Government against the citizens? The citizens against each other? Between social classes? And what for? To get power? For climate change to ensure a sustainable future? For the collective interest? For oneself?

In this environment, and to help us support the existential concerns that have come to mind, we need more solidarity, love and friendship than nehoiz, as well as sport, art and literature to take the breath and the liver.

This summer I enjoyed hiking, repeated music, meetings between friends, hugs and weddings, orchard and house. I've also met writers I didn't know, like Congolese Emmanuel Dongala. The beautiful novel La Sonate à Bridgetower, written after the explorations of the piece Sonata mulattica de Beethoven, narrates the life of an 18th-century bloody young musician across Europe, rigorously questioning human relations, beyond the famous racism between whites and blacks.

The course starts with toughness, a whole manium and a threat, but that’s why we won’t have to give in to the horrors. I guess, following what intuition, imagination and multitude advise us, against blind reasoning, we will have to try to protect the desire and joy of going forward, inside and in our environment, anyway.