"Abdou Cherif : Entre reconnaissance tardive et faux-semblants" 1703

Aziz Daouda, 1 y.

- Art - Music - Society -

2.2 min read.

A la suite de la disparition subite du grand artiste devant l'éternel Abdou Cherif, j'avais instinctivement commis un article que j'avais titré: "Abdou Cherif est parti, emporté par sa voix vers les cieux.", article que j'ai publié en arabe, en français et en anglais. A ma grande surprise c'est la version anglaise qui a le plus été lue. Immédiatement après la publication, j'ai reçu un message de Si Jalil Benazzouz que j'ai connu à travers un groupe Wattasap "Amis de SportPro Maroc". Si Jalil qui oeuvre dans la promotion et la vulgarisation du Golf, m'a fait savoir qu'il était ami très lié à feu Abdou Cherif; qu'il avait apprécié mon article et qu'il l'avait fait lire à d'autres amis du défunt qui l'avait également apprécié. Cela m'a comblé. Si Jalil, dans le cadre de cette discussion, m'a fait transmettre des articles que justement des amis dont on parle ici ont écrit et qu'il souhaitait que je les publie dans Bluwr; ce que je fais avec le plus grand plaisir ici bas, exactement comme je les ai reçus. En voici le premier que j'accompagne ici en lien plus bas de l'une des merveilles de notre regretté. Je vous laisse l'apprécier. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "Abdou Cherif : Entre reconnaissance tardive et faux-semblants" Par Yassir BOUSSELAM Dans un monde saturé de contenus multimédias, Abdou Cherif, artiste méconnu, a longtemps été relégué dans l'ombre, loin des projecteurs. Ce n'est que récemment que les médias et les institutions ont commencé à reconnaître son talent, offrant une reconnaissance tardive qui contraste cruellement avec l'indifférence passée. Cependant, cette soudaine acclamation soulève des questions sur l'intégrité de l'industrie artistique et des médias. Elle met en lumière un déséquilibre flagrant entre la reconnaissance méritée et l'oubli injuste, alimenté par une culture de superficialité et d'hypocrisie. Cette tendance à glorifier la médiocrité au détriment de la qualité est également observable dans le comportement du public, souvent conditionné par les médias à accepter un standard artistique minimaliste. Cette adhésion tacite à la médiocrité est choquante, surtout lorsqu'elle ignore les moments de deuil et de douleur les plus intimes. De plus, le fait que de nombreuses personnes n'aient jamais entendu parler d'Abdou Cherif révèle l'influence néfaste des médias et de l'industrie artistique sur la propagation de la médiocrité. Cette ignorance souligne la nécessité de réformer le paysage médiatique et artistique pour promouvoir une appréciation authentique de la qualité artistique. Dans un contexte où l'hypocrisie est monnaie courante, filmer la douleur privée d'une mère en deuil ou l'enterrement d'un être cher est profondément offensant. Cela témoigne d'un manque flagrant de respect pour l'intimité et la dignité humaine, alimenté par une quête de sensationnalisme et de notoriété à tout prix. Il est indéniable que filmer une mère éplorée par la perte de son unique fils, dans son intimité brisée et sa détresse abyssale, sous couvert de solidarité, constitue une offense flagrante à la sacralité de la vie privée. La quête de notoriété ou de vues ne saurait justifier pareille intrusion dans la souffrance d'autrui. Révoltant est le spectacle de charognards se ruant dès qu'une victime trébuche, avides de profiter de la tragédie ou de captiver l'attention. Filmer l'ultime repos du cercueil est une transgression patente de l'intimité, une violation du sanctuaire réservé à la famille et aux amis les plus intimes du défunt. Il est ironique de constater que ceux qui prétendent être des amis proches ou des admirateurs de l'artiste étaient souvent les premiers à le dédaigner et le Il est également ironique de constater que ceux qui ignoraient et critiquaient Abdou Cherif de son vivant se précipitent maintenant pour lui rendre hommage. De même, les opportunistes qui rejetaient autrefois les artistes sont maintenant les premiers à les pleurer, révélant ainsi la fausseté et la superficialité de nombreuses interactions dans le monde de l'art. Cette série de faux-semblants et d'injustices est déchirante, mais elle soulève également des questions cruciales sur l'état de l'industrie artistique et des médias contemporains. Reconnaître et remédier à ces problèmes est essentiel pour restaurer l'intégrité et le respect de l'art et des artistes dans notre société. À bon entendeur !

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THE MEDITATIONS - Book I.[1/3] 2507

Bluwr X Commons: Marcus Aurelius, 2 y.

3.7 min read.

1. I learned from my grandfather, Verus, to use good manners, and to put restraint on anger. 2. In the famous memory of my father I had a pattern of modesty and manliness. 3. Of my mother I learned to be pious and generous; to keep myself not only from evil deeds, but even from evil thoughts; and to live with a simplicity which is far from customary among the rich. 4. I owe it to my great-grandfather that I did not attend public lectures and discussions, but had good and able teachers at home; and I owe him also the knowledge that for things of this nature a man should count no expense too great. 5. My tutor taught me not to favour either green or blue at the chariot races, nor, in the contests of gladiators, to be a supporter either of light or heavy armed. He taught me also to endure labour; not to need many things; to serve myself without troubling others; not to intermeddle in the affairs of others, and not easily to listen to slanders against them. 6. Of Diognetus I had the lesson not to busy myself about vain things; not to credit the great professions of such as pretend to work wonders, or of sorcerers about their charms, and their expelling of Demons and the like; not to keep quails (for fighting or divination), nor to run after such things; to suffer freedom of speech in others, and to apply myself heartily to philosophy. Him also I must thank for my hearing first Bacchius, then Tandasis and Marcianus; that I wrote dialogues in my youth, and took a liking to the philosopher’s pallet and skins, and to the other things which, by the Grecian discipline, belong to that profession. 7. To Rusticus I owe my first apprehensions that my nature needed reform and cure; and that I did not fall into the ambition of the common Sophists, either by composing speculative writings or by declaiming harangues of exhortation in public; further, that I never strove to be admired by ostentation of great patience in an ascetic life, or by display of activity and application; that I gave over the study of rhetoric, poetry, and the graces of language; and that I did not pace my house in my senatorial robes, or practise any similar affectation. I observed also the simplicity of style in his letters, particularly in that which he wrote to my mother from Sinuessa. I learned from him to be easily appeased, and to be readily reconciled with those who had displeased me or given cause of offence, so soon as they inclined to make their peace; to read with care; not to rest satisfied with a slight and superficial knowledge; nor quickly to assent to great talkers. I have him to thank that I met with the discourses of Epictetus, which he furnished me from his own library. 8. From Apollonius I learned true liberty, and tenacity of purpose; to regard nothing else, even in the smallest degree, but reason always; and always to remain unaltered in the agonies of pain, in the losses of children, or in long diseases. He afforded me a living example of how the same man can, upon occasion, be most yielding and most inflexible. He was patient in exposition; and, as might well be seen, esteemed his fine skill and ability in teaching others the principles of philosophy as the least of his endowments. It was from him that I learned how to receive from friends what are thought favours without seeming humbled by the giver or insensible to the gift. 9. Sextus was my pattern of a benign temper, and his family the model of a household governed by true paternal affection, and a steadfast purpose of living according to nature. Here I could learn to be grave without affectation, to observe sagaciously the several dispositions and inclinations of my friends, to tolerate the ignorant and those who follow current opinions without examination. His conversation showed how a man may accommodate himself to all men and to all companies; for though companionship with him was sweeter and more pleasing than any sort of flattery, yet he was at the same time highly respected and reverenced. No man was ever more happy than he in comprehending, finding out, and arranging in exact order the great maxims necessary for the conduct of life. His example taught me to suppress even the least appearance of anger or any other passion; but still, with all this perfect tranquillity, to possess the tenderest and most affectionate heart; to be apt to approve others yet without noise; to have much learning and little ostentation. 10. I learned from Alexander the Grammarian to avoid censuring others, to refrain from flouting them for a barbarism, solecism, or any false pronunciation. Rather was I dexterously to pronounce the words rightly in my answer, confining approval or objection to the matter itself, and avoiding discussion of the expression, or to use some other form of courteous suggestion. 11. Fronto made me sensible how much of envy, deceit and hypocrisy surrounds princes; and that generally those whom we account nobly born have somehow less natural affection. 12. I learned from Alexander the Platonist not often nor without great necessity to say, or write to any man in a letter, that I am not at leisure; nor thus, under pretext of urgent affairs, to make a practice of excusing myself from the duties which, according to our various ties, we owe to those with whom we live. 13. Of Catulus I learned not to condemn any friend’s expostulation even though it were unjust, but to try to recall him to his former disposition; to stint no praise in speaking of my masters, as is recounted of Domitius and Athenodorus; and to love my children with true affection. 14. Of Severus, my brother, I learned to love my kinsmen, to love truth, to love justice. Through him I came to know Thrasea, Helvidius, Cato, Dion, and Brutus. He gave me my first conception of a Commonwealth founded upon equitable laws and administered with equality of right; and of a Monarchy whose chief concern is the freedom of its subjects. Of him I learned likewise a constant and harmonious devotion to Philosophy; to be ready to do good, to be generous with all my heart. He taught me to be of good hope and trustful of the affection of my friends. I observed in him candour in declaring what he condemned in the conduct of others; and so frank and open was his behaviour, that his friends might easily see without the trouble of conjecture what he liked or disliked.