But these drinks could term open to other appetites

If it's sing you, Sunday 23 May, under the Eiffel Tower, "giant aperitif". Not official organizers, a collective invitation leveraged by Facebook and for horizon... the fact, what then The feast Usability Living together The drinking The knockout All this together, apparently, in varying proportions according to each. In any case, the phenomenon became massive: in all, in a few weeks already more than 100.000 people! Because cities compete, playing that will integrate on the place of supposed most revellers. Paris comes after Rennes, Clermont-Ferrand, Besançon, Colmar and many others.

Some municipalities are doing, others prohibit (Lille, Saint-Brieuc, Saint-Lô), for security reasons. It is true that towers or Nantes, dozens of ethyl comas have already been recorded. Finally, the Prefecture of police of Paris arrived it also on Facebook, history to warn and to emphasize the risk of flooding. It is true that no one can rule out the possibility of medical problems, violence, degradation of the urban furniture. As everyone knows, once he read Gustave the good and his famous "Psychology of the crowds" (1895), that the best men in the crowd "a grain of sand in other grains of sand." wind raises at will

Remains to be determined which may well play in these large gatherings without apparent motive. Of course, in times of crisis European monetary storm and panic in the markets, there more serious than these potaches intratribal. However, their apparent insignificance is that we should stop. Because this was what surprised. "Happy", in France, falls within the domestic worship - ritual of neighbourhood, meetings between friends, counter in the corner. As soon as it is a few thousands, not one another converging suddenly by the magic of the networks that gargantuan also incongruous picnic, this is another case.

When so many clouds gathering on our heads, drink a blow on the public, is place - the therefore sign of wisdom, irresponsibility, or something else, but what It would be an exaggeration to suggest that the Manes of Rabelais were suddenly converted Facebook to the wisdom of the dive bottle. It would not be less excessive to consider, with the grumpy, that youth now, or extend the arm or waving his fist, simply lift the elbow and replaces purely and simply the politics of the Chair empty by the glass and the absent ideas.

It is better to try to approach this strangeness with the means of the edge. Because contem-porains classics dealing with masses are of no assistance here. Freud "Collective psychology and analysis of the self", Wilhelm Reich "Psycho-logie mass of fascism" or Elias Canetti "Mass and power" does not help us to understand these crowds ephemeral, autoréunies, devoid of slogan as well as enemies, claiming to want to spend only a good time, as intense as fleeting. In fact, there is no precedent. It is also true totalitarianism than of yesteryear apéros Lilliputians.

A view of nose, combine that many ingredients: the effort to break the yoke of boredom that overwrites our time, the dream of breaking a moment the great solitude of the messages exchanged on the screen, the desire to make number and show, hope to discover each other and occupy the centre of the city, the desire to do more for a night take the world to the tragic, the desire to experience together an individual Vertigo, the need for drinking (water), even though all the senses everyone pain - not to mention the small pleasure, always childlike but always effective, flout the authority. Curious cocktail, if we dare to say. It does not form what was once called a political consciousness. But these drinks could, term, open to other appetites.