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All it took was a tiny virus to demonstrate that all peoples share the same carnal destiny. A new universalism?
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We have long been told that there would be nothing more private and inalienable than our flesh. The flesh, not just the body, but the living matter that we are insofar as it is crossed as by lightning, by our sensations, our feelings, our joys, our pains, our imaginations. This flesh is so much ours, so private, that if we woke up after death, it would be to take it back. We believed in it for a long time. And yet it suffices to pay attention to our birth to understand that our flesh, as well as that of any other human being is only flesh, literally recycled flesh, flesh that has already lived at least. a first time. Everyone has taken their breath, their blood, in short, their life from an older body, or even two. We are someone else’s flesh. The flesh of his flesh. To be born is just that, to share the flesh with someone else, to be part of a community that shares one and the same …
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