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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.40,0:00:03.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is love?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:03.65,0:00:05.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a hard term to define
Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.96,0:00:09.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in so far as it has a very wide application.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.47,0:00:12.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can love jogging,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.67,0:00:14.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can love a book, a movie.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.68,0:00:17.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can love escalopes...
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.59,0:00:19.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can love my wife.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.53,0:00:24.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.38,0:00:29.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But there's a great difference\Nbetween an escalope and my wife,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.21,0:00:32.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for instance.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.59,0:00:35.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is, if I value the escalope,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.74,0:00:41.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the escalope, on the other hand, it doesn't value me back.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.71,0:00:45.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whereas my wife, she calls me
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.23,0:00:49.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the star of her life.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.04,0:00:51.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Therefore, only another desiring conscience
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.83,0:00:54.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can conceive me as a desirable being.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.54,0:00:56.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know this, that's why
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.34,0:00:58.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,love can be defined in a more accurate way
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.56,0:01:02.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as the desire of being desired.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.92,0:01:05.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hence the eternal problem of love:
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.74,0:01:11.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how to become and remain desirable?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.50,0:01:15.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Once, the individual would find
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.41,0:01:17.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an answer to this problem
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.68,0:01:20.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by submitting his life to community rules.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.77,0:01:22.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they had a specific part to play
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.54,0:01:25.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,according to their sex, their age,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.13,0:01:28.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their social status, \Nand they only had to play their part
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.56,0:01:33.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be valued and loved by the whole community.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.11,0:01:36.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think about the young maiden\Nthat must remain chaste before the wedding.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.31,0:01:40.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think about the youngest son \Nwho must obey the eldest son,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.28,0:01:46.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who in turn must obey the patriarch.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.69,0:01:50.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But a phenomenon
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.98,0:01:54.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,started in the 13th century,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.86,0:01:58.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and happened mainly in the Renaissance in the West.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.47,0:02:01.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It caused the biggest identity crisis
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.22,0:02:03.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the history of humankind.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.96,0:02:05.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This phenomenon is modernity.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.96,0:02:07.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can basically summarize it
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.52,0:02:10.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by a triple process. First,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.28,0:02:15.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a rationalization process of scientific research,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.08,0:02:17.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that has accelerated technical progress.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.53,0:02:22.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Next, a political democratization process,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.39,0:02:25.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that has developed individual rights.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.28,0:02:29.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And finally, a rationalization process \Nof the economic production
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.90,0:02:32.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and of trade liberalization.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.89,0:02:35.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These three intertwined processes
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.72,0:02:38.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have completely annihilated all the traditional
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.40,0:02:42.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,markers of the Western societies.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.18,0:02:44.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It brings a radical consequence for the individual.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.73,0:02:47.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, the individual is free
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.69,0:02:51.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to value or devalue
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.09,0:02:55.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this attitude, this choice, this object.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.10,0:02:59.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But as a result, their own self
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.85,0:03:03.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is confronted to this same freedom that others have
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.67,0:03:08.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to value or devalue them.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.09,0:03:11.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In other words, my former value
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.80,0:03:16.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was ensured by submitting myself \Nto the traditional authorities.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.79,0:03:21.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, it is quoted in the stock exchange.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.75,0:03:27.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On the free market of individual desires
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.02,0:03:31.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I negotiate my value every day.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.20,0:03:34.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hence the contemporary man's anguish.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.04,0:03:37.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,His obsession: "Am I desirable? How much?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.69,0:03:40.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How many people are going to love me?"
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.50,0:03:43.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How does he respond to this anguish?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.17,0:03:47.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, by hysterically accumulating
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.24,0:03:51.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the symbols of desirability.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.28,0:03:57.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.06,0:03:58.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I call this accumulation,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.70,0:04:02.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,along with others, the seduction capital.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.18,0:04:05.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Indeed, our consumer society is largely based
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.10,0:04:09.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the seduction capital.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.34,0:04:13.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is said about consumption \Nthat our age is materialistic.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.82,0:04:17.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it's not true! We accumulate objects
Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.72,0:04:20.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in order to communicate with other minds.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.49,0:04:24.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We do it to make them love us, to seduce them.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.92,0:04:29.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nothing is less materialistic or more sentimental
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.47,0:04:32.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than a teenager buying brand new jeans
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.48,0:04:36.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and tearing it at the knees,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:36.08,0:04:38.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because he wants to please Jennifer.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:38.47,0:04:40.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.62,0:04:43.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Consumerism is not materialism.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.97,0:04:46.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is rather engulfed matter,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.37,0:04:49.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sacrificed in the name of the Love god,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.44,0:04:53.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or rather in the name of the seduction capital.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.87,0:04:59.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the light of this observation on today's love,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.07,0:05:02.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how can we think the love of the years to come?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.27,0:05:04.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can envision two hypotheses.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.77,0:05:09.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first one consists in betting on an intensification
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.32,0:05:13.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the narcissistic capitalisation process.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.37,0:05:17.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is hard to say what shape this intensification will take,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.04,0:05:18.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it largely depends
Dialogue: 0,0:05:18.99,0:05:22.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on social and technical innovations,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.08,0:05:26.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which are, by definition, difficult to predict.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:26.91,0:05:28.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we can, for instance,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.90,0:05:32.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,imagine a dating website
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.27,0:05:36.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which, a bit like the fidelity programs,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.22,0:05:39.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,works with seduction capital points
Dialogue: 0,0:05:39.58,0:05:43.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that vary according to my age, my height/weight ratio,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:43.61,0:05:46.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my degree, my salary,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:46.21,0:05:50.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the number of clicks collected on my profile.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:50.04,0:05:54.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can also imagine
Dialogue: 0,0:05:54.16,0:05:57.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a chemical treatment for breakups
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.59,0:06:00.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that weakens the attachment feeling.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.84,0:06:04.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By the way, there's a program on MTV already
Dialogue: 0,0:06:04.32,0:06:09.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in which seduction teachers
Dialogue: 0,0:06:09.36,0:06:13.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,treat heartache as a disease.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:13.36,0:06:17.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These teachers call themselves "pick-up artists".
Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.27,0:06:20.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Artist" in French is easy, it means "artiste".
Dialogue: 0,0:06:20.53,0:06:23.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To "pick-up" is to pick up someone,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.21,0:06:25.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it's about picking up chicks.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:25.47,0:06:29.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So they are artists at picking up chicks.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:29.38,0:06:31.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:06:31.30,0:06:35.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they call heartache "one-itis".
Dialogue: 0,0:06:35.96,0:06:40.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In English, "itis" is a suffix that means infection.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:40.12,0:06:43.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One-itis can be translated as "the infection of the one".
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.35,0:06:48.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a bit disgusting. Indeed, for the pick-up artists,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.02,0:06:51.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,falling in love with someone
Dialogue: 0,0:06:51.96,0:06:55.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a waste of time,\Nit's squandering your seduction capital.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:55.14,0:07:00.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it must be eliminated like a disease, an infection.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:00.50,0:07:03.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can also envision
Dialogue: 0,0:07:03.53,0:07:07.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an amorous use of the genomic map.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:07.56,0:07:10.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everyone would carry it around
Dialogue: 0,0:07:10.94,0:07:14.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and present it like a business card
Dialogue: 0,0:07:14.25,0:07:19.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to verify if seduction can develop into reproduction.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:19.29,0:07:22.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:07:22.71,0:07:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Certainly this seduction rush,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:27.00,0:07:32.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like every fierce competition, will entail
Dialogue: 0,0:07:32.30,0:07:35.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,big disparities in narcissistic satisfaction,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:35.10,0:07:39.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and therefore a lot of loneliness and frustration too.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:39.12,0:07:42.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we can expect that modernity itself, When the seduction capital comes into being,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:42.03,0:07:46.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from which the seduction capital originates,\Nto be challenged.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:46.12,0:07:49.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm thinking particularly of the communitarian reactions
Dialogue: 0,0:07:49.15,0:07:53.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of a neo-fascist or religious type.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:53.90,0:08:00.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But such a future doesn't have to be.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:00.13,0:08:05.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Another path to think love may be possible.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:05.57,0:08:07.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But how?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:07.21,0:08:11.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How to renounce the hysterical need to be valued?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:11.88,0:08:14.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, by becoming aware
Dialogue: 0,0:08:14.78,0:08:17.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of my uselessness. (Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:08:17.86,0:08:19.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:19.08,0:08:21.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm useless.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:21.26,0:08:22.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But rest assured:
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.100,0:08:24.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so are you.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:24.37,0:08:26.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:08:26.70,0:08:30.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:08:30.81,0:08:34.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are all useless.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:34.88,0:08:37.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This uselessness is pretty easy to demonstrate,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:37.68,0:08:41.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because to be valued
Dialogue: 0,0:08:41.12,0:08:43.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I need another to desire me,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:43.100,0:08:46.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which implies that I do not have any value by myself.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:46.15,0:08:49.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't have any value in myself.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:49.77,0:08:54.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We all pretend to have an idol.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:54.01,0:08:57.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We all pretend to be someone's idol, but actually
Dialogue: 0,0:08:57.18,0:09:00.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we are all impostors, a bit like the man who goes by
Dialogue: 0,0:09:00.65,0:09:03.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lording it indifferently over everyone in the street,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:03.74,0:09:06.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while he has actually anticipated and calculated
Dialogue: 0,0:09:06.47,0:09:10.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,everything so that all eyes are on him.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:10.07,0:09:11.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think that becoming aware
Dialogue: 0,0:09:11.98,0:09:14.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of this general imposture
Dialogue: 0,0:09:14.31,0:09:15.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that concerns all of us
Dialogue: 0,0:09:15.70,0:09:17.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would pacify our love relationships.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:17.39,0:09:19.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is because I want to be loved
Dialogue: 0,0:09:19.68,0:09:20.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from head to toe, and to be
Dialogue: 0,0:09:20.84,0:09:22.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,justified in my every choice,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:22.94,0:09:26.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that seduction hysteria exists.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:26.08,0:09:28.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And therefore I want to look perfect
Dialogue: 0,0:09:28.56,0:09:30.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that another can love me.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:30.26,0:09:31.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want them to be perfect
Dialogue: 0,0:09:31.77,0:09:33.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that they can reassure me about my value.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:33.74,0:09:36.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it leads to couples obsessed
Dialogue: 0,0:09:36.93,0:09:38.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with performance
Dialogue: 0,0:09:38.33,0:09:40.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who will break up precisely
Dialogue: 0,0:09:40.13,0:09:43.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the slightest underachievement.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:43.16,0:09:46.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In contrast to this attitude,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:46.50,0:09:49.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I call upon tenderness, upon love as tenderness.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:49.91,0:09:51.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is tenderness?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:51.70,0:09:55.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To be tender is to accept the loved one's weaknesses.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:55.65,0:09:58.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not about becoming a sad couple
Dialogue: 0,0:09:58.37,0:10:01.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of orderlies. (Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:10:01.50,0:10:03.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's plenty
Dialogue: 0,0:10:03.33,0:10:06.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of charm and happiness in tenderness.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:06.08,0:10:09.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I refer specifically to a kind of humour\Nthat is unfortunately uncommon.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:09.68,0:10:12.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is a sort of poetry of unabashed clumsiness.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:12.73,0:10:15.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I refer to self-mockery.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:15.90,0:10:18.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For a couple who is no longer sustained, supported
Dialogue: 0,0:10:18.06,0:10:20.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by the constraints of tradition,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:20.56,0:10:22.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I believe that self-mockery
Dialogue: 0,0:10:22.17,0:10:25.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is one of the best means for the relationship to last.