From all sides triumph of the ambiguities

Curious vintage, this year, of which the title refers to a result of foot (2-0, 1-0). It did us see, over the months, these tentative situations that imperceptibly to return. The disclosures of WikiLeaks, demi-secrètes archives made demi-publiques, little explosive content, disturbing in their global dissemination, brought greater transparency and lead to more privacy. The drama of summer Bettencourt, after shaking the State and to Wade investigators, ends in family hugs to the first frost. The Blues committed suicide in the summer and began to revive in the fall. The gigantic Russian fire, by a well suspicious chance, have not been an official death more than the heat wave of 2003 in France. The indispensable pension reform faces a refusal front and finally passes.

Each time, one side of the event to cache another: reversible situation uncertain outcome. The year, at the time, seems to break the record of ambiguity. To gin continuously cotton games splittings and shifts. A Matignon, two first successive Ministers for the price of one. In Côte d'Ivoire, two simultaneous Presidents for a wheelchair. In the US Congress, Democrats and Republicans who seem to share their roles. From all sides, triumph of the ambiguities.

However, the ambiguity is not rating: suspected to be false token. Ambiguous has the synonym irresolute, ambiguous, uncertain. Ladle in the end. Certainly, everyone prefers sharpness and clarity. The ambiguities See, therefore, must be the rising - task which is equivalent to philosophers, critics, outspoken people. Maintain the ambiguity, this is rather the case of policies, equivocal speeches. That is what is believed to most often. It is wrong.

Because the ambiguity has its letters of nobility and its own power. Maurice Merleau-Ponty sets even philosophy as the conjugation of "sense of the obvious" and "taste of ambiguity". What he means by that has nothing to do with hesitation, uncertainty, switching to drown the fish. It is instead the double constituent face of existence that he named. Because we are still double - body and spirit, reason and passion, nature and culture, science and art. The praises of the ambiguity, argue against unilateral visions, systematically refuse to be "monoïdéiste" - to think reality. It is to implement that Merleau-Ponty was the "lameness" of the philosopher, always held to advance on two separate records, leaving never neither one nor the other.

At the time of the ritual year in review, these comments can be used. Let us see in double faces of volatility indices 2010. We must avoid unfortunate that the present is versatile. Look in the facts of the time traces of fertile ambiguity, the interplay of competing items. WikiLeaks takes place in between between citizenship and reason of State, the case of Bettencourt in the area of interaction of money and power, the adventures of the blue in the intermediate space between competition policy and real imagination, the reform of the pension between lucidity and dream, the crisis in Côte d'Ivoire in the conflict between democracy and personal ambitions.

Each time, the procedure must not undermine the double face absolutely wanting to make overcome a side or the other. It must instead install the ambiguity, keep it open, revealing the tension and the interaction between its components. It captures that transparency is only a myth, the unilateral explanations of lures. They conclude that everything real is ambiguous. If 2010 taught us really this, this is a year who have not lost time.