(Q – Bioposis: don’t worry Michel, many people felt your embarrassment, your pain, at what you announced…)
MB: thank you for saying it but I am not in a state of worry, I am in an exchange here at this very moment, at this very second, I am in the process of exchanging with you and I am trying to tell you things with as much sincerity as possible and to make you understand that this story is not...we are not in a pure treasure hunting game, we are in a story which involves a lot of people, a lot of affect , a lot of emotion from a lot of people.
I have never forgotten one of the owls who showed up one day, quite a few years ago, at my place in Corrèze, one day or by chance, I was there...because I was there not always.
Who was with these children and it was someone who explained to me that he was looking for the owl that he was going through a divorce, that his wife was leaving him because she was fed up with this owl thing, that he wanted to prove to his children that he was capable of finding the owl and so on. If he listens to us, he will recognize himself if he doesn't listen to us, well too bad for him. But...
I went through these episodes and I understand that...
(Q - ??: Did you just hear yourself there? That is to say: you are talking about this owl who unfortunately, a lot of unpleasant things happened to him; and then you say: “Too bad for him”..)
MB: If you allow me to respond. There is no downplaying on my part of the importance of the event and things in relation to this owl. I'm simply saying...if he listens to me, so much the better, if he doesn't listen to me, too bad for him...I'm evoking through this the fact that I was confronted at certain times with the reality of game for owls, whether they are people of this or that persuasion, of this or that intellectual level, whatever you want. I completely understood how important this story could be in the lives of certain people. And maybe a lot of people. Which means that in no case am I kidding about this.
So whether you are shocked, it doesn't matter, I may have expressed myself clumsily and I apologize for it, but that's not at all what I mean, I mean, I was in direct contact with the experience of certain owls who conceived this story as being for them a holy grail, an ideal, something decisive in their lives. Which explains why today I can no longer take everything concerning the golden owl lightly.
I tell myself today, there are thousands of people involved in this.
Some people don't care, for some it's a game, for them it's a joke and for others it's extremely important. So I forbid any negligence in relation to the actions I undertake today within the framework of the game.
I forbid myself from lying. I refrain from leading people away and I make it my duty to guide them as much as possible, as much as I can, in directions that allow them to say: “Well, I'm in the game, I'm staying in the game , I haven't been fooled, I'm not at the antipodes of the game, I'm not...uh completely in the West, I'm in the game, I continue to participate in this game.
MB: thank you for saying it but I am not in a state of worry, I am in an exchange here at this very moment, at this very second, I am in the process of exchanging with you and I am trying to tell you things with as much sincerity as possible and to make you understand that this story is not...we are not in a pure treasure hunting game, we are in a story which involves a lot of people, a lot of affect , a lot of emotion from a lot of people.
I have never forgotten one of the owls who showed up one day, quite a few years ago, at my place in Corrèze, one day or by chance, I was there...because I was there not always.
Who was with these children and it was someone who explained to me that he was looking for the owl that he was going through a divorce, that his wife was leaving him because she was fed up with this owl thing, that he wanted to prove to his children that he was capable of finding the owl and so on. If he listens to us, he will recognize himself if he doesn't listen to us, well too bad for him. But...
I went through these episodes and I understand that...
(Q - ??: Did you just hear yourself there? That is to say: you are talking about this owl who unfortunately, a lot of unpleasant things happened to him; and then you say: “Too bad for him”..)
MB: If you allow me to respond. There is no downplaying on my part of the importance of the event and things in relation to this owl. I'm simply saying...if he listens to me, so much the better, if he doesn't listen to me, too bad for him...I'm evoking through this the fact that I was confronted at certain times with the reality of game for owls, whether they are people of this or that persuasion, of this or that intellectual level, whatever you want. I completely understood how important this story could be in the lives of certain people. And maybe a lot of people. Which means that in no case am I kidding about this.
So whether you are shocked, it doesn't matter, I may have expressed myself clumsily and I apologize for it, but that's not at all what I mean, I mean, I was in direct contact with the experience of certain owls who conceived this story as being for them a holy grail, an ideal, something decisive in their lives. Which explains why today I can no longer take everything concerning the golden owl lightly.
I tell myself today, there are thousands of people involved in this.
Some people don't care, for some it's a game, for them it's a joke and for others it's extremely important. So I forbid any negligence in relation to the actions I undertake today within the framework of the game.
I forbid myself from lying. I refrain from leading people away and I make it my duty to guide them as much as possible, as much as I can, in directions that allow them to say: “Well, I'm in the game, I'm staying in the game , I haven't been fooled, I'm not at the antipodes of the game, I'm not...uh completely in the West, I'm in the game, I continue to participate in this game.