RESPOND: THE CURRENT CRISIS

Origen Creations: books and animations dedicated to the education of children. Nothing new then? Not exactly. Currently we are facing an imperative: to respond to the moral crisis that alters the conscience of young generations. If we let the current cultural trends continue to erode the traditional sense of true, good and beautiful, it will have been to blindness that we have allowed our children to convert. So, in the face of the current crisis, act, and, at the same time, guarantee the future: we must perpetuate the natural foundations of identity and the sound development of children's intelligence, their morality and the finesse of their judgment; educate to ensure the acuity of our children's conscience, their inner speech.

But children no longer read and parents no longer encourage them to do so, both sucked in by screens, not to say brain dead. So why books? And why more screen time through the production of animations?

At Origen Creations, we have found an innovative solution for children's education. On the one hand, with our publications, it is not simply a book that the child opens, it is a story that reveals itself to him, grasps him: the child reads, learns and forms his character by being immersed in a story, an adventure, in the form of a comic book, a format that allows to maintain his attention and interest by a stimulation similar to that to which the screens have accustomed him.

On the other hand, our animations, and our comics of course, are created in such a way as to prevent the stupidity and obscuration of consciousness that screens and the current use of images induce. The book, which is no longer the current cultural paradigm, promotes the development and actualization of human excellence, let's say reason to be brief, thanks, among other things, to the reflection and contemplation that reading requires. We have used these two qualities to design our comics and animations: as in a book, the child is led to contemplate and reflect, converting the image and the screen into a cause of intelligence and awakening, not of stupidity and numbness.

We achieve this goal in two ways. First, the child is forced to adopt a reflective attitude and a critical look because he must answer questions after reading a comic or watching an animation. He must therefore return to what he has read or watched, question himself, reflect, search, criticize, judge, according to the nature of the questions asked, not only read or watch passively and let an unconscious mimicry form his person. All our productions have a conscious educational vocation.

Secondly, we create our stories, whether in the form of comics or animation, with a specific intention: to lead the child to think, to make him ask questions, to open his consciousness, to develop his intelligence. Through the moral that the story delivers, we want the child to come out grown. The themes addressed, the symbols, the images, the structure of the story, the characters, the nature of the heroes, in short the whole scenario is designed so that the child develops a more introspective outlook and begins to reflect, to think: he takes part in an adventure that makes sense, that is true. Thanks to the questions that we ask in our publications and animations, and thanks to the very way in which we design the stories, as a book would, our stories challenge the child, transform him, make him grow, deliver a lesson to him.

But to respond to the current moral crisis that is ruining the identity of children, this initiatory virtue of a story must open onto a true ideal. One of the reasons for the reversal of moral identity is the change in the models that are proposed in society, at school or in the media for example, for children to emulate (although one must have lost all moral judgment to find these new "models" worthy and honorable...) The current moral crisis is a crisis of the symbolism of the hero: the hero is in crisis.

Traditionally, the hero embodied a classical ideal, which is in fact the only true ideal. The classical ideal is based on the knowledge of human excellence and the fight to be waged to actualize it. The hero sets out on a quest, goes to discover and conquer what is best in man, what is unique to man. He will face various obstacles that will make it difficult for him to actualize what is unique to man, all to prevent this uniqueness from being incarnated. The evil one does not want to see the ideal fulfilled, does not want man to actualize his excellence: man must remain submissive to him. Overcoming these obstacles, fighting these external monsters, is to fight an inner beast, which wants to continue to command man, which uses passions to keep him under its yoke, enslaved. Few realize that this is how in fact they live... The current moral crisis results from this beast that refuses to allow children to identify with a classical ideal.

Many people talk these days about a new world, a new world order, a liberation from old yokes. But it is in fact a very old, ancient world that is acting, that is seeking to be reborn, the same old Beast that finally believes it can put man back under its control. A real yoke. Let us remember that since ancient Greece, we have always fought the Titans. Moral identity is in crisis, because the heroes promoted today are in fact no longer heroic: passions dominate them, the Beast commands them. The Dragon has knocked down the knight and prevents him from getting up again. Current culture, media and social media for example, ensure that this knight remains defeated, on the ground, that he is no longer the ideal to emulate. It is the Beast that is elevated as the ideal; the Golden Calf, as the god. However, only the knight is destined to defeat the Dragon, the Beast. The fight is first and foremost in the mind that it is played out, where identification with the ideal to imitate, to incarnate, takes place. Culturally, we must revive the classical ideal, promote heroes who fight the Dragon, the inner Beast, through education, through stories that sculpt the mind, that shape character. In fighting the Dragon, it is for the moral identity of children that the knight is in fact fighting. Origen Creations, we give the weapons to ensure victory to the mind in this inner battle that our children are currently waging, and, not being adequately armed, are involuntarily losing.

It is not without foundation that we speak of combat, of inner combat. It is a whole symbolic universe that has been under attack for a long time: our tradition is collapsing, being destroyed. If we continue like this, it will no longer be just a crisis of moral identity that will be at stake, it will be the disappearance of our awareness of the very foundation of good, of who we truly are. But from an inner Chinon Fortress, an offensive is being prepared. Education, and by extension culture, plays a crucial role in it: it transmits memory, tradition. We end up destroying identity, and the whole symbolic universe through which it subsists, by attacking memory, the role of culture in rooting us in a history, by no longer teaching the classics for example. This fight that has been waged for a long time is a war against the story in which we recognize ourselves, our true homeland, the inner speech through which we are. Books, images, screens, animations, this is the story they must transmit and continue to write, this speech they must develop and maintain, this offensive they must launch.

Origen Creations: books and animations dedicated to the education of children. Nothing new we said?