Cultural appropriation is not something everyone understands. Most people don’t see where the harm is being done. Let me give you some pointers. Cultural Appropriation, Another Name For A War Trophy In the past, when two armies engaged in battle and one finally managed to gain the upper hand, war trophies were often captured. For example, at the end of…
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The Practice Of Virtue Makes Us Happy Many of us sometimes wonder what the point is of being good and practicing virtue. On the surface, evil seems to triumph most often, leaving a bitter taste of injustice. How then can we explain the persistence of virtue within the social norms of most societies? To Be Virtuous Is To Be Free…
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Most of us want to meet the right person, but do we really ask ourselves if we are the right person for anyone? The Law Of Reciprocity The laws of nature are implacable, and one of them is very precious. It’s called the law of reciprocity, and it states the following: we tend to give what we receive, and as…
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The Digital Monk We are witnessing the digitalization of professions. Not so long ago, it would have been inconceivable to take yoga classes online, or to follow an entire university course at a distance via the possibilities offered by the Internet. Beyond this phenomenon, there is of course a disappearance of professions that were previously thought to be safe. For…
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Why Writing Won’t Cease To Be A Useful Skill In The Age Of Chat Gpt Writing Is A Timeless Skill Good writing is about clarity, synthesis, accuracy, precision, intelligence and empathy. In short, writing can’t be improvised. Writing is the school that teaches us how to think. Although there are artificial intelligences that can write better and more prolifically, it…
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Artificial intelligence defies human or so-called natural intelligence. Civilization is built on the very idea of intelligence: what we have been able to build over the centuries has been the continuity of the transmission of intelligence through language, whether oral or written, from generation to generation. Anthropocentrism (the idea that the world somehow revolves around man) is partly justified by…
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The different stages of life have been thought of from a productivist angle: we learn, we produce and we rest. Each stage corresponds to an age of life: youth, adulthood and old age. Work, although its etymology is disputed, refers to an idea of suffering in times when those who worked hard were slaves, while the aristocracy, whether Athenian or…
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Most women are simple, no matter what you may hear here and there on the subject. Once a relationship has been established, what makes the difference is how well you take care of it. The Allegory Of The Flower A seed that you plant and that starts to germinate is the equivalent of the first contact (earth plus seed) and…
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Those who lived during the Belle Époque didn’t know it at the time. It was only in retrospect that this period was considered as such, since it was framed between 2 wars, that of 1870 and that of 1914. In the end, the term is more an expression of nostalgia for the good old days, when the madness and misery…
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Until very recently, white-collar workers had always felt safe. They didn’t mind seeing millions of jobs outsourced or replaced by machines. The office professions had no use for workers, many of whom they saw as proletarians. AI is reversing the mechanisms of proletarianization. White-collar workers are going to lose their jobs en masse far more quickly than blue-collar workers, and…
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