In a society that makes joy and good humor injunctions, it is difficult to live or at least to express moments of sadness. Why is it like this? Has it always been this way? Life is made of ups and downs. The painful moments, we must hide them, they must not pass the threshold of our door. Social networks are…
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In a society of affluence, the last thing we have access to is gratitude. How can we explain this paradox? Is it the fact of possessing that makes us hostage to our own possessions? Or is it that consumerist ideology is incompatible with gratitude because it induces satiety and calls into question the whole system? Gratitude is a central question…
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It is easier to choose a path that has been laid out by your family. In addition to having the benefit of sound advice and a possible network to rely on, one often has a professional culture simply by having grown up in an environment that frequently evokes these ideas. This is why it is generally easier to be a…
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The paradox of activism There are some causes that we care about perhaps because they directly concern us. There are others that we embrace simply out of empathy or a desire to do something for someone we know. There are many injustices, but there is an important step in taking action: accepting the facts, almost coldly. The observation that one…
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A new social hierarchy has slowly imposed itself without us being able to stop it. It is based on information, as the earth was for medieval societies. Billions of human beings produce information through the use of their various devices such as telephones and laptops. In themselves, they are the new peasants. Their productions are captured by big tech companies…
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There is enough of everything in the world to satisfy man’s needs, but not enough to satisfy his greed. Gandhi According to the Robert dictionary, greed is defined as the ardent, immoderate desire for something, the vivacity with which it is satisfied. The important word in this definition is in my opinion “something”, that is to say a tangible and…
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This cherished parent, gone without saying goodbye. This eternal love, which nevertheless goes away, leaving an emptiness that silence fills with gravity. This look that we will never meet again. Those sweet words of yesteryear whose echoes warm and chill us at the same time. These tender moments that we replay, like vestiges of a time now distant. This memory…
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“Millions of men want to merge into a body that provides them with the identity they do not have.” Patrick Buisson A community is a social body in which everyone aspires to merge. The social and cultural divide that is growing in a country is the result of the defeat of the national narrative over communitarian narratives. A baby, when…
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Living in the illusion of accomplishment In a static world where we spend most of our time sitting in a comfortable chair, seat or armchair, whether working, telecommuting, commuting or shopping online, we seem to have forgotten what moving implies and how it relates to action. Our fingers tapping away at a computer keyboard or the silicon of our smartphones…
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Thinking is an overused word. Thinking is a daily act that we do with more or less success. Thinking stops where dogma or doxa begins. The problem of our time, and maybe it has always been the case, is the bien-pensance, that is to say a leaden cap that is put on our heads to prevent us from wandering off…
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