Simplification is the work of geniuses or simpletons. What strikes me most in our time is the great tendency to simplify everything. Conspiracy theories are an attempt to simplify the causality of events, even when this often leads us further from the truth. The human mind struggles to grasp contradictions. Yet, it is from these contradictions that complexity and depth…
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Students are communists, workers are socialists, and married people are capitalists. A communist is a hypocrite because he wants to take from others what he himself would be incapable of giving if he were in their place. The young or the poor are often open to communist ideas. When you have nothing, you are inclined to share because it costs…
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According to Catholic doctrine, there are said to be 7 deadly sins: lust, spiritual sloth (acedia), anger, envy, gluttony, pride, and greed. Let’s focus on the latter. Why have our societies become so greedy? Why have more noble values been substituted for this one? Greed appears when God disappears Greed is the feeling of never having enough, of always wanting…
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Living on autopilot is so common that we often overlook the beauty of everyday things. Automatic thinking is necessary because the work world demands a lot from us, starting with impeccable efficiency and productivity. To be effective, one must focus on one thing and ignore everything else. Yet, our ability to focus is intimately linked to our ability to relax.…
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Batman is one of the few superheroes without any superpowers. This fact would make him similar to the average person, causing us to forget that he is anything but ordinary. Batman inherited a vast fortune following the death of his parents. This fortune makes him a much more real superhero than others, showing us how money can give one wings.…
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The fitness industry serves the meat industry The fitness industry walks hand in hand with animal exploitation. Not only does being heavily muscled increase your chances of dying prematurely, but in doing so, you contribute to animal suffering. Women want more than just a body If men want to be muscular, it’s because they want to please women. What they…
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Take a look at the GPT chat marketplace (called GPT store). You’ll be amazed at the number of complex tasks that can be performed by writing just a few scripts. What impresses most is the possibilities offered by the tool. Anyone who works in front of a computer screen should take a look at what’s there to see how they…
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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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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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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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