Having a child: a question that emerges at the dawn of a possible ecocidal cataclysm. Having children is more than a life choice, it is the choice of life(s). By having children, we decide to give life to a being that would not have been born otherwise (or under other forms according to our beliefs). Giving life has never been…
+Category: Reflection
Interesting ideas from the book David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell
A book that tells you how to win when all the odds seem against you. The book begins with a confrontation between two people in Palestine: a giant named Goliath and a small shepherd named David. At first glance, the outcome of this confrontation is sealed: Goliath is going to make mincemeat of this shepherd who stands on frail legs.…
+Applying the art of war to win the battle against climate change?
Climate change is a perverse phenomenon in that the consequences of our current actions have no immediate effect. It is rather a kind of powder keg that we fill every day and that can explode at any moment. We are all more or less informed on the subject. However, those who do not seem to be interested in it are…
+Is yoga a victim of large-scale cultural appropriation?
It will not have escaped you, yoga is everywhere, it landed on the Californian coast several decades ago. Today, it is the whole of the Western world which devotes itself to it under more or less authentic forms. What is called in the West “yoga”, which means “union”, is essentially the asanas from the Hindu tradition. The asanas is not…
+Should You Seek Your Own Path At The Risk Of Failing?
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…
+To Change Things, You Must First Accept Them
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…
+Do we manage a country like we manage a company?
What are the benefits of democracy? Perhaps it is its capacity to constrain the centrality of power in such a way that no one can impose his will on the rest of the population in an absolutist manner? Democratic institutions, because they segment power, have the advantage of preserving the population from the throes of dictatorship and the arbitrariness that…
+A New Social Order Is Emerging
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…
+Being Greedy Leads Us To Make The Wrong Choices
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…
+How To Live With Absence?
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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