An agnostic society needs practices that support its ideological individualism. Holistic practices that are thousands of years old have been taken over by enthusiasts who are not only convinced but also opportunistic, who have set out to deconstruct them in order to profit from them. Let’s take a look at two trends that originated from holistic and spiritual practices but…
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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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A certain culture has imposed itself on us. It comes to us from films, series and the charismatic characters they portray. This so-called popular mass culture has made us adopt codes coming from another world and above all it has incited us to ape these characters full of aplomb, whether consciously or not. This change is taking the appearance for…
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Collector Syndrome Promiscuity has become a norm among certain classes of the population, especially young people. Dating apps have made it easier to meet new people, something that was virtually impossible before. In the past, you could talk to a random stranger on the street, but in general, people met their husbands in their own circle of relations (friends of…
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We are only as strong as the ideas that dominate us. The people around us can sometimes be a wall against the onslaught of a world that can be hostile, sometimes a Trojan horse that sabotages the efforts made without saying a word, out of sight for months. This voice that we allow to intrude deep inside us can wreak…
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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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The frantic and uncontrolled search to satisfy in a thousand ways our sexual desire is more a matter of an existential and spiritual void than of a simple libido. Lust occupies a whole part of our mass culture, it is above all present in the series and the publicity. This hedonism has been set up as an art of living,…
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Nudge theory (or liberal paternalism theory), according to Wikipedia, is a concept from the behavioral sciences, political theory and economics, derived from industrial design practices, that argues that indirect suggestions can, without force, influence the motivations, incentives and decision-making of groups and individuals, at least as effectively if not more effectively than direct instruction, legislation or enforcement. Nudge acts at…
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Racism is defined as hatred or fear directed against a person on the basis of his or her origin or skin color. Despite the simplicity of this definition, it is difficult to understand the inability of certain so-called progressive currents to recognize all forms of racism, in particular that directed against people of European origin, known as white. The mental…
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Think like a chess player The loss of meaning makes us either go in all directions or ground us. The global health crisis has exposed the nihilism that consumes our lives. For some, welfare gives the illusion of a world that goes on, without suspecting that the next world will be quite different. For those who have not experienced the…
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