Defending a cause to the point of risking one’s life requires cultivating a certain amount of non-conformism as well as cultivating an ideal. When one enjoys a high level of material comfort and has never really been confronted with deprivation, it is difficult to drop everything to throw oneself wholeheartedly into a fight. We all adhere to a certain level…
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We all realize that life as a couple is not always a panacea. In the past, marriages were strong because they were primarily intended to ensure the security of the spouses and their respective families (parents, etc.). In addition, they provided a place in society that was primarily shaped by family values. The inability to find a spouse and start…
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Successful empires are those that know how to assimilate the best of the civilizations they subjugate The Romans constituted a civilization of ingenious military men or engineers and soldiers who absorbed the knowledge gleaned here and there as they conquered. They knew how to integrate urbanism, social organization, Etruscan furnaristic rites (and so many other things, in French: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apports_des_%C3%89trusques_aux_Romains), the…
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The importance of prioritization When a resource is available in large quantities, we can develop the tendency to look at it with contempt or indifference. Because of this abundance, we can develop a certain profligacy that leads us to lack discernment between what is important and what is not. There are many resources that we can enjoy: time, money, energy,…
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Do not do to others what you would not like to be done to yourself. This is the cardinal principle of the ideology of benevolence. This sentence is powerful insofar as we recognize in the other a possible self. The problem arises from the non-recognition of the self in the other. Thus, if we admit that the other is fundamentally…
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Being constantly busy is a way of life to which it is easy to succumb. Being overloaded gives us the illusion of having a meaning to our life while reflecting an image that is in line with social expectations: to be busy is to be fully integrated into the economic fabric. What if this paradigm is wrong? What if thinking…
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Two forces are clashing without us realizing it, one conservative, the other progressive. This antagonism crystallizes around two values: resilience and resistance. Let’s see what they imply: According to Wiktionary: Resilience is the “Ability of a person or society to withstand a brutal ordeal and build on it to strengthen itself.” While resistance is the “Defense that humans, animals, or…
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A world in turmoil needs new ideas to sustain it. Several major changes affect our daily lives, and it is only when abstract thought meets materiality that we can experience the solidity of an idea. When we think about the world today, we can be both seized with cold fear at the idea of the challenges we will have to…
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Lessons from the past History is rich in lessons, one of them is that it repeats itself. Throughout the “human adventure”, powers have imposed themselves on others by force. Tyranny has never totally destroyed the spirit of resistance of the subjugated peoples. Let’s look at 3 ways of resisting a power that we consider unjust. Going underground or the guerrilla…
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Doing nothing is an art, and like any art, it is necessary to be inspired by the masters to progress. What is doing nothing? The frenetic life we all undergo in one way or another makes the concept of idleness (which gave rise to the word leisure) or non-action almost impossible. Our minds are constantly in motion. This activity finds…
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