Substantial emptiness, radical tolerance
July 15, 2024This phrase from sociologist Ulrich Beck seems perfectly suited to what we are experiencing today. Extremes have become commonplace, even among those once considered reasonable, who now eagerly jump on the bandwagon of excesses. The “extreme center” itself has been extensively theorized. In a world where moderates are disappearing, democratic practice now systematically…
World : Life prognosis at stake
March 18, 2024It’s always the same eternal questions that torment us when a bubble bursts and wreaks havoc on human, economic, and ecological fronts: How did we get here? What happened? Our world finds itself today in a critical situation with few historical precedents because we are now all hostages to multiple and repetitive bubbles. There’s the…
The Age of Barbarians
March 15, 2024How can we forget the cult British series from the 60s, The Prisoner, where a terrifying bubble relentlessly pursued the hero played by the charismatic Patrick McGoohan? Our world finds itself in a similar situation because we are now all hostages to bubbles. From the bubble that isolates the rulers, to the bubble of the…
Corruption is a threat to national security
January 10, 2022While the events in Kazakhstan have taken a dramatic turn due to the dictatorial regime in place ordering troops to fire on and kill protestors, it would not go amiss to remind ourselves that it is indeed President Kazakh Nazarbayev who was the first of the post-Soviet era to weave a methodical web of…
USA: What the hell’s the presidency for?
December 14, 2020Though it has of course been dismissed, the legal action led by seventeen US states joining ranks with Texas to try to invalidate the election of Joseph Biden at the Supreme Court is no less dangerous and toxic to the country’s democracy thanks to the uproar it has created. There are also about 130…