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Category Archives: mankind
Insects
Insects don’t know why we kill them. After all, we don’t eat them, we don’t need their crushed little bodies, we don’t take anything they have in order to use it for ourselves. They know nothing about the germs they … Continue reading
Posted in mankind, thoughts
Tagged death, insects, life, meaning, mystery, natural world, philosophy, questions, survival, the universe
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Fertility of limits
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was led to the invention of photography by the realization that his hand was not steady nor accurate enough to trace and reproduce the images projected by his camera obscura, like his contemporaries used to do. He … Continue reading
Posted in art, history, mankind, technology
Tagged creativity, heliographic process, inventions, limits, Nicéphore Niépce, photography
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A flying bird’s thought (on its route south)
So simple is the sky, with its open blue, and its silent clouds. And then its stars and galaxies, forming and dissolving, with their clusters and their explosions always faithful to precise, undying laws. So complicated is the earth, with … Continue reading
A world without us
The world began without man and will end without him. The institutions, morals and customs that I shall have spent my life noting down and trying to understand are the transient efflorescence of a creation in relation to which they … Continue reading
Posted in history, mankind, thoughts
Tagged anthropology, Claude Lévi-Strauss, ethnology, future, mankind, planet, Tristes tropiques
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The Easterlin Paradox
“Though within a given country people with higher incomes are more likely to report being happy, in international comparisons, the average reported level of happiness does not vary much with national income per person, at least for countries with income … Continue reading
Posted in environment, mankind, thoughts
Tagged consumption, degrowth, Easterlin, economics, environment, GDP, growth, happiness
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The little boy and the wrecked Santa
Last year, on Christmas Eve, I was rushing into a big music store in Paris, to get the last-minute gifts, and there, before the entrance escalator, was this homeless man. He was maybe around 55, half-dressed like Santa, but other … Continue reading
Posted in Human Rights, mankind, people
Tagged children, Christmas, homeless, people, Santa, society
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Mirage-like voices
With all due respect to religions and to their believers, to me, imagining (g)od as an anthropomorphic being – or to anything close to anthropomorphic –, as “someone” we can address with a “you” or a “Thou”, who constantly watches … Continue reading
The Need Revolution
Before, it was more, and more, and more all the time. From now on, it should be less, and less, and less. Wanting more and more never satisfies you. Needing less makes your life full, and happy. The same should … Continue reading
Posted in environment, mankind, thoughts
Tagged consumption, degrowth, economics, environment, growth, happiness, mankind, thoughts
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Rethinking, rebuilding: Democracy
Democracy, seen as a process of decision making based on the sheer majority rule, can be to many extents not only extremely approximative, but often deeply unfair, to the point of being inhuman. I see majority rule somehow as a … Continue reading
Posted in Human Rights, mankind, politics
Tagged banks, democracy, economics, government, Human Rights, justice, mankind, politics, society
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Changes – Looking back, and ahead
Really glad to see that things have really changed since my March 3rd post. And hoping it will keep moving in the right direction, and by the proper paths…
Posted in mankind, people, politics
Tagged economics, mankind, Occupy Wall Street, people, politics, protest
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Walking through the non-world 