We are not in the era of communication. Actually, we live in the age of separation and division. As I write these lines, I am in an anonymous apartment on the top of a large anonymous tower erected in the starless sky of the night. I look out the window: I see other buildings as far as the eye can …
Democracy of fear
Do we truly enjoy freedom only when we are about to lose it? Everything goes as if our societies became incapable of understanding the importance of democratic values, except when a major crisis is about to deprive us of our rights. The terrorist attacks on Charlie Hebdo gives a good illustration of this. After the initial trauma, the weeks that …