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Coronavirus: "Common Destiny"

3/23/2020, 8:24:27 PM


The editorial of Figaro, by Laurence de Charette.

" Ah! fool who thinks I'm not you! " While the world calms down to face the coronavirus, these words of Victor Hugo have probably never sounded as much truth: “My life is yours, your life is mine (…); destiny is one, ” wrote the poet in the preface to Contemplations .

Linked by this common destiny that it had pretended to ignore, humanity rediscovers one, made of one and the same body that live at the same time, because they are the two poles of the same story, greatness and fragility. Where have the transhumanists, specialists in "augmented man", and all those who with them soon claimed to "conquer death" gone today? Confined, meanwhile ...

Because the common destiny today is that of "confinement", this word that probably only in France Emmanuel Macron has not yet spoken - at least publicly. Faced with the terrible progression of the virus, many voices have been raised in favor of strengthening the system:

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