Charles Jaigu: "The big mess of our neurons"

Usually, Gerald Bronner is not a prophet of doom and he prefers to denounce those who profess it.

This liberal and optimistic sociologist, spiritual son of the excellent Raymond Boudon, believes in progress, but a little less in one of its variants: the internet.

He therefore hardens his tone in the essay he publishes this week.

Cognitive apocalypse

is first of all the fine analysis of the digital process of disinhibition of the impulses of our social brain.

This revealing effect of social networks bodes, according to Bronner, a worrying future.

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This tone of a pastor in search of his lost sheep is very much in tune with the times.

The supporters of liberal democracy feel that it must be armed against the risk of its disintegration.

Bronner therefore adds his personal touch to the chorus of worries through careful descriptions, and numerous studies of empirical psychology.

They show that the archaic bottom of our self has found a new playing field thanks to its association

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