Military debacle in Afghanistan 50 years after Vietnam, crashes of two Boeing 737 Max 8 at the end of the 1980s… No, Guillaume Erner does not have an unhealthy penchant for “superfails”.
This word, which does not exist and designates spectacular failures, is not only the title of a weekly France Culture program, "Superfail", which the journalist hosts in addition to his morning show, but the subject of his very recent book ,
Rater is an art
, published by Grasset, in co-edition with the radio station.
The author seeks to understand, in a rational way and with a certain optimism, the reasons for these mega failures.
One certainty: stupidity is collective, as the subtitle of the book reminds us.
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LE FIGARO.
- What is a "superfail"?
Why this word?
Guillaume ERNER.
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A “superfail” is a spectacular failure.
This word spontaneously came to mind when my comrade Sandrine Treiner, director of France Culture, offered me a crazy idea: to dedicate a program to the single error...
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