To say or not to say... In the era of social networks, wokism and the violence of words, Monique Atlan, journalist, essayist, and Roger Pol-Droit, doctor of philosophy, author of some forty books, publish
When speech destroys
(Éditions de l'Observatoire), an essay in which they reflect and alert us to the crisis of speech.
LE FIGARO -
"We have never talked so much in history"
, you write.
And we have never listened so little.
How to explain it?
Monique ATLAN and Roger-Pol LAW.
- We listen less, and that is why, while speaking more, we speak less.
The immense inflation of speech through the innumerable machines and means of communication produces a kind of corrosion of speech.
To have the feeling of existing, you must now give your opinion on everything and proclaim yourself an expert in any field.
This obligation to speak is accompanied by a disinvestment of what is said.
“I say that, I say nothing” is the maxim of the time.
In…
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