At a time when Western countries are questioning their place in the world, it is interesting to take a step back in order to better understand the contours of our time, and thus try to see what is coming.
It is on this journey that Julien Gobin invites us, in a stimulating essay published in the collection “The debate”, by Gallimard.
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The author does not avoid any of the problems facing our civilization: the reign of relativism and post-truth, where nothing matters apart from individual development.
He thus questions the fall in the birth rate to better highlight the contradictions of our contemporaries: concerned about the future, but incapable of imagining a life after them that is different, and in which another generation could flourish.
Behind the idyll of self-realization, it recalls the anguish that having to choose and justify one's own existence can represent, and to what extent consumerism and antidepressants...
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