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Eugénie Bastié: “Behind the cult of diversity, the standardization of the world”

2024-03-27T19:15:32.026Z

Highlights: Eugénie Bastié: “Behind the cult of diversity, the standardization of the world”. Modern discourse exalts the Other to better mask the standardizing of lifestyles. The diversity of supermarket stalls masks the growing uniformity of our souls, our cultures, our habits. Far from being cosmopolitan, our world only offers the juxtaposition of impoverished identities. Same skyscrapers from New York to Abu Dhabi. Even pop songs with indistinguishable language formatted by computer programs to produce effect.


CHRONICLE - Modern discourse exalts the Other to better mask the standardization of lifestyles. The choices multiply in supermarkets, but nuance disappears from thought, and ambiguity disappears from morals. “Towards a univocal world”: a brilliant essay on our great...


The progressive discourse only has the word “diversity” on its lips.

It celebrates Difference, it exalts the Other, it promotes Choice.

But through words he masks the impoverishment of reality.

We live in a world that is less and less diverse.

Biodiversity is in free fall: fewer insects in our meadows, fewer birds in our countryside, fewer tributaries in our rivers.

The diversity of supermarket stalls (106 results for “natural yogurt

on the Leclerc app) masks the growing uniformity of our souls, our cultures, our habits.

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Variety disappears within the human species

;

the same ways of acting, thinking and feeling are found in every corner of the world

,”

Tocqueville already predicted.

Far from being cosmopolitan, our world only offers the juxtaposition of impoverished identities.

Same skyscrapers from New York to Abu Dhabi.

Even pop songs with indistinguishable language formatted by computer programs to produce effect...

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Source: lefigaro

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