How are our thoughts formed at a time when any divergent idea is almost experienced as an attack? Do we still have anything in common? Our Top 100 provides the beginnings of an answer to these questions.
Why do we think what we think? How do ideas coagulate so that, suddenly, it seems possible to express such an opinion, to use such and such a word which, a few years, sometimes a few months previously, would have seemed scandalous? At a time when institutions have collapsed one by one – political parties, unions, churches, etc. – we like to believe that we are autonomous subjects, capable of forming our opinions far from mass movements. An army of black sheep taking pride in leaving everyone else to their herd instinct. Everyone, from now on, experiences themselves as “awake” (the English translation of this word is woke), more lucid than all the others, these easily influenced beings who have the naivety or cynicism to swallow the speeches of modern propaganda.
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A walk on The other is a bastard. Whatever he thinks, as long as he thinks differently, he's a bastard. The political class, incapable of the slightest compromise to find a majority, even a shaky one, is only the reflection of a society in which, little by little, it becomes impossible for everyone to simply accept that someone can dare to express an opinion. different from his own. The popularity of the adjective “shocked”, which young people use and abuse, is a sign of the times: the existence of others and their opinions puts us in a state of shock.
