Sublime

Le 17, la guerre du Golfe éclata. Toutes les escapades élyséennes furent évidemment annulées. Comme tous les autres Français, je m’assis alors devant la télévision et regardais comment s’y prenait l’Amérique pour embobiner le monde. Altération de la réalité. Malversations sémantiques. Falsification des causes. Amplification des effets. Témoignages

Client/server models of any kind of social organization are typically objectionable on the basis of fragility, single points of failure, lack of feedback, and simple unfairness: Who gets to be the server? Who guards the guards? Finance now has an aesthetically minded design that patently doesn’t work, and what’s more, nobody seems to be bothered th

We do not trust the stranger, or the next-door neighbour – we trust the coin they hold. If they run out of coins, we run out of trust. As money brings down the dams of community, religion and state, the world is in danger of becoming one big and rather heartless marketplace.

Truth was fake; fake was true. And that’s when the problem suddenly snapped into focus. Throughout recent centuries anyone growing up in a western democracy had believed that it was necessary to have facts. Without facts, societies could be extremely dark places. Facts were essential to informed debates, to progress, to coherence, to justice.

Braverman, un collègue très correctement habillé, vint me voir avec un journal à la main. Je ne lis pas l'anglais, étant francophone de culture et d'origine, et fier de l'être, compte tenu de l'apport de la France au passé, dont elle continue à s'acquitter.

He became convinced that ordinary commercial financing could be done for a service charge plus an insurance fee amounting to much less than the current rates of interest charged by banks, whose rates were based on supply and demand, treating money as a commodity rather than as a sovereign state’s means of exchange.