In the current era, where totalitarianism is only mild according to the interpretation given to it by our denial, it is important to show that it is rooted in a complete loss of meaning in existence. Not that meaning has truly deserted the human condition, in which case our conscience might call for revolt, as the philosophy of Albert Camus suggested, but rather that it has been inverted. What is above is no longer like what is below; the micro mistakes itself for the macro;

It has been exactly thirty years since I entered higher education, through preparatory classes at the Lycée Condorcet in Paris, then admission to the École Normale Supérieure on rue d'Ulm and attendance at several universities.

An incident in my life, an event that was quite ordinary, the theft of my mobile phone, confronted me head-on with what I knew in theory but which I had to experience in practice this time: the inescapable nature of the digital prison in whose nets we are now captured and whose sole direction is the disappearance of our political rights.

The rejection of tyranny is the founding myth of democracy. Tyranny is the arbitrary power of a single man, driven by his impulses and his temptation to enslave others, by practicing an unjust policy.

Two years after its publication, Ariane Bilheran's essay Psychopathologie du Totalitarisme: sommes-nous dans une dérive totalitaire (Psychopathology of totalitarianism: are we in totalitarian drift?) is more relevant than ever. In 2023, the philosopher and clinical psychologist analyzed the drivers of the Covid crisis management. She showed how, through the widespread use of fear as a political tool, segregation (vaccinated/unvaccinated), censorship, and denunciation, the Cov

Digital prison, "facial recognition", the world of robots, "proof of humanity", and transhumanism hostile to humankind... This Unicorn #23 invites you to take stock of this digital totalitarianism currently being downloaded. As we swim in the midst of "normopathology," a concept I define as an era where madness becomes the norm, the questions of Kantian metaphysics deserve to be asked. What can I know? What should I do? What am I allowed to hope for?

For this Unicorn No. 21, we will analyze the gradual establishment of global totalitarianism. Because, while the masses are entertained, sometimes on official media, sometimes on alternative media, sometimes with various and varied television series, and episodes with twists, such as the dispute between this and that President...

The all-out development of "artificial intelligence" (AI) and the enthusiasm it generates must be the object of our greatest attention. The first alarm we should have is the hook method used to encourage the population to make rapid and major use of it.

Reducing human life to a "price" is to strip it of all its dignity. Yet this is what we clearly see today: we must eliminate the sick, the useless, the unproductive from a capitalist point of view. But what about human beings when AI has replaced them and they have become completely useless in terms of economic profitability? At best, some will take care of serving the machine that dominates them, with maintenance jobs.