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"Most men are wicked", Οἱ πλεῖστοι κακοί, Bias of Priene
According to one of the seven sages of Antiquity, Bias of Priene, "Most men are wicked". It is perhaps worth revisiting this maxim today to grasp its full depth... and its warnings!
Jan 229 min read


What do we owe to Albert Camus?
On the 65th anniversary of his death, it may be useful to take stock of his thinking, to ask ourselves how this famous philosopher and novelist would undoubtedly have understood our times, but above all, what we could take away from his work to fill our humanist bag.
Jan 69 min read


Children of the Orient
By focusing here on the fate of the children of the Orient, Ariane returns, to bear witness, to her own childhood, imbued with a mixture of exile, abundant cultures, and religious diversity.
This article is about returning to the meaning of Christmas to remind us, as it seems far from being a given, that the only viable path for humanity is that of peace.
What is the outcome for humanity when it has forgotten its essential dimension?
Dec 19, 202410 min read


From One Plato's Cave to Another... Reflections on the Society of the Spectacle, Mediatization, and Totalitarianism
Recent years have exposed us not only to mass propaganda, but also to its shamelessness: it no longer hides, it asserts itself, it flaunts itself, it claims its own status as information prostitute. Minds that have seen these crude maneuvers, for example, those of the actors we regularly find in crisis situations, have emerged from a first Plato's Cave.
But what happens to them afterwards?
Dec 9, 202410 min read


La Licorne - The Unicorn: why this name?
With La Licorne (the Unicorn), it is the birth of a new scriptural adventure...
But why this strange, fantastic name, which seems to come from a child's imagination?
Ariane explains everything to you...
Dec 7, 20242 min read


Reiner Fuellmich Investigation Committee
Ariane Bilheran spoke as an expert to the Reiner Fuellmich investigation committee, during session number 78, on November 13, 2021, of the Corona Investigative Committee.
Sep 14, 20242 min read


Ordinary Totalitarianism and Good Conscience
Before denouncing totalitarianism in general, have we made sure that it does not reside within ourselves? To find out, we must pay attention to certain processes that take place within groups as well as within individuals. Here is a first glimpse.
Sep 8, 20249 min read


Circles of denial (2/2): obsolescence of the law and paranomôn
Nowadays, "parliamentary immunity" allows members of parliament to escape the consequences of their actions. In ancient Athens, it was exactly the opposite: by proposing an inadmissible law, one put one's own life on the line... Is it any wonder that our regimes, deprived of any checks and balances, descend into chaos?
Jul 21, 20249 min read


Interview of Ariane Bilheran for the "Cahiers de Psychologie Politique" on the psychopathology of totalitarianism
This work is masterful, because in a few pages, Leo Löwenthal manages to paint the finest psychological portrait I know, especially for his time, of atomization in a totalitarian period, that is to say, of the role played by terror in transforming the individual into an isolated and desperate cell at the heart of a large mass. This German sociologist and philosopher, linked to the Frankfurt School, who emigrated to the United States to flee Nazism, was aware of the cancellati
Jul 19, 202423 min read


Circles of Denial (1/2): Delusional Contagion and the Obsolescence of the Law
Unlike the Colombian people among whom she lives, Ariane Bilheran notes that the French constantly demand their dose of illusions. Recent outbursts of collective hatred and hypocrisy vividly illustrate this addiction.
Jul 14, 202410 min read


The Consolation of Philosophy
If there is one work that I have been sharing without moderation in my "Knowledge of the Ancients" workshops since 2021, it is Boethius's Consolatio Philosophiæ. I believe that this masterpiece is indeed one of those that most helps us to face life's misfortunes, and it seems urgent to me to rehabilitate it to the rightful notoriety that befits it.
Jul 7, 20248 min read


Why I started teaching Latin again
The study of an ancient language as an antidote to modern-day loss of reason and totalitarianism? It may seem frivolous, but... From the origin of words to the structure of thought, Latin offers us a veritable arsenal of defense against mental decay.
Jun 30, 20249 min read


What happened to Reiner Fuellmich?
Infiltration and stalking by the secret services, arrest in Mexico on charges as diverse as they are provisional, betrayal, solitary confinement: the founder of the Grand Jury was spared nothing. The persecution of Reiner Fuellmich speaks volumes about the decline of the rule of law in Germany and the West. We take stock with Ms. Virginie de Araújo-Recchia, dated June 19, 2024.
Jun 23, 20249 min read


Empedocles and delusional hatred
When we lose our bearings, when values are reversed, and when civilization is going through intense turbulence, it is always relevant to return to the works of the Ancients, to the very origins of what founded our humanities. The thought of Empedocles, diverse and abundant, gives us in particular a key to understanding our era of hatred — and also of awakening!
Jun 16, 20249 min read


Sexualization of children, back to Freud
If there is one figure who inflames minds and unleashes passions, it is Sigmund Freud. The "father of psychoanalysis", who has been called a charlatan, a Zionist, an occult magician, an incestuous father, and so on, leaves no one indifferent. In France in particular, he is credited with the discovery of "infantile sexuality".
Jun 9, 20248 min read


Child Sexualization: The sophism of "Sexual Rights"
Thus, as incredible as it may seem, the entire "declaration of sexual rights", which is now being rolled out by the WHO, in the name of "sexual health" (a linguistic misuse on which there would also be much to say), is based on a sophism which has distorted the logic of reasoning in order to better manipulate public opinion.
Jun 2, 20248 min read


The genius of Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452, in Tuscany, to a notary father and a peasant mother who left her son with his natural father, who raised him along with his nine brothers and two sisters. The mother was forbidden to see her son. His grandfather was also a notary. Leonardo da Vinci did receive an education, but it was very limited: he learned to read in the vernacular and would only study Latin later, as an autodidact. It seems that Tuscan nature served as his mot
May 26, 20249 min read


How did I come to create the "psychopathology of totalitarianism"?
By applying a psychopathological key to the phenomenon of totalitarianism, Ariane Bilheran has undertaken pioneering work and considerably deepened our knowledge of this phenomenon, which until now had been confined to sociopolitical analysis. As her original vision gradually established itself as an essential approach, it seemed useful to her to return to the origins and inspirations of her idea.
May 19, 20249 min read


The island where the good Lord takes his vacation
Nothing can replace, for the traveler, that feeling of arriving at the end of the world when he sets foot on Providence Island, located in the Caribbean Sea, off the eastern coast of Nicaragua.
May 12, 202410 min read


Florence's Golden Hours 2/2
Nothing is given, everything is to be conquered, and the aspiration to the sublime is what we are allowed to experience in Florence: time has stopped there on good taste, on beauty "universal and without concept", as Emmanuel Kant would later say.
May 5, 20249 min read
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