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.

This feeling of injustice is something I have often heard from my patients during therapy. It is, in fact, what prompts them to file complaints, based on a misunderstanding: the illusion that human justice has the power to heal this wound, the nature of which it is wise to examine in depth.

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.

In antiquity, the Platonic philosopher Plutarch had already launched a major indictment against meat-eaters. He believed that eating meat was a matter of culinary pleasure, not a necessity for survival: as omnivores, humans can nourish themselves as they see fit. In De esu carnium, Plutarch states: "We have no reason to kill in order to eat."