“Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.“

Vera Brittain (1964) The Rebel Passion: A Short History of Some Pioneer Peace-Makers

The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.

Socrates

Falcon Lake: a picture of the fragility of boyhood turning into adolescence. A 13 year old boy in the hands of a 16 year old girl. A sensitive approach reminding us sexual and psychological violence does not discriminate.

Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it. “Croyez ceux qui cherchent la vérité, doutez de ceux qui la trouvent”

André Gide

A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.

Émile Zola in “Nana”

What experience and history teach is this – that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

There are no conditions to which a man may not become accustomed, particularly if he sees that they are accepted by those about him.

Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

I need to vent. It's been said and repeated for many years. Something like a believer and non-believer religious-like act. Today the BBC news confirmed. There is no emotion, no culture, no personality, ... in taste. Only perceptions which can be decomposed and recomposed, expressed, in cold math. Algorithms and artificial intelligence. And who's done it?

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Paulo Freire

This weekend I was outraged. Twitter suddenly proposed in the “for you” feed a tweet by someone publicly crying outrage in disgust of a movie posted on tiktok. A child sexual abuse in the family sphere clip.