Sublime

we live in an extremely controlling society in which authority has disappeared.

Identity is not the abstract quality we vaguely assume it to be: we determine our identity by placing it alongside and, increasingly, contrasting it with other possible identities.

La permanente interaction des gens, des places et des idées fait resurgir une quête identitaire, aussi bien collective (qui sommes-nous ?), qu’individuelle (qui suis-je?). Au siècle précédent, cette quête de soi a été occultée par le choc des idéologies (communisme, fascisme, nazisme, capitalisme), ces « ismes » faisaient des pays et des individus

The publishing of L’Âge de la multitude in 2012 caught the attention of the French government. As I went back to the public sector for a brief period, they asked me to write a report, alongside Pierre Collin (a respected tax judge in the French Conseil d’Etat), on taxation and the digital economy[207]. The

we can never make a naïve choice for the individual and against society, or conversely, for society and against the individual. We cannot do this, because we know that their apparent opposition cloaks mutual dependency.

Thus a neo-liberal meritocracy leads to its own point of departure: universal egotism.