"@alaindebotton: We should keep a diary of incidents of envy - from which to work out what to do next."
Sounds like a good plan!
lundi 28 mai 2012
dimanche 27 mai 2012
Lessons Learned: Religion and Demography
The world is getting more religious because religious people are having more babies.
Yikes.
"Many of us believe the ethos of society in a century will more closely resemble the ideas of Christopher Hitchens than those of Jerry Falwell. Yet we forget that most people get their religion the old-fashioned way: through birth. Demography is not destiny, but it is the most predictable of the social sciences. As the population of the world peaks and begins to decline later in this century, the strongly religious will stand against the tide. In so doing, they will remake societies and wash away many of our certainties about secularization, Enlightenment, and the End of History."
The Future Will Be More Religious and Conservative Than You Think by Eric Kaufmann. The American Magazine, Tuesday, May 8, 2012.
(http://american.com/archive/2012/may/why-the-future-will-be-more-religious-and-more-conservative-than-you-think)
Yikes.
"Many of us believe the ethos of society in a century will more closely resemble the ideas of Christopher Hitchens than those of Jerry Falwell. Yet we forget that most people get their religion the old-fashioned way: through birth. Demography is not destiny, but it is the most predictable of the social sciences. As the population of the world peaks and begins to decline later in this century, the strongly religious will stand against the tide. In so doing, they will remake societies and wash away many of our certainties about secularization, Enlightenment, and the End of History."
The Future Will Be More Religious and Conservative Than You Think by Eric Kaufmann. The American Magazine, Tuesday, May 8, 2012.
(http://american.com/archive/2012/may/why-the-future-will-be-more-religious-and-more-conservative-than-you-think)
Grocery Shopping
J'm'en allais juste faire "une p'tite épicerie"... mais le yogourt était en spécial. Le beurre aussi. Et puis tiens, les amandes crues sont pas trop chères...
Oups!!
(Une chance que j'avais apporté mon gros sac!)
Oups!!
(Une chance que j'avais apporté mon gros sac!)
vendredi 25 mai 2012
Quote unquote
« Combien de moments pareils, en cette vie éphémère, où les ressources tant vantées de la parole humaine nous faisant défaut, le vocabulaire ne nous offre que des couleurs effacées, et où la page à remplir demeure vide, faute de mots. »
Wilkie Collins (Le Secret)
(via Gilles Jobin)
Wilkie Collins (Le Secret)
(via Gilles Jobin)
La lecture
C'est ce que j'aime dans la lecture. Un détail minuscule attire votre attention et vous mène à un autre livre, dans lequel vous trouverez un petit passage qui vous pousse vers un troisième livre. Cela fonctionne de manière géométrique, à l'infini, et c'est du plaisir pur.
Annie Barrows (Le Cercle littéraire des amateurs d'épluchures de patates (coauteur : Mary Ann Shaffer), trad. Aline Azoulay-Pacvon , p.22, NiL éditions, 2009)
(via Gilles Jobin)
Annie Barrows (Le Cercle littéraire des amateurs d'épluchures de patates (coauteur : Mary Ann Shaffer), trad. Aline Azoulay-Pacvon , p.22, NiL éditions, 2009)
(via Gilles Jobin)
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