Whether we like it or not, the global Internet prospers from the reductio ad bestiam of the human sphere. The new science of captology was formed at the dawn of the 21st century. This science operates via three successive, clinical acts: first it hypnotises; then it conditions; and finally it manipulates the mental slaves it has created.
Don’t human facts inevita-bly, and therefore always, have a moral dimension ? Talking about “biological” has now become a way of discrediting what we are talking about by cutting it off from this moral dimen-sion so essential to humans. In addition, there was noth-ing purely biological about the crisis, since contagion implies relationships be-tween people, and conse-quently a society.
Another effect of the current crisis is that the physical virus prevents us from seeing the moral virus even more, the effects of which we have been suffering for decades, perhaps centuries.
We are in the process of deconstructing the unwritten laws that are the foundation of our civilization, but in the enforced confinement that has descended upon the whole of Europe like a long Holy Saturday, hope saves us.
We are in the midst of a perfect storm. The lesson that life gives us today is very important and we should not overlook it.
