“The big religious question was: is there life after death? The great question of today’s societies is the opposite: is there at least one life before death?“. It is on this existential question that the debate of the program It’s not every day on Sunday leaned.
The question is posed by the philosopher Pascal Bruckner. “The outside is seen as a source of danger and to avoid risk, we hide at home”, he analyzes. A “home” described as “confortable” where “everything comes to us“. “Absolutely everything is delivered today: food, essential goods and even romantic partners can come to your home through specialized apps”.
“France is experiencing, and I think it’s the same in Belgium, an epidemic of laziness. People no longer want to work or even make the effort to dress to go out because the outside has effectively become synonymous with maximum risk..”
“I must say that it is worrying as an anthropological evolution“, regrets the philosopher.
A point of view that Brussels MP Marie Lecocq does not share. “I’m quite surprised by the findings. In my everyday life, I see that there are always so many people who get involved, who choose another path. I believe that we must not end up portraying a dramatic society that centers the responsibility on individuals. It should alert us to the work we must do collectively to regain social ties in our societies today.“