Afifia

don’t be so humble, you’re not that great

[Afifia @philo_style]

Très intéressant !

[BLAST, Le souffle de l'info @blast_france]

Spotify : la musique sans morale

Au terme de dix ans d'enquête, la journaliste américaine Liz Pelly publie La Machine Spotify, réquisitoire contre la plateforme de streaming qui démontre comment Spotify a détruit l’économie du disque, atomisé la qualité d'écoute et réduit la musique à une simple marchandise — tout en présentant cette destruction comme une révolution culturelle.

Par @JeanSamK

➡️ https://t.co/AlTE8DiIVn

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

As someone who partially grew up among European elite kids like him, this reminds me just how incredibly hollow some of them are.

For a quick background, I went to one of the poshest high schools in France (Janson de Sailly, for those who know) and, afterwards, to what was at the time - and probably still is - the most expensive undergraduate school in Europe (EHL in Lausanne, Switzerland).

Needless to say, many of my classmates were from unbelievably privileged backgrounds. Just in my classroom in Lausanne I had the son of a (very famous) Russian oligarch, the son of Italy's largest real estate developer and the son of Spain's largest real estate developer (funnily, the latter two were flat mates).

Another classmate of mine came from the richest family in Naples, Italy and - while we were at school - his father (known in Naples under the nickname "Il Sultano") got arrested for having bribed half of Naples's city council - which, if you know Naples, ought to tell you something.

These were the kids I was doing group projects on business ethics with (literally) 😅

Anyhow, my story, and probably my luck, was that - before going to high school in Paris - I was raised in very normal public schools in the South of France where my friends were anything but wealthy. Their parents were farmers and everyday workers.

Which means - and I'd come to realize this was very important in life - that it was easy for me to understand how big a mistake it is to see money as identity and meaning - and to confuse someone's net worth with their actual worth.

What really struck me at the time was the contrast with my "poor" classmates of earlier in my life. They couldn't define themselves by what they had - by definition - and this forced them to reach deeper for their identity: their skills, knowledge, humor, etc.

Rich kids can skip that entire process, and the tragedy is that most of them do: they reach for the readymade identity that money provides. I remember being incredibly frustrated by many of my classmates, like "ok, I get it, your dad is rich and you own a lot of nice things but who are YOU, what else is there?" The answer, more often than not, was nothing.

To be fair, there were exceptions. One of my classmates I was most impressed by came from one of Zurich's wealthiest families (which, if you know Zurich, means insanely wealthy) yet he was almost OCD in not showing he had money: driving the shittiest car imaginable, living in a small studio, etc. He was very intellectual, very contrarian, and clearly at war with the idea that his family's wealth ought to define who he was.

I only discovered who he actually was when I started my first company and he approached me to invest: to discuss the investment I went to one of his family homes, which it turned out was a literal palatial castle on the shores of Geneva lake. The guy had decided to live in a small rundown studio when he literally had a castle sitting empty a 5-min drive away.

THAT I was impressed by: it's easy to see that money isn't meaning when you don't have any. To see it when you have more than almost anyone - when everyone around you is organized around the opposite assumption - is much harder. But to actually live it, to choose the studio when you have the castle keys in your pockets - with no audience to applaud you for that - that shows real depth.

At the end of the day, I think, the real distinction isn't between rich and poor but between people who exist from the inside out and people who exist from the outside in.

Wealth just happens to make it incredibly easy to be the latter, to skip the work of becoming someone and settle for a borrowed identity that glitters from the outside but is hollow all the way through. A Potemkin village identity.

This is actually a real societal issue, and magnified by social media (with idiotic posts like this one 👇): the more "outside in" folks out there, the less people with genuine internal anchors, the more fragile everything becomes.

When you think about it, everything that genuinely matters in a society is built by people who think for themselves: they take the world in, pass it through something genuinely their own, and give back something that didn't exist before: an idea, a conviction, a stand.

Every reform, every invention, every act of moral courage in history came from someone with an internal anchor strong enough to resist the current. Remove those people and all you have left is the current.

This isn't new, by the way. Most ancient traditions warn against exactly this, from the Bible (the golden calf story) to Confucius, who built his entire ethics around the distinction between the exemplary person (the Junzi, 君子) - oriented around internal cultivation and righteousness - and the petty person (Xiaoren, 小人), oriented around profit and gain. The junzi builds himself from the inside, the xiaoren chases what's outside.

So please, do not make the mistake of being impressed by wealthy people flaunting their wealth. Don't focus on the glitter, focus on the hollowness it's trying to hide.

[Natacha Polony @NPolony]

Mon cher compatriote, cher Amine, je suis suis fière d'être votre concitoyenne. Vous êtes tellement français !
Vous aimez le patrimoine, vous avez gagné à force d'épreuves le titre de "rebeu des bois". Vous avez su faire ce qui semble de plus en plus difficile à faire pour les institutions : transmettre l'amour pour des "vieilles pierres" passionnantes si proches de chez nous.

Vous démontrez avec talent que tous les Français peuvent s'intéresser au "riche legs de souvenirs" qui fonde le "plébiscite de chaque jour" qui fonde la communauté nationale.

Votre bonne humeur inexorable, votre capacité à transformer les mauvaises pulsions des uns en positivité est admirable et me donne confiance en l'avenir.

La France est sauvée si elle sait produire des enfants tels que vous !

https://t.co/KZvPhsKIsp

[Afifia @philo_style]

Kev Adams a du mérite.

[Cerfia @CerfiaFR]

🇫🇷🇺🇸 INSOLITE | "C’est un génie de la comédie !". Kev Adams a passé une audition pour "L’Amérique a un incroyable talent" aux États-Unis. Il s’est qualifié pour le tour suivant.

[Le Parisien @le_Parisien]

⚫ L’artiste franco-iranienne Marjane Satrapi, autrice de «Persepolis», est décédée à l'âge de 56 ans ➡️ https://t.co/SVo7iBdod4

[Afifia @philo_style]

@TribunePop23 Ce ne serait pas l’influence des contenus sur les bienfaits et les recettes de sardines qui affluent depuis quelques mois sur Tiktok ?

[Afifia @philo_style]

Edgar Morin s’en est allé mais il nous laisse beaucoup de clés pour traverser ce monde.

[Philosophie magazine @philomag]

Les grandes idées d’Edgar Morin, penseur du siècle https://t.co/aRtUidDyrc

[Renaud Pila @renaudpila]

Le scandale politique de ces derniers jours. Le jeune PDG français de Mistral AI, Arthur Mensch, s’est déplacé pr une audition devant la commission d’enquête sur les vulnérabilités numériques

Quasiment aucun député présent.

Une salle vide, une intervention pourtant magistrale

[Afifia @philo_style]

@Jouhatsu_ai Oui merci 🙏

[Afifia @philo_style]

L’affaire Bastien Vivès révèle peut-être quelque chose de plus vaste sur notre rapport contemporain à l’art, au trouble et à l’espace public.

J’ai essayé d’écrire sur ce basculement.

https://t.co/0RR6zZGnBh

#BastienVives #Société #Art

[Afifia @philo_style]

@JulietteCampion ✍️

[Afifia @philo_style]

@morellifit Class

[Afifia @philo_style]

@ZezeMillz She also saved herself. It must have taken a lot of strength and courage

[Afifia @philo_style]

@TheCinesthetic Maria Schneider has been trapped and sexually abused during the shooting. Nothing romantic in this movie. How is it possible to remake it in 2024.

[Afifia @philo_style]

@MehdiMouse Personne dans son équipe ne lui a parlé de l'effet Streisand ?

[Afifia @philo_style]

@ItsGbb @StadeFrance La place est partie entre temps

[Afifia @philo_style]

@sydkekemetiss16 @StadeFrance Fosse Normal

[Afifia @philo_style]

@JFaerber 😂

[Afifia @philo_style]

Le pendant du complosophisme en marketing : le nudge, largement pratiqué en communication et politique sanitaire & sociale.

[Afifia @philo_style]

La moindre des choses.

[电子烟/悦刻/冰熊/鸭嘴兽/烟油/一次性电子烟/悦刻积木/烟弹/ @RELX88866]

Est-ce que je suis favorable à la réintégration du personnel suspendu ?
Comment dire... Moi, je suis plutôt favorable à :
1. Des peines pour les responsables des règles liberticides de ces 2 dernières années
2. Le remboursement des salaires au personnel opprimé
3. Réintégrer ce dernier à des postes plus élevés que ceux qu'il occupait avant la répression politique : il a en effet démontré qu'il jouissait d'un "quotient de résistance intellectuelle" plus élevé que la moyenne (cf mon essai : Discours de la servitude intellectuelle)

Comme quoi, au risque de paraître extrême, vous constaterez que je n'ai pas exactement la même grille de lecture que les médias.