Hello,
@kola,
What transport!
I don’t know if it’s a question of luck, method, or perseverance to dig out the gems, but I find the Web buried under endless repetition of the same tired phrases. These days, I much prefer practicing "slow reading" 😎, which offers mental landscapes that feel infinitely vaster and more varied to me.
@Michel,
What struck me most during my trip to France for the "holidays" was receiving a "pas de souci" from every single person I spoke to.
As for the pressure from environmentalists wielding "virtue" and its guilt-tripping power, it’s really just a continental cultural habit. How often were we bombarded with financial "virtue" and economic "good" at the start of the last decade? That environmentalists are now using this tool of influence isn’t surprising at all.
I don’t know anything about "slow travel." In Italy, "slow food" was created and promoted to preserve a way of life and cultural identity. That doesn’t seem transferable to travel, despite the lexical plagiarism.
Catherine
Slow Travel or the Illusion of Authenticity
by Blogob
Translated into English.
By this, and this only, we have existed. Which is not to be found in our obituaries. (T.S. Eliot)
To get back to the original topic...
Hi,
Why always criticize other people’s choices? Some people do slow travel and you don’t like it? So what? It doesn’t stop you from traveling the way you like, does it?
Getting back to the original topic, that’s not what I read in the post author’s text. They’re not directly criticizing "slow travel"
Getting back to the original topic, that’s not what I read in the post author’s text. They’re not directly criticizing "slow travel"
Moralistic and puritanical injunctions: don’t smoke, don’t drink, don’t eat this or that, ride a bike, get tested for this or that.
And why?
Societies are becoming more litigious, and some people don’t hesitate to sue tobacco companies, winemakers, McDonald’s, their doctor—whatever—even though they themselves are the cause of their own problems.
All this information is just so no one can claim, "I didn’t know smoking two packs a day might leave me lugging around an oxygen tank for the rest of my life," "I didn’t know eating junk food morning and night could lead to quadruple bypass surgery," or "I didn’t know sipping a bottle of *Rubis des Treilles* every morning could end in cirrhosis."
The second reason is economic: fewer excesses, fewer healthcare costs...
After that, you’re free to do what you want. There’s absolutely no obligation to slather on sunscreen at the slightest ray of sun, drink only water, walk 6 miles a day at 3.7 mph, keep your home at 66°F, eat tofu with seeds, brush your teeth three times a day for two minutes each time, or split hairs.
And why?
Societies are becoming more litigious, and some people don’t hesitate to sue tobacco companies, winemakers, McDonald’s, their doctor—whatever—even though they themselves are the cause of their own problems.
All this information is just so no one can claim, "I didn’t know smoking two packs a day might leave me lugging around an oxygen tank for the rest of my life," "I didn’t know eating junk food morning and night could lead to quadruple bypass surgery," or "I didn’t know sipping a bottle of *Rubis des Treilles* every morning could end in cirrhosis."
The second reason is economic: fewer excesses, fewer healthcare costs...
After that, you’re free to do what you want. There’s absolutely no obligation to slather on sunscreen at the slightest ray of sun, drink only water, walk 6 miles a day at 3.7 mph, keep your home at 66°F, eat tofu with seeds, brush your teeth three times a day for two minutes each time, or split hairs.
Un si beau paysage : concours de photos amical de juin 2026
Rubrique Jeux Voyages
C'est le moment de voter!
Good evening,
After that, you're free to do what you want.
I’m not that optimistic. Things aren’t set in law yet—but many are thinking about it—but when you want to undertake something within the institution or company you’re part of, you’re made to understand that the project must be "sober," "virtuous." In France, the State acts as the religion that no longer exists, and one that’s increasingly being excluded from all public spaces. But I get what you’re saying: the ultimate degree of individualism, with nothing but an abstract universalism as a horizon, is asserting one’s own sensitivity at the expense of everyone else’s freedom.
Michel
After that, you're free to do what you want.
I’m not that optimistic. Things aren’t set in law yet—but many are thinking about it—but when you want to undertake something within the institution or company you’re part of, you’re made to understand that the project must be "sober," "virtuous." In France, the State acts as the religion that no longer exists, and one that’s increasingly being excluded from all public spaces. But I get what you’re saying: the ultimate degree of individualism, with nothing but an abstract universalism as a horizon, is asserting one’s own sensitivity at the expense of everyone else’s freedom.
Michel
If you're an employee, you've never been free to do what you want.
Otherwise, you have to be the boss...
As for individualism, I prefer it to the self-denial that comes with being enslaved to the group.
The Taliban's Afghanistan? No thanks.
Otherwise, you have to be the boss...
As for individualism, I prefer it to the self-denial that comes with being enslaved to the group.
The Taliban's Afghanistan? No thanks.
Un si beau paysage : concours de photos amical de juin 2026
Rubrique Jeux Voyages
C'est le moment de voter!
If you're an employee, you've never been free to do what you wanted.
Otherwise, you have to be the boss...
There are plenty of very intermediate statuses 🙂. Working for quality production, working for the success and achievement of the company, and working for the salvation of the world and the Greater Good aren’t quite the same thing.
As for individualism, I prefer it to the self-denial that comes with enslavement to the group.
Me too, assuming that enslavement to the group/nation/ethnicity can truly be called enslavement.
Michel
There are plenty of very intermediate statuses 🙂. Working for quality production, working for the success and achievement of the company, and working for the salvation of the world and the Greater Good aren’t quite the same thing.
As for individualism, I prefer it to the self-denial that comes with enslavement to the group.
Me too, assuming that enslavement to the group/nation/ethnicity can truly be called enslavement.
Michel
- and in France, the press is the State -
Michel, you're the salt of this forum. Apart from that exaggeration, I agree with the rest of your point—except for that last paragraph, which would delight many nationalists, leaning autocratic.
Michel, you're the salt of this forum. Apart from that exaggeration, I agree with the rest of your point—except for that last paragraph, which would delight many nationalists, leaning autocratic.
Good evening,
Many people don’t realize it, but in France, the press is heavily subsidized.
That last sentence ruffle your feathers? It’s not an expression of a wish, a political or societal choice, or a preference—it’s an anthropological observation: only an individual who is already established as such can see themselves as being subjugated. A Japanese person, a Korean, or a Russian, to take patrilineal anthropological examples, naturally sees themselves as part of the group and doesn’t view it as subjugation.
Michel
Many people don’t realize it, but in France, the press is heavily subsidized.
That last sentence ruffle your feathers? It’s not an expression of a wish, a political or societal choice, or a preference—it’s an anthropological observation: only an individual who is already established as such can see themselves as being subjugated. A Japanese person, a Korean, or a Russian, to take patrilineal anthropological examples, naturally sees themselves as part of the group and doesn’t view it as subjugation.
Michel
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