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Pays étranger
[en] After all, in the past, pretty much everything was worse. But with the world now changing faster than ever, the past seems more remote from us, too. There’s a growing gulf between us and that alien world — a world we can barely comprehend. “The past is a foreign country,” a novelist once wrote: “they do things differently there.” […]
The past teaches us a simple but crucial lesson: Things could be different. ==The way our world is organized is not the result of some axiomatic evolution.== Our current status quo could just as easily be the result of the trivial yet critical twists and turns of history.
Utopia for realists, Rutger Bregman
Il ne tient qu’à nous de rendre le passé — ce que nous venons de vivre — d’autant plus étranger que le présent nous est intolérable.