YEAR III  ·  No. 657  ·  THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2026

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A bias studied since 1983 explains why almost no one thinks they are vulnerable to the lies they see in others

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In 1983, American sociologist W. Phillips Davison gave a name to a mechanism any careful observer already sensed, the near-universal conviction that deceptive messages affect others more than oneself. Four decades later, research on political disinformation confirms the same pattern, and a recent survey on the 2026 French municipal elections documents it with unusual precision, … CONTINUE READING →

How the information overdose turns ignorance into fear, fear into hatred and hatred into violence

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Nearly nine centuries ago, the Cordoban philosopher Ibn Rushd condensed the darkest geography of the human soul into a single sentence. Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hatred and hatred ends in violence. The equation, formulated by Averroes, remains valid because it describes a mechanism humanity repeats with a fidelity bordering on ritual, generation … CONTINUE READING →

Learning Every Day as an Act of Resistance in a System That Doesn’t Need You to Be Stupid, Just Distracted

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There is a distinction the system would rather we not make. Between knowing and learning. Between accumulating and transforming. Libraries are full of people dead on the inside, as the saying goes, and it is true, but there is something more precise to say. In the information age, that inner death has become profitable. This … CONTINUE READING →