YEAR II  ·  No. 613  ·  TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2026

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The myth of the same boat conceals a hierarchy that the climate crisis confirms rather than abolishes

Nobody remembers who said it first, but everyone has repeated it as though it were self-evident. We are all in the same boat. The phrase circulates in presidential speeches, in corporate social responsibility reports, in the soft rhetoric of international forums, always serving the same purpose. It reassures. It suggests that when the storm finally … CONTINUE READING →

The first stone is no longer thrown by the crowd, it is thrown by the algorithm that pays for it, a brief economic history of the scapegoat

The mechanism is ancient, and its effectiveness has never depended on truth. A community disturbed by a crisis it cannot name converges, sooner or later, on a person or a group it expels in order to recover a peace that, in reality, never resolved anything at its root. The philosopher René Girard described this process … CONTINUE READING →