Thoughts

One of the obvious reasons why my way of thinking has evolved and is different is the fact that I don’t live in my birth country. I have now been living in Japan for almost 10 years, after growing up and spending 30 years in Paris. Being of Chinese descent on both sides of my…

Thinking is good, but unfortunately, it doesn’t pay the bills. Unless you go to extremes or simply have the means from the start, you cannot escape this rule: you need money to live. And you need to live in order to think. It’s true that the opposite isn’t necessarily true. But isn’t it because human…

The more people there are, the greater the inertia of society becomes. This seems obvious, but it also explains how religions were able to develop. Every Sunday, my wife and I watch the new episode of the anime Chi, which fictitiously portrays how the heliocentric theory might have emerged at a time when any thought…

Once again, a reference to The Matrix today—but it’s such a revealing movie that it’s easy to refer to. For those who have seen and enjoyed the film, we all remember the famous scene where Morpheus offers Neo a choice: the blue pill or the red pill.The blue pill keeps Neo in the Matrix, while…

Yesterday, I came across a post on Threads, featuring a video that compared the Roman Colosseum, with the famous “bread and games,” to the world today, which hasn’t changed. The bread and games have been replaced, of course, but the essence remains. I, for one, was nurtured in my childhood by the cartoons from Club…