Mustapha DIENG

We live in a time of great contradiction. Humanity has never had as many resources, technological tools, means of communication and capacities for collective organization. Yet, in the richest societies, phenomena that seemed to have to go backwards with progress: depression, loneliness, anxiety, existential fatigue, loss of meaning. The World Happiness Report 2026 clearly highlights this paradox: the most developed countries are not immune to ill-being, and among young people in Western countries, subjective well-being has deteriorated markedly over the past fifteen years. This observation obliges us to reopen a fundamental question: what is a developed society, if it succeeds in protecting the bodies but increasingly struggles to feed life?

The recent history of digital technologies is marked by disruptions that transformed our lifestyles: the Web in the early 1990s, social networks in the 2000s, and the smartphone that consolidated the mobile Internet as the backbone of everyday life. In 2021, a new promise was imposed in the public debate ... Read more

In the shadow of today's conflicts, an implacable mechanics has reactivated. Military budgets are exploding, factories are running at full speed, algorithms are learning to kill remotely, while poverty, disease and ignorance remain the silent emergencies of billions of human beings.
The war, once assumed tragedy, turned into an industrial process, a technological laboratory and a commercial showcase. This text is neither a naive pacifist manifesto nor an easy moral condemnation: it is a lucid argument against a world which, in the name of its security, seems to have lost the sense of limit, responsibility and human.

Each international crisis, every armed conflict, every massive violation of human rights, the same vocabulary returns as an incantatory ritual: international law, international community, United Nations, peacekeeping. Yet, behind these words full of history and norms, the dominant feeling is that of profound impotence. Wars multiply, civilians pay... Read more

There are times when a society no longer debates: it reacts. Word is faster than thought, emotion is more perforative than argument, and opinion is more coercive than law.
In these sequences, rumours become a political accelerator, social networks a chamber of echo, vindicts a mode of regulation, and public leaders of anxious seismographs: they capture vibration, deduce a direction, and then attempt to align the right.