Society & Social Transformations

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?

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

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Senegal has been going through a recurring sequence for several years, where a question of morals becomes a brutal revealing of the whole social system: the relationship between religion and the State, the place of collective emotion, the role of the media, the function of opinion leaders, political reflexes, the capacity of institutions to hold the line between public order and human dignity.

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Racism, Beyond Hate Racism is often treated as a moral pathology, an individual deviance or an archaic residue that will disappear with progress, education and modernity. This reading is not only insufficient, but misleading. Racism is not an anomaly of the social system; It is one of the modes ...

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