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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. Even more, among young people in Western societies, subjective well-being has deteriorated markedly over the past 15 years.
This podcast offers a critical reading of this invisible fracture: how societies capable of protecting bodies are gradually failing to feed existences. He questions the foundations of the model of contemporary growth, the place of social bond, and the limits of a development centered on material accumulation at the expense of meaning.
