In his latest book, Playing to his skin (The Belles Lettres), the philosopher Nassim Nicholas Taleb sums up the curse of our time : “A category of persons does not cease to increase within the population : people who are better at explaining things than to understand them. Or more gifted for explaining that to do. “We cannot better describe the technostructure French. It does not have a ” mechanism of enforcement of his skin “, to borrow a phrase from Taleb. Its representatives rarely pay the consequences of their decisions. To the difference of…
