In praise of nuance in the work -

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This video sucks.

Or absolutely brilliant.

A choice.

There you have it, if we are to believe the analysis of Etienne Klein, physicist and philosopher (and subscriber to TV shows, it must be said), our era, that of social networks and online media, would leave no more place for nuance.

Yet this is often where the truth, or at least wisdom, resides.

Insults, arguments in the form of slogans, cookie-cutter opinions, Etienne Klein is sorry that it is "easier to hate than to think", and that debates are made impossible with people who systematically adopt radical positions and arrested.

Why do people always want to be right?

“I don't know, confesses the scientist.

And I'm not ashamed to say I don't know.

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In this long video of our partner Brut, Etienne Klein develops his point and notes all the same that “when you discuss with people in the street, you don't get the same reactions as on social networks.

When there is a dialogue, a physical encounter, the nuance returns.

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