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↖ My entire personal website Aphorisms of Hubert TonneauThese few aphorisms are freely inspired by key points from the book From capital to reason.
“Better living” is equivalent to “better problem solving”. ❖ ❖ ❖ To change the world, the first step consists of putting an end to 2500 years of exclusively pre-scientific philosophy, that is to say being satisfied with the merely plausible. ❖ ❖ ❖ Marx was wrong. Since then, no one dares to venture down the steep paths of thought beyond denouncing. ❖ ❖ ❖ Quote from the movie The decline of the American empire : ❖ ❖ ❖ The left at the beginning of the 21st century is a corporation of Diafoirus which persists in wanting to administer bloodletting to the sick social body. ❖ ❖ ❖ Public and private have the same congenital disease: the progressive proliferation of support functions. ❖ ❖ ❖ Whether it is the hospital, museums, university, and many other public services: ❖ ❖ ❖ An organization of work for the 3rd millennium, explained in three minutes: ❖ ❖ ❖ A small structure tends to be exploited. A big one tends to become oppressive. Conclusion: we need medium-sized structures. ❖ ❖ ❖ The chef used to have a whip, now he has a spreadsheet. ❖ ❖ ❖ For the sake of fairness, those who are not lucky enough to have useful work will have well-paid work. ❖ ❖ ❖ salary u003d what we make others do or undergo ─ what we do or undergo ourselves. ❖ ❖ ❖ Before, employees swallowed snakes without any problem. But the vegan trend has passed, and now they only want wheat. Bad times for bosses. ❖ ❖ ❖ From a boss, you should always ask for the impossible. At least we know why we're not getting it. ❖ ❖ ❖ Big boss, big ego, big speeches, boyfriends. ❖ ❖ ❖ Small losses, big troubles on the part of the banker. Big losses, small troubles for the banker. ❖ ❖ ❖ A good leader decides and orders very little. He simply guarantees the quality of what is done. ❖ ❖ ❖ The art of management is to manage both the short term and the long term well. No one does both well, so there is a need for two leaders. ❖ ❖ ❖ Films and stories endlessly replay the struggle of good against evil. The whole point is: will the good leader end up triumphing over the bad guy? In real life, the stakes aren't there, and which of the two wins ultimately doesn't change much. ❖ ❖ ❖ Before, there were good guys and bad guys, and everyone chose their side. Cognitive dissonance is the terrible discovery that good people often act evil without even realizing it, and that the majority of bad people sincerely do not see themselves as such. Since then, we haven't seen each other there anymore. ❖ ❖ ❖ In the past, to make a career, you entered the major seminary, now you enter a major business school. We always learn the same thing: dogma and cronyism. On the other hand, before we were supposed to not fuck anyone, now we fuck everyone. 68 has been there. ❖ ❖ ❖ Computer scientists are the clergy 2.0 ❖ ❖ ❖ Social networks are bars 2.0 ❖ ❖ ❖ When there is no moral courage, everything is based on social conventions. ❖ ❖ ❖ The only moral that holds is to take into account all the facts, including those that are disturbing. ❖ ❖ ❖ Don't teach your children to do their homework. Teach them to do their duty. ❖ ❖ ❖ Decency is serious problem-solving, which means having the courage to address inconvenient facts. ❖ ❖ ❖ The basis of good governance: stop doing what is useless. ❖ ❖ ❖ We are never perfect. The important thing is that the general approach aims to become better, and not to better manipulate others. This requires at least controlling one’s social ambition. ❖ ❖ ❖ The eternal great fight is not so much that of good against evil, as that of facts against social ambition covered by cognitive dissonance. ❖ ❖ ❖ To not be opportunistic, you have to be... a bit stupid. Morality is very thankless. ❖ ❖ ❖ You have to be a little twisted to try to do good: doing evil is so much more natural! ❖ ❖ ❖ Fooling others: the supreme pleasure of any self-respecting imbecile. ❖ ❖ ❖ Humans generally seek to monopolize money, power, honors... and hypocrisy. Only, as for hypocrisy, they very often don't brag about it, even to themselves. ❖ ❖ ❖ The most problematic characteristic of cognitive dissonance is the need to make anything more moral than oneself seem crazy, extremist, or ridiculous, and to want to make them fall in line...for their own good. A corrupt person only lives well if others are less corrupt than him, but only sleeps well if others are as corrupt as he is. ❖ ❖ ❖ You would have thought that the man was riding the monkey. He gets off. Blame it on cognitive dissonance. ❖ ❖ ❖ Lying to yourself is the magic formula for living well... to the detriment of others. But when too many men pronounce it, it transforms paradise on earth into hell on earth. ❖ ❖ ❖ Why complain about being cheated on by your wife, when you are perfectly fine with being cheated on yourself, or even cheating on yourself? ❖ ❖ ❖ Humanism, this grandiose ship which sank during its first crossing, ripped open by the iceberg of human nature. ❖ ❖ ❖ Humanism is what we would like to be. Widespread nepotism and cognitive dissonance is what it is. ❖ ❖ ❖ Human being: invasive species capable of producing lies sophisticated enough to end up believing them themselves. ❖ ❖ ❖ Superior individual: only believes the most sophisticated lies of his social class. ❖ ❖ ❖ Faced with disorder, humans deceive themselves by setting rules instead of dealing with problems. ❖ ❖ ❖ Autism is solvable in problem solving. Its solubility remains to be determined. ❖ ❖ ❖ Humans only know how to ally effectively against other humans. Hence the bitter impression that tyranny is the only catalyst for collective morality. ❖ ❖ ❖ An adapted social organization protects you like the walls of a fortress. The individual morality of others protects you like the walls of your garden. ❖ ❖ ❖ Capitalism is a fortress, which only the rich enter. ❖ ❖ ❖ Applying the standard method is like driving straight ahead with your eyes closed: it is much less dangerous than randomly turning the steering wheel in all directions. ❖ ❖ ❖ I adore The paths of philosophy. They don't go in circles, and yet they don't lead anywhere. ❖ ❖ ❖ When we see how he holds a reasoning, or a promise, we wonder if the man really has hands. ❖ ❖ ❖ Stupid reasoning so concise that we trust it. It's such a stupid ad. ❖ ❖ ❖ Stupidity is contagious, you should protect yourself from it. ❖ ❖ ❖ Rigorous reasoning is a bit like a unicorn. We think we know what it is, but we never encounter it. ❖ ❖ ❖ Rhetoric consists of pretending to reason, as a courtesy to the listeners who pretend to follow. ❖ ❖ ❖ An opinion is only as good as what we have studied on the subject. ❖ ❖ ❖ Collective intelligence is to reason what communism is to production. ❖ ❖ ❖ Rigorous reasoning is as painful as a harsh winter. We're just waiting for one thing: for him to finish. ❖ ❖ ❖ Good reasoning, I don't know what it is, but a good decision is a decision that is favorable to me. ❖ ❖ ❖ Urban wage earners, you will end up having to choose: increase in salary, or reduction in dirty air. ❖ ❖ ❖ A few years ago, the French voted to “work more to earn more”. History today shows that they would have done better to vote “work less to lose less”. ❖ ❖ ❖ When the peasants die, the city dwellers continue to gain weight. Go figure. ❖ ❖ ❖ We lack humanity. No one will miss humanity. ❖ ❖ ❖ To have succeeded is just to have a little more than your neighbor: growth is useless. ❖ ❖ ❖ Men are born and remain equal in law. Fortunately the social hierarchy remains, otherwise they would no longer have any reason to tear each other apart. ❖ ❖ ❖ Humanity, this teenager who believes he can run away when he sets the house on fire. ❖ ❖ ❖ The small gesture, the big apology. ❖ ❖ ❖ Ideal: essential anti-septic to stay healthy in a rotten world. ❖ ❖ ❖ “Adaptation strategies are inevitable and signs of maturity, but they are also, unfortunately, the surest path to acceptance and legitimization of the unacceptable. The adaptation of some creates the basis for the abuse of others. » Corrected version: coping strategies are inevitable, but they must remain conscious, assuming the associated shame, and not covered by beliefs and lies to oneself. ❖ ❖ ❖ Rationality: catalyst of the ideal. ❖ ❖ ❖ By applying the letter and not the spirit of the law, justice renews its allegiance to the powerful. ❖ ❖ ❖ A Europe that does not speak Esperanto is a desperate Europe. ❖ ❖ ❖ Computer science: The relational model will eventually work... as soon as the world stops moving all the time. ❖ ❖ ❖ When it comes to IT, more than in any other field, you can only properly delegate what you know how to do yourself. |