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What is the goal of this site?

Who is this site addressed to?

For most people, the scope of their life is to acquire privileges, to keep them, and to pass them on to their descendants.

On the contrary, this site is for those who :
1. are seeking something else,
2. are not satisfied with the bizarre theories that proliferate,
3. intend to implement in their actual lives.

This site will not give you superpowers, but it will help you usefully orient your efforts.
It is an elevated perspective aiming to clarify the overall functioning of human society, so as to later validate the relevance of your specific actione₍₁₎, instead of just assuming it or remaining in doubt, and at minimum in anxiety.

How to approach a question such as 'What am I doing with my life ?'

To deal with a question, or a complex problem, it is necessary to proceed methodically, which consists of breaking down the study into four steps.
1. State the question or the problem.
2. Conduct a serious analysis.
3. Develop an answer or a solution, often partial.
4. Implement it.

The two most common mistakes are to :

An example of a hasty answer could be 'Do what I really want' followed by a huge doubt 'Do I dare to take the plunge or not' and eventually a disappointment 'I had badly anticipated, I had not prepared well' or in the inverse case 'I have preserved my comfort and have gradually let the meaning of my life slip away'. On this site, you will find the material to nourish your analysis and build your life project on more solid foundations than simple voluntarism, or resignation. These solid foundations, which involve answering in advance a whole series of related questions, will give you confidence in your choices and help you keep going despite the inevitable difficulties.
More simply, 'What to do with one's life ?' is a question that can naturally come to mind at certain times in our lives, but answering it seriously requires building solid philosophical foundations, that is to say, clearly answering a whole series of sub-questions that seem less important, or not obviously linked to the initial question. An example of such a sub-question is 'What is a human being ?' ; another is 'What is an adult ?'.

For more details about the general methodology, refer to the question 'What are the conditions to meet to produce a serious reasoning ? Problem solving.'

Content of the site

This site consists of a personal section and a collective section.

The personal section is a philosophical update. It is not a panoramic presentation of ideas and concepts, as is the philosophy program of the final year of high school. We have made a drastic selection. The objective is not to allow for learned discussions, but to allow for the effective management of one's life, which requires making wise choices in order to concentrate one's strength on the difficult points, and sacrifice the accessory to better preserve the essential.
You will find in the personal section of this site content that is quite different from what you usually find, whether on the side of personal development, positive psychology, or psychoanalytic or spiritual paths. However, it is a synthesis of classical philosophy (Epicureanism and Stoicism), classical spirituality (Buddhism)... and modern scientific methodology. Therefore, it does not aim to choose and glorify one of these approaches, but simply to rely on their contributions, and go beyond them, always keeping in mind that all of this is only meaningful if it translates into real-life implementation.

The collective section is also an update, presenting concepts with which we are not familiar, in order to make the reading of the book From Capital to Reasonmore accessible. This site is educational, the book aims to demonstrate. The book proposes a credible social organization to answer the two major questions of our time, which are the respect of ecological constraints, and the halt of the gradual degradation of the social fabric.
The collective section is important, because if you understand well the content of the individual section, you will notice that the social organization sets the limits of what can be done at the individual level. Put more simply, without a satisfactory social organization, there are hardly any individual solutions. This is true both at the level of the family and that of the State.

This site makes little reference to Catholicism, because it is the site of many controversies which risk diverting attention from the main issue. However, apart from the love of one's neighbor which is not put at the center, because it is a goal and not a method, someone imbued with the words of Christ will find here many elements that are familiar to him. He will especially find a more satisfactory link with modern science than what the Church proposes, as well as a clearer articulation between individual responsibility and loyalty towards one's community. This site can therefore well be seen as the basis of a 21st century catechism.

Organization

Each page of this site starts with a question, and provides - in principle - just below the most synthetic answer possible. The rest of the page is only there to explain the initial synthetic answer.
We wish, in the years to come, to continue improving the treatment of each question, on the one hand through comments, complements, testimonies, criticisms, posted online, and on the other hand through face-to-face exchanges and confrontation with the life experiences of others.

If you are a bit lost at first facing the multitude of questions addressed on this site, know that the central questions are :

By exploring all these questions, you will lay very useful foundations to later provide your own answer to your starting question: What am I doing with my life ?

Goal

Studying the content of this site seriously will first allow you to no longer be deceived in human relationships, and to become as efficient as possible in shaping them, instead of just enduring them.

Next, the ultimate goal of this site is to create a community characterized by :

1. Social relationships are based on problem solving as opposed to the game of alliances, and facts prevail over beliefs.

2. The life goal is to move towards authenticity, as opposed to presenting a different facade from the underlying reality, and ending up lying to oneself.

3. Supporting each other in this difficult quest in a society where it is not the norm.

(1) See the concept of mental flexibility in the ACT psychotherapy. When something is not working well, should we persevere or adapt by changing our goals ? The answer is: it all depends on the relevance of what we are trying to do, when we take a broader perspective.