Information et contre-révolution

Autor: P. Jean-François Thomas s.j.
Jazyk: English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />French<br />Polish
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Studia Gilsoniana, Vol 13, Iss 1, Pp 27-46 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2300-0066
2577-0314
DOI: 10.26385/SG.130102
Popis: Information has been omnipresent and all-powerful for almost two centuries, and now possesses sophisticated and invasive means of imposing itself and creating opinion. It was crucial in the Enlightenment and in the preparation of the French Revolution by the intellectual and bourgeois elites. Its characteristic is to be the opposite of intangible truths, to be moving, malleable and adaptable. It is the new replacing the old. It is bracketed by history, because it ignores tradition and no longer needs the past. The creation of opinion in the 18th century introduced a concept of freedom that in fact conceals totalitarianism. People are told what to think. Information is a weapon against all forms of personal reflection and inner life. It imposes itself and imposes, making it impossible to distance oneself. It even kills the democracy it boasts about.
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