Pascal Bruckner, philosopher: ‘Covid has revealed an allergy to work in the Western world’

The apocalyptic mantra in 2020 was that nothing would ever be the same after the pandemic. Four years later, it could be said that, in reality, almost nothing has changed, especially the things that would have been healthy to transform. The Paris-born philosopher Pascal Bruckner, 74, believes that the confinement of the world’s population has given rise to a new generation of lazy people, men and women who are afraid to leave home, to love, to expose themselves to life. Beyond not learning certain lessons, we have come out worse from the pandemic, confined in ourselves and in our fears, says the thinker in The Triumph of the Slippers: On the Withdrawal from the World, which came out in June in English. At the end of October, Bruckner is scheduled to participate in the Thought and Debate cycle of the Condeduque Center for Contemporary Culture in Madrid, Spain.

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