PHARMAKON
“the remedy and the poison in the same vial”

Fundamentally ambivalent, the term refers both to a drug, a potion, and also a poison.
Its polysemy reflects the ancient idea that anything capable of healing can, depending on dosage or use, also become destructive.

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wokisme en Europe se croit progressiste • воукизм

Obscurantism Is Back in Europe — and It Thinks It’s Progressive

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What if the greatest threat to Europe came not from outside, but from within? What if the survival of freedom of thought and expression ultimately depended on each one of us?
société du savoir, общество знаний, knowledge society, cyborg, développement personnel, киборг, самосовершенствование, personal improvement

How We Got Dumber: Why the Flood of Knowledge Fails to Make Us Learn

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Digital middle ages: become a cyborg and forget self-improvement. Progress or surrender?