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Not everyone likes it, but metamorphosis is part of life. In fact, today's world is one big cocoon, filled with humans caterpillars  who, worried about their future, use every conceivable stratagem to preserve their larval state.

Life is getting complicated on planet Earth. 
We recommend that you postpone your stay until a later date, unless you have a priority mission to complete. 

In 1993, I had written an article following a Swiss TV program on the theme "Should tobacco smoke be regulated outside the private sphere? having sensed the rise of scientific fundamentalism. Fifteen years later, in the midst of the AH5N1 crisis, I reworked this article for the Matin Dimanche readers' letter. Today, it is time to put it back on the front page...

Human arrogance is reaching new heights. For billions of years, Life has evolved throughout the universe, guided by an Intelligence that is beyond our capacity to understand. In our lost suburb of the Milky Way, we bipeds barely reached self-awareness declare war on Life (in its viral form) and think we'll get away with it. Hm.

Attention is the most precious commodity of the human being - and probably of any conscious creature. It is the attention I give to a person, an object, a situation that gives it reality. I pay attention to you, I am interested in you: I charge this attention with appreciation, disdain, interest, love, judgement, expectation, desire, disgust, etc.

To say "I am" is to affirm one's existence. It is what is added after "I am" that is currently creating insoluble and dangerous problems. Let me explain. The first biological life forms appeared on Earth about 3.5 billion years ago. These first cells developed, specialized, complexified, producing in the course of time an extraordinary diversity of aquatic organisms. 

Many artists touch me, but none quite like Leonard Cohen. In his entire discography, not a single track leaves me indifferent. This man is an angel who has come to Earth to bring balm to the human heart. And his works are timeless.

A Danish editor publishes various cartoons of Mohammed to boost his sales and excite the public. And of course, the followers of the prophet feel abused, sullied, violated in their beliefs.
They demonstrate, shout, scream, inveigh, threaten, offended by such obscenity.

The day after the UDC's initiative against mass immigration was accepted, many voices were raised in Switzerland, fearing its negative consequences on the economy and our relations with the European Union.

Smart objects are invading our daily lives. Our gadgets are getting smarter and smarter. They inform us about our geographical location, our fame in social networks, our biological or financial health, and transmit this information to companies that want to do us good... It's going very fast. 

Putting US debt into perspective... I don't know where the original English version came from (thanks Ray!), but it confirms that a picture is worth 1,000 words.

– Darling, what are you doing? How many times should I tell you that you cannot go out naked! What will the neighbours say?
– The neighbours love it, we already talked about that at length. But I’m not making a show for the immediate neighbourhood.

The scene takes place in the Middle Ages, in a castle. It is winter, the fire crackles in a fireplace. Around it, slumped in cushions, two lords with vast estates are drinking and plotting. They are looking for ways to annex new territories, to extend their power. Wine unlocks their imagination.

I was walking at the bottom of the Nendaz valley. The dogs were gambolling happily and running after the pieces of wood that were flying here and there. The path went along the river, the water glistened with a thousand changing reflections, caressing the red pebbles in its bed, typical of this iron-rich region.

After years of war and senseless occupation of Iraq, we learn that Poland and Great Britain will withdraw their troops and that, following the Democratic victory at the beginning of the month in the USA, the United States also seems to be preparing its exit.

And here it is: the virus is released in the media: the avian flu is coming. Hysteria is running high. So far, since 2003, there have been 100 cases of bird flu caused by the H5N1 virus worldwide, 60 of which have resulted in death. A number infinitely lower than the number of deaths caused by flower pots falling from windowsills during the same period.

Against all odds, the long-awaited and much-feared end of the world on the planet Terra in the Sol system has been canceled, reported Archangelical Inc. managing director Dr. A. Michael. This announcement was immediately followed by an outraged statement from the Lucifer Global Media Network, which had recently acquired the rights to broadcast the event worldwide.

The most trancendental realizations always appear where we least expect them. I was listening to the evening news, oil prices going up, attacks in Baghdad, free fall of Swiss airlines, and so on, you know the drill, when the root cause appeared to me in a succession of animated images: