Against the Robots

The contemporary world is aroused by the phrase " to make sense ," a perfect translation of the Anglo-Saxon expression . It's comforting to repeat this phrase, even though it doesn't really make sense. We gather little things that make sense, but what are these mini-meanings found on the ground almost by chance? What are these fleeting meanings that invent meaning, we must fabricate we must give ourselves the illusion of still living, of not having given up. Deception thrives on ignorance, and on this point too, trickery is nothing new. The meaning given to death within the family, a meaning almost entirely forgotten today, is recalled by Antigone in Sophocles' play, where she stands as a guardian of liberating values, because they protect humanity from the animalistic. Antigone reaffirms what humanity can and cannot do; she seizes a force meant to protect us from our will to power and to teach us the importance of responsibility—a time now entrusted to specialists who replace the family, its members, and the tenuous bonds woven between them over time.