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Pour le philosophe Philippe Nassif, il est évident que le fait de « s'individuer » (le fait de devenir plus singulier) passe par la confrontation au monde. « Multiplier les expériences va contribuer à simplifier et densifier ton être. C'est la meilleure manière de ne pas passer à côté de soi, de parfaire son individualité. (…) La démultiplication des expériences, c’est une bonne errance qui, paradoxalement, va te centrer sur ta manière d’être au monde. »

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Aristote dans L'Éthique à Nicomaque décrit deux types de bonheurs : le modèle hédonique, basé sur la recherche du plaisir et l'évitement de la souffrance, ou le modèle eudémonique, fondé sur la recherche de l’accomplissement et de l’excellence, et sur la contribution au bien commun.

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Shige Oishi, professeur de psychologie à l'Université de Virginie, et Erin Westgate, professeure adjointe de psychologie à l'Université de Floride, expliquent qu’une vie réussie se caractérise par « des expériences intéressantes dans lesquelles la nouveauté et / ou la complexité s'accompagnent de profonds changements de perspective. »

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We swim in a wretched sea of meaningless mush, and when you have to trudge through nothing but slop all day, every day, it gets harder and harder to not numb out. I really cannot emphasize it enough: there’s so much and it just keeps coming. There’s lots to do. There’s lots to buy. The “content” never ends. Baby Gronk rizzed up Livvy! Wait—you’ve never had vegan tacos there?! Haley Bieber got a manicure! You should get an Apple Watch! Meaningless distractions, all. Thanks to the internet and our insatiably consumerist culture, it is finally possible to distract yourself for every waking minute of your life and barely even notice you’re doing it. When you mix all colors of paint together, you get black. Everything quickly becomes nothing.

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so many of the things that once gave the average person’s life real meaning are now treated with sarcasm and contempt: college is a waste of money, work is a waste of your life, getting married is just a piece of paper, having kids is a nightmare, family is a burden, hobbies are merely quaint, earnestly expressing yourself is cringe, leaving the house is exhausting, religion is for idiots, the list goes on. If you allow yourself to internalize this perspective, eventually everything becomes a dumb joke.

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As Reeve describes it, an even more potent danger came from the black pill of nihilism. Taking that pill “allows you to justify any action: cruelty, intimidation, violence,” she writes. “If your actions cause more violence and chaos, that’s good, because it will help bring about an end to the corrupt regime.” It can, she argues, lead to Charlottesville, to massacres in Charleston and Pittsburgh and El Paso and Orlando. It can lead to a veneration for Putin. Or an exaltation of Trump.

Book Review: ‘Black Pill,’ by Elle Reeve - The New York Times

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The new left is largely leaderless. This is not to say that it is bereft of organizational talent or influential ideas — just that it has no one of any great fame or notoriety speaking directly for it, or to it. And for that alone, this is a singular moment in American history.

Why the New Left Is Largely Leaderless - The New York Times

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It is in this quiet that I’ve realized: sometimes the best thing you can do to reconnect is disconnect. The best thing you can do for loneliness is to log out. And the only way to forge deep friendships is to risk losing some shallow ones first. 

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Of course I’m not saying that nobody in Gen Z has real friends, but we do have fewer, and I’m speaking for the many who are lonely. The ones who, like me, were quiet and shy children, and didn’t stand a chance when these platforms came along promising quick and painless connection. The ones who were left without deep connections to anyone.

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Over the years, as Rose and Ferguson have expanded their experiment to other parts of the United Kingdom, neighborhoods across the country have discovered that allowing kids to play out in the open has helped residents reclaim something they didn’t know they were missing: the ability to connect with the people living closest to them.

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Front Porch users’ satisfaction shows how careful moderation and prioritizing civility over engagement can lead to a vastly different experience of social media, said Eli Pariser, co-director of New_ Public and author of “The Filter Bubble.”

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The flattening—of time, of consequence, of perspective—more than the rage or polarization or mistrust, is the main output of our modern information ecosystem. The world around us erupts; our life changes. People know their role, take their place, play their part, and feel, for an instant, like they’re living in history. But then the window closes. The timeline flickers with something new—the appointment of a vice-presidential candidate, say, announced (where else?) on Trump’s own social-media platform—and the world moves on.

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« Grâce à une transparence radicale dans laquelle nous rendons l'information ouvertement accessible aux citoyens, nous encourageons la société à dialoguer avec les responsables gouvernementaux. Si le gouvernement fait confiance à la société civile, les citoyens finiront par lui faire confiance, mais le gouvernement doit faire le premier pas. »

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"Some projects benefit from early action. If you're writing a book, it's easy to spend a lot of time brainstorming titles and dreaming up an outline, but it's better to simply write. The book discovers itself as you go. Yes, you'll need to go back and organize things, but this is easier to do once you have material. The key is to act first and then organize your thinking. Other projects benefit from early planning. The best way to build a skyscraper is to plan carefully. If you start placing steel beams on day one, you're guaranteed to run into problems. It is harder to make changes once you've begun. You'll need to tear it down and start over again. The key is to organize your thinking and then act. Do you need early action or early planning?"

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"When one worldview dominates your thinking, you'll try to explain every problem you face through that worldview. Read widely and realize there are many answers."

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« Je connais très bien ce peuple, je les respecte beaucoup. Ils nous ont pris environ 100 % de notre industrie des micropuces. Je pense que Taïwan devrait nous payer pour sa défense. Vous savez, nous ne sommes pas différents d’une compagnie d’assurances. Taïwan ne nous donne rien. »

Donald Trump exhorte Taïwan à « payer pour sa défense »

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For many progressives, weary from a pileup of male misconduct, the refusal to engage with men’s feelings has now become almost a point of principle. For every right-wing tough guy urging his crying son to “man up,” there’s a voice from the left telling him that to express his concerns is to take airtime away from a woman or someone more marginalized. The two are not morally equivalent, but to boys, the impact can often feel similar. In many cases, the same people who are urging boys and men to become more emotionally expressive are also taking a moral stand against hearing how they actually feel. For many boys, it can seem as though their emotions get dismissed by both sides. This political isolation has combined with existing masculine norms to push a worrying number of boys into a kind of resentful, semi-politicized reclusion.

Opinion | Why Boys Today Struggle With Human Connection - The New York Times