Este virus que nos vuelve locos

Before the arrival of the coronavirus, humanity has experienced more deadly pandemics, but, until now, it has never been confined on a global scale or given rise to so much obsessive rhetoric. In this book, the renowned French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy tries to take stock of this First World Dread, which has left us with a reality more unlikely than fiction. Lévy does not address here what the virus has "said", but what the world has made him say. He is not interested in the "lessons" to be drawn from the pandemic, but in the interpretive delirium of each one as a harbinger of the "afterlife" at a time when he is alone with himself. An "afterworld" kidnapped by two forces. On the one hand, the "rentiers of death" and the persuasive tyrants who will take advantage of this health emergency and the hygienist delusion to drown their peoples or expand their empire. And, on the other hand, the "declinists", those who opt for degrowth, the "collapsologists" and other champions of penance, who disguise their selfishness as self-sacrifice and, under the pretext that nothing should "go back to being as before", they go through the mourning for the best virtues of Western civilization without any pain. The author fears that the champions of confinement, addicted to virtual space and screens, will get a taste of retired life and say goodbye to the world for a long time.