Author: Mac

Coucou! Passionné de grammaire, Francophile et prof de lycée, mais avant tout un fils du Tout Puissant. J’y ai passé pas mal de temps, et, en toute modestie, je suis une sorte de pro par ici. Alors, ça me semblait tout naturel de répandre mon expertise sur le web. Voilà le résultat : Comme un pro.
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Daily writing prompt
How have your political views changed over time?
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I’ve always been suspicious of politicians (not without reason) and politics itself as an institution. We can’t live without politics. Our very existence is political – how we relate to one another and the world, how we fulfill our needs (and wants), our differing opinions and perspectives. Like many institutional problems, politics became (or has become) a law unto itself, something that serves its own agenda instead of (or alongside) what it actually exists to do. Isn’t it maddening the amount of money, time and energy that goes into ‘campaigning’ when the very people they’re supposedly campaigning to lead are in dire and urgent need?

What technology would you be better off without, why?

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Instead of merely speaking in hypotheticals (i.e. “I would stop using it”), I want to see someone put their money where their mouth is and actually leave whatever piece of technology it is behind. It’s no use just talking about being better off without it, in my opinion, just like it’s no use merely talking about going to the market when our stomachs are rumbling, (or to the hospital when we’re sick). You’d say we were crazy for not actually going to the market for food, or to the hospital for a cure (by the same token, liking a post such as this one without the message of the post transforming anyone internally falls into the same category).

So, let’s do this, and not just talk about it. I’m waiting expectantly 😏

What’s the hardest decision you’ve ever had to make? Why?

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Some of these prompts (like the one above) are very personal – it’s doubtful that a platform like this should be calling for people to share such intimacy (nor that people should respond to such prompts) in a space where they are surrounded by total strangers. There is something improper and undignifying about it (which says so much about the state of ‘our society’ and our world – why people are searching for such intimacy among strangers in the first place – why can’t they find it up close, in the faces of family, close friends, real community?)