"The day when PandoraGo to La beauté de Pandora opened her box, all the evils came out to beat down on us", said Hesiod.Greek Poet who wrote The Theogony. Go to Le règne de Cronos All evils except one: hope. So it would be a calamity, this hope of which Christians have made a theological virtue?For Christians, faith, hope and charity are the three theological virtues, ie the most important to ensure the salvation of the soul. Apparently yes. Anyway, if we have no hope, it is thanks to Pandora.

French anthropologist, ethnologist and philosopher, Claude Levi-Strauss, born in Brussels on November 28th 1908, has just passed away on November 1st 2009, at the age of one hundred years. He is one of the founders of structuralism. His best-seller, Tristes Tropiques, will not stop making us think. Like Einstein, he was known to those who had never read him. But he was living it well: "As long as they do not confuse me with the pants!" At the end of his life, Levi-Strauss was a victim of Pandora's syndrome: he had lost hope.

"What I see is the current devastation. It is the frightening disappearance of living speciesLisez Pieds nus sur la terre sacrée  of plants or animals. Because of its density, the human race lives under a regime of internal poisoning. And I do think about the present and the world in which I am currently finishing my life. This is not a world I love."  (source)Claude Levi-Strauss in a television interview still visible on the web What a terrible testament ... And the astrophysicist Hubert Reeves writes: "The world is infested with humans". As if we were vermin, rats or lice.Go to Animal, on est mal

There are great minds who, at the end of their life, express their rejection of the world and men, while others remain confidentGo to Le testament de Baltimore until the end ... Shortly before his death, we could meet Andre Franquin,Andre Franquin, born in 1924, Belgian-French author of comics as Spirou, Gaston and the Marsupilami, he was both a hilarious and gagman gifted artist. He died in 1997. The 9th art is inconsolable ever since. a great comicbook artist full of bitterness and humility. Succulent plants with improbable forms had invaded his lounge in Brussels. "They have inspired me many gags for Idées noires"ie Black Thoughts, a Franquin's comic book  he told us with his half smile. He really radiated sympathy, kindness and humility.

In his twilight years, after several bouts of depression that had compromised his work for Spirou, Andre Franquin had left the schoolboy humor of Gaston Lagaffe and of the Marsupilami to express his dark side. Published by Fluide Glacial, his Idées noires is one of the best comic books ever written in Belgium. Like Levi-Strauss, at the very end, he did not feel any more at home on this earth. Yet the earth is what man makes of it.Go to Eden 2, le retour These days, it is far from satisfactory, indeed. But hey, this finding is not an excuse to give up.Click + and cheer up

The earth needs men.Go to La prophétie de l'arc-en-ciel It might be time to remember how much we need it.Go to L'étoile bleue Kachina This is not hope that we lack, but success. All evils are upon us, what a big deal! We had noticed. If there is anything we can do, a major project, a challenge to succeed in together, we can try it. And if in addition it could be concluded by January 1st 2013 in a big Day of the Living, it would cock a snook at the end of the world.Go to page