“History teaches us that mankind only evolves significantly when it’s dead scared: It then mobilizes defense mechanisms, sometimes intolerable (singling out scapegoats and giving birth to totalitarianism); sometimes futile (to find distraction); sometimes efficient (therapeutic ones that discard eventually all the older moral principles). Once the crisis is behind us, it [mankind] transforms these mechanisms to make them compatible with individual freedom, and to inscribe them into a democratic health policy. The pandemic could provoke such a structuring fear.”

— Jacques Attali, 2009

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