“This crisis opened up by the pandemic greatly surprised me, but it did not surprise my way of thinking, rather it confirmed it,” confided Edgar Morin in his latest book Let’s Change Lane. Lessons from the coronavirus (Denoël, 2020). With a vigor that age had not diminished, the sociologist who died on Friday May 29, pleaded for a major social, political and existential change, the only one capable in his eyes of stopping the health “megacrisis”, itself the result of a deeper structural crisis, that of the modern West and of progress gradually reduced to its economic and materialist version.
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