We are in Florence, on February 7th of the year of our Lord 1497, Shrove Tuesday
Jerome Savonarola and his followers gather thousands of objects in the public square and burn them. In their eyes, these objects lead to sin, especially to vanity. It is the first bonfire of the vanities or falò delle vanità.
The posts gathered under this category will cheerfully burn down all kinds of icons and other sacred cows.
In advance, therefore: mea culpa, mea maxima culpa !
- The fake humanistsI was born in 1967, a little over 20 years after the end of the Second World War. As a child and then a teenager, it seemed a long time ago, but I later realized how close the horrors of that period still felt. I remember this 15-year-old boy, alone in front of the TV,… Read more: The fake humanists
- The Buzz about ChatGPT – To infinity and beyond!No need to introduce ChatGPT, as this online service has become the new technological star of the media and social networks in a flash. Since then, we have been told of a new world where the slightest of our desires will be fulfilled literally in the second. Like a genie out of his lamp, ChatGPT… Read more: The Buzz about ChatGPT – To infinity and beyond!