{"id":29057,"date":"2017-02-16T09:17:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T08:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omelette.blog\/icon-or-clash\/"},"modified":"2023-05-20T16:55:52","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T14:55:52","slug":"icon-or-clash","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/omelette.blog\/en\/icon-or-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"Icon or clash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We are in Florence, on February 7th of the year of our Lord 1497, Shrove Tuesday <\/p>\n\n<p>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 <strong>bonfire of the vanities<\/strong> or <em>fal\u00f2 delle vanit\u00e0<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n<p>The posts gathered under this category will cheerfully burn down all kinds of icons and other sacred cows. <\/p>\n\n<p>In advance, therefore: <em>mea culpa, mea <strong>maxima<\/strong> culpa !<\/em><\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/omelette.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Broken-eggs-because-they-do-not-wear-helmets.-1162547110_2313x1301-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29018\" srcset=\"https:\/\/omelette.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Broken-eggs-because-they-do-not-wear-helmets.-1162547110_2313x1301-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/omelette.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Broken-eggs-because-they-do-not-wear-helmets.-1162547110_2313x1301-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/omelette.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Broken-eggs-because-they-do-not-wear-helmets.-1162547110_2313x1301-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/omelette.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Broken-eggs-because-they-do-not-wear-helmets.-1162547110_2313x1301-1536x864.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/omelette.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Broken-eggs-because-they-do-not-wear-helmets.-1162547110_2313x1301-2048x1152.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/omelette.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Broken-eggs-because-they-do-not-wear-helmets.-1162547110_2313x1301-676x380.jpeg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list has-dates wp-block-latest-posts\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/omelette.blog\/en\/the-fake-humanists\/\">The fake humanists<\/a><time datetime=\"2025-03-07T15:44:59+01:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">2025-03-07<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">I 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,\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/omelette.blog\/en\/the-fake-humanists\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: The fake humanists<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/omelette.blog\/en\/chatgpt-buzz\/\">The Buzz about ChatGPT &#8211; To infinity and beyond!<\/a><time datetime=\"2023-04-21T15:02:12+02:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">2023-04-21<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">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\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/omelette.blog\/en\/chatgpt-buzz\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: The Buzz about ChatGPT &#8211; To infinity and beyond!<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 fal\u00f2 delle vanit\u00e0. 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