Fascination

We are fascinated by all kinds of things: ideas, beliefs, individuals, but also by objects, luxury, power, wealth, comfort.

However, we are not all fascinated to the same degree. We also see our own tendency to fascination vary with age, experiences, habit, psychotropics. It is therefore a psychological function that depends on some complex factors on which little is actually known.

The tendency towards fascination plays an essential role in consumerism and ecology. Every time we invent a new artifact, fascination mixes and pushes us forward. It may be stimulating and perhaps necessary, but it may also dazzle us and make us hide the nuisances or insanity of our inventions. Publicists are constantly playing on this register to make us buy such a new car, such a new laundry, such a new pesticide.

It is therefore necessary to consider whether this tendency towards fascination, especially in that it prompts the individual to seek ever more luxury and comfort, and to have the importance of the artificial environment over the natural environment prevail, corresponds to the basic facts of human nature, or whether it is affected by factors that remain to be determined. One more task on the human ecogenetics program…