Inventivity

Man prides himself on being inventive. He is proud of his ability to find unprecedented solutions to all the problems of existence, to create countless artifacts supposed to make his life more enjoyable and safer. This is what makes it superior to the animal, whose instincts remain almost static on relatively stereotypical behaviors.

However, any invention may present dangers: it is impossible to predict in advance the consequences that any innovation will have on ourselves and on our environment. The car soon seemed to be just a wonder for us to travel, and everyone was happy or envious of the owners of beautiful limousines. A hundred years later, we realize that it poisons life in our cities, that we are forced to flee… in cars to go breathe air and silence the countryside. Besides pollution and its consequences for global warming. Today we can wonder if we really won the change…

The mythological hero who represents the inventor man is Dédale, the father of Icare. Dédale went so far as to invent wings to allow his son to escape from the labyrinth he had built himself, but the young ecclesiastical approached the sun to the point of melting the wax used as glue and was precipitated into the oceans.

The Ancients already feared the contradiction between the virtues of inventiveness and the catastrophes that it can confront us. The aim of human ecogenetics is to determine the extent to which certain psychoaffective disorders, such as neurosis, paranoia, l的ego, etc., may have tainted our inventiveness, or have put it at the service of inopportune desires, to the point of getting bogged down over generations in an unprecedented global impasse.

Then highlight the root causes of these disturbances in order to give us a chance to free ourselves from them. Or, if they are constitutional, to learn to fight them better…