In times that are transitional and characterized by instability, anxieties, and dead ends, man searches more intensely for the meaning of life.

Seasons of stability have many good things, but they also have a flaw: they can put existential thinking to sleep. Man becomes numbed in prosperity. This is a stake for our society: will it be able to change? How will it change?

A key question of change is therefore whether we can also develop a more genuine existential pursuit. But to do so requires less consumption and less enslavement to the society of the spectacle. It requires an asceticism to be able to keep the existential question awake in oneself, which we should note is the normal state of man.