What if for this new year, we take the resolution to draw a line under a cliché that sticks to our skin, that of being the most pessimistic people in the world? Of course, there is moaning for the pleasure of moaning, or out of elegance, because being dissatisfied is always more chic. But pessimism is something else: an apprehension of the future, an anxiety about the trajectory taken by the country, a certainty that our children will live less well than us. In short, a handicap which ankyloses our prospects, and of which no one really knows the origin.
So L’Express wanted to provide a piece of the answer by calling on specialists: the pollster Frédéric Dabi of Ifop, the economist and columnist at L’Express Nicolas Bouzou, the American geneticist Robert Plomin or the philosopher and writer Luke Ferry. A long format to find on video here, or on our Youtube channel.