INTERVIEW, PART 1 || Today we have created a society in which falsehood itself 'becomes a modern lie' — and even now liars 'believe that their lie is the truth'. This is what a philosopher says, and from that razor-sharp remark he unfolds a map of the present (and what lies ahead) without embellishment: a world in which we invent and deploy technology faster than we can govern it, a Europe that was born as a political promise of peace and that so often became a machine of rules, wars that reshuffle alliances and spread shocks, the climate as a limit.