FFrom an interview with French philosopher Michel Serres: So a democracy is better suited to today’s problems than a republic like France? That’s a big question, and the person who manages to answer it will be a great philosopher. Because this is the most important question in the world today. Are you common law or are you Roman law? You prefer a fragile construction to a solid fragment. This is a fundamental principle of your philosophy. The solid things are the old buildings. The cylinders, cones, planes—all that is ’over,‘ it is archaic. But the leaves, the trees, the weeping…