What is happening in today's societies so that being elderly, like those of yesteryear, is wrong, so that young people no longer have time to be young and so that frailty and defects are identified as dysfunctions?

At a time when we are being asked to be entrepreneurial, to exist in the same way that businesses are managed, when digital technologies promise to get rid of all the complications of life, this book is an attempt to understand the fragility of the living, of culture and its processes. among which are aging and defects, and which trace a path that is not assessable in terms of loss or gain of time. It is for all those who do not want to give in to that fear that invites us to "enter the cage for our greatest happiness", because they are convinced that our future should not be to turn us into machines.