Message for the West: wake up. Last night in Texas, at a SpaceX facility, Elon Musk made a car fly. The new Tesla Roadster drove up a ramp, went upside down, fired ultra-high-pressure air thrusters, rolled in mid-air and landed back on its wheels. His words: "Flying cars are real." Production planned for 2028. This isn't a gimmick. It's an answer. Last November on Joe Rogan, asked why Tesla would build a flying car, Musk's answer was simple: his friend Peter Thiel once observed that the future was supposed to have flying cars, and we never got them. "If Peter wants a flying car, we should be able to buy one." Everyone knows Thiel's line: "We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters." The 2026 version: we got TikTok. For fifty years, the West stopped building in the world of atoms and retreated into the world of bits. Apps, infinite scroll, targeted ads. And we called it progress. Yesterday, someone closed the loop. Not a ministry. Not a five-year plan. Not an ethics committee. A car company and a rocket company that decided to work together. And this is only the beginning. We are living through the most extraordinary revolution in human history. AI, robotics, energy, space, biology: everything is converging at once. For the first time, we can reinvent everything. All of our systems. Education, healthcare, government, production, distribution. We can dream of systems more efficient than any generation before us could imagine. Solve access to food. Make extremely high-quality goods and services available to everyone, at a cost trending toward zero. Abundance is no longer a utopia. It's an engineering problem. But at some point, we have to open our eyes. The West is dysfunctional. And Europe is the most advanced stage of that dysfunction. The current technocracy, the project championed by Macron and the globalist elites, is driving us straight into a wall. It is opening a chasm between what the United States and China are capable of creating and what we are still capable of creating. They understood where value comes from. It comes from freedom. The freedom to start, to build, to try, to fail, to start again. We built a continent where, before a car could take off, you'd need three years of impact assessments, a citizens' assembly and a GDPR review. And above all, let's not fall for the trap of the moment: believing that "sovereign AI" will save us. Sovereign AI in a country that's no longer allowed to build is a Ferrari locked in a garage. Europe's problem isn't technological. It's mental. We're running an ideological software that looks more and more like neo-communism: the precautionary principle as state religion, "impact" as the only moral compass, degrowth as the horizon, social justice as a pretext to redistribute before anything has even been produced. We replaced the question "what are we building?" with "what are we banning?" As long as we run that software, we can pour all the billions we want into AI plans and nothing will happen. We'll regulate what others invent. We'll tax what others produce. And we'll watch, on our phones, other countries make cars fly. The future is coming. It's coming fast. The only question is whether Europe wants to be an actor in it, or a museum. Wake up.