To every American, and to everyone watching France burn from abroad: Do not blame the French people for this. We never asked for it. We never voted for it. And the one time we were clearly asked, we said no. Here are the numbers your media won't show you. 70% of the French say there are too many immigrants in France today. 79% want a tougher immigration policy. 77% disapprove of the government's record on immigration. 83% want foreign criminals and long-term unemployed foreigners sent home. And no, it's not just the old. 69% of French 18 to 24 year olds support suspending legal immigration for three years. This is not a fringe. This is the French people. In 2005, we were asked if we wanted the European Constitution. 55% voted no. Three years later, our politicians passed the same text under another name, through parliament, without ever asking us again. That is modern France in one sentence. The people say no. The elites do it anyway. So who is responsible? The politicians who lied to us. A class of leaders formed in the same schools, the same forums, the same networks, loyal to each other before they are loyal to their nations. In 2017, at Harvard, Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum, bragged about his Young Global Leaders program in four words: "We penetrate the cabinets." He added that it was true in France. Emmanuel Macron was one of his Young Global Leaders. It's the same project in Brussels with Ursula von der Leyen and in Paris with Macron. Borders treated as an obstacle. Nations treated as relics. The people treated as a problem to be managed. What you are watching in France is not the French people failing. It is the end of the globalist project, an abject, quasi-communist dream of a world run by unelected planners. It is collapsing everywhere in Europe at once, and the West has to cut this cancer out before it takes the rest of the body with it. The peoples of Europe don't want this. They never did. So when you see our town halls burning, don't say "the French chose this." The French never chose this. They were forced into it. If you're French and you agree, repost this so the world hears it from us. If you're American, look at us carefully. Then choose differently on November 3rd.

The 20th century gave birth to two monsters. We only killed one. In 1945, Nazism was crushed, tried at Nuremberg, and damned for all eternity. Stalinism sat at the victors' table. To bring down Hitler, the West allied itself with Stalin. That alliance came at a price we have never finished paying: Stalinism was never defeated. It never had its Nuremberg. It simply transformed. It parked the tanks and closed the gulags. It traded terror for regulation, the political commissar for the career bureaucrat, the five-year plan for the compliance department. A soft, slow, administrative victory. And today it is rising back to the surface. Look at Europe: an unelected technocracy that legislates on everything, regulates what it is incapable of building, and confuses governing with forbidding. Look at the United States: election after election, the Democratic Party drifts toward becoming a socialist party that doesn't yet dare say its name. The West is sick. It is infected by an ideology that lost every battle on the field of facts, but won almost every battle inside the institutions. The diagnosis fits in one sentence: the root of today's chaos is the state's infiltration of the economy. The state never spends its own money. The politician never risks his own capital. The bureaucrat never pays for his mistakes. When the one who decides is not the one who pays, the outcome is always the same: corruption, inefficiency, bureaucracy. That is what is killing us. And the poison produces its symptoms. Public services collapsing despite record taxes. Housing out of reach. Industry gone overseas. A middle class being strangled. The anger is rising, and it is legitimate. But it is being hijacked. The people who caused the disaster also control the schools, the culture, and much of the media. Obviously, they will never point the finger at themselves. So they manufacture a culprit: the entrepreneur, the capitalist, "the rich." The one who creates wealth gets blamed for the poverty produced by the one who confiscates it. This is the great inversion of our time. In 1905, France had the courage to separate church and state. It understood that an institution claiming to hold the truth must never hold power. The 21st century must carry out the same revolution: separate the state from the economy. Give the state its core duties: justice, security, defense, borders. Return everything else to the people who build. An age of abundance will never come out of a ministry. It will be born from engineers, from entrepreneurs, from free men and women allowed to create, to fail, and to try again. This fight will be fought across the entire West, or it won't be fought at all. And if there is one person worth listening to today, in Europe and in America, it's Elon Musk. He landed rockets, electrified the car, and connected the planet from space, faster and cheaper than public institutions with colossal budgets. Give him the job of redesigning our systems, starting with the state itself, and the future will be absolutely incredible.

"That's not democracy. That's a purchase order." Cute line, Elizabeth. Let's read the Democratic purchase orders out loud. Start with yours. 2020, your presidential campaign is collapsing after Iowa and New Hampshire. A super PAC called Persist PAC shows up to rescue you. 96% of its money came from one Silicon Valley megadonor. One check. $14.6 million. Donors hidden until after Super Tuesday. You'd spent the whole primary telling everyone super PACs were corruption. Then you took the purchase order. Now the rest of the catalog. George and Alex Soros: $103.7 million this cycle alone, $102 million of it dumped into a single Democratic super PAC. Majority Forward, the dark money nonprofit tied to your own Senate leader Chuck Schumer: $102 million. Donors? Secret. House Majority Forward: $61.7 million. Donors? Also secret. Michael Bloomberg: around $1 billion on his own 2020 primary, $100 million for Biden in Florida, and still writing eight-figure checks in 2026. Reid Hoffman: $11.5 million into one super PAC for one Texas Senate race. Bill Gates: reportedly around $50 million to a pro-Harris group in 2024. Pritzker, Moskovitz, Steyer, Hastings: millions upon millions, cycle after cycle. Kamala Harris: over $1 billion raised in under three months. Lost anyway. Musk's money is disclosed, public, and on the front page of the New York Times article you just linked. Which, by the way, says $276 million, not "nearly $300 million." Schumer's money sits in an anonymous nonprofit nobody can see inside. So which one is the purchase order, Elizabeth? For twenty years, billionaire money was "saving democracy." Now it's "buying Congress." The only thing that changed is whose name is on the check.

If you're a young American, or a Democrat who's a little confused about where all this is going, read this. It's long. It's worth it. Start with misery. For almost all of human history, misery wasn't a crisis. It was the default. Your ancestors were born poor, lived poor, buried half their children, and died poor. Around 1800, roughly 9 out of 10 humans lived in what we'd now call extreme poverty. Even kings lived worse than you: no antibiotics, no anesthesia, no light after sunset. Today it's around 1 in 10. That didn't happen because someone finally designed the perfect system. It happened because, in a few corners of the world, people were left free enough to trade, try, fail, and try again. Property rights. Prices. Contracts. Rule of law. Boring words. They built everything you have. Now meet Friedrich Hayek. An Austrian economist who watched his continent fall to two ideologies that both promised to organize society from the top. In 1944 he wrote The Road to Serfdom. A year later he wrote a short essay that should be required reading in every high school: The Use of Knowledge in Society. His insight is simple and devastating. The knowledge needed to run an economy doesn't exist in one place. It's scattered across millions of heads: the baker who knows flour just got expensive, the nurse who knows which shift is understaffed, the farmer who knows his soil. No committee, no ministry, no genius can gather it all. Prices are the miracle that lets all that knowledge talk to itself without anyone being in charge. When you replace prices with plans, you don't get a smarter economy. You get a blind one. His friend Karl Popper made the same point about history itself in The Poverty of Historicism, a book dedicated to the countless people who died because someone believed history had a destination and that he alone knew the way. Then the 20th century ran the experiment. Not once. Everywhere. The Soviet Union was planned from Moscow. It collapsed in 1991, after famines, gulags, and bread lines in a country with some of the best farmland on earth. Mao's China gave us the Great Leap Forward and tens of millions dead of hunger. Then Deng opened markets in 1978, and roughly 800 million people escaped extreme poverty. Same people. Same culture. Different rules. Korea: same peninsula, same language, same ancestors. Look at a satellite photo at night. One half is lit. The other is dark. Germany: one nation split in two. The side that called itself the workers' paradise had to build a wall to stop its workers from leaving. Venezuela has the largest proven oil reserves on the planet. Nearly 8 million people have fled it. Cambodia lost about a quarter of its population in the name of starting over from year zero. Every time. Different continents, different cultures, different leaders, same ending. At some point it's not bad luck. It's the design. "But I mean Denmark." Fair. But Denmark isn't socialist. Its own prime minister told a Harvard audience in 2015 that Denmark is a market economy. The Nordics are free-market countries that chose to fund a big welfare state with the wealth markets created. That's a debate worth having. It's not the same debate. Now let me tell you about my country. France is the closest thing the developed world has to a live test of "the state will take care of it." Public spending is around 57% of GDP, among the highest on earth. Public debt is above 110% of GDP. The national education system employs over a million people, one of the biggest employers in the world. And right now, French high school students are blockading hundreds of schools. Their complaints: not enough teachers, crumbling buildings, overloaded schedules. On October 1st, the entrance hall of a high school in Nantes was destroyed by a deliberate fire during a blockade. Read that again. In the country that spends more than almost anyone and centralizes more than almost anyone, kids are in the street because the system can't give them a teacher and a building that works. And the demand you hear most? More funding. More state. More of what built the problem. I'm French. I get the anger. The anger is legitimate. The diagnosis is backwards. One ministry in Paris trying to run thousands of schools is Hayek's problem in miniature. The principal knows which teacher is missing. The parents know which roof leaks. The ministry knows a spreadsheet. So here's what I want to say to every young person, in France or in America, who's tempted by the idea that the system just needs more power to finally get it right: You're allowed to want it. That's your right. But you don't have to guess. You have something no generation before you had: the full archive. Every experiment has been run, documented, photographed, counted. The famines have numbers. The walls have dates. The boat people have names. The night photo of Korea is one click away. Your ancestors paid for that knowledge. Some with their savings, some with their freedom, many with their lives. They left you the results. Respect your ancestors. Read what they left you. Read Hayek. Read Popper. Read Solzhenitsyn. Read Orwell, who was a socialist and still told the truth about totalitarianism. And then build. Because the thing that pulled humanity out of misery was never a plan. It was millions of free people trying things. That's you. That's the job.

+10,000 new followers in 48 hours. Thank you all, truly. For those just arriving, let me introduce myself. I'm Brivael, 36, grandson of a farmer from Brittany (France). I grew up middle class and learned almost nothing at school. I've always been in total opposition to the school system, which I find absurd. Everything I know, I taught myself. I started coding at 12. At 15, I shipped my first game. In 2012, I was lucky enough to spend a year studying in San Francisco. After that, I worked in tech, mostly at companies in France and across Europe. For the past two years, I’ve been building Argil, and in 2024 we went through Y Combinator in San Francisco. The idea is simple: make video creation accessible to everyone through AI. Every kind of video: educational, marketing, promotional, internal comms. What used to take a team, equipment and weeks of production, we want to fit into an idea and a few minutes. Why so many people all of a sudden? I had the chance to connect with Elon Musk after my thread on the origins of wokeism. Here's what I see: France, with its long tradition of intellectuals, is something like the epicenter of Western leftism. French Theory was exported to American campuses, and what it planted is coming back today under other names. I see so many patterns from what happened in France now playing out in the US. My work here is to connect the dots. To understand where all this chaos comes from, and above all how to move past it. If you want to help, it's simple: → follow and share → introduce me to anyone or any company that needs to produce video, whether promo, marketing, training or internal comms. We’re building the best product on the market, and every intro counts. → reshare and lke My email: briva [at] argil [dot] ai And thank you, America, for being America. I love your country. Protect it. Glad to have you here. We're just getting started.

My dear American friends, in my last two posts I showed you where France stands and how our economy got there. Today I want to go deeper, because the economics were only the symptom. Here is my message to every American: you have been infected by a virus that took decades to incubate in your country. Everything you've watched get worse, year after year, is the damage. MAGA, whatever you think of it, is the immune response. But a body can't fight what it can't name. So today I'm going to name it and show you where it came from. It starts in an Italian prison cell. Antonio Gramsci co-founded the Italian Communist Party in 1921. In 1926 Mussolini locked him up, and he spent the rest of his life in prison filling notebooks. He was trying to answer one question: why did the revolution never come to the West? Marx had promised the workers would rise. They didn't. They went to church, saluted the flag, and wanted their kids to do better than them. Gramsci's answer changed everything. In the West, he said, power doesn't sit in the army or the factories. It sits in culture: schools, universities, churches, newspapers, theater, the family. He called it hegemony. As long as ordinary people believe in their own civilization, you can't overthrow it. So you don't storm the palace. You fight a "war of position." You take the institutions one by one, patiently, until the culture thinks like you do. Then political power falls into your hands like ripe fruit. A German student leader, Rudi Dutschke, later gave the strategy its famous name: the long march through the institutions. Now watch France become the laboratory. In 1945 the French Communist Party came out of the Resistance as the biggest party in the country, with more than a quarter of the vote. General de Gaulle needed them to govern, so communists entered the cabinet. Look at what they got. Public Health went to a communist, François Billoux. Labor went to a communist, Ambroise Croizat, who built our national social security system and put it under boards dominated by the communist-led CGT union. Industrial Production went to another communist, Marcel Paul, who nationalized electricity and gas and gave the union control of their enormous social funds. Education was redesigned by a commission led by two communist intellectuals, Paul Langevin and Henri Wallon, whose plan became the bible of French school reformers for decades. The communists were thrown out of government in 1947. It didn't matter. They kept exactly what Gramsci told them to keep: the unions, the schools, the universities, publishing, film, theater. For a generation, being a French intellectual and being on the far left were almost the same thing. Jean-Paul Sartre, the most famous thinker in the world, defended the Soviet Union while it was filling the gulags. Then came May 1968. Students occupied the Sorbonne, millions of workers went on strike, and for a few weeks the country stopped. De Gaulle won the elections that followed in a landslide. He won the ballot box. He lost the culture. Within a year he was gone, and the generation of 68 spent the next fifty years climbing to the top of every French institution: media, ministries, courts, schools, publishing houses. Their slogan was "It is forbidden to forbid." Authority, tradition, family, nation: all of it became suspect. Then came the export phase. This is where you come in. A group of French philosophers, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Jean-François Lyotard, gave the movement its intellectual weapons. Foucault taught that every institution, every norm, every piece of knowledge is a disguised structure of power. Derrida taught that every text, every concept, every hierarchy can be "deconstructed" until nothing stable is left. Lyotard announced the end of grand narratives, which in practice meant the end of the great narrative of the West itself. In France these men were famous. In America they became gods. Starting with a 1966 conference at Johns Hopkins where Derrida made his American debut, your English, history and law departments imported them wholesale. Your academics even gave it a name: French Theory. On your campuses it mutated. Mixed with the Frankfurt School exiles like Herbert Marcuse, who argued that tolerance should be withdrawn from the right, it produced critical race theory, gender theory, intersectionality. The old Marxist split between bourgeois and proletarian was replaced by a new one: oppressor and oppressed, assigned by skin color, sex and identity. That's the cultural strain of the virus. There's a second strain, and it attacked your energy and your ambition. In 1968 an Italian industrialist, Aurelio Peccei, co-founded the Club of Rome. In 1972 it published The Limits to Growth, built on a computer model from MIT, warning that if humanity kept growing, civilization would collapse. It sold millions of copies. Its core idea, that growth itself is the problem, became gospel. In France it gave birth to the degrowth movement. Progress went from a promise to a sin. Look what it did to us. The country that built a nuclear fleet in fifteen years shut down Superphénix, its advanced breeder reactor, in 1997, as part of a deal with the Greens. In 2015 it passed a law to cut nuclear's share of our electricity. In 2019 it cancelled ASTRID, our next-generation reactor program. In 2020 it closed Fessenheim, a working plant. We sabotaged our own greatest achievement because we were told that building things was dangerous. Put the two strains together and you get what you call woke. One teaches children to be ashamed of their past. The other teaches them to fear their future. Guilt behind, fear ahead. A civilization that hates where it comes from and dreads where it's going has nowhere left to go. And here's the irony. France infected America, and now America is sending it back to us. Our own politicians complain about "American woke ideas" invading French universities, without realizing those ideas were born in Paris. The virus made a round trip and came home stronger. That's why France is the most advanced case in the West. We have every symptom at once: a state that runs health, schools, culture and energy. Unions that block every reform. Universities where you can't say what everyone thinks. Self-hatred. Fear of growth. We are what the disease looks like when nothing fights it. The West is at a turning point. Every country is infected, some more than others. What you're living through, the fights over schools, over speech, over energy, over what it means to be American, is the fever. The fever is not the disease. The fever is your body fighting back. So understand this. The battle in front of you isn't just Republican versus Democrat. It's a battle for the institutions Gramsci told his heirs to capture: schools, universities, media, culture. It took them eighty years to win them. You won't take them back in one election. But you can take them back. You have something we never had: a country founded on the idea that the individual comes before the state. Free speech written into your First Amendment. Builders who still believe the future can be better than the past. Name the virus. Fight it where it lives. Don't let it do to you what it did to us. I come from your future. It's not too late to change yours.