France
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Insightful piece by Thomas Chatterton Williams in the Atlantic.
“Nihilists of the kind we’ve seen flood the streets of France from coast to coast will never uphold their end of the social contract, no matter how beautifully it is drafted.”
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It’s a society that has been living above its means for close to 50 years and its leadership doesn’t have the courage to tell them. I guess they’re just waiting for the IMF or EU to force it on them so they don’t look like the bad guy.
I’m reminded of the line from Basquiat, (the French economist not the English vandal/artist):
“The State is the great fiction through which everyone endeavors to live at the expense of everyone else.”
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