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In the next ten years, humanity will make one choice that decides the next thousand. Option A: an Orwellian world run by a tiny hyperclass that controls AI, owns every resource, and turns the rest of us into permanent dependents. Option B: for the first time in history, a world where the systemic corruption that has ruled us for decades simply stops being possible. Yesterday I wrote that Milei and Bukele exposed the empire of lies. Javier Milei reposted it. Today I want to explain why that post was only the beginning, and why I've never been more optimistic. If you're on the left, or even the far left, read this one to the end. I'm not trying to convert you. The stakes are your future too. Start from first principles. A system produces exactly what it rewards. For decades, the Western system has been captured by one worldview: administrations, universities, NGOs, media, international institutions. The left didn't win the argument. It won the hiring committees. Once a system is captured, its incentives flip. You don't get promoted for solving problems. You get promoted for managing them. A solved problem kills a budget line. A managed problem renews it every year. You don't succeed by telling the truth. You succeed by saying the right words. So hypocrisy becomes a career skill. The professor who preaches equality and runs the most closed network in the country. The politician who votes for open borders and lives where none of it ever reaches him. You don't build fair systems. You build systems that look fair and quietly pay the people who run them. Inflation is a tax on the poor that funds the state. Programs fund the consultants who design more programs. That's what "systemic" means. Nobody has to be evil. Honest people inside the machine either adapt or leave. After forty years, the ones still there are the ones who adapted. Here's the irony. The first countries to break free were the ones at the very bottom. Argentina was bankrupt. El Salvador was a graveyard. The system had nothing left to promise them, and that's exactly why they woke up. When the lie stops paying, people stop believing it. No civilization is dead as long as its people can still see the problem clearly. Rock bottom is often where the rebound starts. Now the West is caught in a vise. On one side, AI. A technology that exposes managed incompetence. When a model can read a 2,000-page law, audit a national budget and compare outcomes across 50 countries in seconds, "it's complicated" stops working. The expert class loses its monopoly on knowledge. On the other side, a generation of tech builders who think from first principles and don't owe their careers to the system. They have more capital, more talent and more reach than most countries. And they've seen up close how the machine works. Put the two together and the old system is close to checkmate. It can't compete on results. It can't hide behind complexity. It can't control the narrative anymore. So what does a system do when it can't win? It tries to own the thing that's beating it. Listen to Marc Andreessen. He has said publicly that in 2024 he sat with Biden administration officials who told him AI would be two or three big companies working hand in hand with the government, that investors shouldn't even bother funding AI startups, and that parts of the underlying math could be classified the way nuclear physics was in the Cold War. He walked out and endorsed Trump. Former Biden officials now say that's not what was said. Read both versions and decide who you believe. The logic doesn't depend on one lunch, though. Control three companies and you control the models. Control the models and you control what billions of people read, ask, learn and are allowed to say. Add a digital ID, a programmable currency and the scanning of private messages that Europe keeps putting back on the table. Then you don't need a Ministry of Truth anymore. A compliance department is enough. 1984 with a better UX. And last Tuesday, Democrats took back Congress. This isn't theoretical anymore. The keys to the house are on the table. Now imagine we don't hand them over. Intelligence becomes almost free. Expertise stops being a privilege. A kid in a village in Brittany or a suburb of Lagos gets the same doctor, the same lawyer, the same tutor as a billionaire's son. The cost of producing almost everything collapses. And systemic corruption becomes nearly impossible, because anyone can audit every budget, every law and every promise, instantly. For the first time in human history, a society that could be truly equal. The old left version was equality by sharing scarcity. This one is equality through abundance. A world where poverty stops being a law of nature. Which is exactly what the left always said it wanted. So to my friends on the left, one honest question. Which side actually leads there? The side that wants AI open, cheap and in everyone's hands? Or the side that wants it locked inside three companies and a regulator? Milei and Bukele proved the impossible was possible at the scale of a country. AI is offering the same thing at the scale of civilization. All we have to do is not give the keys to the people who were paid to keep the problem alive. That's the choice. And I've never been more optimistic, because for the first time, we can all see it.

To my friends on the left. You're about to be sold the most elegant trap in modern history. It will come wrapped in everything you care about: the planet, workers, justice, the climate. If you buy it, it will deliver the exact opposite of everything you've ever fought for. Let me show you where it comes from. In 1944, two philosophers of the Frankfurt School, Horkheimer and Adorno, wrote that reason and technology, the tools that were supposed to free humanity, had turned into tools of domination. Twenty years later, Marcuse argued that modern technology was the most sophisticated system of social control ever built. Brilliant men, with a real insight. But the lesson a whole generation of intellectuals took from them was simple: progress is suspect, and the machine is the enemy. In 1968, the Club of Rome was founded. It was a small circle of industrialists, diplomats and scientists. Notice who was in the room. No workers, no farmers, no one from the slums. In 1972 they published The Limits to Growth. The message was that if humanity keeps growing, it collapses. So slow down, consume less, have fewer children, accept less. Around the same time, Paul Ehrlich's The Population Bomb predicted that hundreds of millions would starve to death in the 1970s. Here's what actually happened. The Green Revolution fed billions. The mass famines never came. In 1980 the economist Julian Simon bet Ehrlich that resources would get cheaper, not scarcer, and he won. Extreme poverty went from more than a third of humanity in 1990 to under one in ten. That didn't come from degrowth. It came from growth, energy and technology. The pessimists were wrong about almost everything. But they won something more important than the argument. They won the institutions: UN agencies, NGOs, university departments, think tanks, Brussels. Nobody needed to coordinate. The ideas simply became the water everyone swims in. Growth is guilt. Technology is danger. The answer is always less. Less for you, that is. Never for the people at Davos who fly private to discuss your carbon footprint. Now watch what happens with AI. They'll connect it to the planet. Data centers drink water, burn gas and raise your electricity bill. Some of that is locally true, and the people living next to those sites deserve to be heard. Last March, Bernie Sanders and AOC proposed a national moratorium on new AI data centers, backed by hundreds of organizations. So ask the oldest question on the left: who benefits? A moratorium on new data centers freezes the ones that already exist. Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta already built theirs. A moratorium doesn't stop Big Tech. It crowns Big Tech. The startups, the public universities, the open-source labs, the countries of the Global South that were about to build their own are the ones who never get to. It's the greatest gift ever offered to an oligarchy, wrapped in green paper. And here is what nobody tells you. AI isn't the planet's problem. It's the fastest path we have to solving the planet's problems. AI is already controlling the plasma inside experimental fusion reactors. It has predicted the structure of nearly every known protein, which opens the door to enzymes that eat plastic and crops that need less water and less fertilizer. It has proposed hundreds of thousands of new stable materials for better batteries and cheaper solar. It forecasts weather and balances electric grids so renewables can actually work at scale. Every problem you care about is, at its core, an intelligence problem. Clean energy, food, water, disease, poverty. Make intelligence abundant and those problems become solvable. Make it scarce and the solutions belong to whoever owns it. That's the real trap. Fear of AI won't make AI disappear. It will only decide who owns it. A world where intelligence is rationed creates a new aristocracy. On one side, a small class with unlimited cognitive labor at its command. On the other, everyone else, dependent on that class for their health, their education, their job, their permission to speak. No chains. Just dependency. That's how every modern form of servitude has worked, and the left used to understand that better than anyone. Everything the left has ever wanted has never been closer: the end of poverty, healthcare and education for every human being, workers freed from exhausting labor, a planet that can breathe. Marx dreamed of a society where you could hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon and criticize after dinner. That isn't a world of scarcity. It's a world of abundance. Abundance is the only thing that has ever freed anyone. So stay on the left if you want. Keep fighting for the poor, for workers, for the planet. Just fight with the most powerful tool humanity has ever been handed, not against it. Because the people asking you to give it up already have theirs.

Si vous pensez que je délire sur le projet communiste de l'Europe, lisez ce qui suit. Je ne vais pas vous donner mon avis. Je vais vous donner le plan. Pièce par pièce. Avec les noms des textes et les dates. Tout est public. Personne ne le lit. Un régime qui veut tout contrôler a besoin de quatre choses : contrôler ce que vous dites, ce que vous écrivez en privé, qui vous êtes, et ce que vous dépensez. Regardez ce que Bruxelles a construit sur chacun de ces quatre fronts. Ce que vous dites : le DSA. Le Digital Services Act oblige les grandes plateformes à retirer les contenus "illicites" et à "atténuer les risques systémiques", dont la désinformation. Qui décide de ce qu'est la désinformation ? Eux. Les signalements de "signaleurs de confiance", souvent des ONG, doivent être traités en priorité. Les amendes peuvent atteindre 6 % du chiffre d'affaires mondial. Un commissaire européen a expliqué en 2023 qu'on pourrait couper des réseaux sociaux pendant des émeutes. Le même a écrit à Elon Musk avant son interview avec Donald Trump pour le mettre en garde. Premier réseau sanctionné de l'histoire du DSA ? X. Officiellement pour des questions de transparence et de coches bleues. Le seul grand réseau qui assume de ne pas modérer comme Bruxelles le voudrait. Hasard. Et pour compléter, le "Bouclier européen de la démocratie" : un dispositif pour lutter contre la "manipulation de l'information". Traduction : l'Union finance et organise ceux qui décident de ce qui est vrai. Ce que vous écrivez en privé : Chat Control. Depuis 2022, la Commission pousse un règlement qui permettrait de scanner vos messages privés. WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, vos mails. Y compris les messages chiffrés. Tout le monde. Sans soupçon. Au nom de la protection des enfants, parce que personne n'ose voter contre la protection des enfants. Le Parlement a résisté. Les négociations ont échoué plusieurs fois. Ils reviennent à chaque présidence. Ils ne lâchent jamais. Et en parallèle, la Commission a publié une feuille de route pour obtenir un accès légal aux données chiffrées d'ici 2030. Le secret de la correspondance, c'est l'une des plus vieilles libertés de l'histoire. Ils veulent la supprimer par lassitude. Qui vous êtes : l'identité numérique. Chaque État membre doit proposer un portefeuille d'identité numérique européen. Couplé à la vérification d'âge qu'ils poussent sur les réseaux sociaux, ça veut dire une chose : la fin de l'anonymat en ligne. Demain, pour parler sur internet, vous montrerez vos papiers. Ce que vous dépensez : l'euro numérique et la guerre au cash. L'euro numérique est une monnaie émise directement par la BCE. Les commerçants ne pourront pas le refuser. Il y aura un plafond sur ce que vous avez le droit de détenir. Ils jurent qu'il ne sera pas programmable. Mais une fois l'infrastructure en place, il suffit d'un décret pour changer les règles. Et pendant qu'ils construisent la monnaie qu'ils contrôlent, ils étranglent celle qu'ils ne contrôlent pas. Plafond européen sur les paiements en liquide. Interdiction des comptes crypto anonymes. Chaque transaction doit être visible. Maintenant, mettez les quatre pièces ensemble. Ils savent ce que vous dites. Ils peuvent lire ce que vous écrivez. Ils savent qui vous êtes. Ils voient chaque euro que vous dépensez. Aucun régime communiste du XXe siècle n'a jamais eu ce niveau de contrôle. La Stasi en rêvait. Elle avait besoin d'un informateur pour dix habitants. Eux auront besoin d'un serveur. Et le génie du système, c'est que chaque brique, prise seule, a l'air raisonnable. Protéger les enfants. Lutter contre la désinformation. Combattre le blanchiment. Moderniser les paiements. Personne ne vote contre ça. Personne ne voit l'ensemble. C'est exactement comme ça qu'on cuit une grenouille. Si vous la jetez dans l'eau bouillante, elle saute. Si vous la mettez dans l'eau froide et que vous montez la température d'un degré à la fois, elle reste. Elle s'habitue. Elle trouve ça normal. Et quand elle comprend, ses muscles ne répondent plus. Les Européens sont dans la casserole. L'eau est déjà chaude. Chaque nouveau règlement, c'est un degré de plus. Et la plupart ne sentent toujours rien. Ce projet ne se réforme pas. On ne négocie pas avec une casserole. Il doit être démonté, texte par texte, avant que la grenouille soit cuite. Parce qu'une fois que l'infrastructure de contrôle existe, elle ne disparaît jamais. Elle change juste de mains. Et vous ne choisirez pas les mains. Partagez avant que ce genre de post devienne un "risque systémique".

Americans, read this to the end. Then share it. Because if you don't understand what I'm about to tell you, you will lose your country the same way we lost ours. You need to kill the EU. Not reform it. Not negotiate with it. Kill it as a political project. If you want to save Western civilization, there is no other way. I know how that sounds. Let me show you why I'm not exaggerating. Over the past few years, Brussels has built a complete architecture of control. The Digital Services Act to decide what you're allowed to say. Chat Control to read your private messages, including encrypted ones. A digital ID to end anonymity. A digital euro and a war on cash to see every transaction you make. Speech, private messages, identity, money. All four pillars of total control, built in plain sight, each brick sold as "safety." But the laws are not the real danger. The real danger is the machine that produces them. And the one thing you need to understand about that machine is this: It never stops. In 2005, France and the Netherlands voted NO to the European Constitution. A clear, democratic no. Two years later, Brussels repackaged almost the entire text as the Treaty of Lisbon and passed it without asking the French people again. In 2008, Ireland voted NO to Lisbon. So they made Ireland vote again the next year, until it said yes. Chat Control was rejected by the European Parliament. It came back. Rejected again. Came back again. Every new presidency, a new version, a new name, the same goal. They don't win the argument. They outlast you. You have to win every time. They only have to win once. And once a power is transferred to Brussels, it never comes back. Now here's what should keep you up at night. That same machine doesn't stop at Europe's borders. It will come for your institutions too. Not with an invasion. Step by step. Like a hacker probing a system for weak points. First, through your companies. Brussels doesn't regulate European platforms. It regulates X, Meta, Google, Apple. It's cheaper to apply one set of rules worldwide than two, so the censorship machine built for Europe ends up running on your phone in Texas. That's how GDPR cookie banners ended up all over American websites. Second, through NGOs. The DSA gives special status to "trusted flaggers," organizations whose takedown requests platforms must prioritize. When your State Department barred the architect of the DSA from the United States, it also barred people from organizations campaigning against "online hate" and "disinformation," some of them operating on both sides of the Atlantic. The network is already inside your house. Third, through experts and academia. A whole industry of "disinformation research" produces the reports, the definitions, and the lists that regulators then turn into law. Same vocabulary in Brussels, London, Ottawa, Canberra and Washington. That's not a coincidence. That's a pipeline. Fourth, through international agreements. Every summit, every treaty, every "global standard" on online safety or digital governance is another lever to make American rules converge with European ones. Quietly. Technically. Without a single vote of the American people. Fifth, through patience. They are waiting for the next administration that agrees with them. One election. That's all it takes for every safeguard you built to be dismantled from the inside, with European legislation ready to copy and paste and a press kit that says "our democratic allies already do this." You blocked them once. They will try again. And again. And again. With new names, new causes, new crises. It will never stop. Not as long as the machine exists. That's why half measures won't work. You can't fine a cancer into remission. You can't negotiate with it. You remove it, or it spreads. The EU started as a free trade area between sovereign nations. That Europe, I'd defend. What it has become is a supranational bureaucracy that no one elected, no one can fire, and no people can vote out. A machine designed to transfer power upward and never give it back. So use everything you have. Stop treating Brussels as a legitimate rule-maker for American companies. Refuse any trade deal that accepts foreign censorship of American platforms. Deal with Europe nation by nation, not through Brussels. Make it clear that the price of exporting censorship to America is too high to pay. America is the last great country with free speech written into its founding document as an absolute. If America holds, Europeans have something to point to, something to fight for, somewhere to look. If America falls, there is nowhere left. Western civilization was built on free people saying what they think, owning what they build, and governing themselves. The EU, in its current form, is the negation of all three. Kill the project. Everywhere. Or one day, it will have you too. I'm writing this from France. I love Europe. That's exactly why I'm asking for your help.

With everything happening right now, one thing is almost certain: globalism and the European Union are going to collapse, and sooner than anyone in Brussels is willing to admit. So let's stop mourning the old world and start designing the next one. Here are my proposals. The Ten Commandments of the Western Renaissance I. Every people is sovereign in its own home. It alone decides its immigration policy, holds its borders, and sets the rules of assimilation. No supranational body will ever decide in its place who becomes one of its own. II. Merit becomes the law again. Hierarchy is built on competence, work, and results. Not quotas, not networks, not administrative castes. III. Every nation's culture is a sacred treasure. Multiculturalism doesn't make cultures coexist. It dissolves them all. The only way to protect the world's diversity is to protect the uniqueness of each people. IV. Optimism is a duty. No more prophets of degrowth who for fifty years have told us to be ashamed of existing, producing, and dreaming. The future is not a threat. It is a conquest. V. Speech is free. A First Amendment for the entire West. No state, no platform, no committee has the right to decide what a citizen may think or say. VI. A free people is a people that can defend itself. A Second Amendment for the West: the right to own a firearm and learn to use it. A freedom you cannot defend is just a permission. VII. Abundant energy is the foundation of power. Massive nuclear, cheap energy, produced on our own soil. A civilization that rations its energy has already begun to die. VIII. Family is the first pillar of the nation. A civilization that no longer has children has no future left to defend. Birth rates become a national priority. IX. No transfer of sovereignty without the people. Never again a treaty imposed after a No vote. Every surrender of power goes through a referendum, and the people can always take back what they gave. X. We build. Factories, power plants, rockets, AI, semiconductors. The West becomes once again the civilization that builds, invents, and sets out to conquer the stars.

People always ask me why I'm so optimistic about the West. A few weeks ago, I told a friend I'd never been more bullish on our future. He looked at me like I'd lost my mind. So I gave him two predictions. First: the EU, as it exists today, is going to collapse. Second: we are going to hold a Nuremberg trial for communism. Not for people. For ideas. Because those ideas are still the ones killing us today. Then I explained why. There's one law I've watched play out everywhere, in startups, in family fortunes, in empires: The more a system is full of money and empty of intelligence, the faster it decays. Take the simplest example. The son or daughter of a billionaire who inherited the money but not the education that came with it. They become parasites on what their parents built. They don't understand what they're running. But they're surrounded by courtiers telling them they're brilliant, so they feel invincible. And they start breaking things, one confident decision at a time. That's the West's ruling class right now. And here's the part people miss: a decadent system with no intelligence left doesn't slowly drift. It collapses. Because it can't stop making mistakes, and every mistake is bigger than the last. Here's what that looks like in practice. In 2024, Marc Andreessen sat down with officials from the Biden administration. By his account, they told him not to bother funding AI startups. AI would be a game for two or three giant companies, working hand in hand with the government. When he pointed out that AI is just math, they told him that during the Cold War they classified entire branches of physics, and they could do the same with the math behind AI. Think about who they said that to. The man who wrote "Software is eating the world." The man who understood decades ago that whatever the state gets its hands on, it ruins. Nobody with a functioning brain walks into a room with Marc Andreessen and says that. Those people did. With total confidence. And now, this week: Donald Tusk. Police surrounding Poland's Constitutional Tribunal. Government-backed judges declaring the chief justice suspended. All of it on a Friday evening, while the elected president was on a plane to Senegal, forced to turn around and fly back to Warsaw. When you're winning the argument, you don't send the police to the courthouse. This is what decadence looks like up close. Endless money. Zero feedback from reality. High on their own supply. Surrounded by people who will never tell them no. Systems like that don't reform. They break. So yes, people find me optimistic. This is why. I'm not betting on these people fixing anything. I'm betting on what gets built after they've finished breaking it.