La spéculation stratégique de la France et l’impasse de l’autonomie européenne

Je dois l’avouer franchement : lorsque j’observe la France de 2025 afficher à nouveau, sur la scène internationale, cette posture qu’elle appelle « autonomie stratégique », je ne ressens pas seulement de la déception, mais une inquiétude de plus en plus forte, presque impossible à contenir. Je sens de plus en plus clairement que les … Continue reading La spéculation stratégique de la France et l’impasse de l’autonomie européenne →

Why Has Europe Fallen Asleep on Digital Payments?

A Long Reflection on Civilizational Self-Anesthesia and Institutional Torpor I increasingly feel that Europe’s backwardness in digital payments is not the result of missing technology, insufficient resources, or a lack of talent. The real cause lies deeper, more abstractly, and in ways Europeans themselves hesitate to admit: it is the outcome of a civilization that … Continue reading Why Has Europe Fallen Asleep on Digital Payments? →

The Comfortization of Civilization and the Atrophy of the Soul: A Jungian Perspective on French Generational Psychological Structures

Foreword: My Inquiry Begins with a Civilizational Hypothetical Displacement In the long arc of my research and observations, a shadowy hypothetical question haunts me like a persistent specter: If Carl Gustav Jung (C.G. Jung) had not been born in the 1910s amid Europe’s war-scarred wounds and spiritual fractures, but instead arrived in Mitterrand-era France, a … Continue reading The Comfortization of Civilization and the Atrophy of the Soul: A Jungian Perspective on French Generational Psychological Structures →

The French Crisis in My Eyes: Assets, Wages, and the Choice of Civilization

Walking through the streets of Paris on September 18, 2025, I felt a powerful contradiction. More than 250 demonstrations had paralyzed railways, schools, and hospitals. Crowds shouted slogans for “higher wages” and “more subsidies.” Even teenagers were blocking the gates of their schools to join the protests. Amidst this roar of anger, another piece of … Continue reading The French Crisis in My Eyes: Assets, Wages, and the Choice of Civilization →