Succession discussed the French question back in 2023:
“Is France gonna make it?”
“As in, like, will France make it? Birth rate, youth unemployment, sclerotic state, um, fucking angry Arabs, all that. Will they make it, or will they pull a Greece?”
when Rome was sacked, most people living in the Roman Empire didn't notice much of a difference in their daily lives
the farmers kept farming, the merchants kept trading, the normies kept norming. life went on
Rome still fell
the fact that you can walk down your street and get a croissant doesn't tell you much about the state of your civilization
but it tells a lot about you
Yep. I think I read somewhere that he purposefully says provocative things, so that he could more effectively recruit and draw intelligent people into his orbit. Now I think about it every time I hear him speak