Imperial hypocrisy in the face of young people's distress

Historian Jérôme Fehrenbach compares the October lycée and student protests in France, marked by violence, to the fall of Rome in 410 and to a society disintegrating under debt, climate threats, AI, digital life and family breakdown. He argues that youth distress will only be addressed once the state and political class stop lying, and calls for a break with republican revolutionary myths. The piece has little direct engagement with the Church, only a passing anti-Christian and transcendence theme.