I will have to take your word for it. I'm in my 40s, I'm from the UK, I live in Australia, and I don't really feel what you're saying. It sounds like hyperbole.

I will have to take your word for it. I'm in my 40s, I'm from the UK, I live in Australia, and I don't really feel what you're saying. It sounds like hyperbole. Perhaps you need to be living in France to see it. All I see is a major ramp up in censorship and attack on free inquiry coming from the left over the last 10 years. This is becoming normal. I'm not really worried about it per se, it is what it is. I'll adjust accordingly, be careful what I say in public, and my children will grow up adjusted to it. The question is whether society as a whole will be better off or not. I suspect not, but who knows. In regards to the rise of the far right, it seems conceivable it's a reaction to the extremes of the far left. It's political polarization and I'd tend to lay blame on the dogmatists on both sides. I find them equally absurd, but I'm more disappointed in the left. That was my original point.