Emmanuel Todd : la France menacée d'effondrement ?

Tod >> Hello. >> Is the violence we are observing a symptom of what you call "dislocation" in the title of your interview book? Yes. Well, actually, there is even a chapter in the book, chapter 3, which I've reread a lot recently, called: France: The Final Fall? Hm. >> So the question was posed, and it was

posed as, I would say, a problem of generational clash, that is, the transformation of France into a gerontocracy that favors its old and leaves no livable space for the young. There was also a fairly detailed analysis of how France, which is not the oldest country in Europe—less old than Germany or Italy—is the most

gerontocratic and the one that favors its old the most. And I explained that as a sort of perversion of democracy, which is more direct than in France, where universal suffrage transmits the power of the old to the political apparatus much more directly and without control. And so it's quite striking to see, I

mean, almost at the time of the book's release—which was written before, obviously—to see it as an illustration. For me, trying to engage in forecasting , it's almost surprising. >> Precisely, there are several interesting points in what you are highlighting. The question—you say that France is indeed experiencing an aging population , and what is interesting is that you

also say in this gerontocracy, it goes beyond demographics, which is nonetheless your favorite theme. It also concerns values and the way of seeing things. We see in particular that the gap, paradoxically and counterintuitively, in wealth between the young, the youngest, and the oldest is shrinking in France. And in reality, it's because one of the