How the carceral system makes it almost too easy to empathize with an otherwise deeply unrelatable subject in Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's riveting meta-doc.

If you haven't watched You Can See Everything, don't read this, but if you have, I loved this.

Behind the high school students spearheading the movement, the larger battalions are beginning to grow restless. The fatal error of Macronism: because it corrupts everything, everything can work towards its overthrow.

I want to agree with this. I want to believe that this may Be something.

Without the seemingly irrational "smashing and looting riots" triggered by hunger among tens of thousands of ordinary people tearing open the breach ahead, the bourgeois representatives in parliament wouldn't even have been able to pass a single piece of paper. This chaotic, spontaneous riot forced the entire French society onto the irreversible path of the Great Revolution.

I have been observing the chaos in France from my American standpoint with some cautious optimism. I appreciated this piece putting it in a historical context.