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The purpose of this book is to outline the dynamics of the change we are experiencing.

The aim is to detect the levers of progress and the opportunities that present themselves to us.

The causes of the breakdown of the current model are multiple. They combine to impose new situations on us which, in turn, require social and economic innovations in addition to the technological responses that we are working hard on.

To clarify our current vision and to understand the “mechanical” choices⁴ that will be made by the people, at least if we are not careful, we will go back a long way in time. For, in order to understand what we are going to decide, we need to get an idea of the thought process that led our elders in their decision-making processes and brought us to where we are today.

Understanding the decision-making processes of our elders and neighbors gives us an advantage, because it is in times of movement that opportunities are to be seized. We need to move while the existing system is distorting, bordering on fracture. We must even accompany this dynamic so that it goes in the right direction. We must move quickly and fairly, because once the n + 1 system is in place, it becomes very difficult to get it to move again.

Europe dominated the world for 500 years and then fell into a state of weakness in the last century. Nevertheless, it remains a corner of the planet that has many advantages and a long history on a land that has accumulated a great deal of knowledge. In Europe, Neanderthals, followed by Sapiens, have been trying to create a society for over 300,000 years⁵!

European maturity is neither the Asian maturity, which is part of the Homo erectus continuum, nor the American maturity, nor that of any country in the southern hemisphere. All these geographical areas are living their history in parallel.

This confirms that the single governance model entrusted to, or monopolized by, a supposed “master of the world” is an absurdity, even if, a priori, all people have more or less the same needs. It is preferable to preserve the diversity of societal models in order to promote progress, by combining cooperation and competitiveness.

In this book, we are only interested in the model that could be suitable for France and more globally for Europe.