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“The government is too big. It’s too intrusive. It restricts what we can do. It’s becoming our master instead of our servant.” — Milton Friedman

We thought Europe had been cured of totalitarianism. The European Union is proving us wrong. In the 20th century, Europe had cancer: totalitarianism. Nazism, Stalinism, tens of millions dead. In 1945, then again in 1989, we thought we had beaten it. People talked about the end of history. But in Western Europe, we never truly eradicated it. We removed the visible tumor: the uniforms, the camps, the dictators. But we left the diseased cells behind. What remains is the belief that a center should decide everything, that the state should manage everything, that peoples must be guided against their will. And those cells found a new body to grow in: the European Union. A machine that centralizes, standardizes, decides on behalf of the people, and treats every nation that resists as an anomaly to be corrected. The disease is coming back. It's a relapse, quieter, slower, more polite. But it's the same disease. People really need to understand this. The only question that matters now is this one: will it kill the organism this time? To answer that, you have to see the world the way I see it: as an organism. A cell is an organism. An organ is an organism. A human is an organism. A family, a company, a nation are organisms. And humanity as a whole is an organism. This isn't just a metaphor. It's a lens that explains a lot. A healthy organism isn't run by a center that controls everything. Your brain doesn't tell each of your cells how to divide, how to breathe, how to repair itself. Every cell knows how to do its job. Every organ has its own autonomy. The liver doesn't ask the heart for permission. The system works because it's distributed, and because each level does what it does best. That's exactly how a healthy society works. The individual runs their own life. The family raises its children. The company creates value. The town handles what's local. The nation protects and settles what no one else can settle. Every level has its role, and none devours the others. And then there's disease. In biology, there's a name for a cell that forgets it serves an organism, that starts growing without limit, hoards every resource, and colonizes the organs around it. It's called cancer. Totalitarianism is the cancer of human societies. A center that keeps growing, that absorbs the economy, culture, education, private life, and ends up killing the very organism that feeds it. But an organism learns. It's its most extraordinary property. Your immune system remembers every infection it has ever defeated. It recognizes the enemy the second time, and it reacts faster. Humanity works the same way. It learns through trial, through error, and above all through pain. The 20th century was our great illness. We tested several forms of totalitarian collectivism at full scale: Stalinism, Hitlerism, Maoism. The flags were different, the theories were different, but the pattern was the same. The promise of a new man. A new order. A central machine that knows better than you what's good for you. Individuals reduced to cogs, nations dissolved into a project bigger than themselves. And every single time, the result was the same: camps, famines, persecution, tens of millions dead. Those dead are our immune memory. They're the price the organism paid to learn to recognize the disease. The problem is that old demons never really die. They come back as zombies, and not with uniforms and parades. They come back in a cleaner suit, with a softer vocabulary. Nobody talks about class struggle or living space anymore. Now it's governance, regulation, harmonization, shared values, the fight against disinformation. But the underlying logic is the same: centralize, standardize, decide on behalf of the people, and treat any resistance as a malfunction to be fixed. Today, this temptation has two names, and we already know them: the globalist project and the European Union. And there's something deeply symbolic about this playing out in Poland. Poland is the country where World War II began in 1939. The country carved up by Hitler and Stalin at the same time, which lived through Nazism and then communism. The country of Solidarność, the one that started cracking the Soviet bloc from the inside. If any people in Europe has antibodies against totalitarianism, it's the Poles. Over the past few days, the government of Donald Tusk, Brussels' golden boy, had police surround the Constitutional Tribunal. A judge whom the Polish president had refused to swear in announced she was suspending the Tribunal's president, who was then blocked from entering his own institution. President Nawrocki turned his plane around mid-flight to rush back to Warsaw. He denounced a violation of the constitutional order and the forcible takeover of a state body. Even liberal legal scholars who oppose the Tribunal's president say the legal basis for this suspension is nonexistent. Let's call it what it is: an attempted coup. And to me, this is the European project showing its true face. When the ballot box and the institutions don't go the right way, you go around the ballot box and you seize the institutions. If this power grab succeeds, you can picture a world that slowly slides toward a third world war. A Europe fracturing between peoples who resist and powers who impose. And at the end of it, everything that always follows: camps, famines, persecution. History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes. And yet, I'm optimistic. Deeply. Because the organism has learned. The immune memory is there. Millions of people see the pattern. They feel something is wrong, even if they can't quite put it into words yet. Information now flows outside the controlled channels. The antibodies are waking up, in Poland, in Hungary, in the United States, and in France too. I believe we're capable of not repeating the same mistakes. But for that, we'll have to choose. And we'll have to choose with clear eyes. The first path is totalitarianism. The path of Macron, Philippe, Attal, and everyone who embodies the globalist project. The most unsettling part is that even they don't realize it. They're not movie villains. They sincerely believe they're doing good. They're cogs in a machine bigger than they are, a machine that is gently taking us back to where we've already been. That's always how it starts. Totalitarianism never needed monsters. It needs people convinced they're right, and a system with no checks and balances left. The second path is a return to sovereign nations. A state that massively pulls back from what it doesn't know how to do, starting with the economy. That stops planning, subsidizing, and regulating every move of every entrepreneur. That gives individuals, families, and companies their autonomy back, like the organs of a healthy body. And a state that refocuses radically on its core sovereign functions, on what only it can do: security, justice, borders, defense. A smaller but stronger state. Less present in your life, but truly there when it matters. It's a return to the logic of living things. A distributed organism, where every level does its job, and the center protects without devouring. There's no real third way anymore. The status quo isn't an option: it's just the first path taken slowly. The organism has already seen where the first road leads. It still carries the scars. So, will the cancer kill the organism? I don't think so. But only if we choose the second road. And only if we choose it now.