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France. Frankism. Jacob Frank. Jacobins. Frantzue (Frantzve). Just some dots I want to connect when I have time. In the meantime ... How a Certain Strain of French State Philosophy Became the Most Dangerous Ideology in the Modern World By John Mappin — for IF Magazine There are countries whose power is measured in divisions, fleets, or GDP. And then there are countries—more precisely, state traditions—whose danger lies not in their armies but in their ideas. France, for all its breathtaking beauty, architectural splendour, and aesthetic self-confidence, has long exported not only wine and couture but something far more potent: a worldview. A worldview that marries intellectual hauteur, moral exhibitionism, and a distinctly psychiatric philosophy of control, perfumed in such elegance that one barely notices its corrosive effects until it has already crossed national borders and ideological frontiers. To call France the “most lethal country in the world” is, of course, not to impug...