I'm completely baffled as to what's going to happen. It seems extremely unlikely that some kind of provincial revolt of French farmers and monarchists is going. And my feeling is like, okay, now do the Vatican, like now do the papacy, you know, everything is sort of succumbing to this decadence. Like it's not as if an integralist sort of Catholic revival is going to rescue us because it's contracted the same disease.
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