The French are fascinated by "what the west wind has seen", news from across the Atlantic.
On the right, they rave about the prowess of Yankee entrepreneurs, of which Elon Musk is the most breathtaking today.
And on the left, we shamelessly imitate the societal fashions germinated in the universities of California, such as wokism.
But at the end of two years of pandemic, there are also more mundane realities that set American society apart and weaken it to the extreme.
On the one hand, the excess mortality linked to Covid has resulted in a spectacular drop in life expectancy, unprecedented since the Second World War.
And on the other hand, the United States is facing a historic epidemic of homicides to the point that the 2020 vintage will have been much more deadly than the sinister year 2001 marked by the terrorist attacks of September 11, which killed 3,047 people.
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