EMPIRES DO NOT FALL IN A SINGLE DAY.
THEY FIRST LEARN TO LIVE WITH THE UNACCEPTABLE.
November 2024. A dozen eggs cost nine dollars in Michigan. Donald Trump has just been re-elected, promising to bring prices down.
This could be the start of a chronicle about egg prices. It is actually the start of a much larger story.
Because there is something strange about our time: we live surrounded by information, and yet we have never been this vulnerable to the narratives that replace it.
We have entered an era where the problem is no longer just knowing what is true. The problem is knowing whether we are still able to recognize it.
Yann Fournier calls this phenomenon Infosclerosis. It is not a lack of information — it is the exact opposite: a continuous accumulation of facts, images, comments and counter-truths that eventually produces a strange side effect: the brain stops sorting.
NO KINGS! collects fifty-two chronicles written between November 2024 and April 2026, up to the demonstrations of April 12, 2026, when millions of Americans took to the streets behind a slogan of almost primitive simplicity: NO KINGS!
No platform. No candidate. No doctrine. Two words. A refusal.
Because the real subject of this book is not who occupies the White House. It is what happens in our minds when a narrative becomes powerful enough to replace reality.
Every claim in these chronicles rests on a verifiable source. The complete apparatus — more than eight hundred references, organised chronicle by chronicle — is available online.
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