The will to power will return

DHH reflects on the West's loss of ambition and will to execute large-scale projects, using France's 1980s nuclear buildout as a benchmark. Drawing on Strauss and Howe's Fourth Turning theory, he argues that civilizations cycle through phases of High, Awakening, Unraveling, and Crisis — and that the current period of managed decline will eventually give way to a new hero generation capable of bold action, though the transition may not be painless.