People who choose the narrative of who the model is are thought leaders like journalists, academics and politicians. They are narrative and process oriented, not outcome oriented. This means that when a process started with good intentions fails horribly (like Germany's decarbonation) they do not change opinions - Germany tried to do the right thing (even if it was a risky bet without precedent) so it's blameless. There is no course correction - the process was correct wasn't it ?

Furthermore, they have entrenched this mode of functioning in Western societies, who have become process not outcome oriented.

People interested in hacking and startups are probably among the most outcome oriented, so have trouble understanding how this process oriented mindset without course correction can exist.

Because France is planning to follow Germany's lead?

Would be weird to hold France up as a model. "Let the Nuclear plants you built a generation ago slowly age out and be replaced by renewables that Germany helped establish" isn't something most countries could emulate, they'll jump straight to the renewables, because they're cheaper and better.

You can thank 30 years of sabotage by ecologists for our nuclear industry stagnating, and 20 years of complete incompetence by our politicians.

> You can thank 30 years of sabotage by ecologists

40+. The protests against superphenix started immediately and the rocket attack on the site was in 1982.

The attacker was Chaïm Nissim, who’d go on to get elected in geneva as a member of the swiss green party.

Because the same culture unfortunately prevails. France is no longer as green as it was because of that.

Germany has much more soft power in the anglophone world, for both wrong and bad reasons. Hence the idealisation of the German Engineer. France is more of a pain in the arse and more difficult to take seriously.