Om "WhatifAlthist" | World History, Philosophy, Culture
WhatifAltHist is a podcast from Rudyard Lynch that looks to try to find the patterns in history and anthropology so as to predict the future and understand the dynamics that result in civilizations rising and falling. It began as an enormously popular alternate history channel with nearly 600K listeners and more than 100M views on YouTube. Rudyard Lynch also hosts the podcast History 102 with Erik Torenberg, which attempts to solidly explain pivotal historical events in depth in under an hour.
Topics covered: World History, Philosophy, Civilization, Culture
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the next ideology isn't what you think. (01:34:18)
Our society lives in shattered glass—no shared concept of human value, souls, reality, gender, or nations. Nietzsche's predicted consequences from God's death have destroyed the old world completely. We've gone insane but remain wealthy enough to mask it. Since high school, I've known the adult worldview was an empty bluff destined to collapse. After years cross-referencing solutions, I've found something that could actually work. Here's what I discovered.
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Bibliography:
Forbidden Universe by Lynn Picknett
A Secret History of the World by Mark Booth
Twelve Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson
Out of Chaos by Jordan Peterson
Maps of Meaning by Jordan Peterson
The Hermetic Link by Slavenberg
Hermetic Philosophy and Creative Alchemy by Bremmer
The History of Religious Ideas by Mircea Eliade
Sex, Ecology and Spirituality by Ken Wilbur
Thus Spake Zarathustra by Niestzche
The History of Philosophy by Bertrand Russel
A History of Philosophy by Will Durant
The Knowledge Machine by Strevens
The Passion of the Western Mind by Tarnas
Out of Our Heads by Philipe Fernandez Arnesto
Nihilism by Father Seraphim Rose
Modern Times by Paul Johnson
Tragedy and Hope by Carroll Quigley
A Secular Age by Charles Taylor
Man and His Symbols by Carl Jung
A New Model of the Universe by DP Ouspensky
The Soul's Code by James Hillman
The Alchemy of Psychology by James Hillman
The Forge and the Crucible by Mircea Eliad
On Power by Bertrand de Jouvenal
The Revolt of the Masses by Garcia
Religion and Culture by Chris Dawson
The Crowd by Gustave le Bon
The Psychology of peoples by Gustave le Bon
Spiral Dynamics Integrated by Beck
Human Faith in a Conscious Biosphere by Beck
The Hermetic Tradition by Evola
Coming to Our Senses by Morris Berman
The Conscious Universe by Dean Radin
The Inner World of Trauma by Kalsched
Trauma and the Soul by Kalsched
The Web of Meaning by Lent
The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo
Forgotten Truth by Houston Smith
The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly Hall
On Heroes by Carlyle
this entire reality is a lie (01:17:04)
Some truths are too enormous for words—like discovering the sky is a different color while normies remain blind. Over seven years since high school, I systematically deconstructed the comfortable illusions we've lived in our entire lives. Politics and trans issues are just surface symptoms—the rot goes INFINITELY deeper. Once you flip the log over, it's completely eaten through by worms. This episode dissects our rotting worldview and reveals why everything we've been taught is fundamentally false.
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Bibliography:
The Myth of Disenchantment by Storm
A Secular Age by Charles Taylor
A Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell
Forgotten Truth by Houston Smith
Forbidden Universe by Lynn Picknett
The Righteous Mind by Jon Haidt
The Happiness Hypothesis by Jon Haidt
The Elephant in the Brain by Simler
The Soul's Code by James Hillman
The Master and His Emissary by Ian McGhilchrist
The Psychology of Socialism by Gustave le Bon
The Crowd by Gustave le Bon
Spiral Dynamics Intergated by Beck
Sex, Ecology and Spirituality by Ken Wilber
Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell
The Rise and Fall of Nations by Ruchir Sharma
Rise of the West by McNeil
The Eye of Shiva by Amaury de Riencourt
Sex and Power in History by Amaury de Riencourt
Masks of the Gods by Joseph Camble
Maps of Meaning by Jordan Peterson
A Brief History of Time by Steven Hawking
Modern Times by Paul Johnson
Robert Monroe's Trilogy
The Passion of the Western Mind by Tarnas
A Brief History of Philisophy by Betrand Russel
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Modernity's Two Mythologies (00:54:48)
Gustave Le Bon revealed that history runs on dreams, not logic—90% of humans merely rationalize their emotions. Every civilization projects fantasy ideals (Christian Heaven, Marxist Utopia, Valhalla) that animate their entire existence. Modernity's enormous wealth enabled unprecedented delusion, creating TWO competing fantasies so powerful that people will destroy nations refusing to fulfill them. Most remain trapped in modernity's mythology, unable to see the illusions controlling their lives.
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Bibliography:
The Masks of the Gods by Joseph Camble
A History of Religious Ideas by Mircea Eliade
The Crowd by Gustave le Bon
The Psychology of Socialism by Gustave Le Bon
The World Unbalanced by Gustave le Bon
Prometheus and Atlas by Jorjani
Zombies in Western Culture by Vervaeke
The Soul's Code by James Hillman
Religion and Culture by Chris Dawson
The Psychology of the Great War by Gustave Le Bon
The Passion of the Western Mind by Tarnas
The Unabomber's Manifesto
The Dictators by Richard Overy
Modern Times by Paul Johnson
Seculosity by Zahl
The Gods of Revolution by Dawson
Nihilism by Seraphim Rose
Forgotten Truth by Houston Smith
A Secular Age by Charles Taylor
Fire in the Minds of Men by Billington
The Total State by Auron Macintyre
Leviathan and Its Enemies by Sam Francis
The Knowledge Machine by Michael Strevents
1984 by George Orwell
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Future of Humanity by Michio Kaku
Physics of the Future by Michio Kaku
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven and Pournel
Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner
The Rise and Fall of California (00:55:03)
Living through mythological events, we've lost the eyes to see them. California represents history's cautionary tale—a society blessed with EVERYTHING (perfect geography, unprecedented wealth, human capital) destroyed by a single variable: culture. This parable reveals how elites and socialists formed an unholy alliance to ethnically replace and atomize a functioning society, creating artificial feminine dystopia that chose civilizational suicide over authentic community. History's most rapid demographic replacement meets total cultural collapse.
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Bibliography:
California by Starr
California by Faragher
Inside America by Johm Gunther
American Nations by Colin Woodard
The Nine Nations of North America by Joel Garreau
The Shaping of America by Meinig
Mexico, Blood and Fire by DT Fehrenbach
Ethnic America by Thomas Sowell
Pacific Worlds by Mark K Matsuda
Empires of the Atlantic World by Elliot
The Story of the Americas by Leland Dewitt Baldwin
The History of Latin America by Hubert Herring
why empathy is the meaning of life (00:56:46)
I correctly predicted both woke tyranny AND the ugly right-wing backlash that's consuming online discourse today. Living through human "mouse utopia," people rationalize cruelty as anti-left revenge while lacking tools to distinguish rationalization from rationality. This episode reveals empathy's true nature—not weakness, but a masculine superpower for understanding enemies and allies alike. Empathy gets you inside opponents' heads, making it warfare's most potent weapon. Time to reclaim this misunderstood concept.
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Bibliography:
Bibliography:
The Master and His Emissary by Ian McGhilchrist
Sex, Ecology and Spirituality by Ken Wilbur
Spiral Dynamics by Don Beck
What Kind of Society Nurtures the Soul by James Hillman
The Soul's Code by James Hillman
The Muqqahdimma by Ibn Khaldun
The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler
Conflicting Visions by Thomas Sowell
Ethnic America by Thomas Sowell
On Power by Bertrand de Jouvenal
Illusions of our Culture by Leonard Griffith
Religion and Culture by Chris Dawson
The World Unbalanced by Gustave le Bon
The Psychology of Socialism by Gustave Le Bon
Out of Our Minds by Felipe Fernandez Armrest
The Passion of the Western Mind by Richard Tarnas
Zombies in Western Culture by Vervaeke
How to Know a Person by David Brooks
The Myth of Normal by Gabor Mate
Stolen Focus by Johann Hard
Lost Connections by Johann Hari
The Happiness Hypothesis by John Haidt
The Righteous Mind by John Haidt
Trauma and the Soul by Donald Kalsched
The Culture of Narcissism by Lasch
The Body Keeps the Score by Besel van Der Kolk
The Elephant in the Brain by Simler
The Unabomber's Manifesto
Intellectuals and Society by Thomas Sowell
Maps of Meaning by Jordan Peterson
Forgotten Truth by Houston Smith
Religions of the World by Houston Smith
Leviathan and Its Enemies by Sam Francis
Iron Kingdom by Christopher Clark
On Heroes by Carlyle
the lonely crowd consooms all (01:02:23)
After wandering with digital nomads, I discovered nightclub culture perfectly embodies our societal illness—everyone pretending to enjoy activities they hate because they think others find them cool. This anthropological bluff extends throughout Western civilization, creating David Riesman's "lonely crowd" where authentic connection becomes impossible. Our society rewards conformity while punishing genuine personality, trapping us in a popularity contest that's destroying meaning, innovation, and human flourishing itself.
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Bibliography:
The Lonely Crowd by David Riesman
On Power by Betrand de Jouvenal
Very Important People by Ashley Mears
The Righteous Mind by Jon Haidt
The Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War by Wilfred Trotter
The Psychology of Socialism by Gustave le Bon
The Psychology of Revolution by Gustave le Bon
The Crowd by Gustave le Bon
The Coming Caesars by Amaury de riencourt
The Delusions of Crowds by Bernstein
Spiral Dynamics Integral by Beck
Identity by Francis Fukuyama
The Anxious Generation by Jon Haidt
The Muqqahdima by Ibn Khaldun
The Culture of Narcissism by Lasch
The Total State by Auron Macintrye
Nihilism by Seraphim Rose
The Leviathan and its Enemies by Sam Francis
The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler
The True Believer by Eric Hoffer
Envy by Helmut Schoeck
The Happiness Hypothesis by John Haidt
Behave by Sapolsky
The Story of Black America (01:03:04)
In progressive religion, African-Americans occupy a sacred caste status—beyond criticism, requiring constant resource redistribution. Yet this narrative ironically continues black America's core historical theme: dehumanization. Leftists project onto black Americans whatever serves their power needs rather than seeing them authentically. Growing up in majority-black Philadelphia taught me that most progressives from whiter areas fundamentally misunderstand black culture, perpetuating the very dehumanization they claim to oppose.
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Bibliography:
Bibliography:
Atrocities by Matthew White
Plagues and Peoples by McNeil the Elder
Rise of the West by McNeil the Elder
Mosquito Empires by McNeil the Younger
The Story of the Americas by Leland Dewitt Baldwin
American Nations by Colin Woodard
Albion's Seed by David Hackett Fischer
African Founders by David Hackett Fischer
Roll Jordan Roll by Eugene Genovese
Ethnic America by Thomas Sowell
Conquests and Cultures by Thomas Sowell
Lineages of Modernity by Todd Emmanuel
The Origins of Ideology by Todd Emmanuel
Civilizations by Armesto
A History of Civilizations by Braudel
Bound Away by David Hackett Fischer
Inside Africa by John Gunther
Africa, a History by John Reader
Generations of Captivity by Berlin
Africa in History by Basil Davidson
Who We are and How we got here by David Reich
The Tree of Culture by Ralph Linton
The Unabomber's Manifesto
The Nine Nations of North America by Joel Garreau
Seeing like a State by James Lindsay
the 3D Gospel by Georges
India-Pakistan: Asia's WW1? (00:41:34)
Within a month of recording, the year's most politically important event happened—and NOBODY in the West covered it. India and Pakistan (combined population larger than Russia-Ukraine) exchanged missiles across borders in an escalation eerily mirroring 1914's Franz Ferdinand assassination. Two industrialized multi-ethnic empires fighting over terrorist proxies while alliance networks threaten continental war. Our media's total blackout reveals how completely we've lost track of global reality.
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Bibliography:
Disunited Nations by Peter Zeihan
The Origins of Political Order by Fukuyama
Monsoon by Kaplan
Asian Waters by Humphrey Hawksley
Asia's Cauldron by Kaplan
The First World War by John Keegan
The High Tower by Barbara Tuchman
Europe by Norman Davies
India by John Keay
The Psychology of the Great War by Gustave le Bon
Inglorious Empire by Sashi Tharoor
The Rise and Fall of the Bluepill (01:05:04)
A historic shift occurred in the early 20th century when the West completely suspended any concept of reality or meaning. We adopted a new religion whose core belief was that it WASN'T a religion—agnostic liberalism that declared thousands of years of human struggle for glory and meaning "unnecessary." This tyranny greater than Rome or the Catholic Church dominates every moment of our lives while remaining invisible, creating our current "age of platitudes."
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Bibliography:
The Passion of the Western Mind by Tarnas
A History of Western Philosophy of Bertrand Russell
Mankind the Story of All of Us by the History Channel
Maps of Meaning by Jordan Peterson
The Gateway Protocol by Robert Monroe
Leviathan and Its Enemies by Sam Francis
The Total State by Auron Macintyre
After Liberalism by Paul Gottfried
The Crowd by Gustave le Bon
The Revolt of the Elites by Lasch
Ages of Discord by Peter Turchin
Regime Change by Deneen
The Economics of Discontent by Jean Michel Paul
Warriors and Worriers by Joyce Benneson
Fire in the Minds of Men by Billington
A Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell
Explaining Jewish Civilization (00:53:23)
After reading 3,000+ pages for this series, I've concluded the Jews represent history's most improbable civilization. Pennsylvania alone has almost as many people as all Jews worldwide (15 million), yet this tiny desert tribe has repeatedly altered world history's trajectory over 4,000 years. They've produced ONE-THIRD of all Nobel Prize winners while comprising less than 1% of global population and birthed three major world religions. Their continued existence and influence completely defies rational historical models—making them perhaps history's most accomplished ethnic group.
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Bibliography:
Paul. Johnson's History of the Jews
A History of the Jewish People by Ben Sasson
Our Oriental Heritage by Will Durant
Caesar and Christ by Will Durant
The Age of Faith by Will Durant
Who We Are and How we Got Here by David Reich
The Passion of the Western Mind by Tarnas
A History of Religious Ideas by Mircea Eliade
The Ordeal of Civility by Cuddihy
The Jewish Evolutionary Strategy by Kevin Macdonald
The Culture of Critique by Kevin Macdonald
The People that Will Dwell Alone by Kevin Macdonal
Pax by Tom Holland
Dominion by Tom Holland
Migrations and Cultures by Thomas Sowell
A History of the Ancient World by Ben Sasson
The Shaping of America by Meinig
American Nations by Colin Woodard
Masks of the Gods by Joseph Camble
Sex and Power in History by Amaury de Riencourt
Lineages of Modernity by Emmanuel ToddT
The Righteous Mind by John haidt
The Evolution of Civilizations by Carroll Quiggley
A History of Egypt by Breasted
1177 BC the Year Civilization Died by Eric Cline
Debt by David Grabber
A Guide to Late Antiquity by Peter Brown
Fire in the Minds of Men by Billington
Cynical Theories by James Lindsay
The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler
The World's Religions by Houston Smith
Blooodlands by Timothy Snyder
Explaining Every Jewish Migration | Expulsion (00:46:49)
After reading THOUSANDS of pages on Jewish civilization, I've hit that "skeleton key" threshold where the soul of a civilization becomes clear. Like India, Judaism is an "asterisk civilization"—for every principle, there's a paradoxical counterpoint. The sheer historical complexity demands its own dedicated video. Modern discourse about Jews suffers from profound historical illiteracy—most "experts" haven't read a single book on the topic. This episode provides the essential context everyone needs.
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Bibliography:
The Passion of the Western Mind by Tarnas
Migrations and Cultures by Thomas Sowell
Ethnic America by Thomas Sowell
A History of the Ancient World by Susan Wise Bauer
Pax by Tom Holland
Dominion by Tom Holland
Rise of the West by McNeil
A World History by McNeil
Our Oriental Heritage by Will Durant
The Life of Greece by Will Durant
Caesar and Christ by Will Durant
The Age of Faith by Will Durant
The People that Shell Dwell Alone by Kevin Macdonald
The Age of Reason Begins by Will Durant
Europe Emerges by Reynold
A History of the Jews by Paul Johnson
A History of the Jews by Ben Sasson
Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler
A History of Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia by David Christian
Empires of the Atlantic World by Evans
Crusaders and Nomads by Lewis
Explaining Native Mexican Civilization (01:00:43)
The once-mighty Maya civilization—with populations LARGER than today's Yucatan—faced apocalyptic collapse in the 10th century. As unprecedented drought persisted, desperate nobles demanded increasingly extreme blood sacrifices while peasants abandoned a system clearly abandoned by the gods. The priests, whose calendar had predicted this cycle of rise and fall, watched helplessly as city-states waged total wars of annihilation. A haunting glimpse into what civilizational collapse truly looks like.
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Bibliography:
Fire and Blood by Fehrenbach
Epic Mexico by Rugely
Rise of the West by McNeil
1491 by Mann
Fifth Sun by Camilla Townsend
A History of Latin America by Hubert Herring
Why Nations Fail by Robinson and Acemoglu
Empires of the Atlantic World by Elliot
The Story of the Americas by Leland Dewitt Baldwin
Atrocities by Matthew White
The Ancient Sun Kingdoms of the Americas by Hagen
Nine Nations of North America by Garreau
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
The Decline of the West by Spengler
Our Oriental Heritage by Will Durant
The Soul of India by Amaury de riencourt
Masks of the Gods volume 1 and 2 by Joseph Camble
The Year 1000 by Valerie Hansen
War Before Civilization by Lawrence Keeley
The Day Before Yesterday Tamim Ansary
Spiral Dynamics by Beck
Sex and Culture by JD Unwin
The Explanation of Ideology by Emmanuel Todd
The 3D Gospel by Georges
Don't Know Much about Mythology by Ken Davis
Was Churchill a Villain? (01:01:31)
World events keep derailing my civilization series! As a professional historian, I felt compelled to address the recent Rogan/Cooper podcast pushing the revisionist claim that Churchill was the villain of WWII who caused millions of deaths by refusing Hitler's peace offer. Let's examine what the historical evidence actually shows about this controversial take.
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Bibliography:
Liddle Hart's the Second World War 2
Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by Shirer
World War 2 by Childers
My Early Life by Winston Churchill
A History of the English Speaking Peoples after 1900 by Andrew Roberts
A Military History of the Western World by JFC Fuller
The Dictators by Richard Overy
The Rule of Empires by Parsons
Tragedy and Hope by Carroll Quiggley
War in Human Civilization by Azar Gat
The World at War by Forster
If the Allies had Fallen by Showalter
History's Greatest Wars by Cummins
A History of Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia by David Christian
Honor by Bowman
Cynical Theories by James Lindsay
Fire in the Minds of Men by Billington
Atrocities by Matthew White
The First World War 1 by John Keegan
The Second World War by John Keegan
The History of the English Speakings Peoples by Winston Churchill
Albion's Seed by David Hackett Fischer
15 Battles of History by Creasy
WTF is the Left Even Doing? (00:57:34)
We're living through a historic inflection point where the left lost the presidency but still dominates virtually every Western institution. Despite their electoral defeat, they control the bureaucracy, UN, Big Tech, media, academia, and even the Catholic Church—while the right has built no alternative power structures. The burning question is what the left will actually DO with this paradoxical position, as their own leadership seems unsure following Trump's victory. Their next moves will inevitably shape our historical trajectory as history is carved into stone before our eyes.
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The Righteous Mind by Jon Haidt
Ages of Discord by Peter Turchin
End Times by Peter Turchin
The Master and His Emissary by Ian McGhilchrist
The Storm before the Calm by George Friedman
On Grand Strategy by John Lewis Gaddis
The True Believer by Eric Hoffer
Woke Racism by John McWhorter
Leviathan and its Enemies by Sam Francis
Regime Change by Patrick Deneen
The Origins of Woke by Richard Hanania
The Unabomber's Manifesto
The Revolt of the Elites by Lasch
The Total State by Auron Macintyre
A Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell
Seeing like a State by James Scott
After Liberalism by Paul Gottfried
Japan and the Shackles of the Past by Taggart Murphy
Destined for War by Graham Allison
Envy by Helmut Schoeck
Cynical Theories by James Lindsay
Spiral Dynamics by Don Beck
Forgotten Truth by Houston Smith
The Economics of Discontent by Jean Michel Paul
Explaining Steppe Anti-Civilization (00:37:26)
Beyond the Big Four Eurasian civilizations (Europe, India, Middle East, China) that dominated 90% of humanity, there existed a fifth major player—not a civilization, but its opposite. The Steppe produced history's greatest conquerors despite having 1/100th the population and no cities or formal religions. These nomadic warriors influenced world history as much as any civilization, creating an anti-civilization power that repeatedly brought empires to their knees. The ultimate historical paradox: how could Mongolia conquer China with 1% of its population?
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Bibliography:
A History of Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia by David Christian
The Invention of Yesterday by Tamim Ansary
Europe's Steppe Frontier 1500-1800 by McNeil
Plagues and Peoples by McNeil
Rise of the West by McNeil
Genghis Khan and the making of the modern world by Jack Weatherford
The Khan Trilogy by Khan Iggulden (fiction but is the best intro to Mongol history for lay people since the author does the research really well)
A History of Warfare by John Keegan
A History of Religious Ideas v 3 by Mircea Eliade
War and Peace and War by Peter Turchin
Fighting Techniques of the Oriental World by Rice
War in Human Civilization by Azar Gat
The Soul of China by Amaury de Riencourt
Nomads and Crusaders by Archibald Lewis
War! What is it Good for by Ian Morris
The Evolution of Civilizations by Carroll Quiggley
Who We Are and How We Got Here by David Reich
The Tree of Culture by Ralph Linton
The Silk Road by Frankopan
We live in a Totalitarian Society (00:49:53)
As a Zoomer, I process World Wars as ancient history despite their recent shadow. The 20th century stands in opposition to ALL previous human experience, rejecting thousands of years of shared wisdom. Our unprecedented wealth and technological power convinced us to believe things previous generations would find INSANE—that men and women are identical, money can be printed infinitely, and culture doesn't matter. Most shocking: we've built a totalitarian democracy so pervasive we don't even recognize it.
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Bibliography:
The True Believer by Eric Hoffer
1984 by George Orwell
On Grand Strategy by John Lewis Gaddis
Why Nations Fail by Acemoglu
Intellectuals and Society by Thomas Sowell
The Dictator's Handbook by Mesquita
Woke Racism by John McWhorter
Leviathan and Its Enemies by Sam Francis
Origins of Woke by Richard Hananai
The Unabomber's Manifesto
The Total State by Auron Macintyre
A Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell
Seeing Like a State by James Scott
Gulag Archipelago by Solzhenitsyn
Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder
Tragedy and Hope by Carroll Quiggley
On Power by Bertrand de Jouvenal
On Politics by Aristotle
The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu
The Origins of Ideology by Todd Immanuel
Sex and Power in History by Amaury de riencourt
Rise of the West by William McNeill
The Politics of Dehumanization (00:49:15)
Reality operates through paradox—simultaneously everything and nothing, connected yet divided. The most revealing truth? People project their own nature onto their enemies. The left accuses the right of exactly what it does itself: institutional control, hatred, and power obsession. Modern civilization's greatest hypocrisy? Proudly championing "human rights" while systematically dehumanizing its population into interchangeable cogs. This isn't a bug—it's industrial society's primary function and underlying purpose.
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Bibliography:
The Lonely Crowd by David Riesman
Thus Spake Zarathustra by Nietzche
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
The Gulag Archipelago by Solzenitsyn
Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker
The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker
Humanity's Ascent by Charles Eisenstein
The Unabomber's Manifesto
Man and His Symbols by Carl Jung
Das Kapital by Karl Marx
Universe 65 by Calhoun
Sex and Power in History by Amaury de Riencourt
Nihilism by Seraphim Rose
The Passion of the Western Mind by Tarnas
A Secular Age by Charles Taylor
Seeing like a State by James Scott
The Leviathan and Its Enemies by Sam Francis
The Managerial Revolution by James Burnham
The Master and His Emissary by Ian McGhilchrist
Atrocities by Matthew White
The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler
The History of Philosophy by Will Durant
The History of Philosophy by Bertrand Rusell
The Web of Meaning by Jeremy Lent
Envy by Helmut Schoeck
The Happiness Hypothesis by John Haidt
Shatter the Glass of Modernity (00:50:14)
Why are people SHOCKED by the obvious consequences of their actions? We print money and act surprised at inflation. We pursue godless lives and wonder why we feel empty. I've spent years asking the most accomplished people I know—CEOs, politicians, artists—how to live happily as a young man, and received NO satisfying answers. This episode identifies the 12 toxic cultural assumptions driving our collective misery and offers the only path forward: shattering these illusions completely.
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Bibliography:
Lost Connections by Johann Hari
A Secular Age by Charles Taylor
The Myth of Disenchantment by Storm
A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
The Master and His Emissary by McGhilChrist
The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker
The Happiness Hypothesis by Jon Haidt
Maps of Meaning by Jordan Peterson
A Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell
Envy by Helmut Schoeck
Cynical Theories by James Lindsay
Intellectuals and Society by Thomas Sowell
The Righteous Mind by Jon Haidt
How to Know a Person by David Brooks
The Myth of Normal by Gabor Mate
The Elephant in the Brain by Kevin Simler
Culture of Narcissism by Lasch
The True Believer by Eric Hoffer
The Body Keeps the Score by Van Der Kolk
Dominion by Tom Holland
A Live Conversation with Samo Burja (01:02:07)
In this episode of Whatifalthist, host Rudyard is joined by Samo Burja, founder of Bismarck Analysis and Palladium Magazine. They engage in a wide-ranging discussion covering political dynamics, the impact of technology on society, and the historical parallels that can be drawn from current events. For full shownotes, visit highlight: https://highlightai.com/share/35528506-03e8-4ef2-84b2-5424f7f2fc7b
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Is Bureaucracy Killing Civilization? (00:53:00)
The World War-era historians—Spengler, Toynbee, Quigley—operated at intellectual levels we can't match today. Despite our "progress" myth, we've intellectually regressed. These giants accurately predicted our 21st century collapse: atheism, caesarism, social alienation, population decline. Their most urgent warning? BUREAUCRACY would destroy Western civilization if left unchecked. We ignored them, and now it's devouring everything that made our civilization great, exactly as they predicted.
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Bibliography: * means book was really important for this video
The Managerial Revolution by James Burnham**
Tragedy and Hope by Carroll Quiggley
The Evolution of Civilizations by Carroll Quigely
The Old Regime and the French Revolution by De Toqueville
A New World Begins by Poptkin
Fire in the Minds of Men by Billington
Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber
Leviathan and Its Enemies by Sam Francis**
Strategy by Lawrence Freedman
On Grand Strategy by John Lewis Gaddis
Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler
War in Human Civilization by Azar Gat
Sex and Power in History by Amaury de Riencourt
The Soul of China by Amaury de Riencourt
The Ruling Classes by Gaetano Mosca
The Fate of Empires by Hubbard
The History of Philosophy by Bertrand Russel
Why Nations Fail by Robinson and Acemoglu
A Secular Age by Charles Taylor
The Gulag Archipelago Solzenitsyn
The Total State by Auron Macintyre*
The Revolt of the Elites by Christopher Lasch
The Storm before the Calm by George Friedman*
Rise of the West by McNeil
On Politics by Aristotle
The Soul of India by Amaury de Riencourt
The Sea and Civilization by Lincoln Payne
The West and the Rest by Niall Ferguson
Reason and Faith by Sam Gregg
The Shaping of America by Meinig
Caesar and Christ by Will Durant
The Life of Greece by Will Durant
Destiny Disrupted Tamim Ansary
Empires of the Atlantic World by Elliot
The 13th Century World System by Abu Laughed
Colonial Empires from the 18th century by Fieldhouse
War What is it good for by Ian Morris
The Lonely Crowd by David Riesman
Regime Change by Deenan
Atrocities by Matthew White
The Road to Serfdom by Hayek
A Message to Pennsylvanians (01:17:26)
Growing up with Catholic/Protestant parents showed me how ideas shape reality—and why people throughout history die for them. As a child, I couldn't understand why someone would sacrifice their life for beliefs. Now I realize justice isn't just an abstract concept—it's what separates America from Argentina. Reading Orwell's 1984 as a teenager horrified me, watching its predictions materialize around us as wokeness creates the perfect pathway to totalitarianism.
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The Great Wave Crashes (00:40:11)
Sick in Montpellier, France during the early virus days, surrounded by Yellow Vest protests and social decay, I read "The Great Wave" about inflation history at 2AM and experienced a horrifying revelation—everything suddenly connected. Like a horror movie where scattered clues form a terrifying pattern, I saw civilization's trajectory with perfect clarity. This profound realization changed my life and this channel forever, shifting my focus from alternate history to sharing the uncomfortable truths I'd discovered.
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Bibliography:
The Great Wave by David Hackett Fischer
Secular Cycles by Peter Turchin
Ages of Discord by Peter Turchin
The Economics of Discontent by Jean Michel Paul
The Identity of France by Fernand Braudel
The History of Civilizations by Fernand Braudel
The Mediterranean at the time of Philip 2nd by Fernand Braudel
The Structures of Every day life by Fernand Braudel
Leviathan and Its Enemies by Sam Francis
The Global Crisis by Geoffrey Parker
On Hero Worship by Thomas Carlyl
Albion's Seed by David Hackett Fischer
Long Cycles by Goldstein
The Rise and Fall of Great Powers by Paul Kennedy
Generations by Strauss and Howe
Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler
The Coming Caesars by Amaury de riencourt
Rise of the West by William McNeil
The Pursuit of Power by William McNeil
Tragedy and Hope by Caroll Quiggley
The Great Leveler by Walter Schedule
Capital by Thomas Picketty
The History of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
The Middle Ages by Sidney Painter
The Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman
The Greatest Lie Ever Told (00:50:40)
While history remained relatively objective, anthropology has been utterly destroyed by pseudoscience—THREE-QUARTERS of Amazon's top anthropology books are scientifically fraudulent! My research across multiple fields has uncovered something unprecedented: the 20th century pulled off the most astonishing deception in human history. Despite unprecedented access to information and "intellectual freedom," our supposedly advanced civilization embraced absurdities our descendants will mock us for believing. This discovery is so enormous that those who see it feel momentarily insane.
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Bibliography:
War in Human Civilization by Azar Gat
War Before Civilization by Lawrence Keeley
The Naked Ape by Desmond Morris
The Elephant in the Brain by Simler
Albion’s Seed by David Hackett Fischer
Ethhic America by Thomas Sowell
The Leviathan and its Enemies by Sam Francis
The Managerial Revolution by James Burnham
Sex and Culture by JD Unwin
Who we Are and How We Got Here by David Reich
The Righteous Mind by Jon Haidt
The Blank Slate by Stephen Pinker
Maps of Meaning by Jordan Peterson
Humanity’s ascent by Eisenstein
Who Are We by Sam Huntingdon
Seeing Like a State by James Scott
The Master and His Emissary by Ian McGhilchrist
The Moral Animal by Robert Wright
The Secret to Our Success by Joseph Heinrich
The History of Civilizations by Fernand Braudel
The Knowledge Machine by Michael Strevens
Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell
Mere Christianity by CS Lewis
Forgotten Truth by Houston Smith
War, Peace and War by Peter Turchin
The Genetic Lottery by Kathryn Harden
Behave by Sapolsky
The Secret History of the World by Mark Booth
Cynical Theories by James Lindsey
The Cave by Plato
The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
Lineages of Modernity by Tom Emmanuel
Ages of Discord by Peter Turchin
The Growth Delusion by James Pilling
Everyone Lies by Stephenowitz
The World After Liberalism by Matthew Rose
Tragedy and Hope by Carroll Quiggley
The Strange Death of Europe by Douglas Murray
The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray
Gateway Trilogy by Robert Monroe
The Anthropology of the Right (00:51:50)
Unlike the left's coherent ideology (blank slate humans + social engineering = utopia), the right isn't unified except in OPPOSING leftism. Taliban, neocons, libertarians, and religious fundamentalists share little beyond rejecting progress-worship. This episode explores four distinct conservative factions navigating modernity's central question: as humans gain godlike industrial powers, how much traditional wisdom do we preserve? The 200-year battle between machine-followers and those brave (or mad) enough to resist progress.
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Bibliography
The Ruling Classes by Gaetano Mosca
The Rise of the West by McNeil
The Story of the Americas by Leland Dewitt Baldwin
Forgotten Continent by Michael Reid
American Nations by Colin Woodard
The WEIRDest people in the world by Joseph Heinrich
Why Nations Fail by Acemoglu and Robinson
War, Peace and War by Peter Turchin
The Art of Not Being Governed by James Scott
Seeing like a State by James Scott
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by Shirer
The History of Philosophy by Bertrand Russel
Democracy the God that Failed by Herman Hoppes
Atrocities by Matthew White
The Origins of Political Order by Francis Fukuyama
The Soul of France by Fernand Braudel
A History of Civilizations by Fernand Braudel
The Best of Times and Worst of Times by Michael Burleigh
After Liberalism by Paul Gottfried
The Leviathan and Its Enemies by Sam Francis
Politics by Aristotle
The Pursuit of Power by McNeil
Tragedy and Hope by Carroll Quiggley
The Evolution of Civilizations by Carroll Quiggley
Enlightenment Now by Stephen Pinker
The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant
A Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell
Envy by Helmut Schoeck
Dominion by Tom Holland
The True Believer by Eric Hoffer
The Dictators by Richard Overy
Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
The Invention of Yesterday by Tamim Ansary
After Liberalism by Matthew Rose
Destiny Disrupted by Tamim Ansary
The Master and His Emissary by Ian McGhilchrist
Japan and the Shackles of the Past by Taggert Murphy
The True Believer by Eric Hoffer
Shadow World by Chandler
The Righteous Mind by Haidt
The Strange Death of Europe by Douglas Murray
Islamo Leftism by Philippe Fabry
Fire in the Minds of Men by Billington
Political Order and Political Decay by Francis Fukuyama
War in Human Civilization by Azar Gat
The Anthropology of the Left (00:57:20)
We know nothing about what we're closest to—like toxic relationships we can't recognize. Today's society is arguably history's most ABSURD, yet we refuse to study ourselves anthropologically. Instead, we embrace untested stupidities: blank slate theory, cultural equivalence, gender sameness. This series examines modern political tribes through the same objective lens we'd use on Amazonian cultures. First up: the origins, strengths, weaknesses and character of the left. The findings will shock you.
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Bibliography:
Intellectuals and Society by Thomas Sowell
The Vision of the Anointed by Thomas Sowell
A Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell
The True Believer by Eric Hoffer
Dominion by Tom Holland
Fire in the Minds of Men by Billington
Strategy by Lawrence Freeman
The Leviathan and Its Enemies by Sam Francis
The Unabomber’s Manifesto
The Revolt of the Elites by Lasch
The Total State by Auron Macintyre
The Culture of Critique by Kevin MacDonald
The Righteous Mind by Jon Haidt
Nihilism by Seraphim Rose
Spiteful Mutants by Edward Dutton
The Coming Caesars by Amaury de Riencourt
Sex and Power in History by Amaury de Riencourt
A History of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
Albion’s Seed by David Hackett Fischer
Assemblywoman by Aristophanes
The Lonely Crowd by David Riesman
The Future is the Past Country by Edward Dutton
Witches, Feminism and the Fall of the West’s by Edward Dutton
Secular Cycles by Peter Turchin
Ages of Discord by Peter Turchin
American Nations by Colin Woodard
A Secular Age by Charles Taylor
A History of the Jews by Paul Johnson
The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker
The Web of Meaning by Jeremy Lent
Behave by Sapolsky
Seeing Like a State by James Scott
Coming to Our Senses by Morris German
Women Deserve Less by Myron Gaines
A Secret History of the World by Mark Booth
Foragers, Farmers and Fossil Fuels by Ian Morris
Lineages of Modernity by Todd Immanuel
Cynical Theories by James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose
Curt Doolittle
Yuri Bezmonov
Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky
The Abolition of Man by CS Lewis
The Storm before the Calm by George Friedman
The Managerial Class by James Burnham
The Ruling Class by Gaetano Mosca
The Evolution of Civilizations by Carroll Quiggley
Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber
Maps of Meaning by Jordan Peterson
The Evolutionary Psychology behind Politics
The Gulag Archipelago by Solzhenitsyn
The Culture of Narcissism by Lasch
After Liberalism by Paul Gottfried
Shadow World by Robert Chandler
Envy by Helmut Schoeck
A History of Manners by Norbert Elias
The Elephant in the Brain by Smiler
The Story of Work by Lucassen
The Fate of Empires by Hubbard
The Master and His Emissary by Ian McGhilchrist
The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray
