After personal upheaval that forced me to reevaluate everything, I'm tackling philosophy's ultimate question despite our society's cowardly avoidance of mortality and meaning. The crushing crisis killing modernity is our inability to face death. This isn't just abstract philosophy—understanding death's role reveals why our civilization is collapsing beneath us. History viewed through this lens changes EVERYTHING.

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SOURCES:

The Worm at the Core by Sheldon Solomon

The Master and His Emissary by McGhilChirst

Maps of Meaning by Jordan Peterson

The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker

World War 1 by John Keegan

The Ascent of Humanity by Eisenstein

The Knowledge Machine by Michael Strevens

The Happiness Hypothesis by John Haidt

The Origins of Ideologies by Todd Immanuel

Lineages of Modernity by Todd Immanuel

Sexual Personae by Camille Paglia

Man and His Symbols by Carl Jung

Cynical Theories by James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose

A Secular Age by Charles Taylor

The Web of Meaning by Jeremy Lent

Seculosity by David Zahl

Hidden Truth by Houston Smith

Norse Myth by Neil Gaiman

Oriental Mythology by Joseph Camble

Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

Recapture the Rapture by Jamie Wheal

Nations by Azar Gat

The Moral Animal by Robert Wright

Dominion by Tom Holland

The World's Religions by Houston Smith

Dynasty by Tom Holland

Homo Ludens by Johan Huizinga

The True Believer by Eric Hoffer

Trauma and the Soul by Thomas Kalsched

Disunited Nations by Peter Zeihan

The Coddling of the American Mind by Jonathan Haidt