The Middle Ages didn't apologize for human nature—barbarian invasions, heretic burnings, and noble oppression were called what they were. Today we do EXACTLY the same things (often worse) but hide behind modern labels: Taliban becomes "insurgents," cancel culture replaces witch hunts, and poverty-inducing policies become "economic reality." America is currently experiencing a four-faction religious war that will determine history's course, yet we refuse to recognize it because "that doesn't happen anymore."

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Bibliography:

A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler

Evil by Baumeister

The Master and His Emissary by Ian McGhilchrist

The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker

The World after Liberalism by Matthew Rose

Reason, Faith and the Struggle for Western Civilization by Samuel Gregg

A Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell

Cynical Theories by James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose

The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray

The Elephant in the Brain by Simler

A Secular Society by Charles Taylor

Dominion by Tom Holland

War in Human Civilization by Azar Gat

Mere Christianity by CS Lewis

Caesar and Christ by Will Durant

The Age of Faith by Will Durant

Recapture the Rapture by Wheal

Fire in the Minds of Men by Billington