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