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