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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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 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

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

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

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

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

Our era judges itself against utopian fantasies rather than real historical comparison—the ultimate intellectual sleight-of-hand. This episode exposes the shocking truth: your life is VASTLY harder than you realize. Examining economic, social, spiritual, and physical aspects reveals how normal young people today live objectively terrible lives despite our denial. When ancient wisdom across civilizations aligns with cutting-edge science against modern assumptions, the horror of what we've done to ourselves becomes breathtaking.

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Bibliography:

The Lineages of Modernity by Todd Immanuel

The Origins of Ideology by Todd Immanuel

The Unabomber's Manifesto by Ted Kazcynski

The Economics of Discontent by John Michel Paul

Ages of Discord by Peter Turchin

Secular Cycles by Peter Turchin

The Great Wave by David Hackett Fischer

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Kuhn

The Knowledge Machine by Michael Strevens

Tragedy and Hope by Carroll Quiggley

Religions of the World by Houston Smith

The History of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

Maps of Meaning by Jordan Peterson

The Anxious Generation by Jon Haidt 

The Coddling of the American Mind by Jon Haidt

The True Believer by Eric Hoffer

Woke Racism by John McWhorter

The Leviathan and its Enemies by Sam Francis

Nihilism by Seraphim Rose

The Origins of Woke by Richard Hanania

Sex and Power in History by Amaury de Riencourt

Seeing like a State by James Scott

The Lonely Crowd by David Riesman

The Myth of Normal by Gabor Mate

The Elephant in the Brain by Simler

A Hunter Gatherer's Guide to the 21st century by Bret Weinstein

Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber

How to Know a Person by David Brooks

The Culture of Narcissism by Lasch

Lost Connections by Johann Hari

The Culture of Narcissism by Lasch

The Master and His Emissary by Ian McGhilchrist

The Happiness Hypothesis by John Haidt

The Political Compass—created by libertarians to separate themselves from fascism—works fine for modern Western politics but COMPLETELY BREAKS when applied to history. Why are Medieval Europe, the Taliban, and Imperial Japan all crammed into "authoritarian right"? This episode introduces the Political Triangle, a superior anthropological model that can accurately map EVERY society in human history, revealing deeper patterns than the simplistic right-left divide dominating our current era.

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Bibliography: 

Curt Doolittle's work. Available on the Propertarian Website

The Origins of Political Order by Francis Fukuyama 

The Decay of Political Order by Francis Fukuyama 

A History of Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia by David Christian. 2 volumes

The History of Russia by Orlando Figes

Europe by Norman Davies

The Isles by Norman Davies 

Al Muqqahdimmah by Ibn Khaldun

Man and His Symbols by Carl Jung

The Elephant in the Brain by Simler

The Rise of the West by McNeil

Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder

Atrocities by Matthew White

The True Believer by Eric Hoffer

Sex and Power in History by Amaury de Riencourt

The Origins of Ideology by Immanuel Todd

The Moral Animal by Robert Wright

Sex and Culture by JD Unwin

The Lonely Crowd by David Riesman

Very Beautiful People by Ashley Mears

Envy by Helmut Schoeck

The Righteous Mind by John Haidt

Seeing like a State by James Scott

War in Human Civilization by Azar Gat

Conquests and Cultures by Thomas Sowell

War and Peace and War by Peter Turchin

Why Nations Fail by Robinson and Acemoglu

Dominion by Tom Holland

The Ancient City by Foustel de Coulanges

A History of Civilizations by Fernand Braudel 

War, What is it Good for by Ian Morris

The Leviathan and Its Enemies by Samuel Francis

A Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell

The Great Leveler by Walter Scheidel

As a child, I heard about a comic-book villain called the Unabomber—a Harvard mathematician turned terrorist who wanted to destroy civilization. Fast-forward to our current sci-fi dystopia, and attitudes have dramatically shifted. Among disaffected young men, "Uncle Ted" Kaczynski has become a prophet whose warnings seem increasingly prescient. Following his prison suicide last year, this episode examines whether the Unabomber's critique of technology and society was actually correct.

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Bibliography:

The Unabomber’s Manifesto by Kaczynski

The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker

A Hunter Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st century by Weinstein

The History of Manners by Norbert Elias

The Total State by Auron Macintyre

Tyranny Inc by Ahmari

The Revolt of the Elites by Lasch

The Anxious Generation by John Haidt

The Happiness Hypothesis by Jon Haidt

The Righteous Mind by Jon Haidt

The Myth of Normal by Gabor Mate

The Elephant in the Brain by Simler

Europe Emerges by Reynolds

Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber

Debt by David Graeber

The Dictators by Richard Overy

The Geography of Nowhere by Kunstler

The Story of Work by Lucassen

The Lonely Crowd by Riesman

The Origins of Ideology by Imannuel Todd

Lineages of Modernity by Immaneul Todd

Ultrasociety by Peter Turchin

Seeing like a State by James Scott

Leviathan and its Enemies by Sam Francis

The True Believer by Eric Hoffer

After Liberalism by Gottfried

A Secular Age by Charles Taylor

The Decay of Political Order by Francis Fukuyama

The WEIRDest people in the world by Joseph Heinrech

The Story of Philosophy by Bertrand Russel

The Founder Effect by Samo Burja