I correctly predicted both woke tyranny AND the ugly right-wing backlash that's consuming online discourse today. Living through human "mouse utopia," people rationalize cruelty as anti-left revenge while lacking tools to distinguish rationalization from rationality. This episode reveals empathy's true nature—not weakness, but a masculine superpower for understanding enemies and allies alike. Empathy gets you inside opponents' heads, making it warfare's most potent weapon. Time to reclaim this misunderstood concept.
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Bibliography:
Bibliography:
The Master and His Emissary by Ian McGhilchrist
Sex, Ecology and Spirituality by Ken Wilbur
Spiral Dynamics by Don Beck
What Kind of Society Nurtures the Soul by James Hillman
The Soul's Code by James Hillman
The Muqqahdimma by Ibn Khaldun
The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler
Conflicting Visions by Thomas Sowell
Ethnic America by Thomas Sowell
On Power by Bertrand de Jouvenal
Illusions of our Culture by Leonard Griffith
Religion and Culture by Chris Dawson
The World Unbalanced by Gustave le Bon
The Psychology of Socialism by Gustave Le Bon
Out of Our Minds by Felipe Fernandez Armrest
The Passion of the Western Mind by Richard Tarnas
Zombies in Western Culture by Vervaeke
How to Know a Person by David Brooks
The Myth of Normal by Gabor Mate
Stolen Focus by Johann Hard
Lost Connections by Johann Hari
The Happiness Hypothesis by John Haidt
The Righteous Mind by John Haidt
Trauma and the Soul by Donald Kalsched
The Culture of Narcissism by Lasch
The Body Keeps the Score by Besel van Der Kolk
The Elephant in the Brain by Simler
The Unabomber's Manifesto
Intellectuals and Society by Thomas Sowell
Maps of Meaning by Jordan Peterson
Forgotten Truth by Houston Smith
Religions of the World by Houston Smith
Leviathan and Its Enemies by Sam Francis
Iron Kingdom by Christopher Clark
On Heroes by Carlyle
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the lonely crowd consooms all
After wandering with digital nomads, I discovered nightclub culture perfectly embodies our societal illness—everyone pretending to enjoy activities they hate because they think others find them cool. This anthropological bluff extends throughout Western civilization, creating David Riesman's "lonely crowd" where authentic connection becomes impossible. Our society rewards conformity while punishing genuine personality, trapping us in a popularity contest that's destroying meaning, innovation, and human flourishing itself.
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Bibliography:
The Lonely Crowd by David Riesman
On Power by Betrand de Jouvenal
Very Important People by Ashley Mears
The Righteous Mind by Jon Haidt
The Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War by Wilfred Trotter
The Psychology of Socialism by Gustave le Bon
The Psychology of Revolution by Gustave le Bon
The Crowd by Gustave le Bon
The Coming Caesars by Amaury de riencourt
The Delusions of Crowds by Bernstein
Spiral Dynamics Integral by Beck
Identity by Francis Fukuyama
The Anxious Generation by Jon Haidt
The Muqqahdima by Ibn Khaldun
The Culture of Narcissism by Lasch
The Total State by Auron Macintrye
Nihilism by Seraphim Rose
The Leviathan and its Enemies by Sam Francis
The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler
The True Believer by Eric Hoffer
Envy by Helmut Schoeck
The Happiness Hypothesis by John Haidt
Behave by Sapolsky
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The Story of Black America
In progressive religion, African-Americans occupy a sacred caste status—beyond criticism, requiring constant resource redistribution. Yet this narrative ironically continues black America's core historical theme: dehumanization. Leftists project onto black Americans whatever serves their power needs rather than seeing them authentically. Growing up in majority-black Philadelphia taught me that most progressives from whiter areas fundamentally misunderstand black culture, perpetuating the very dehumanization they claim to oppose.
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Bibliography:
Bibliography:
Atrocities by Matthew White
Plagues and Peoples by McNeil the Elder
Rise of the West by McNeil the Elder
Mosquito Empires by McNeil the Younger
The Story of the Americas by Leland Dewitt Baldwin
American Nations by Colin Woodard
Albion's Seed by David Hackett Fischer
African Founders by David Hackett Fischer
Roll Jordan Roll by Eugene Genovese
Ethnic America by Thomas Sowell
Conquests and Cultures by Thomas Sowell
Lineages of Modernity by Todd Emmanuel
The Origins of Ideology by Todd Emmanuel
Civilizations by Armesto
A History of Civilizations by Braudel
Bound Away by David Hackett Fischer
Inside Africa by John Gunther
Africa, a History by John Reader
Generations of Captivity by Berlin
Africa in History by Basil Davidson
Who We are and How we got here by David Reich
The Tree of Culture by Ralph Linton
The Unabomber's Manifesto
The Nine Nations of North America by Joel Garreau
Seeing like a State by James Lindsay
the 3D Gospel by Georges
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India-Pakistan: Asia's WW1?
Within a month of recording, the year's most politically important event happened—and NOBODY in the West covered it. India and Pakistan (combined population larger than Russia-Ukraine) exchanged missiles across borders in an escalation eerily mirroring 1914's Franz Ferdinand assassination. Two industrialized multi-ethnic empires fighting over terrorist proxies while alliance networks threaten continental war. Our media's total blackout reveals how completely we've lost track of global reality.
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Bibliography:
Disunited Nations by Peter Zeihan
The Origins of Political Order by Fukuyama
Monsoon by Kaplan
Asian Waters by Humphrey Hawksley
Asia's Cauldron by Kaplan
The First World War by John Keegan
The High Tower by Barbara Tuchman
Europe by Norman Davies
India by John Keay
The Psychology of the Great War by Gustave le Bon
Inglorious Empire by Sashi Tharoor
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The Rise and Fall of the Bluepill
A historic shift occurred in the early 20th century when the West completely suspended any concept of reality or meaning. We adopted a new religion whose core belief was that it WASN'T a religion—agnostic liberalism that declared thousands of years of human struggle for glory and meaning "unnecessary." This tyranny greater than Rome or the Catholic Church dominates every moment of our lives while remaining invisible, creating our current "age of platitudes."
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Bibliography:
The Passion of the Western Mind by Tarnas
A History of Western Philosophy of Bertrand Russell
Mankind the Story of All of Us by the History Channel
Maps of Meaning by Jordan Peterson
The Gateway Protocol by Robert Monroe
Leviathan and Its Enemies by Sam Francis
The Total State by Auron Macintyre
After Liberalism by Paul Gottfried
The Crowd by Gustave le Bon
The Revolt of the Elites by Lasch
Ages of Discord by Peter Turchin
Regime Change by Deneen
The Economics of Discontent by Jean Michel Paul
Warriors and Worriers by Joyce Benneson
Fire in the Minds of Men by Billington
A Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell
About "WhatifAlthist" | World History, Philosophy, Culture
WhatifAltHist is a podcast from Rudyard Lynch that looks to try to find the patterns in history and anthropology so as to predict the future and understand the dynamics that result in civilizations rising and falling. It began as an enormously popular alternate history channel with nearly 600K listeners and more than 100M views on YouTube. Rudyard Lynch also hosts the podcast History 102 with Erik Torenberg, which attempts to solidly explain pivotal historical events in depth in under an hour.
Topics covered: World History, Philosophy, Civilization, Culture
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