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
