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
