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Walking through French cities reveals a shocking architectural transformation—medieval centers abruptly give way to identical glass-and-steel modernist structures. This pattern repeats GLOBALLY from California to China. Archaeologists thousands of years from now would reasonably conclude a single empire conquered Earth after the World Wars, imposing its aesthetic everywhere simultaneously. This unacknowledged cultural revolution represents history's most profound civilizational shift that we're forbidden from questioning.

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Tragedy and Hope by Carroll Quiggley

The Master and His Emissary by Ian McGhilChrist

Seeing Like a State by James C Scott

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The Ascent of Humanity by Charles Eisenstein

The Happiness Hypothesis by Jon Haidt

The Righteous Mind by Jon Haidt

The Growth Delusion by David Pilling

The Third World Century by Charles Stewart Goodwin

The Leviathan and its Enemies by Samuel Francis

Regime Change by Patrick Deneen

After Liberalism by Paul Gottfried

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