Some truths are too enormous for words—like discovering the sky is a different color while normies remain blind. Over seven years since high school, I systematically deconstructed the comfortable illusions we've lived in our entire lives. Politics and trans issues are just surface symptoms—the rot goes INFINITELY deeper. Once you flip the log over, it's completely eaten through by worms. This episode dissects our rotting worldview and reveals why everything we've been taught is fundamentally false.
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Link to my second podcast on world history and interviews: / @history102-qg5oj
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Bibliography:
The Myth of Disenchantment by Storm
A Secular Age by Charles Taylor
A Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell
Forgotten Truth by Houston Smith
Forbidden Universe by Lynn Picknett
The Righteous Mind by Jon Haidt
The Happiness Hypothesis by Jon Haidt
The Elephant in the Brain by Simler
The Soul's Code by James Hillman
The Master and His Emissary by Ian McGhilchrist
The Psychology of Socialism by Gustave le Bon
The Crowd by Gustave le Bon
Spiral Dynamics Intergated by Beck
Sex, Ecology and Spirituality by Ken Wilber
Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell
The Rise and Fall of Nations by Ruchir Sharma
Rise of the West by McNeil
The Eye of Shiva by Amaury de Riencourt
Sex and Power in History by Amaury de Riencourt
Masks of the Gods by Joseph Camble
Maps of Meaning by Jordan Peterson
A Brief History of Time by Steven Hawking
Modern Times by Paul Johnson
Robert Monroe's Trilogy
The Passion of the Western Mind by Tarnas
A Brief History of Philisophy by Betrand Russel
...probably a bunch more than this. This was a multidisciplinary video. This is. good start though
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Modernity's Two Mythologies
Gustave Le Bon revealed that history runs on dreams, not logic—90% of humans merely rationalize their emotions. Every civilization projects fantasy ideals (Christian Heaven, Marxist Utopia, Valhalla) that animate their entire existence. Modernity's enormous wealth enabled unprecedented delusion, creating TWO competing fantasies so powerful that people will destroy nations refusing to fulfill them. Most remain trapped in modernity's mythology, unable to see the illusions controlling their lives.
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LINKS:
Link to my second podcast on world history and interviews: / @history102-qg5oj
Link to my Twitter-https://twitter.com/whatifalthist?ref...
Link to my Instagram-https://www.instagram.com/rudyardwlyn...
Bibliography:
The Masks of the Gods by Joseph Camble
A History of Religious Ideas by Mircea Eliade
The Crowd by Gustave le Bon
The Psychology of Socialism by Gustave Le Bon
The World Unbalanced by Gustave le Bon
Prometheus and Atlas by Jorjani
Zombies in Western Culture by Vervaeke
The Soul's Code by James Hillman
Religion and Culture by Chris Dawson
The Psychology of the Great War by Gustave Le Bon
The Passion of the Western Mind by Tarnas
The Unabomber's Manifesto
The Dictators by Richard Overy
Modern Times by Paul Johnson
Seculosity by Zahl
The Gods of Revolution by Dawson
Nihilism by Seraphim Rose
Forgotten Truth by Houston Smith
A Secular Age by Charles Taylor
Fire in the Minds of Men by Billington
The Total State by Auron Macintyre
Leviathan and Its Enemies by Sam Francis
The Knowledge Machine by Michael Strevents
1984 by George Orwell
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Future of Humanity by Michio Kaku
Physics of the Future by Michio Kaku
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven and Pournel
Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner
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The Rise and Fall of California
Living through mythological events, we've lost the eyes to see them. California represents history's cautionary tale—a society blessed with EVERYTHING (perfect geography, unprecedented wealth, human capital) destroyed by a single variable: culture. This parable reveals how elites and socialists formed an unholy alliance to ethnically replace and atomize a functioning society, creating artificial feminine dystopia that chose civilizational suicide over authentic community. History's most rapid demographic replacement meets total cultural collapse.
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Link to my second podcast on world history and interviews: / @history102-qg5oj
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Link to my Instagram-https://www.instagram.com/rudyardwlyn...
Bibliography:
California by Starr
California by Faragher
Inside America by Johm Gunther
American Nations by Colin Woodard
The Nine Nations of North America by Joel Garreau
The Shaping of America by Meinig
Mexico, Blood and Fire by DT Fehrenbach
Ethnic America by Thomas Sowell
Pacific Worlds by Mark K Matsuda
Empires of the Atlantic World by Elliot
The Story of the Americas by Leland Dewitt Baldwin
The History of Latin America by Hubert Herring
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why empathy is the meaning of life
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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Link to my Twitter-https://x.com/whatifalthist
Link to my Instagram-https://www.instagram.com/rudyardwlynch/?hl=en
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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LINKS:
Link to my second podcast on world history and interviews: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0NCSdGglnmdWg-qHALhu1w
Link to my Twitter-https://x.com/whatifalthist
Link to my Instagram-https://www.instagram.com/rudyardwlynch/?hl=en
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
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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