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The Century of the Self - Part 1: "Happiness Machines"
youtube.comEurope’s expansion amounted in part to a deliberate assault on the modernizing ventures of other peoples and states. Perhaps it was not Europe’s modernity that triumphed, but its superior capacity for organized violence.
John Darwin • After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000
cleverest observer. Consider
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium

