Oh wow.

There have been plenty of people who have written just this. He’s no where near as unique or insightful as you give him credit for. In fact, he basically took a lot of concepts from a whole slew of authors and great thinkers and rewrote what they said. Centuries ago.

That’s his research. A lot of it is so old, it’s not even copyright protected anymore because the original authors, historians, philosophers, and thinkers are dead.

Like Thomas More or more recently, Carroll Quigley.

Yeah. The first section of Carrol Quigley’s Tragedy and Hope says very much the same damn thing and it’s free on the internet now. He completed many volumes of work on societies and empires including The Evolution of Civilizations and The Anglo-American Establishment. There was some other stuff about Rome and other empires, but I can’t remember if they were actual books or lectures put in print. Harvard historian from the 40s and 50s. He’s got his own society now, preserving his work so people can educate themselves. For free. On the internet. And without being so cold blooded and detached.

Might want to check it out. I’d be willing to bet a great deal of his ‘masterpiece’ was actually taken from Quigley through the lens of Jared Diamond’s Collapse.

The dude’s a cheap hack. Come on. He hasn’t researched shit. He stood on the shoulders of genius and proclaimed himself a revolutionary. A king.