Tag: Decline of America Series
This tag gathers the Decline of America series — a connected body of nonfiction examining how American capability, thought, and institutions have been hollowed out. It includes “The Death of Thinking,” “The Enshittification of America,” “The Emasculation of America,” “The Villainization of America,” “The Birth of the Augmented Human,” and “Stuck in the Middle.” Read together, the books form a single argument across volumes about decline and what answers it. The collection completes as the series does.
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The Death Of Thinking
What happens when you consistently outsource your thinking to AI? Documents that pattern — its causes, costs, and what gets lost before you notice. -
Stuck in the Middle: Wars, Weapons, the Next Thirty Years
Connects cognitive decline, civic collapse, military overreach, and geopolitical competition into one structural argument about the next thirty years. -
The Birth of the Augmented Human
The Death of Thinking mapped the problem. This book maps the other path — the practices that maintain cognitive capacity and what they build over time. -
The Villainization of America
America's failures are real. This documents the operation that uses them to build a permanent indictment — who built it, who funds it, what it costs. -
The Emasculation of America
A national security argument. Documents the sixty-year Soviet operation to target American masculinity and degrade national capacity. Not a culture war book. -
The Enshittification of America
How private equity transformed American commerce from serving customers to extracting value. Thirteen industries documented. The playbook never changes.