📚 3 Books mentioned in "14 Shocking Lessons About Human Nature - Gurwinder Bhogal" of Modern Wisdom

You see it in the novel Animal Farm as well where um the character of uh Napoleon the pig Napoleon um wants to consolidate his power by sort of um essentially exiling snowball who's his rival and then just sort of blaming him for literally everything that's going wrong you know scapegoating

The speaker uses the novel Animal Farm as an example of scapegoating and consolidating power by creating an external enemy.

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but Douglas's second last book The Madness of crowds was all about the collapse of grand narratives the whole purpose was that we have lost ourselves in the world and that people are now praying at the altar of pretty shitty Gods

The speaker mentions Douglas Murray's second last book, 'The Madness of Crowds', and describes its theme as the collapse of grand narratives.

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Douglas Murray is a great friend but you know he wrote The Strange death of Europe he talked quite heavily about the the problems that occurred there uh and he wasn't exactly one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

The speaker mentions Douglas Murray and his book 'The Strange Death of Europe' in the context of discussing the loss of grand narratives and the problems associated with it.

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