Abstract:
We are losing control of our lives, our society and future, as Tocqueville warned if we allowed all purpose to be usurped by a regime. Control was lost to intellectual totalitarians, when the coming of agriculture eliminated survival as an effective guiding purpose. After an 8000 year hiatus, they were defeated by the Greeks who created a new, self-imposed, purpose for social guidance. The Christian world followed, but intellectuals instituted a modern attack 400 years ago.

This synoptic history of human society is followed by an explication showing that modernity's intellectuals attacked rule of law, culture, education, families, and rationality itself, not as flawed, but as obstacles to their own empowerment. Recovery requires this comprehension.