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    Table of Contents

    THE RISE AND FALL OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE

    The Victorian Decline And The Fall of America

    2

    Scapegoats and Sexual Hysteria

    12

    Laboratory Rats And The Oil Crisis

    17

    Why Nations Pretend To Be Blind

    21

    How The Pecking Order Reshapes The Mind

       29

    Perceptual Shutdown And the Future of America

    34

    The Myth of Stress

    40

    Tennis Time and the Mental Clock

    44

    THE LUCIFERIAN PARADOX

    The Lucifer Principle

    51

    Epilogue

    54

    Acknowledgements

    58

    About The Author

    60

    Bibliography

    61

    Notes

    118

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