Rudyard Lynch: How World War I Built the New World Order

YouTube ^ | Feb 17, 2026 | Dad Saves America

[ProgressingAmerica]

Rudyard Lynch, host of “WhatIfAltHist,” explains how World War I turned Western civilization against honor culture and paved the way for the bureaucratic states of the 20th century. In the aftermath of mass mobilization and industrialized trench warfare, Woodrow Wilson’s vision of the global technocracy began to take shape, coming into full force after the even greater devastation of World War II. The organic, honor-based social order of the old world gave way to a managerial system that wields power by creating its own reality.

[ProgressingAmerica]

"I see that you were articulating that this was woodpusher's position."

Its also your position.

Both of you. Neither one of you believes the Civil War was managerial. You guys have spent 10 years or more arguing about how tyrannical Lincoln, the Civil War, etc etc. was.

Tyrannical.

Not managerial.

[ProgressingAmerica]

"I am not surprised in the least that a progressive can find nothing wrong with creating the IRS"

I see what you did there.

Insinuation aside, The United States Department of the Interior was created in 1849, this is not proof in and of itself that Progressive Ideology goes back to 1849.

The progressives own writings do not reference 1849 as inspiration any more than they reference the Civil War/1862 as inspiration.

The progressives sought out anything they could find in order to build a managerial ideology - their inspirations did include the ICC(1887) somewhat, as well as some Prussian societal constructs. Like it or not progressives rejected the explicitly tyrannical constructs. In general, they viewed those as revolutionary.

Progressives and progressivism are evolutionary.

You can ignore the progressives own words. Do not expect me to join you.