text:  Knowing what came before you. And a lot of this is not revolutionary stuff, as the title would suggest, but actually kind of is revolutionary in the time that we're in. Think about it. We are told that if anything is old, it is misogynistic, colonialistic, outdated, backwards, and racist. We are told that if you are not constantly looking at your phone all the time, then you are not being as productive as you need to. We have an entire chapter of this book about what I consider to be the actual existential crisis of the West.