The notes section is a second, quieter book running beneath the first: a trail of sources, clarifications, and technical details that support the main narrative without interrupting it.
It also reveals a stylistic choice. Big claims are delivered with a storyteller’s rhythm, but they lean on history, biology, economics, and philosophy. The notes show where the scaffolding sits, and where the leaps are made.
If you read them, the argument feels less like prophecy and more like a map of competing evidence: patterns in the past, plausible trajectories in the present, and the uncertainty that comes with any attempt to forecast.
The result is not comfort. It is a sharper sense of what is solid, what is speculative, and how easily a persuasive story can outrun the data that supposedly grounds it.