Not the first time I've seen this. Unbearably posturing, dishorientatingly unfocused, and offering a wholly uninteresting take on the ill-defined word "nihilism". Also a really annoying case of tunnel vision in pretending to pen a magnus opus on liberal democracy, then writing exclusively about America and its history (ignoring even Britain after it begat the American colonies).

Incidentally, how exactly is it supposed to be a cockatrice to anyone?