The Unworshipped Engine (Paperback)

Langue : anglais

Edité par Independently Published, 2026

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Paperback. Why does gold make people fight wars, while the minerals your body burns for energy every second receive no reverence at all?THE UNWORSHIPPED ENGINE opens in the strange hush of a jewelry store - the same instinctive silence found at royal tombs, colonial mines, and central bank vaults across ten thousand years of history - and asks the question that silence never quite explains: why do humans organize so much of civilization around materials that do almost nothing, while the substances that actually keep us alive go almost entirely unnoticed?Drawing on evolutionary biology, neuroscience, and economic history, Dr. Stefan Stoev traces this one instinct from the peacock's tail to the modern gold market - through Mansa Musa's gold-crashing pilgrimage and the Fugger banking dynasty's collapse, the silver mines of Potosi and the phosphate island of Nauru, Leopold's Congo and the origins of blood diamonds, all the way to the AI data centers and critical-mineral stockpiles reshaping global power in 2026.Along the way, the book turns the same unflinching lens on: - Why people display wealth more readily than they share it, and what that reveals about status itself- The hidden costs of holding what you've acquired, from private security to sovereign wealth funds- How gold, diamonds, cattle, and even virtual real estate reveal the same instinct wearing different costumes- What Blue Zones research, hedonic-treadmill studies, and mortality-salience science actually say about a well-lived life- Why central banks are buying gold and dumping Treasuries for the first time since 1996- The uncomfortable colonial history, and the present-day cobalt economy, still shaping who profits from extraction and who pays for it- What eight billion people, a straining climate, and an accelerating population curve mean for the century aheadThis is not a book that tells you to stop wanting beautiful things. It argues, with rigor and genuine warmth, that the instinct behind that wanting is ancient, permanent, and not the problem. The problem is where our attention has been trained to look. Stoev, an Austrian mining entrepreneur and cultural diplomat, writes with the rare authority of someone who has spent decades on both sides of this divide: extracting materials from the ground, and studying what cultures do with meaning once the material leaves it.Part evolutionary psychology, part economic history, part practical philosophy, THE UNWORSHIPPED ENGINE closes with a quietly radical claim: humanity does not need to outgrow its oldest instinct. It needs to build, faster than that instinct can outrun it, the institutions that redirect it toward what actually sustains a life, and a civilization, worth having.Taking is an instinct. Giving is a culture. This book is an argument for which one writes the next chapter. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Titre
The Unworshipped Engine (Paperback)
Auteur
Stefan Stoev
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Independently Published
Année de publication
2026
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Paperback
Langue
anglais
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9798193876595

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