Humanity: A Series Of Bad Decisions: A Satirical Look at Human Folly - Softcover

Olinsson, Lenni

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9199046008 ISBN 13: 9789199046006

Verlag: Lenni Olinsson, 2025

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History’s greatest disasters were all made by confident adults.

Humanity: A Series of Bad Decisions

A Satirical Look at Human Folly

History proves that even the brightest minds can make some truly terrible choices. A war over a pig. A financial crash sparked by tulips. A failed jungle utopia… courtesy of a car company. All kicked off with the same tragic confidence:

“Hold my beer. This is gonna be genius.”

This is historical satire for adults, an information-dense, darkly funny tour through 22 true stories of wars, bubbles, propaganda, corporate blunders, and plagues that went off the rails in spectacular fashion.

In this wickedly funny and disturbingly educational romp, Lenni Olinsson unearths the blunders that helped shape the world we live in, one terrible decision at a time. From speculative manias and crumbling empires to scientific faceplants and government vendettas against birds, this is history at its most absurd.

Inside you’ll find stories like:

• Tulip Mania and the South Sea Bubble, when flowers and hype wrecked fortunes


• The Great Emu War and The Pig War, wars that absolutely should not exist


• The Barings Bank Collapse and the Mississippi Bubble, financial confidence meets reality


• The Banana Republic Wars and the Opium Wars, when trade turns into tragedy


• Fordlandia and The Edsel Fiasco, corporate genius, beautifully derailed


• The Lysenko Disaster and The Four Pests Campaign, bad science and worse policy


• The Year Without a Summer, the Dancing Plague, and the Radium Girls, when nature and negligence strike back


• The Y2K Panic and the Boston Molasses Flood, panic, syrup, and the end of the world that wasn’t

Equal parts history lesson and comedy roast, Humanity: A Series of Bad Decisions is not the sanitized, dusty version of history you slept through in school. These are the stories of ambition gone sideways, brilliant plans that should’ve stayed on the napkin, and leaders who proved that power and wisdom do not always go hand in hand.

Buckle up. The story of civilization is one long, beautifully ridiculous mistake, and it’s never been more fun to read about.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Lenni Olinsson
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9199046008
• ISBN 13: 9789199046006
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 207
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.de/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxemburg