The book is called The Fourth Turning. Considering WWI and WWII and many other historical events were all engineered and not organic in any way, I don't believe it unreasonable to assume this has been going on for thousands of years. Even the bible warns of these people. As for motivation, power, control, wealth, and population control. As for hyperion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktDCZTeJ3pI I read the first two books long ago. It's a trilogy. I thought I'd read the entire trilogy. I imagine I'll start in the next week or so. Maybe sooner. Be careful with "happiness" books. Or people selling it. You might be interested to know buddhism is an aryan creation. The more modern depictions are a corruption of what he actually looked like. In reality he has a white skinned, blue eyed, aryan.