What if our seemingly chaotic past contains a hidden fractal pattern? A repeating rule, visible from the very origin of civilization all the way to the behaviors of our current artificial intelligence systems?

The Bad Trip Hypothesis offers a fresh look at the history of our global civilization over the last ten thousand years by distilling vast multidisciplinary research into a single unified explanation. Originating in a lifelong quest for understanding of his traumatic past, Filip Roth takes readers on a journey through space and time to trace the one grain that may have started it all.

Suitable for readers of books like Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens and similar titles. The book covers multiple domains starting from a deeply personal description of author's childhood all the way to the strangely human behaviors of our current generative AI systems. Along the way, the book suggests an explanation for narcissism and the spread of civilization, illustrating these patterns through multiple historical and present-day figures.