The Great Reality Hijack
The Great Reality Hijack How Power Learned to Live Inside Your Head What if the most effective prison ever constructed didn't require walls? What if it required only a story? A story about what you're supposed to fear. What success looks like. Who your enemies are. What your time is worth. What you're allowed to question. Which side you're supposed to choose. What you should buy. What you should believe. Repeat that story long enough, especially across generations, and eventually nobody needs to enforce it. You enforce it yourself. That is the reality hijack. Not necessarily some secret room where a handful of villains design every detail of civilization. Something more ordinary, decentralized, and therefore arguably more powerful has happened: governments, religions, corporations, political movements, advertisers, media organizations, families, schools, algorithms, and cultures have all discovered the same ancient truth. Human attention can be influenced. H...