ISBN: 9798188655471 - the engineered weakness: how modern systems benefit from human weakness — and how to recover yourself (6 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - You are not imagining it. A great deal of modern life does better when you are a little weaker: more distracted, more anxious, more divided, more alone.In 1984, a macrobiotic teacher and a Soviet defector, two men with no known connection who agreed on almost nothing, each described the same slide and pointed at the same fork in the road. The Engineered Weakness takes their warning seriously without taking either man on faith.This is an investigation, not a conspiracy theory. You do not need a room full of plotters when many powerful institutions have each, separately, found that they gain when people are easier to steer. The book follows the paper trail (internal research, court records, industry memos, clinical trials) through the food on your plate, the feed on your phone, the thinning of the institutions that once stood outside the market, and the politics of fear.Inside: - What a federal metabolic-ward trial found about why ultra-processed food gets overeaten- What social-media companies' own research said about teenagers and division, set beside what they told the public- How industries learned to manufacture doubt, from tobacco to fossil fuels- Why loneliness became a market, and what the commercial substitutes can and cannot replace- Why frightened, exhausted people start wishing for a strong hand- A practical method for becoming hard to addict, hard to frighten, hard to divide and hard to manageThroughout, the book marks what is established, what is only inferred, and what is merely suspected, so you can see exactly where the evidence ends and the argument begins.For readers who are done with both establishment complacency and easy conspiracy, and who want teeth and honesty in the same book.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. In 1984, two men who had never met and agreed on nothing - a macrobiotic mystic and a Soviet defector - described the same trajectory and pointed at the same fork in the road. A people wakes up, or it gets an empire.The Engineered Weakness takes that warning seriously without taking either man on faith. It is an investigation, not a prophecy: a careful, hard-hitting look at how the systems that shape modern life - the food environment, the attention economy, the machinery of outrage, the market that sells us belonging - came to do better when we are a little weaker.The answer is not a conspiracy. It is worse, and harder to fix. You do not need a room full of plotters when a great many powerful institutions have each, independently, discovered that they benefit when you are more distractible, more anxious, more afraid, and more alone. No one had to coordinate it. Aligned incentives produce a coordinated-looking result on their own.But this is not a book that leaves you in the dark. Its single discipline - kept visible on every page - is to mark the line between what can be proven, what can only be inferred, and what is merely suspected, and never to dress one up as another. And its second half turns the diagnosis into a practice: the same capacities these systems erode are the ones a person can deliberately rebuild.This is a field guide to becoming difficult to addict, difficult to frighten, difficult to divide, and difficult to manage - for readers who are done with both establishment complacency and easy conspiracy, and who want substance, teeth, and honesty in the same book.Awakening, as this book uses the word, means recovered self-government - not enlightenment, secret knowledge, or opting out of ordinary life. 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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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. In 1984, two men who had never met and agreed on nothing - a macrobiotic mystic and a Soviet defector - described the same trajectory and pointed at the same fork in the road. A people wakes up, or it gets an empire.The Engineered Weakness takes that warning seriously without taking either man on faith. It is an investigation, not a prophecy: a careful, hard-hitting look at how the systems that shape modern life - the food environment, the attention economy, the machinery of outrage, the market that sells us belonging - came to do better when we are a little weaker.The answer is not a conspiracy. It is worse, and harder to fix. You do not need a room full of plotters when a great many powerful institutions have each, independently, discovered that they benefit when you are more distractible, more anxious, more afraid, and more alone. No one had to coordinate it. Aligned incentives produce a coordinated-looking result on their own.But this is not a book that leaves you in the dark. Its single discipline - kept visible on every page - is to mark the line between what can be proven, what can only be inferred, and what is merely suspected, and never to dress one up as another. And its second half turns the diagnosis into a practice: the same capacities these systems erode are the ones a person can deliberately rebuild.This is a field guide to becoming difficult to addict, difficult to frighten, difficult to divide, and difficult to manage - for readers who are done with both establishment complacency and easy conspiracy, and who want substance, teeth, and honesty in the same book.Awakening, as this book uses the word, means recovered self-government - not enlightenment, secret knowledge, or opting out of ordinary life. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…