THE MAN MADE OF PAPER

What This Book Covers

1. Chapter One - The First Frankenstein
2. Chapter Two - When Corporations Became States
3. Chapter Three - Man by Metaphor
4. Chapter Four - The Hunger Clause
5. Chapter Five - The Soul He Cannot Have
6. Chapter Six - He's in the Walls
7. Chapter Seven - The Ad Machine
8. Chapter Eight - How Work Became Worship
9. Chapter Nine - The Pollution Is a Feature
10. Chapter Ten - Brand Religion
11. Chapter Eleven - Replacing the Flesh
12. Chapter Twelve - The Anti-Human Era
13. Chapter Thirteen - The Paper Guillotine

Excerpt

CHAPTER ONE The First Frankenstein BEFORE THERE WAS Google, Amazon, or even America, there was the East India Company. Not a company in the way you know it. This wasn’t a startup with a pitch deck and a hoodie. This was a monster with a navy, a stock price, a royal charter, and the authority to kill. The East India Company wasn’t just a business. It was the blueprint. The prototype of every modern corporation. And it was stitched together from something horrifyingly simple: permission on paper. A group of wealthy English merchants wanted to trade spices in Asia. But travel was dangerous. Pirates. Storms. Scurvy. So they needed money. And more importantly, they needed legal protection. They...