The Web We Live In

What This Book Covers

1. The Lie of Choice
2. Chapter One - The Grocery Game
3. Chapter Two - The Bottled Illusion
4. Chapter Three - The Fashion Filter
5. Chapter Four - The Newsfeeders
6. Chapter Five - The Land Lords
7. Chapter Six - The Value Meal Trap
8. Chapter Seven - The Medicine Game
9. Chapter Eight - The Bankweb
10. Chapter Nine - Screens and Streams
11. Chapter Ten - Big Data, Bigger Deals
12. Chapter Eleven - Weapons and War
13. Chapter Twelve - Education as Programming
14. Chapter Thirteen - Religion and Spectacle
15. Chapter Fourteen - The Voting Illusion
16. Chapter Fifteen - The Death Industry
17. Chapter Sixteen - The Childhood Factory
18. Chapter Seventeen - The Sound of Ownership

Excerpt

THE LIE OF CHOICE I USED TO think I was choosing. Coke or Pepsi. Nike or Adidas. Apple or Android. CNN or Fox. Democrat or Republican. Oat milk or almond. Grocery store or farmers market. Amazon or local shop. Freedom or control. Then I looked closer. And it all started to blur. The more I compared, the more everything started to look the same. Same headlines. Same commercials. Same sugar in different wrappers. Same sponsors. Same shareholders. Same script, played on both sides of the screen. It wasn’t just deja vu. It was a pattern. Every aisle, every screen, every system I trusted had been stitched together behind the scenes—woven by names I never voted for, faces I never saw. I thought I...