You're Waking Up And They Don't Want You To by The Functional Melancholic

"People are mistaking engineered anxiety for personal failure."

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Further Reading:

1. Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control -
Stephen Kinzer
(A chilling account of the chemist who ran the CIA’s darkest mind-control experiments and turned MK-Ultra into a real-world psychological nightmare.

2. The Mighty Wurlitzer - Hugh Wilford
(A concise look at how the CIA built, funded, and manipulated front groups and media networks to covertly shape public opinion.)

3. Propaganda – Edward Bernays
 (How public opinion can be engineered.)

4. Crystallizing Public Opinion - Edward Bernays
 (Blueprint for shaping desires and behaviors.)

5. The Society of the Spectacle - Guy Debord
 (Media and culture as tools of control.)

6. Amusing Ourselves to Death - Neil Postman
 (How entertainment reshapes public attention.)

7. The Human Zoo - Desmond Morris (Society as a controlled environment.)

8. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Shoshana Zuboff
 (Algorithms and data as behavioral levers.)

9. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion - Robert Cialdini
 (Behavioral triggers and manipulation tactics.)