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The Anatomy of Bias and Illusion, Volume 5: Social Interaction Illusions
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Series: The Anatomy of Bias and Illusion, Book 5
PhilosophyGeneral PoetryGeneral Psychology
Publisher: Henry Piironen
Published: Feb 28 2026
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.58 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
How much of modern social life is performance? How much of public belief is engineered, amplified, filtered, or sold?
Volume 5: Social Interaction Illusions maps the distortions that arise wherever people gather: online, in institutions, in political discourse, in markets of belief, and inside identity-driven communities. Across twelve expansive chapters, this volume examines performative self-presentation, expression policing, rumor contagion, justice narratives, virtue exploitation, compliance through language, argumentative fallacies, manufactured consent, echo chambers, belief commodification, veiled power structures, and large-scale cultural myths.
It traces how validation replaces presence, how outrage circulates as currency, how consensus is simulated, how identities harden inside feedback loops, and how institutions project neutrality while structuring influence. From words as violence rhetoric to moral grandstanding, from rumor cascades to ideological reinforcement, this volume analyzes the social mechanics that convert perception into persuasion and participation into conformity.
Rather than treating misinformation, polarization, or institutional distrust as isolated problems, Volume 5 presents a systemic taxonomy of social illusion, where attention is harvested, belief is packaged, justice is dramatized, and power is obscured behind procedural theater, exploring them through first person, cognitive order, bias or illusion forming phenomenological stanzas..
Analytical and unsentimental, this volume extends The Anatomy of Bias and Illusion into the collective sphere: revealing how realities are coordinated, contested, commercialized, and sustained through interaction itself.
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