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The Anatomy of Bias and Illusion, Volume 6: Power, Control, and Anti-Civilizational Illusions
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Series: The Anatomy of Bias and Illusion, Book 6
PhilosophyGeneral PoetryGeneral Psychology
Publisher: Henry Piironen
Published: Feb 28 2026
Pages: 310
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
How does power disguise itself? How do movements convince, radicalize, sanctify, and justify? When does grievance harden into extremism?
Volume 6: Power, Control, and Anti-Civilizational Illusions examines the cognitive and rhetorical architectures that shape propaganda, conspiracism, ideological radicalization, moral absolutism, and political-religious extremism. Across thirteen expansive chapters, it maps disinformation tactics, persecution narratives, hyper-politicization, cynical worldviews, collectivizing dynamics, hegemonic myths, purist dogmas, and the psychological mechanics of terrorism.
From manufactured crises and scapegoat logic to purity spirals and apocalyptic justification, this volume analyzes how identities fuse with causes, how enemies are simplified, how moral arithmetic replaces complexity, and how violence becomes reframed as duty, destiny, or redemption.
Rather than treating extremism as aberration, Volume 6 presents it as the intensification of familiar distortions: certainty inflation, narrative simplification, victimhood currency, threat amplification, and symbolic warfare. It shows how propaganda ecosystems, ideological echo chambers, and sanctified narratives create internally coherent but reality-divergent worlds, exploring them through first person, cognitive order, bias or illusion forming phenomenological stanzas..
Systematic and unsparing, this volume extends The Anatomy of Bias and Illusion into the domains where cognition becomes mobilization and belief becomes weaponized: revealing the illusion systems that erode pluralism, destabilize institutions, and threaten civilizational stability itself.
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