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Desouled: Make Humanity Real Again: When corporations optimize your soul away - a darkly hilarious warning from tomorrow
Paperback
Series: Society & Civilization, Book 6
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 2 2025
Pages: 438
Weight: 1.28
Height: 0.89 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Welcome to a world where optimality is the new religion, and humanity is an outdated bug. Your neural implant just flagged your emotions as inefficient resource allocation.
In this Simulacrocracy, corporations don't merely control the world--they've redefined reality. Democracy has been optimized beyond recognition, human qualities are marketed as evolutionary errors, and authenticity has become the most profitable product to sell.
Alex Friman created MiniMaxZen as bitter satire on corporate spirituality--three seconds of zen between meetings. But when his mockery transformed into a mind-control tool ensnaring millions--including his sister--he faced an impossible choice: remain within the system or fight the machine he helped create.
When a strange emerald glow appears in the skies, disrupting neural implants and awakening people from their algorithmic slumber, Alex meets Zara--a woman who sees reality unfiltered by corporate algorithms. Together, they discover the sinister Phoenix Protocol--a radical societal restructuring disguised as protection from an impending solar storm.
As neural implants glitch worldwide, Maxwell Tiger, whose reptilian pupils occasionally slip through his human disguise, promises to Awaken the Giant in a campaign that feels disturbingly familiar yet literally not of this world.
DESOULED: Make Humanity Real Again is a prophetic mirror reflecting our present disguised as fiction about our future--a ruthless satire on corporate optimization that reads like tomorrow's headlines.
As the emerald light grows stronger and Tiger's campaign gains momentum, the line between dystopian fiction and breaking news blurs beyond recognition. This isn't just a novel--it's a survival guide for a world where authenticity is simultaneously demanded and commodified, and the fight for freedom becomes another product to be optimized.
Written as satire today. Reading like a documentary tomorrow.
What Test Readers Are Saying:
I started reading this as dystopian fiction on Monday. By Wednesday, I was checking my phone for implants. The most unsettling part isn't how dark it gets--it's how familiar it already feels. --Former Tech Executive
Frighteningly prophetic. I laughed until I realized I was watching a documentary about our present disguised as fiction about our future. --Literary Review Participant
The perfect novel for the post-truth era. It captures that surreal feeling where reality itself seems optimized for maximum outrage and minimum humanity. --Beta Reader
A masterclass in digital-age satire. Konko has written the '1984' of algorithmic capitalism--equal parts hilarious and terrifying. --Advanced Copy Reviewer
Started reading it as dystopia, finished it as a survival guide. The scariest part? I recognized my company's latest 'optimization initiative' described almost word-for-word. --Silicon Valley Engineer
DESOULED: Make Humanity Real Again is a thought-provoking science fiction novel that will appeal to readers who question our increasingly algorithm-driven society. Perfect for fans of George Orwell's 1984, William Gibson's Neuromancer, and the unsettling technological prophecies of Black Mirror, this philosophical technothriller examines what it truly means to be human in an age of digital consciousness and artificial intelligence ethics.
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