Gravity of Power
What Happens to the Human Mind When Nobody Can Tell It No (An Observation of Human Nature)
Unable to add items
Sorry, we're unable to add the item because your cart is already full.
Add to basket failed.
Please try again later
Add to wishlist failed.
Please try again later
Failed to remove from Wish List.
Please try again later
Adding to library failed
Please try again
Unable to follow podcast
Unable to unfollow podcast
Get 30 days of Standard free
€5.99/mo after trial. Cancel monthly.
Gravity of Power
Narrated by:
AI Voice BB B
Buy Now for €11.99
-
Narrated by:
-
AI Voice BB B
-
By:
-
B 3
This title uses virtual voice narration
Virtual voice is computer-generated narration for audiobooks.
What happens to the human brain when you strip away consequence, friction and the word "no"?
Look at any crowd in an airport terminal, an office lobby, or a city square. Thousands of biological organisms walk past each other without violence. They stand in neat lines. They wait for green lights. They surrender their papers to strangers in blue uniforms. When an electronic loudspeaker instructs them to proceed to gate twenty-four, they gather their belongings and obey in silence.
We call this civilization. Yet across forty thousand generations of mammalian evolution, nothing like this ever existed.
Human beings alone possess the capacity to organize millions of strangers into coordinated pyramids of action. We build suspension bridges, operate international flight networks, and coordinate planetary supply chains. But the exact same machinery of command that coordinates famine relief can orchestrate industrial slaughter. The corporate hierarchy that designs life-saving medicine can hook an entire population on opioids to hit quarterly earnings targets.
Why does authority always rot from the top down?
For centuries, moralists and political theorists offered a lazy diagnosis: power corrupts because evil individuals fight their way to the summit. In Gravity of Power, author B³ dismantles that myth. Power is not a moral defect. Power is an engineering problem.
adbl_web_anon_alc_button_suppression_t1
Continue the series
No reviews yet