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The Worm at the Core of the Network : How Digital Life Weaponizes Mortality Anxiety—and What to Do About It
What if your fear of death is fueling the very digital systems that control you?
The Worm at the Core of the Network is a piercing investigation into how the internet—especially social media—exploits our deepest existential the fear of mortality.
This groundbreaking book connects the dots between digital behavior, algorithmic design, and psychological terror management theory, exposing how platforms hijack your need for symbolic immortality and belonging.
Inside, you'll
The hidden role of death anxiety in digital addictionHow surveillance capitalism feeds off our search for meaningWhy online tribalism and outrage are defenses against existential dreadThe connection between algorithmic manipulation and our primal fear of oblivionHow to reclaim agency in a system designed to exploit your psycheIf you've ever asked, "Why am I so hooked?"—this book delivers the uncomfortable truth.
Part psychology, part tech critique, part liberation manual, this book offers tools to help you become digitally aware, emotionally resilient, and truly free in an era of engineered insecurity.
Scroll up and get your copy—because freedom starts with understanding what’s been driving you all along.
The Worm at the Core of the Network is a piercing investigation into how the internet—especially social media—exploits our deepest existential the fear of mortality.
This groundbreaking book connects the dots between digital behavior, algorithmic design, and psychological terror management theory, exposing how platforms hijack your need for symbolic immortality and belonging.
Inside, you'll
The hidden role of death anxiety in digital addictionHow surveillance capitalism feeds off our search for meaningWhy online tribalism and outrage are defenses against existential dreadThe connection between algorithmic manipulation and our primal fear of oblivionHow to reclaim agency in a system designed to exploit your psycheIf you've ever asked, "Why am I so hooked?"—this book delivers the uncomfortable truth.
Part psychology, part tech critique, part liberation manual, this book offers tools to help you become digitally aware, emotionally resilient, and truly free in an era of engineered insecurity.
Scroll up and get your copy—because freedom starts with understanding what’s been driving you all along.
76 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 28, 2025
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