{"product_id":"delusion-at-scale-why-reality-eventually-stops-negotiating-9798258917768","title":"Delusion At Scale: Why Reality Eventually Stops Negotiating","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Aaron E. Plackett\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Sociology - Social Theory\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eModern systems can absorb error for a time. Beliefs drift from consequence. Confidence replaces accuracy. Nothing appears to break.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the system is still changing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDelusion at Scale\u003c\/i\u003e traces how thinking loses its corrective function, how error becomes insulated, and how belief systems stabilize and spread. What begins at the individual level expands into groups, institutions, and entire systems, reshaping how people interpret reality and respond to it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a story of sudden collapse. It is a pattern of gradual misalignment, where disagreement becomes conflict, maintenance is neglected, and decline is absorbed without recognition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUntil it isn't.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen limits return, they do not adjust to belief. They do not respond to interpretation. They enforce.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book does not argue. It describes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause reality does not negotiate.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47883323310231,"sku":"9798258917768","price":1077.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798258917768.webp?v=1781101133","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/delusion-at-scale-why-reality-eventually-stops-negotiating-9798258917768","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}