For thousands of years, the human brain evolved to spot threats, chase rewards, belong to tribes, build myths, and obey authority. These instincts built empires, religions, industries, and now, they feed algorithms with every click, like, search, and scroll. Today, the same biological mind that once fought sabretooths fights boredom and anxiety by handing over more and more of its choices to automated systems that promise ease and control, but at what cost?
This book shows how the ancient survival brain works, how it carries fear, violence, desire, and the need for certainty. It traces how the agricultural mind learned to claim and control, how the empire mind learned to obey myths and leaders, and how today’s mind still clings to these patterns, only now dressed in glowing screens and invisible code.