Publisher's Synopsis
What if everything you believed about human worth was an illusion? What if the way we assign value, to ourselves, to others, to entire societies, was not just flawed but deliberately manipulated? The Cognitive Value Perspective: How Human Worth is Assigned, Distorted, and Controlled is an uncompromising exploration of the unseen forces that dictate human behaviour, morality, and power structures. This book delves deep into the Cognitive Value Spectrum (CVS), a revolutionary framework that reveals how humans unconsciously rank, devalue, and overvalue others, shaping everything from personal relationships to global conflicts.
At the heart of this book lies a disturbing truth: most human suffering is a direct result of value distortions. From the obsession with social status to the pleasure of devaluation, from hidden revenge mechanisms to cycles of humiliation and power, the way humans assign worth is at the root of political oppression, psychological instability, and mass atrocities. Drawing on history, neuroscience, psychology, and sociology, this book unearths the mechanisms by which individuals and societies justify cruelty, overinflate their own significance, and systemically strip others of worth.
The book is divided into seventeen chapters, each peeling back the layers of human perception, manipulation, and control. It examines how power warps empathy, how dark psychology exploits our cognitive biases, and how modern technology, through AI, social media, and surveillance capitalism, is digitally redefining human value. The Cognitive Value Perspective challenges readers to confront their own biases, to see how their perception of worth has been shaped by forces beyond their control, and to take back agency over their self-worth.
Yet, this is not merely an exposé of deception and distortion, it is also a guide to cognitive liberation. The final chapters explore how to escape value manipulation, how to achieve cognitive value independence, and what it would mean to transcend hierarchical worth entirely. Can humans evolve beyond social conditioning? Can value systems be reconstructed or even abandoned? These are the ultimate questions posed in this groundbreaking work.
For readers who have sensed that something is deeply wrong with how society assigns worth, this book provides the missing piece. Whether you are a philosopher, a psychologist, a thinker, or someone searching for truth, The Cognitive Value Perspective is a radical and necessary awakening.
