The Offense Engine: How the Internet Coded the Human Mind for Conflict
Dedicated to the family Garland Introduction: The Screen, The Shadow, and the Surge We were promised a global village—a forum for democratic discourse, a library of Alexandria available to all. For a generation, we cheered the internet as the ultimate tool of liberation, capable of connecting every voice and dissolving authoritarian distance. Yet, the reality we inhabit today feels less like a village and more like a continuous digital battlefield. This is not an accident of human nature manifesting online;…