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- 26 chapters, complete manuscript
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What the book covers
- Introduction: What We Are Living Through
- Chapter 1: We Didn't Wake Up Here
- Chapter 2: Bias Was Always There. It Just Used to Be More Transparent
- Chapter 3: When Journalism Tried to Be a Referee
- Chapter 4: Regulation, Public Airwaves, and the First Big Unraveling
- Chapter 5: Government Failure #1: Regulating for a World That No Longer Existed
- Chapter 6: Economic Incentives: Why Outrage Often Wins
- Chapter 7: Cable News and the Opinion Arms Race
- Chapter 8: Social Media and the Collapse of Shared Reality
- Chapter 9: When One Event Became Many Truths
- Chapter 10: Government Failure #2: Incentives Without Accountability
- Chapter 11: Generative AI and the End of Seeing Is Believing
- Chapter 12: Why This Matters Before We Talk About Solutions
- Chapter 13: Why Agreement Was Never the Point
- Chapter 14: Why We're Taught to Hate People We've Never Met
- Chapter 15: The Overlap We Refuse to See
- Chapter 16: Systems That Profit From Our Anger
- Chapter 17: Why Walking Away Isn't Giving Up
- Chapter 18: Where Real Dialogue Still Works
- Chapter 19: How to Talk Without Getting Mad (or Making It Worse)
- Chapter 20: Media Literacy Without Paranoia
- Chapter 21: Small Oases in a Loud World
- Chapter 22: The Possibility Space
- Chapter 23: Hope Without Denial
- Chapter 24: What We Can Do Now
- Chapter 25: We Actually Can All Get Along