The Mirror and the Machine: How the Fractured Mind Builds a Broken World

By Doug Michael

Civilization is the outward expression of our inner condition.

We live in an age of extraordinary technological power, and extraordinary psychological instability. Institutions strain, public discourse fractures, and entire societies seem suspended in a state of constant tension. The surface explanations are political, economic, or technological. But beneath them lies a deeper pattern. The Mirror and the Machine argues that the external crises of our time are reflections of an internal one: the fractured human mind.

Through a psychological and cultural examination of attention, power, projection, and integration, this book explores how modern systems amplify our inner divisions, and how personal coherence may be the only sustainable path forward. If a fragmented consciousness built a broken world, what might an integrated one create? The future, it suggests, will mirror the answer. What we build next depends on who we become.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GNZL97RY
• ISBN13: 9798248751877
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 153 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"