When the Algorithm Feeds You Your Own Mind

What if the voice in your head didn’t belong to you? What if your outrage, your joy, your despair—were not yours, but served back to you by a machine that learned your emotional blueprint better than you ever could? This is not fiction. This is now. The age of AI is not simply a technological revolution—it’s a psychological coup. Algorithms don’t just sell you products. They sell you yourself , wrapped in a narrative that keeps you scrolling, buying, complying. This is the quiet war for your inner landscape. And unless you learn to recognize when your thoughts have been hijacked, you may wake up as a puppet mistaking the strings for veins. SECTION I: THE FEEDBACK LOOP OF FRACTURED IDENTITY Social media algorithms are not passive observers. They’re active shapers. Trained on trillions of data points, they know what makes you flinch, what makes you click, and what makes you feel . Each click teaches the machine more about your patterns—and in turn, the machine begins to anticipat...