Private Epistemologies: The Operating System of Modern Life

How Truth Became a Personal Burden—and Why Trust Collapsed Across Everything

Table of Contents

Preface — The New Requirement: Everyone Must Be Their Own Institution Now

Chapter 1 — What Broke: Binding Failure

Chapter 2 — The Privatization of Reality

Chapter 3 — Private Epistemologies

Chapter 4 — The Typology of Epistemic Adaptations

Chapter 5 — Interpersonal Engineering

Chapter 6 — The Great Separation: Risk from Reward

Chapter 7 — Optimization Culture as a Social Regime

Chapter 8 — Retirement as Analogy

Chapter 9 — The Knowledge Market

Chapter 10 — The Collapse of Shared Language

Chapter 11 — Signals vs Returns

Chapter 12 — The Anomics Counter-System

Coda — The Operating System of Modern Life