THE NOBODY SERIES THE WAR INSIDE THE MIND VOLUME ONE
By Vernon Snell
Length2h 53m
About this audiobook
The War Inside the Mind: What Was It All For? is a Nobody Investigation into the invisible systems that shape fear, memory, identity, desire, obedience, and human worth. Nobody and the Cast examine how language, colonization, racism, government, commerce, education, medicine, religion, entertainment, money, numbers, borders, and social classification enter the imagination and influence how people see themselves and one another. The investigation moves between history, lived experience, satire, psychology, and metaphor, asking where protection became control and where tools built to serve humanity became systems humanity learned to serve. At its center is one haunting question: What was it all for? Sharp, cinematic, philosophical, and deeply human, this Poetic Cinema work challenges the reader to question what society calls normal—and what may have been planted inside the mind long before anyone thought to ask why.
Audiobook details
GenreHistory, Humor
Length2 hrs 53 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 23, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2The War Inside the Mind
3MASTER FRONT MATTER
4NOBODY
5A POETIC CINEMA INVESTIGATION
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6THE NOBODY SERIES
7THE NOBODY SERIES
8TITLE PAGE: THE WAR INSIDE THE MIND
9THE WAR INSIDE THE MIND
10COPYRIGHT AND PUBLICATION
11NOTE ON THE WORK: WHAT THIS BOOK IS
12WHAT THIS BOOK IS
13WHAT IS POETIC CINEMA?
14WHAT IS A NOBODY INVESTIGATION?
15THE RECURRING CAST
16THE RECURRING CAST, CONTINUED
17THE SERIES SIGNATURE
18HOW TO READ THIS INVESTIGATION
19RULES OF THE INVESTIGATION
20HISTORICAL AND SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINE
21DEDICATION
22EPIGRAPH
23BEFORE THE INVESTIGATION
24AUTHOR’S NOTE
25OPENING STATEMENT OF THE CASE
26ENTRY INTO CHAPTER ONE
27Chapter One: The Morning Nobody Woke Up Inside the Machine
28The Morning Nobody Woke Up Inside the Machine
29Chapter Two: The First Weapon Had No Trigger
30The First Weapon Had No Trigger
31Chapter Three
32The Arithmetic of Human Worth
33WINNERS
34LOSERS
35Chapter Four
36When Feelings Needed Permission
37DEPARTMENT OF ACCEPTABLE FEELINGS
38HAPPY
39SAD
40ANGRY
41AFRAID
42SICK
43OTHER
44ANGER — BLACK MALE
45PASSION — SUCCESSFUL LEADER
46Chapter Five
47The Factory That Manufactured Home
48PATRIOTIC MEMORY
49Chapter Six: The Colonization of Appetite
50The Colonization of Appetite
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