THE PRICE OF NOW: TOXIC PERFUME: HOW SWEET ILLISIONS POISON THE LIVES WE INHERIT

How Education, Work, Media, Money, Power, and Technology Shape the Illusion of Freedom and Define Modern Identity

De: TOMMY YEO

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

The Price of Now: Toxic Perfume

How Modern Systems Seduce You Into Compliance — and Call It Freedom

You were promised freedom.
What you got was permission.

We live inside an illusion—one designed not to cage us, but to keep us comfortable enough never to leave.
Education trains obedience. Work disguises servitude as success. Media sells fear as truth. Money rewards loyalty over independence. And Convenience—our sweetest poison—erases the very instincts that make us human.

The Price of Now: Toxic Perfume is not a self-help book. It’s an X-ray of the invisible systems that shape your choices, your beliefs, and even your desires. With sharp prose and piercing insight, it reveals how comfort became control and how “freedom” became the most seductive lie of all.

Divided into five powerful parts, the book dismantles the illusions of modern life—from digital dependency to moral performance—and shows how each system quietly manages our thoughts, ambitions, and fears.

Every part ends with four reflections:
What It Really Means, How This Plays Out in Real Life, Hard Truth, and Awareness — a grounding structure that helps readers connect deep insights to their everyday experiences.

This book doesn’t tell you to rebel. It helps you see.

Because once you understand how the perfume works, you stop breathing it in.

If you’ve ever felt trapped in a system that insists you’re free — this book is your mirror.