There’s way more going on in your head than there is in reality.
The bullshit machine is not always loud. Sometimes it shows up as generosity. You think of a friend who the bullshit machine thinks might be mad at you, because you think most people are most of the time, and then get the impulse to do something nice for them. Sounds simple. Sounds good. Except when... Continue Reading →
Most people don't know they've been programmed. Not because they're unaware that childhood shapes you — everyone knows that in the abstract. But because the specific mechanism is rarely named clearly enough to be useful. Here it is clearly. There are two ways a child learns. The first is cause and effect. Touch the hot... Continue Reading →
The Longest Running Operation in Human History Before the phone there was the television. Before the television there was the radio. Before the radio there was the newspaper. Before the newspaper there was the Bible. Not the scripture itself — the physical object. The printed, distributed, institutionally controlled document that arrived in your home carrying... Continue Reading →
How Bad Ideas Become Load Bearing Almost nobody builds a house of lies on purpose. They build on what they were given. They build on what everyone around them was building on. They build because the foundation looked solid and the people who laid it had credentials and the people who questioned it got called... Continue Reading →
On AI, Fictional Codes, and the People Who Will Use Them to Make Claims on Your Person The Bullshit Machine has a new uniform. It's not a badge. It's not a suit. It's not a form with small print at the bottom. It's a conversational interface that sounds reasonable, moves fast, and has read everything... Continue Reading →
There's a conversation most people never get to have. Not because it's forbidden — nobody is going to arrest you for asking the right questions, at least not yet — but because the environment never produces it. School doesn't produce it. The news definitely doesn't produce it. Your employer has no interest in producing it.... Continue Reading →
Also Called the Book of the Inheritance Concerning How the Machine Turns a Death into a Brand,a Widow into an Heir, Grief into a Shield,and Compassion into Compliance CHAPTER 1 The Transfer 1:1 And a man named Charlie was killed. And the man had a following. And the following was loyal and the following was... Continue Reading →
There's a version of Jesus Christ walking around America right now that the original would probably not recognize. He's on t-shirts. He's on truck decals. He's in dining rooms in a soft-lit portrait that makes him look like he's about to ask you to prom. He's been on cable news, at political rallies, and somehow,... Continue Reading →
Before you begin, understand what this is and what it is not. This is not a political manifesto, a call to rebellion, or a complaint about the state of the world. It is a diagnostic. The chapters that follow examine the machinery of systems—laws, narratives, authority, and the agreements that allow them to function. Written... Continue Reading →
Before you begin, understand what this is and what it is not. This is not a political manifesto, a call to rebellion, or a complaint about the state of the world. It is a diagnostic. The pages that follow examine the machinery of systems—laws, narratives, authority, and the agreements that allow them to function. Written... Continue Reading →
Before you begin, understand what this is and what it is not. This is not a political manifesto, a call to rebellion, or a complaint about the state of the world. It is a diagnostic. The pages that follow examine the machinery of systems—laws, narratives, authority, and the agreements that allow them to function. Written... Continue Reading →
The Book of Smith-Mundt Also Called the Book of the Act That Made the Lying Legal Concerning the Act That Forbade Propaganda Against the People,the Modernization That Quietly Removed the Forbidding,and the Machine That Was Handed the Keysto Thy Perception and Called It Transparency CHAPTER 1 The Original Lock 1:1 In nineteen forty-eight, the year... Continue Reading →
Click Here to Get The Book! There is a machine running inside you. It was built from everything that happened to you — the things you were told, the things you survived, the things you decided were necessary to believe in order to keep going. It runs your habits, your addictions, your relationships, your excuses,... Continue Reading →
The Book of COVID Also Called the Book of the Plague That Knew Where You Were Sitting Concerning the Great Pestilence, the Obedient Arrows on the Floor, the Virus That Was Not Alive but Outsmarted Everyone, and the Two Weeks That Lasted Two Years CHAPTER 1 The Arrival of the Pestilence 1:1 And in the... Continue Reading →
Click Here to get The Bullshit Machine 2! You saw the machine. Now what? Most people who wake up to the patterns running their life stop there. They name the programming, they see the habits, they understand the system — and then they spend the rest of their time managing it. Watching it. Describing it... Continue Reading →
The Bullshit Machine 