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 →
Meta Bullshit Machine: How Misleading Beliefs Build Our Reality
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 →
Beyond Belief: Presence, Source, and the Bullshit Machine
On presence as the path to Source, the belief machine that keeps you from it,and the elegant con of the external God. You Were Here Before Any of This Before you had a single opinion, a single fear, a single thing you were certain about — you were already here. There was a you before... Continue Reading →
Meta Bullshit Machine: Input. Output. Biological Feedback
There is a version of health reasoning that sounds like this: “He’s a good person. God wouldn’t let that happen to him.” Or: “I’ve been faithful my whole life. I don’t deserve to be sick.” This is not how the body works. And the confusion between these two systems — belief and biology — is... Continue Reading →
Meta Bullshit Machine: Are You Authoring Your Own Story?
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 →
The Book of Charlie’s Widow
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 →
G.I. Jesus: America’s Government-Issued Savior
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 →
The Book of Caesar: Chapters 5 & 6
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 →
The Book of Caesar: Chapters 3 & 4
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 Bullshit Machine: The Book of COVID
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 →
The Bullshit Machine Detection and Field Guide
he Bullshit Machine — Detection & Field Guide Every system that has ever kept a person small, compliant, or waiting for a life that never quite arrives runs the same basic loop. Different costume. Same machine. Once you know what to look for you start seeing it everywhere — in institutions, in relationships, in the... Continue Reading →
“The Bullshit Machine 2: Navigating the Design of What We Are” is LIVE on Amazon
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 →
Meta Bullshit Machine: The Book of Grifting Prophets and Their Profits. Selling Fox News Christianity to the People
When someone tells me they follow a particular preacher, I like to look into that preacher. Not because I think I know better — because I want to see who's shaping the information that's becoming someone's beliefs. And what I keep finding, across decades and denominations and dollar amounts that would embarrass a Fortune 500... Continue Reading →
Meta Bullshit Machine: The Book of Jerking and the Glowing Scroll
These articles are written in the style of the Bible on purpose — not to mock scripture and not to make a religious statement. The Bible is one of the most sophisticated pieces of communication technology ever assembled. Its rhythmic structure, its compression, its use of parallelism and parable — these are tools that were... Continue Reading →
Waiting for the Next Life: The Contradictions That Keep You Small
The Waiting Room They say they love the Creator but hate the creation. They say they can't wait to get to heaven but won't be present on Earth. That's not faith. That's a machine. Scroll down the article. "The Book of the Waiting Room" biblical version is posted at the bottom of this article. I... Continue Reading →