Copyright 2020 James LaFond

A Crackpot Book

Editor/Publisher: Lynn Lockhart

Dust Cover

Shamdemicism is the social science recently elevated above us as a self-ruling template for social compliance, in which the fear of disease is used to terrify humans into levels of obedience to a malevolent system that has previously only been achieved through universalist religious fanaticism and ideological industrial tyranny. Finally, the tattered yet still grinding engines of the systems of coercion developed in the Agrarian and Industrial Ages, have been joined with a system of control specifically adapted to the Information Age. How might this new paradigm of control offer benefits and perils specific to the plight of the alienated [1] mind?

 

Dust Cover Note

-1. I meant dissident. But placing that word on a book cover or sales listing is beginning to be auto-censored. Besides, the dissident mind is necessarily alienated either before or after the fact of his divergence from mainstream thought.

I wrote the following between 5/16 and 5/19/20, with it coming out to 11,161 words over 74 pages in Bembo 13 point. If you would like a PDF of the draft with all of the collectable mistakes in grammar, send me what you think its worth and I’ll email you a copy.

Contents

Preface 3

Am I a Mark? 9

Who Are We? 11

Genius 16

Misfit at Harvest 21

‘My Face in the Snow’ 29

Good and Bad in a World Gone Mad 32

Good Cop 32

Bad Cop 34

Deputy Dawgs Good and Bad 36

Masks 38

Fear as Good 40

Fear as Bad 42

Combat Taboo 43

Combat Value 45

Buying, Good and Bad 47

Castle to Cave 48

Dead Space Interior 51

Exposure of Medical Tyranny 53

The Collapse of Education is All Good 55

Lockdown as Liberation 57

Online Under the Lie as a Good 59

Rebirth of Secret Association 61

Bitch Call in the Man Hall 64

Deluge and Snow 67

Life Rhythm Return 69

‘Since Nightfall’ 72