In 2024, a homeless novelist, drifting about the mightiest country recorded in the annals of nations, stumbled upon, was gifted or revisited the acts and works of men long cast into dust or disrepute. The writings of these men: Hesiod, Xenophon, Tacitus, Arrian, William Moraley, Isrаel Potter, Edward Bernays, David Astle and Robert Sephyr, written between 725 B.C. and 2022, fell into weird sync in the mind of the speculative-fiction writer as the society he migrated within fell increasingly into the grips of hysteria.

Recalling Homer’s description of Zeus sending a bad dream to Agamemnon, this postmodern writer seemed to have been handed a reading list by Eternity. Books encountered in a New Jersey guest room, San Jose book store, delivered gratis to a Pittsburgh guest room the day before his arrival, held in a Reading, PA library, all of these texts made common cause in the wandering reader’s brain, with that book left in a Baltimore loft that had been mailed to him by a reader in 2018.

Undertaken is an offhanded attempt at direct speculation about the human condition, by a novelist who has avoided discussing an off-pondered question outside of speculative-fiction were it was once—yet is no longer—vigorously pursued. Wondering how many of his better-educated and unmet novelist colleagues have been lured from the poetically prophetic ranks of science-fiction into the predictive analytical control structure that rules our gaslight night, LaFond, here attempts to grasp why “NOTHING MAKES SENSE” to most well-meaning people.

His instinct that well-meaning people do not seek to control the lives of others, combined with his experience uncovering neglected evidence that proves the clear falsification of American History, suggested an institutional dedication to the LIE. Thus, this small man’s view of Declining Western Civilization, as a vast mechanistic falsehood, serves as the compass for this modest work. This disowned man’s perspective of America from its gutter, casts what he experiences and sees first hand with his eyes, in steep contrast to the current news reporting and opinion crafting. The starkness of the dueling delusions that power the simple hysteria of America, contrasted with complex REALITY, seems to the modest hobo, to be as far from actuality than these implanted ideals are from their acrimonious opposite.

Further, the fanatical dedication to enforcing belief in obvious falsehoods, of the invention of such words as disinformation, misinformation and malinformation, of the alienation of husband from wife, parents from children, based on some distant political stage play, raises a specter out of a harrowed Antiquity:

Are we ruled by EVIL?

Do our rulers worship, as a holy sacrament, THE LIE?

Are “our most sacred institutions” actually The Fruit of The Deceiver?

If so, are we the sacrificial offering to be butchered, devoured and burnt upon a reeking altar?