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The Imitation of Christ: Counting the Wind
Chapter 4 — How the Addition Machine monetizes our hunger for validation, trapping us in a relentless chase for the mirage of metrics.
Aug 12
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Charles Rodgers
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The Imitation of Christ: The Tyranny of Certainty
Chapter 3 — How the Addition Machine monetizes our obstinate opinions to fuel the modern outrage engine.
Aug 4
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Charles Rodgers
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July 2026
The Imitation of Christ: The Illusion of Intellectual Status
Chapter 2 — How The Addition Machine tricks us into hoarding data as psychological armor against quiet solitude.
Jul 29
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Charles Rodgers
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The Liturgy of the Label: What Is Your T-Shirt Actually Saying?
Behind every casual marketing slogan is a metaphysical cage. Are you an autonomous human being, or just a walking, breathing billboard for the Addition…
Jul 24
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Charles Rodgers
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The Imitation of Christ Manual // Chapter 1: The Vanity of Information Gluttony
Infinite consumption masquerading as spiritual progress. The 52-week experiment in radical interior survival begins.
Jul 20
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Charles Rodgers
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Whose Funnel Are You In?
From fast-food drive-thrus to career scripts and spiritual systems: an inquiry into the engineered slopes of modern life, and the radical act of…
Jul 17
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Charles Rodgers
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Reporting Live from the 15th Century
The Prologue: A 52-week manual for radical interior survival
Jul 13
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Charles Rodgers
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The Skinner Box in Your Pocket
The behaviorist architecture of the modern attention economy, and the deliberate manufacturing of digital bondage.
Jul 10
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Charles Rodgers
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The Addition Machine
Dismantling the transactional illusions of modern life, from cold-call centers to the pursuit of excess.
Jul 1
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Charles Rodgers
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