Chapter 3: The Blasted Heath

In this chapter, we descend into fire and ash — Pompeii’s frozen ruins, volcanic thunderclouds, and Shakespeare’s blasted heath — to ask how memory endures when truth begins to fracture. Here legacies are scorched, language twists into fog, and the phantom “they” rises from the smoke. What begins in volcanic fire widens into outrage media, engineered fury, and the epistemic breaches born of Reagan’s rhetorical spell — the crater where our post-truth age first began to take shape.

• 🧭 Back to Begin Here.
• 🗂️ Chapter 1 Index: “Standing in the Ancient Shadow”
• 🗂️ Chapter 2 Index: “The Soul’s Ascent”
  • Prelude—Field Note 3 3/4 — “The Rainbow Connection: Don’t Believe Everything You Think” (🎧 Listen)
• Waypoint 3.1 — “The Iron Key: Pompeii, Volcanic Fire, and The Locks of Time” (🎧 Listen)
  • Field Note 3.1 (a) — “The Blasted Stage: Kierkegaard’s Clown, Newsom’s Warning, and Trump’s Burning Theatre” (🎧 Listen)
  • Field Note 3.1 (b) — “The Phantom Pronoun: On The Aftermath of The Charlie Kirk Assassination ”
• Waypoint 3.2 — “The Loudest Belch: Reagan’s Revolution & The Birth of Outrage Media” (🎧 Listen)
  • Field Note 3.2 — “All The King’s Candy: Every Kingdom Starts with A Taste for Something Sweet.” (🎧 Listen)
• Waypoint 3.3 — “Faith, Fury, and the Ditto-Headless Horsemen of the Post-Truth Apocalypse” (🎧 Listen)
  • Don’t Squeeze the Protests: Postcard from the Kingdom of the Crapulent King (On Substack)
• Waypoint 3.4 — “From the Rhetoric of Valley Forge to the Forge of Fallacies” (🎧 Listen)
• Next Chapter: “Mysteries of The Deep” → 🔒 Coming Soon

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