The Pattern Files
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Something is wrong.
The patterns are everywhere — in the blueprints, the filings, the names that keep showing up in places they shouldn't. I started writing it down because my department wouldn't listen. I started recording because the page wasn't enough.
I'm not a journalist. I'm not an investigator. I'm a professor with a legal pad and a data set that won't let me sleep. What follows are the case files — the episodes, the evidence, the questions I can't stop asking. I publish them here because if the feed goes quiet, the quiet is the answer.
— Asa Thibodeaux, early 2019
The Invitation
A narrator speaks to the listener directly: you have been noticed, and not by accident. The voice describes a society with no headquarters that touches nearly every industry, names it the Manassean Society, and introduces Don't Think Me Evil, a trilogy by Elwood West told as three confessions in three different voices. It closes by asking only that you hear the first confession before you judge, and Asa Thibodeaux has the last word.