[Query]

You did what you were supposed to do. Followed the rules, followed the steps, did everything you were told. And somehow you find yourself stuck, burnt out, or exactly where you started.

The Unplanned Disassembly of Our Modern Delusionment is a work of narrative nonfiction, approximately 55,000 words, examining how American institutions, language, education, labor, money, media, banking, healthcare, politics, and religion, sustain themselves not through honesty but through a condition I call delusionment. It argues that this condition is maintained through what the book calls mythocracy: a system governed not by laws or power alone, but by durable narratives that direct explanation inward, toward personal failure, rather than toward the systems themselves.

What this book offers is recognition. Readers who have spent years believing the gap between their effort and their outcomes was personal failure will find, chapter by chapter, that the gap is structural. That is not a consolation, it is a reckoning.

In the tradition of Heather McGhee's The Sum of Us, this book names a designed condition and maps how every major American institution sustains it. For readers of David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs and Anand Giridharadas's Winners Take All, it applies the same diagnostic honesty to the full architecture of American institutional life.

I am not a credentialed academic. This book could not have been written by someone who was. It was written from the inside, where the consequences of not questioning are felt, and where the truth about what is happening can be seen.

I am seeking representation for this project and would be glad to send the full manuscript at your request.

Thank you,

Jeremy Erickson