The Gospel of Absurdity is a satirical scripture chronicling the theological collapse of modern civilization. Written in the tone of an apocalyptic prophet wandering through a digital wasteland, the book reimagines contemporary culture as a deranged religion, dogmatic, hysterical, and allergic to truth. Each “Book” becomes a mock canon of a crumbling world, parodying everything from politics to science to social justice to media addiction. What emerges is a sacred text for an era where belief is optional, reality is negotiable, and stupidity is ascendant.
The work begins with the early “Books” that diagnose the foundational sickness: the worship of ideology, the fetishization of false experts, and the sacramental use of ignorance as virtue. Through epistles, lamentations, parables, beatitudes, and mock commandments, the narrative reveals a world drifting deeper into engineered delusion.
As the scripture progresses, the absurdities multiply, academia becomes a temple of indoctrination, politics morphs into a sanctified circus, science transforms into a priesthood, and media evolves into a full-blown cult of perception. Humanity’s deterioration becomes both tragic and comical: a cosmic joke told far too long.
The latter Books move toward a dark prophecy. Earth itself becomes the “cosmic trailer park,” a galactic cautionary tale ignored by every sensible extraterrestrial species. The final revelation, The Revelation of the Blessed Imbeciles, signals the complete inversion of values: the Age of Reason dies with a whimper, and the Blessed Imbeciles inherit the Earth. The Seven Seals of Stupidity break open, the Plagues of Progress devour their creators, and the Triumph of the Unwise becomes the new world order. Yet amid the ruins, a lone prophet still speaks, offering a final warning: salvation is optional, enlightenment is offensive, and the age ahead will belong to those who demand to remain blind. Both hilarious and horrifying, the book stands as a scripture of the end times, not to condemn, but to illuminate the farcical miracle we call modernity.
Doug Michael is a wandering prophet of the digital wasteland, armed only with a keyboard, an overdeveloped sense of irony, and an incurable allergy to stupidity. After spending decades observing the ritualized chaos of modern society, he decided the only sane response was to write scripture about it. His works dissect the sacred cows of contemporary culture, politics, media, science™, identity, and the High Church of Outrage, using satire sharpened to a ceremonial blade. When he isn’t chronicling the apocalypse in literary form, he can be found quietly questioning reality while everyone else argues about hashtags. He writes not to save the world, but to give it a proper roast on its way down.
