Length4h 21m
About this audiobook
Nothing Created America is a Poetic Cinema investigation into the systems human beings built—and later began treating as natural. Nobody, Nothing, Serious, Maya, Miss Gloria, Rafael, History, and their institutional cast follow the World Engine from colonization to the modern city, exposing the connections among land, money, medicine, crime, immigration, education, race, labor, technology, prisons, pollution, and power. A tree becomes paper. Paper becomes law. Law becomes ownership. Ownership becomes wealth, while ordinary people inherit the consequences. Through cinematic scenes, sharp comedy, historical reflection, and fearless questions, Vernon Snell reveals how separate institutions operate like connected gears inside one enormous machine. The book does not erase personal responsibility; it asks why responsibility so often stops with the smallest person. Funny, unsettling, philosophical, and deeply human
Audiobook details
GenrePhilosophy, Poetry
Length4 hrs 21 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 24, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1NOTHING CREATED AMERICA
2Dedication
3And to Nobody.
4In Poetic Cinema, colonization walks into the pharmacy.
5Choice.
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6Why?
7Hear the characters.
8It is Poetic Cinema.
9“Trees.”
10“The World Engine,” Maya said.
11“Connections.”
12“The Earth?”
13AMERICA CREATES OPPORTUNITY FOR THE WORLD
14“Systems.”
15One carried missionaries.
16“Across the ocean.”
17“Yes?”
18He looked at Maya’s World Engine.
19PROTECTING THE PUBLIC FROM DANGEROUS DRUGS
20Liver damage. Internal bleeding. Confusion. Dependency. Loss of consciousness. Sudden death.
21“Does supervision prevent addiction?”
22“Sadness,” Maya said.
23Worsening depression. Hallucinations. Compulsive behavior. Thoughts of self-harm.
24“Why?”
25Serious obeyed.
26“Step back.”
27HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONAL
28Chapter Three The Country Inside the Paper
29“Which island?”
30Another name.
31“Opportunity.”
32“Purpose of visit?”
33“Nobody.”
34She was announcing the department’s new Welcoming America Through Secure Exclusion Initiative.
35Commissioner Comfort noticed Maya drawing.
36PENDING FURTHER PROOF
37“How?”
38THE AGE OF DISCOVERY
39“Yes.”
40APPROVED HISTORICAL LANGUAGE
41“Expansion.”
42Miss Gloria sat beside Serious.
43“The publisher.”
44“Historians and educational specialists.”
45Trees.
46Gold.
47“From God.”
48“Say your new name.”
49“America’s.”
50The school bell rang.
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