Length2h 41m
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Nothing Dealt America — Description
Nothing Dealt America: The Greatest Drug Deal Nobody Planned—Except Everybody Built It is a darkly funny Poetic Cinema investigation into how America’s modern drug economy became possible long before the neighborhood dealer appeared. Nothing, Nobody, and the Cast travel backward through Washington Heights, prisons, policing, pharmaceuticals, media, addiction, money, colonization, Hispaniola, sugar, tobacco, trade, and empire—following the chain that connects yesterday’s commodities to today’s underground economies. Instead of searching for one mastermind, Nothing asks a more uncomfortable question: What happens when generations of governments, businesses, institutions, consumers, laws, and human desires all help build the same machine? Mixing satire, history, street wisdom, philosophy, and lived experience, Vernon Snell turns the drug story upside down—asking who gets called the dealer, who gets called legitimate, who profits, who gets punished
Audiobook details
GenreHumor, History
Length2 hrs 41 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 24, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2The War Inside the Mind
3Chapter Eleven: The United States of Separate Histories
4The United States of Separate Histories
5Chapter Twelve
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6Who Taught the Body to March?
7FORCED MOVEMENT
8Chapter Thirteen
9The Diagnosis of a Civilization
10THE CENTER FOR NORMAL HUMAN BEHAVIOR
11PARANOID BEHAVIOR
12EXCESSIVE NEED FOR CONTROL
13CHRONIC URGENCY
14AVOIDANCE OF DISCOMFORT
15DEPENDENCE ON EXTERNAL INSTRUCTION
16HYPERVIGILANCE DISGUISED AS REALISM
17COMPULSIVE INTERPRETATION
18INABILITY TO LET THE PAST GO
19RESISTANCE TO MODERNIZATION
20UNLICENSED CAREGIVING
21CORRECTION DEPENDENCY
22NO MEASURABLE CONTENT
23SOCIAL CONDITIONS — NOT BILLABLE
24Chapter Fourteen
25Hell With the Lights On
26WELCOME TO PROGRESS
27WELCOME TO PROGRESS
28Chapter Fifteen: The Trial of Nobody
29The Trial of Nobody
30Chapter Sixteen: Nobody Investigates Nobody
31Nobody Investigates Nobody
32Chapter Seventeen: The University Without Walls
33The University Without Walls
34Chapter Eighteen
35The Black Knight Enters the World Engine
36THE MATRIX
37Chapter Nineteen: The Children Asked Why We Left It Running
38The Children Asked Why We Left It Running
39Chapter Twenty: What Was It All For?
40What Was It All For?
41MASTER BACK MATTER
42AFTER THE INVESTIGATION
43THE CLOSING REPORT
44FINDINGS OF THE INVESTIGATION
45Finding One — The Mind Was Not Empty
46Finding Two — Repetition Can Resemble Truth
47Finding Three — Words Organize and Distort
48Finding Four — Numbers Measure Without Completing
49Finding Five — Institutions Are Human Tools
50Finding Six — Fear Is Both Alarm and Instrument
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