Length6h 53m
About this audiobook
In this Poetic Cinema comedy, a calm, left-handed investigator named Nothing follows the evidence through twenty institutions. Schools, hospitals, employers, courts, banks, algorithms, newsrooms, churches, prisons, and governments all insist their standards are fair. Yet their desks, tools, rules, language, and technology keep leaving people behind.
Joined by Serious, Maya, Rafael, Simon, Miss Gloria, History, and Hope Comfort, Nothing exposes the absurdity of systems that confuse identical treatment with equality. The investigation begins with handedness but reaches much further—into power, conformity, human difference, and the cost of being certain.
Funny, philosophical, and deeply human, Nothing Was Left asks one unforgettable question: When everybody finishes proving they are right, what—and who—is left?
Audiobook details
GenreHumor, Philosophy
Length6 hrs 53 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 24, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Copyright
3Dedication
4Epigraph
5A Note on Poetic Cinema
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6Author’s Note
7Meet Nothing and the Cast
8Introduction
9Opening Statement from Nothing Part 1
10Opening Statement from Nothing Part 2
11Opening Statement from Nothing Part 3
12Opening Statement from Nothing Part 4
13Opening Statement from Nothing Part 5
14Opening Statement from Nothing Part 6
15Opening Statement from Nothing Part 7
16Opening Statement from Nothing Part 8
17Opening Statement from Nothing Part 9
18Opening Statement from Nothing Part 10
19Opening Statement from Nothing Part 11
20Opening Statement from Nothing Part 12
21Opening Statement from Nothing Part 13
22Opening Statement from Nothing Part 14
23Opening Statement from Nothing Part 15
24Opening Statement from Nothing Part 16
25Opening Statement from Nothing Part 17
26Opening Statement from Nothing Part 18
27Opening Statement from Nothing Part 19
28Opening Statement from Nothing Part 20
29Opening Statement from Nothing Part 21
30Afterword
31What the Investigation Revealed
32Rightness Can Divide Responsibility Until Nobody Owns the Result
33The Preferred Body Becomes Invisible
34Identical Conditions Do Not Guarantee Equal Participation
35Adaptation Is Evidence of Intelligence Not Proof of Fairness
36Professional Language Can Protect or Conceal
37Intentions and Consequences Require Separate Evidence
38Standards Need Authors
39Nothing About Us Should Be Invisible to Us
40The Reality Behind the Satire
41Language
42Education and Forced Switching
43Tools and Workplace Safety
44Medicine and Human Variation
45Algorithms and Historical Data
46Universal Design
47Reading the Satire Responsibly
48Questions for Readers Schools and Book Clubs: For Educators and Facilitators
49For Educators and Facilitators
50The Seven Questions Every Standard Should Answer
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