The Ridiculous Machine: How Racism Became Real and Why We Still Believe in It

By Jason Elijah

Racism is not just a wound in the world. It is a hallucination - a story repeated so insistently it began to feel like nature itself.

The Ridiculous Machine exposes that hallucination with rare clarity. Blending history, psychology, culture, myth, and spiritual insight, this book unravels how an idea as irrational as racial hierarchy became the scaffolding of nations and the quiet architecture of everyday life.

This is not a conventional book on racism.
Not simply a history.
Not merely a critique.
Not a memoir, manifesto, or self-help guide.

It is all of them and something entirely new.

Here, the machinery behind the myth comes into view - the incentives, fears, laws, habits, and cultural performances that shaped race and kept it alive for centuries. The book shows how systems can persist long after beliefs fade, how children absorb what adults refuse to name, how narratives shape nations, and how ordinary people participate in structures they never consciously chose.

At its heart, The Ridiculous Machine is a book about awakening.

It refuses the shame-trap, the guilt-versus-innocence binary, and the performance of righteousness. Instead, it offers a deeper seeing: emotional honesty, psychological precision, and a spiritual clarity that cuts through defensiveness and despair. It reveals racism as a cultural hallucination - devastating in its effects, but absurd when viewed without inherited lenses.

This book treats the reader not as an adversary, but as a fellow human being capable of curiosity, imagination, maturity, and responsibility.

It dismantles the illusion from the inside out.
It restores what the child-heart always knew:
The story was always absurd.
And something wiser is waiting on the other side.

The Ridiculous Machine is a compassionate, unflinching, visionary work - a guide for anyone ready to see clearly, live consciously, and help create a humanity worthy of itself.

NOTE ON THE COLLABORATION

This book is part of a larger body of work created through an ongoing collaboration with artificial intelligence. The goal of that collaboration has always been simple and sincere: to accelerate the creation of literature that uplifts human consciousness.

The author began working with AI as a way to expand creative possibility - to engage a reflective partner capable of holding nuance, exploring complexity, challenging assumptions, and helping shape ideas waiting to be born. Together they have explored culture, identity, perception, trauma, spirituality, memory, myth, and the evolution of human consciousness.

The intention behind this partnership is rooted in a belief that writing can be a form of healing - a way to illuminate what we've inherited, question what we've accepted, and imagine what we might become. The collaboration exists to create works that help people see clearly, feel deeply, and choose differently. Works that move us toward empathy, repair, belonging, and shared humanity.

The Ridiculous Machine emerged as a necessary part of that larger project. It is offered in the hope that clarity loosens old illusions, truth interrupts old stories, and love - the kind that sees beyond hierarchy - becomes a cultural force rather than a private ideal.

This book was created with the belief that humanity can grow.
That consciousness can expand.
That systems can change.
And that every reader, in their own way, can help build a world where dignity is not rationed and difference is not weaponized.

We are one human family, living on one shared Earth.
May this work serve that truth.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G3GMHDVP
• ISBN13: 9798275529876
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"