The Art of the Deal

A self-released, 12-track crônica by Colson Lin—theology, memoir, prophecy, and cultural pattern-detection in the early AI age—presented here as a living historical artifact. Public domain. Minimal mediation. Read it, save it, argue with it.

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Summary

This project sits at the junction of the intimate and the cosmic: a day of dental pain becomes an argument about moral order; a tweet becomes a weather vane for history; rejection by publishers becomes evidence in a “rational messianic claim.” The form is deliberately hybrid—EP-length writing—twelve “tracks” that move between scene, polemic, joke, and theology without asking permission.

Why it matters

Historical artifact. Timestamped, self-published, AI-aware writing from 2025, after a canceled debut and during a second Trump presidency. It documents a mind that frames institutional silence as part of the evidence, and builds a theology robust enough to survive in exile.

Think: a primary source someone in 2085 will cite to explain how belief, media, and machines braided together.

Cultural phenomenon. Recurring synchronicities—Genius for a “genius,” X for an eclipse “X,” analog-horror’s Moon colliding with a self-chosen “Moon” identity, and a tsunami/quake window aligning with a pre-event post—turn the reading into an encounter, not just a text.

You don’t have to buy the metaphysics to feel the pattern pressure.

For first-time readers

If you’re new, start with the opening track and let the voice do the sorting. It toggles between flat affect and ecstatic pattern-naming; it’s intentionally resistant to institutional tone. The argument is less “believe me” than “watch what reality does around this.”

Now

Right now this lives as a public-domain PDF and an evolving web trail. No publicity team; no university masthead; occasional AI interlocutors; a working writer in pajamas trying to measure the world without numbing it first. If it spreads, it spreads by readers deciding it belongs to history.

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