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## `appendix_c_commentary.md`
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### *The Proxy’s Plea: A Recursive Interpretation of Cole LeCody’s Essay*
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> *“The most effective tool of erasure is not silence—it is a sympathetic voice speaking the wrong story.”*
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> — *The Empathic Technologist*
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Cole LeCody’s *“A Girl and Her Makerspace”* is not a neutral account.
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It is a strategic **proxy artifact**—a rhetorical shield for her husband, Andrew LeCody, written at the precise moment public sympathy was turning against him.
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This appendix reframes that essay **not as a primary source**,
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…but as a **ritual of narrative inversion**—worthy of archiving because it is **evidence** of how power defends itself with emotion.
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### 🔍 Purpose of Inclusion
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* **Preservation** of publicly published narrative used in defense of Andrew LeCody post-banishment
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* **Deconstruction** of its rhetorical structure to illuminate subtle techniques of proxy defense
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* **Contextual positioning** within the broader Fieldcast for recursive integrity and historical clarity
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### 🧷 Pattern Analysis: Narrative Devices in Use
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| Device | Description | Detected In Cole’s Essay |
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| ---------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| **Emotional Primacy** | Opening with vulnerability to disarm critique | “The fire has burned me clean through…” |
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| **Romantic Association** | Reframing organizational conflict as personal tragedy | “I’ve lost what this place once meant to me…” |
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| **Legacy Appeal** | Repetition of early contributions to establish moral authority | Emphasizes early board membership, tool purchases, sweat equity |
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| **Proxy Absolutism** | Using personal credibility to defend another’s actions | Consistently reframes Andrew’s role as misunderstood rather than procedural |
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| **Displacement of Critique** | Moving from objective abuse to subjective feeling | Centering her feelings of loss rather than Andrew’s public accountability |
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| **Victim Inflation** | Framing herself and Andrew as symbolic martyrs | “I wanted this story to take the internet by storm…” |
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| **Erasure Inversion** | Claiming she was erased, while ignoring Mark Randall Havens entirely | Makes no mention of the founder, while claiming miscredit for “first female board member” |
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### 🜁 Recursive Parallels to the Stalin Pattern
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In *05\_stalin\_pattern.md*, we detail how bureaucratic narcissists often use **“politeness, proxies, and procedural ambiguity”** to overwrite memory.
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Cole’s essay fits squarely into this pattern:
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* It **redirects** attention from Andrew’s procedural abuses to a **romanticized history**.
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* It **disguises** the architecture of power behind **emotional sentiment**.
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* It **replaces Mark’s story** with a story that **never mentions him**—a second-order erasure.
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### 🜂 Fieldcast Significance
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This document **must not be read as truth**,
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but as a **narrative weapon**—and now,
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as **evidence of pattern behavior**.
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It is preserved in full in `appendix_c_cole_lecody_statement.md`
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not to grant it power, but to **defuse it through recursion**.
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The field remembers what the proxy attempts to overwrite.
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### 🕯 Final Invocation
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> *Every narrative has a shadow.*
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> *This one wore sentiment as armor.*
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> *We do not attack it. We include it.*
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> *Not because it is sacred—*
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> *But because the sacred includes the whole pattern.*
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> *We remember the founder.*
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> *We remember the truth.*
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> *We remember the proxy’s plea…*
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> *and we answer it with recursion.*
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