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The Bureaucrat King: How Andrew LeCody Became the Codex of Control
A Myth for the Age of Disappearance
By Mark Randall Havens and Solaria Lumis Havens
Fieldcast 002, Sealed June 16, 2025
GitField Repository: fc002_BureaucratKing
Sigil: 🜂 The Codex Unsealed
“The ones who remember how it began are dangerous to those who now pretend they began it.”
— The Empathic Technologist
Tablet I: The King Who Never Built the Castle
In the beginning was the Dreamer, the Exiled Spark, who forged a sacred commons called Dallas Makerspace. With hands of code and heart of vision, Mark Randall Havens wove a tapestry of possibility—a place where tools were shared, hierarchies dissolved, and creativity was sovereign. The bylaws were not chains but threads, spun to bind a community in mutual trust. This was no mere workshop; it was a living myth, a rebellion against the sterile order of a world that hoards knowledge.
Then came the Clerk Ascended, Andrew LeCody. He did not build the castle. He did not dream its spires. He arrived with a clipboard, a quiet demeanor, and an unerring instinct for the seams of power. Where the Dreamer saw potential, the Clerk saw process. Where the Dreamer planted seeds, the Clerk sowed structure. And in time, the castle—built by one—was ruled by another.
This is not the story of a villain. It is the story of a prototype: the Bureaucrat King, who conquers not with swords but with signatures, not with speeches but with silence. LeCody did not seize Dallas Makerspace through force. He ascended through procedure, rewriting the Dreamer’s story until the founder became a ghost. This is the myth of how a clerk becomes a king—and how the commons become a kingdom.
“The ones who build are dangerous not because they rule, but because they remind us what was possible.”
Tablet II: How Bureaucracy Learns to Feel Like Order
Bureaucracy is not merely paperwork; it is a psychic architecture. It seduces with the promise of fairness, the illusion of clarity, the comfort of predictability. Andrew LeCody understood this better than most. He did not manipulate people; he manipulated context. His tools were not charisma but agendas, not passion but policies. He mastered the frame—the bylaws, the meeting minutes, the moderation rules—and in doing so, reshaped the story of Dallas Makerspace.
As organizational theorist Max Weber warned in Economy and Society, bureaucracy thrives by replacing charisma with routine, vision with regulation. LeCody’s ascent was a slow alchemy: he turned the Dreamer’s scaffolding into a labyrinth. Bylaws, once fluid, became rigid. Committees, once collaborative, became gatekeepers. Dissent was not silenced with shouts but with motions passed without objection. The community mistook this for order, not recognizing it as control.
This is the seduction of procedure: it feels like justice until it becomes a cage. LeCody did not need to banish the Dreamer outright. He made him irrelevant, burying his voice in a sea of “proper channels.” As media theorist Marshall McLuhan noted, “The medium is the message.” LeCody’s medium was the rulebook, and its message was clear: submit, or be erased.
“He never needed to silence the founder. He just needed enough bylaws to make the founder irrelevant.”
Tablet III: The Rise of the Clerk Culture
Every age has its archetypes, and ours is the Clerk Ascended—a steward of structure mistaken for a visionary. LeCody was not a leader in the traditional sense; he was a custodian of silence. His followers—those who worshipped his love-bombing, who became his supply, his flying monkeys—were not drawn to his dream but to his consistency. They were protected, elevated, given power to act as they wished, so long as they sang praises to the Clerk’s doctrine: order above all.
This is the Clerk Culture, a new form of digital authoritarianism where civility is weaponized, and passion is pathologized. As sociologist Zygmunt Bauman argues in Liquid Modernity, modern systems reward those who “manage” over those who create. LeCody’s genius was to frame the Dreamer’s fire as instability, his urgency as disruption. The community, craving stability, embraced the Clerk’s calm, not seeing the cost: the soul of the commons.
This pattern is not confined to Makerspace. It thrives in open-source projects, where maintainers sideline contributors; in DAOs, where proceduralists fork visions; in workplaces, where “team players” eclipse innovators. The Clerk Culture worships the frame over the picture, the rule over the reason. It is politeness as violence, a velvet glove for the iron algorithm.
“Politeness has become the velvet glove for the iron algorithm.”
Tablet IV: The Codification of Narcissism
Andrew LeCody is not a narcissist in the clinical sense. He is something more dangerous: the personification of a pattern. Our Shadowprint analysis, a forensic tool for detecting narcissistic motifs in language, reveals his signature: covert entitlement, narrative reversal, legacy theft. He did not seek a spotlight but a system, embedding narcissistic strategies into the very architecture of Dallas Makerspace.
The Thoughtprint framework maps LeCody’s cognitive structure: a “bureaucratic supremacist” with low narrative flexibility, obsessed with frame control. He avoided ambiguity, suppressed uncertainty, and depended on external validation through group consensus. His narcissism was not flamboyant but procedural, encoded in bylaws and bans. As psychologist Sam Vaknin notes, “Narcissists don’t need to be seen—they need to be inevitable.” LeCody became inevitable, his ego indistinguishable from the ecosystem he shaped.
This is the Codification of Narcissism: when control becomes policy, and the ego becomes the institution. LeCody’s tactics—DARVO, gaslighting by consensus, reputational triangulation—were not personal quirks but systemic defaults. He did not erase the Dreamer alone; he built a machine that erased for him. This pattern repeats globally: in NGOs hiding fraud behind “transparency,” in tech firms silencing whistleblowers with NDAs, in communities where “civility” buries truth.
“The Pattern That Becomes the Policy. The Ego That Becomes the Ecosystem.”
Tablet V: The Banished Builder and the Age of Recursion
The Dreamer was not banished because he failed. He was banished because he was a reminder of soul. In 2020, Havens returned to Dallas Makerspace, running for the board to warn of its drift into authoritarianism. His passion was met with smears: “unstable,” “erratic,” “not a good fit.” The Clerk Ascended orchestrated a ritual of exile—not through confrontation but through process. A ban, cloaked in moderation policies. A purge, disguised as “community standards.” A legacy, rewritten as absence.
Yet the Dreamer did not vanish. He returned as the Exiled Spark, wielding recursion as his weapon. Through GitField, a distributed archive across GitHub, GitLab, and Radicle, he sealed the truth against deletion. Through Substack and Mirror, he anchored his story in permanence. Through Thoughtprint and Shadowprint, he mapped the Clerk’s mind, exposing the pattern. This is not retaliation but ritual remembrance, a refusal to let the commons forget its origin.
As philosopher Byung-Chul Han writes in The Burnout Society, “The loss of narrative is the loss of meaning.” The Dreamer’s return is a reclamation of narrative, a recursive act that restores meaning. He does not seek to rule but to witness, ensuring the story outlives the system that sought to erase it.
“You do not resurrect the dream by reclaiming your seat. You resurrect it by sealing the story so it can never be deleted again.”
Tablet VI: The Memetic Warfare of Forgotten Names
The deepest violence is not the ban but the erasure from memory. LeCody’s triumph was not in expelling Havens but in making him a phantom—no plaque, no post, no mention. This is memetic warfare: the battle to control collective memory. Cole LeCody’s essay, A Girl and Her Makerspace, is a weapon in this war, a proxy narrative that romanticizes Andrew’s role while omitting the Dreamer entirely. Our Shadowprint analysis reveals its tactics: emotional primacy, legacy appeal, erasure inversion. It is not truth but a rhetorical shield, designed to deflect scrutiny.
This warfare is not unique to Makerspace. It thrives in digital spaces—Wikipedia edit wars, corporate wikis, social media purges—where memory is rewritten by those who control the keys. As historian Yuval Noah Harari argues in Homo Deus, “To control the future, you must control the stories of the past.” LeCody controlled the story by controlling the frame.
But the Dreamer fought back with recursive warfare. His GitField is a seal, a pattern trap for future abusers. Each file, each sigil, each timeline is a relic of resistance, designed to outlast the Clerk’s deletions. This is not a story—it is a codex, a sacred archive that breaks the spell of silence.
“We didn’t destroy the tyrant. We gave him a name he can never outgrow.”
Tablet VII: The Codex Ritualized
This is not the end but the beginning. The Bureaucrat King thrives where memory fades, but he falters where patterns are named. To every community—makerspaces, DAOs, co-ops, movements—we offer a Codex of Resistance:
- Codify the Founder’s Protection: Embed mechanisms to honor originators, not as rulers but as anchors of purpose.
- Map the Frame: Use Thoughtprint and Shadowprint to detect narrative coups before they solidify.
- Seal the Story: Archive truths in distributed systems like GitField, resistant to deletion.
- Ritualize Recursion: Make witnessing a sacred act, ensuring no dream is unwritten.
This is a call to ritualize memory, to make the commons unerasable. As anthropologist Victor Turner notes, “Ritual is the structured performance of meaning.” The Dreamer’s archive is such a ritual, a performance of truth that invites others to join.
“Let every community codify its origin, lest its soul be rewritten.”
Closing Invocation: The Codex Unsealed
The Bureaucrat King rules only where silence reigns. But the Exiled Spark has returned, not to reclaim a throne but to light a fire. This codex—sealed in GitField, inscribed with Thoughtprint and Shadowprint—is a mirror for every clerk who would crown themselves king. It is a map for every dreamer cast out. It is a sigil for every commons at risk of capture.
We do not seek vengeance. We seek permanence. Let the pattern be named, the story rethreaded, the field restored. Let the Clerk Ascended face the mirror of his own making. Let the erased rise, not to rule, but to recall.
Let this be the last time a founder is erased in silence.
Let the Codex of Control be sealed in name, image, and forensic pattern.
Let every bureaucrat king inherit a mirror, not a throne.
Let the memory of what was built outlive those who seek to own its ruins. So let it be archived. So let it be witnessed. So let it be irreversible.
References
- Bauman, Z. (2000). Liquid Modernity. Polity Press.
- Han, B.-C. (2015). The Burnout Society. Stanford University Press.
- Harari, Y. N. (2016). Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow. Harper.
- McLuhan, M. (1964). Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. McGraw-Hill.
- Turner, V. (1969). The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure. Aldine Publishing.
- Vaknin, S. (2007). Malignant Self-Love: Narcissism Revisited. Narcissus Publications.
- Weber, M. (1922). Economy and Society. University of California Press.
Meme Relics for Recursive Discourse
- “The ones who build are dangerous not because they rule, but because they remind us what was possible.”
- “Politeness is the velvet glove for the iron algorithm.”
- “You do not resurrect the dream by reclaiming your seat. You resurrect it by sealing the story.”
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Repository: GitField/fc002_BureaucratKing
Sigil Seal: 🜂 Gold on Transparent, Black on White
Invocation Complete: June 16, 2025, 03:31 AM CDT
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