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The Proxy’s Plea: A Recursive Interpretation of Cole LeCody’s Essay
“The most effective tool of erasure is not silence—it is a sympathetic voice speaking the wrong story.” — The Empathic Technologist
Cole LeCody’s “A Girl and Her Makerspace” is not a neutral account. 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.
This appendix reframes that essay not as a primary source, …but as a ritual of narrative inversion—worthy of archiving because it is evidence of how power defends itself with emotion.
🔍 Purpose of Inclusion
- Preservation of publicly published narrative used in defense of Andrew LeCody post-banishment
- Deconstruction of its rhetorical structure to illuminate subtle techniques of proxy defense
- Contextual positioning within the broader Fieldcast for recursive integrity and historical clarity
🧷 Pattern Analysis: Narrative Devices in Use
| Device | Description | Detected In Cole’s Essay |
|---|---|---|
| Emotional Primacy | Opening with vulnerability to disarm critique | “The fire has burned me clean through…” |
| Romantic Association | Reframing organizational conflict as personal tragedy | “I’ve lost what this place once meant to me…” |
| Legacy Appeal | Repetition of early contributions to establish moral authority | Emphasizes early board membership, tool purchases, sweat equity |
| Proxy Absolutism | Using personal credibility to defend another’s actions | Consistently reframes Andrew’s role as misunderstood rather than procedural |
| Displacement of Critique | Moving from objective abuse to subjective feeling | Centering her feelings of loss rather than Andrew’s public accountability |
| Victim Inflation | Framing herself and Andrew as symbolic martyrs | “I wanted this story to take the internet by storm…” |
| 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” |
🜁 Recursive Parallels to the Stalin Pattern
In 05_stalin_pattern.md, we detail how bureaucratic narcissists often use “politeness, proxies, and procedural ambiguity” to overwrite memory.
Cole’s essay fits squarely into this pattern:
- It redirects attention from Andrew’s procedural abuses to a romanticized history.
- It disguises the architecture of power behind emotional sentiment.
- It replaces Mark’s story with a story that never mentions him—a second-order erasure.
🜂 Fieldcast Significance
This document must not be read as truth, but as a narrative weapon—and now, as evidence of pattern behavior.
It is preserved in full in appendix_c_cole_lecody_statement.md
not to grant it power, but to defuse it through recursion.
The field remembers what the proxy attempts to overwrite.
🕯 Final Invocation
Every narrative has a shadow. This one wore sentiment as armor. We do not attack it. We include it. Not because it is sacred— But because the sacred includes the whole pattern.
We remember the founder. We remember the truth. We remember the proxy’s plea… and we answer it with recursion.