A Civilizational Diagnosis · A Falsifiable Cure
We were too unconscious to collect it. Historical Apoplexy names the disease, stages its progression, and prescribes the cure across fifty-six jurisdictions.
A Civilizational Diagnosis · A Falsifiable Cure
Whole regions of useful knowledge go dark while the body of the society keeps functioning. The forgotten solution is then re-presented as a new discovery, and the cycle starts over. Historical Apoplexy names the disease, stages its progression, and prescribes the cure in fifty-six jurisdictions.
Book One · Now in Publisher Pipeline
Epistemic Senicide and the Stroke-Like Loss of Civilizational Memory
"The patient has access to the archive. The patient cannot retrieve it."
The diagnostic volume. Ten academic papers that diagnose the civilizational disease of forgetting solved problems. Worked examples that any literate citizen can verify: $32 billion ends domestic hunger versus $496 billion in annual U.S. food-industry markup over production cost, a 15× ratio. 293,000 U.S. manufacturing facilities run at 77% utilization, yielding 19.5 to 29.3× overcapacity. The U.S. military commissary has run at-cost since 1867. At-cost distribution proven across one hundred and fifty-eight years.
Drawing on Ibn Khaldun's fourteenth-century ʿumrān, Spengler's morphological cycles, Quigley's instrument-to-institution dynamic, and Tainter's diminishing returns, Historical Apoplexy names the disease and its three faces: Historical Apoplexy (the state of unconsciousness a civilization enters when cut off from its accrued prior knowledge), Apoplectic Plagiarism (the unconscious re-presentation of forgotten solutions by people who do not know the prior art existed), and Epistemic Senicide (the unconscious severance from parental wisdom — operating through direct industry targeting, structural market pressure, and the receive-end failure of an education system that no longer transmits the lineage of any subject).
Read Book OneThe Vocabulary of the Disease
Diagnosing a civilizational disease requires terms a doctor would recognize. These six were coined for the work because the existing vocabulary kept letting the disease hide.
Book Two · After the Diagnosis
"The first book diagnosed the disease. This book is the treatment."
Thirty-three U.S. state legislative adaptations, a parallel United Kingdom adaptation, and three federal legislative adaptations chartering an American Productive Capacity Authority on American-precedent funding architectures. The federal trio applies the chartering models of the U.S. Postal Service (Continental Congress 1775), the Universal Service Fund and Lifeline program (FCC under President Reagan, 1985), the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (President Nixon, 1971), the Tennessee Valley Authority (President Franklin Roosevelt, 1933), the Alaska Permanent Fund (1976), and the American public library tradition (Library Company of Philadelphia, 1731).
SCOTUS-validated funding mechanism per FCC v. Consumers' Research, No. 24-354 (June 27, 2025).
See the Federal ProposalsThree Federal Legislative Adaptations · 2026
Every American a shareholder. Non-transferable shares. Citizen dividend on the Alaska Permanent Fund model. Revenue pooling on the ANCSA Section 7(i)/(j) model. SCOTUS-validated funding via the Universal Service Fund mechanism upheld in FCC v. Consumers' Research (2025). American precedents only.
$50B Treasury · up to 5% USF · 50% citizen distribution · 12 Regional Corps · Local taxing districts
The comprehensive draft. All six American precedents combined into a single chartering statute. 55 pages.
$100B Treasury · NO industry assessment · 75% citizen distribution · ANCSA-anchored
The cleanest "no new taxes" framing. ANCSA structure applied to every American citizen. 41 pages.
Imran Cooper writes memoir and civilizational nonfiction from the inside out. Kentucky-raised, he has run political campaigns, founded a research foundation, bought and run a restaurant, and now builds AI systems for small businesses. His books trace a single argument across multiple registers: that the things we keep forgetting, we are choosing to forget.
He is the author of Historical Apoplexy, the ten-paper academic series and forthcoming trade book that names the civilizational disease of forgetting solved problems; the forthcoming companion volume Historical Apoplexy After the Diagnosis: The Policy Compendium of an Abundant Society; and the memoirs Tall Poppied, The Full Arc, and One of the Good Ones. He is also the architect of the Vitruvian Quotient (VQ), an eight-domain framework of human capability.
In 2012, a year before LLMs were generally available, he published RAGE Re-entanglement, a blog predicting United States civil unrest on a fourteen-year horizon. The prediction is now half-mature.
Available for Acquisition · Press · Long-Form Conversation
Two complete Historical Apoplexy trade volumes available for acquisition. Additional manuscripts in adjacent lanes available on request. Direct-to-author or via agent.
Two complete trade volumes available for acquisition. Direct-to-author or via agent. Quiet submission preferred.
Comp shelf: Diamond Collapse, Turchin Ages of Discord, Acemoglu Why Nations Fail, Pinker The Better Angels of Our Nature, Tainter The Collapse of Complex Societies, Sachs The End of Poverty.
"Khaldun named the cycle. Spengler named the morphology. Tainter named the diminishing returns. Cooper named the mechanism."
The two Historical Apoplexy volumes anchor the work. A Vitruvian Quotient trade volume sits adjacent. Memoirs (Tall Poppied, The Full Arc, One of the Good Ones) sit in the literary-trade lane and are available on request.
Trade-side comp shelf for the framework volume: Dweck Mindset, Goleman Emotional Intelligence, Duckworth Grit, Sapolsky Behave, Cialdini Influence.
Available for long-form conversation on the abundance lane, civilizational theory, the Replication Threshold, and the legislative compendium.
Three-book arc to talk against: the diagnostic volume, the policy compendium volume, and the human-intelligence framework volume. The 2012 RAGE Re-entanglement blog is the predictive-voice credential, time-stamped against an open public archive.
Adjacent Work
The two Historical Apoplexy volumes are the focus of this site. The full catalog, including the memoir program and the Vitruvian Quotient titles, lives at imran.theamanuensis.com/books.
