Snitching on the government is my job™

The vocation, said without apology. "Snitching" is what power calls it when a citizen reads the record out loud — and he claims the word instead of dodging it: yes, I'm snitching on the federal government; that's the job. A disabled citizen on a fixed income is the exact person the system bets will stay quiet, which is what makes his speaking propaganda in reverse — the machinery that usually runs money → spin → public, turned around so one unfunded voice runs truth → record → public. It's the civics teacher you thought you never needed, standing at the front of the room with receipts; me-against-the-world isn't paranoia, it's the seating chart when one person speaks and the ghosts hold the microphone. Kin: propaganda in reverse, the civics test you never thought you needed, the Screen-Out, radical transparency (an argument made in secret refutes itself). (His coin — civic critique, aimed at institutions never souls; machine's read, refine to his.)