{"product_id":"the-idiocracy-protocol-ash-obaidi-9798176482348","title":"The Idiocracy Protocol","description":"\u003cp\u003eEleven-year-old Alvin Reyes is handed a laptop on his first day of sixth grade and told there are no more textbooks. Nobody in the gymnasium that night - not his mother, not the parents around her, not even the district - understands yet what they've just agreed to.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the next decade, Alvin watches his classmates get faster, more confident, and steadily less able to think without help. A homework robot named Milo follows him through high school. A placement exam quietly sorts his closest friends out of the futures they were promised. And a six-page memo, buried in an improperly configured folder, finally reveals what he suspected all along: none of this happened by accident.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"A less independently capable electorate is, on balance, a more governable one.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Idiocracy Protocol\u003c\/i\u003e is a slow-building dystopian novel about the machinery of ordinary complicity - the vendor incentives, the softened grading rubrics, the banned books, the AI systems too opaque for anyone to audit - and the one boy who refuses, quietly and at real cost, to stop noticing. Grounded in real classroom AI adoption and written with restraint rather than spectacle, it asks a question: once a population stops being able to think for itself, where do you even begin?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA novel about what gets lost when convenience becomes the only form of control anyone needs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ash Obaidi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798176482348\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/23\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 118\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.37lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.28d","brand":"Ash Obaidi","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50780125888767,"sku":"9798176482348","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-idiocracy-protocol-ash-obaidi-9798176482348","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}