Contents -- Introduction A Bad Day for Grendel -- Why Truth Is Your Enemy, and the Benefits of the Vagueor Gradgrind, without the Facts -- Method 1 Keep Your Children Indoors as Much as Possible or They Used to Call It "Air" -- Never Leave Children to Themselvesor If Only We Had a Committee -- Keep Children Away from Machines and Machinistsor All Unauthorized Personnel Prohibited -- Replace the Fairy Tale with Political Clichés and Fadsor Vote Early and Often -- Cast Aspersions upon the Heroic and Patrioticor We Are All Traitors Now -- Cut All Heroes Down to Size or Pottering with the Puny -- Reduce All Talk of Love to Narcissism and Sexor Insert Tab A into Slot B -- Level Distinctions between Man and Womanor Spay and Geld -- Distract the Child with the Shallow and Unreal or The Kingdom of Noise -- Deny the Transcendentor Fix above the Heads of Men the Lowest Ceiling of All -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.