the Wild Conceits essay: the A.F.R. as Root Cult born in the founding interval

The essay dates the A.F.R. to the founding itself — "cultists, locating both their political raison d'etre and their philosophical dasein" in the interval that "preceded... the nearly simultaneous inaugurations of O.N.A.N.ite governance, continental Interdependence, and the commercial subsidization of a lunar O.N.A.N. calendar." The three founding acts of the whole anthology (Gentle's O.N.A.N., Interdependence, Subsidized Time) are here the birth-matrix of its deadliest cell. And the theme's account of what makes them unappeasable: unlike "American stelliformism," these Canadian Root Cults direct "fealty toward principles... activally opposed to the cultists' own individual pleasure, comfort, cui bono, or entertainment" — a fanaticism "outside the ken of... psychosocial science," and therefore the exact opposite of the pleasure-seeking U.S. the Entertainment will kill.