The Empathizer
A DYSTOPIAN SATIRE
a savage political satire about a man trapped between two Americas.
the year is 2063.
A Zionist defector returns to New California to bury his parents.
ANTIFA forces him into a Hasidic costume for a rapper-politician's pandemic masquerade.
The empathy machine in the basement harvests human brains.
The party ends badly.
This is brutal dystopian satire…
…where "classical liberal" means fascist, empathy requires lobotomy, and the only sane person is the one everyone calls crazy.
Written for the politically homeless by Jamie Micah.
THE NOVEL
The complete story. Both parts. Available now.
THE AUDIO SERIES
A companion to the novel. Part One available now on Patreon.
Free audio Episodes
Ep1: LA → SF (LISTEN FREE)
A defector returns to New California. As pandemic ravages Los Angeles, he and his progressive sister escape in her Bugatti Chiron, heading toward a fortress that promises safety.
ep2: The Colonizers, The Red Death, Inside the Foyer, Our Bedrooms, + Outside the Party (LISTEN FREE)
How an Orthodox Jewish punk rocker became a controversial neuro-streamer. The siblings enter Gravity Darker's compound and receive their costumes—our protagonist must dress as a Hasidic Jew.
ep3: Inside the Blue Room (LISTEN FREE)
The first cyber-chamber. Elite progressives in elaborate costumes. A caged white tiger. And a mysterious figure in a Red Death costume that no one else seems to see.
ep4: Watch the Throne
A heated confrontation about Zionism erupts as bio-clocks display cities ravaged by the Red Death.
ep5: Inside the Purple Room
The disturbing Red Death costume reappears. A conservative cattle rancher recognizes our protagonist from his controversial neuro-stream.
ep6: Filming My Princess Paramore
An action star slaughters Gravity's white tiger in brutal spectacle to enthusiastic applause.
ep7: Eating white tiger in the green room + taking a walk
Tiger meat as symbolic privilege. A hidden laboratory containing a thousand human brains. A drugged seduction in a secluded gazebo.
ep8: Waking Up Outside + Back Inside the Green Room
A journalist's dismembered corpse. His brain surgically removed. The compound's dark secrets begin to surface.
ep9: Orange Crush + A Moon-Shaped Pool
An auction funding a presidential campaign. A trophy room of mounted heads. Evidence of betrayal.
ep10: The Story of Exodus + The Radical Empathizer
Slaves laboring under armed guard. The horrifying truth unveiled: human tissue fused with technology to manufacture empathy.
ep11: They Called it Mellow Yellow
The machine activates. Catastrophe strikes. Gravity destroys his failed creation in violent rage.
ep12: The Red Death (I)
Revolutionary theater. Drug-fueled hedonism. The moral collapse accelerates as the mysterious costume reappears.
ep13: The Red Death (II)
The pandemic costume confronts Gravity. An impossible revelation. The nightmare becomes reality.
ep14: Getting Some Fresh Air + Epilogue
Brutal survival choices. Rejected empathy. The journey to the Eastern states border where Judith renounces her progressive past.
About Jamie Micah
Jamie Micah is a Los Angeles-based writer, musician, and audio producer whose work lives at the intersection of dark satire, original composition, and storytelling that refuses to stay in one lane.