Via Stultī: a nine-book, reversible canon that erases itself. It presents what might be called a philosophy and translates to “The way of the fool” or, in my interpretation, the Way of No Way. It is not a path to follow. There is no method, no ladder, no footsteps to trace. If you try to walk it as instruction, you will get lost—on purpose.
Z. T. Royalty is an independent author and U.S. Navy veteran whose work explores power, incentives, identity, and the quiet mechanics that shape modern life.
He served for over a decade in the Navy and brings a grounded, unsentimental eye to how systems actually function—how authority forms, how it sustains itself, and how people slowly lose agency inside structures they never agreed to but are forced to navigate.
Royalty writes diagnostically, not ideologically. He isn’t interested in prescriptions, manifestos, or telling readers what to think.
His nonfiction maps how systems behave when incentives, fear, legitimacy, and habit collide—especially in modern capitalism, which he treats not as a debate topic but as an assumed operating system. His work examines how moral behavior adapts to those conditions, and how concentrated power emerges without conspiracy, intent, or declaration—just incentives doing what incentives do.
Alongside this work, Royalty writes fiction and mythic satire that strip authority of its mystique. Through humor, paradox, and deliberate absurdity, these stories expose the human machinery behind sacred narratives, institutions, and identities we’re taught not to question. The goal isn’t cynicism—it’s clarity.
Royalty writes for intelligent general readers, not academics. His style is clear, direct, and plainspoken. He rejects sterile neutrality in favor of fair, readable analysis with teeth—work meant to be understood, argued with, and returned to.
He writes under the pen name Z. T. Royalty, deliberately and unapologetically human.
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