Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-244) and index.

A bad day for Grendel -- Why truth is your enemy, and the benefits of the vague, or, Gadgrind, without the facts -- Keep your children indoors as much as possible, or, They used tio call it "air" -- Never leave children to themselves, or, If only we had a committee -- Keep children away from machines and machinists, or, All unauthorized personnel prohibited -- Replace the fairy tale with political clichés and fads, or, Vote early and often -- Cast aspersions upon the heroic and patriotic, or, We are all traitors now -- Cut all heroes down to size, or, Pottering with the puny -- Reduce all talk of love to narcisssism and sex, or, Insert tab A into slot B -- Level distinctions between man and woman, or Spay and geld -- Distract with the shallow and unreal, or, The kingdom of noise -- Deny the transcendent, or, Fix above the heads of men the lowest ceiling of all.