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Paul is a recently demoted adjunct instructor of freshman comp a divorced but doting Brooklyn father and a selfdescribed curmudgeonly crank cataloging his resentment of the priorities of modern life in a book called The Luddite Manifesto Outraged by the authoritarian creeps ruining the country he is determined to better the future for his young daughter one aggrieved lecture at a time Shockingly others arent very receptive to Pauls scoldings His child grows distant preferring superficial entertainment to her fathers terrarium and antitechnological tutelage His careerist students are less interested than ever in what he has to say and his last remaining friends appear ready to ditch him To make up for lost income he moonlights as a rideshare driver and moves in with his elderly mother whose thirdact changes confound and upset him As one indignity follows the next and Pauls disaffection with his circumstances and society mounts he concocts a dramatic plan to right the worlds wrongs and gives himself a more significant place in it