Backstory — The Hard Truth About Dormiveglia

The Five W’s and One H

Who

Jake is a self-admitted workaholic — someone who needs to see tangible results before he can rest. A professional chef and certified commercial kitchen manager with nearly twenty years of experience, he’s learned discipline, precision, and how to lead under pressure.

Raised within Catholic education, Jake’s skepticism started early — kindergarten, in fact.

He still remembers the day: a Carmelite nun, in black habit, lecturing on the nature of God. It was his first introduction to the “Creator”  — who famously created everything in perfect order and purpose.

Five-year-old Jake raised his hand.

“Sister, why would God need servants in Heaven? Does He make a mess in the kitchen when He's cooking?”

His classmates laughed, but Jake was being sincere.

“If all the angels came down here to guard people, maybe God needs someone up there to help clean. I know how to vacuum carpets. Is there much dirt and dust in Heaven?”

These early questions revealed two traits that never left Jake — curiosity, and a pronounced contrarian instinct.

1. Education (K–12)

The lessons of youth (formative years) shape everything that follows. When schools neglect curiosity, reasoning, and evidence-based thinking, students grow into adults who accept lazy explanations and reject complexity.

It’s how we arrived at a point where a convicted felon, found guilty on 34 counts by a jury of his own choosing  — one who never paid his debt to society — can still be hailed as a national hero — while destroying the White House without asking permission, no bid contracts, secret funding to build a saddam-type palace. (Do we know if all the ballroom donors are American? -- Does it even matter at this point?)

When accountability disappears, truth becomes optional.

2. Electronic/Digital Broadcast Media

Most American adults get their news from television, radio, and other mass media at least sometimes, and many rely on these sources as a primary way of staying informed. That isn’t evil or foolish — it’s human. Comfort and convenience have always been powerful lures — Heaven is a place of infinite comfort.

But a constant feed of easy narratives dulls our ability to think critically. When the media’s goal becomes entertainment, ratings-profits rather than enlightenment, confusion spreads faster than truth.

        "A juicy falsehood is more powerful than a boring truth."

Education and media reinforce each other in a loop — weak critical thinking taught early, is then amplified and rewarded by broadcast and digital platforms. Until that loop breaks, the fog can only thicken.

Where

Dormiveglia Is A United States Citizen Union

In recent years, the UN has increasingly focused on finding ways to restore frayed links between people and their governments by encouraging greater involvement of citizens in decision-making and policy discussions. A civil society organization (CSO) or non-governmental organization (NGO) is any non-profit, voluntary citizens’ group which is organized on a local, national or international level.  

Why It Matters

We live in a kind of collective dormiveglia — that hazy state between sleep and wakefulness. We believe we’re alert and informed, yet much of what we “know” is secondhand or unexamined. 

The first step toward waking is to face ourselves in the mirror and ask:

“What did I do — or fail to do — that helped create this situation? And how do I plan to fix it?”

Those are the questions Dormiveglia exists to ask.

How We Will Survive

This project wasn’t built in a think tank. It emerged from one determined Texan, armed with a twelve-year-old pawn-shop laptop, free software downloaded off the internet, and a willing AI collaborator.

Because the tools don’t matter — the ability to think for ourselves does.