I am close to coming to a comprehensive understanding of what I want to do in closing Cobb and moving to the next project, and so I am taking the moment to share.
Those of you who have followed Cobb know that my greatest ambition is to be the Kung Fu Santa Claus - to be engaged in the world bearing gifts and kicking ass. This is a matter of interest due to the nature of my personality. I am compelled to free people to be as egotistical as I am, to reach their potential and live more fully. Simultaneously, I am rather held in thrall to the concept of a philosophical round-table. There are few things as enjoyable to me as meeting people over meals to discuss weighty or funny issues. It is a passion I share with the Spousal Unit who is perfectly skilled in providing the home economics for any such gathering. It is my desire that at some appropriately wizened period in my life I will be able to host just such a parlor, and so perhaps I ought to begin reading of Dorothy Parker and Carl Van Vechten.
I realize that such dreams cannot be materialized out of thin air. There is some manner of need in order to finance such basics as a house suitable for the luminaries I expect. I've got the ideas and I know how to get things going but I need fuel. So part of this project is to teach me how to become a fundraiser.
So the Allmuseri Project, will have three components and several long-term benefits. The first is to design a mystery system. I have become convinced that in order to accomplish some Drop Squad level deprogramming, something on the order of Kwanzaa needs to be invented. My aim is to do that. I cannot see that politics will accomplish that because I have been persuaded that the people who most need some head work are only token participants in this superpower's political processes. Once again, the power of media, old or new, to engage the masses requires the kind of work that is not being done for this demographic. I struggle to show that - but what is necessary are some sort of counter- Willie Lynch documents. Plus, I want to lob a spear at the black liberal professoriate, a spear of the sort they'd have pick up and chuck back, thus demonstrating their misuse of their own tools.
The second leg of the Allmuseri Project is The Brother's Cup, which I mentioned previously. That is basically about me being a man about town and getting in old men's grilles. It is about barroom conversations and golf outings, seminar and townhalls. I want to get back over to Ofari's joint and spend more time at Magic Johnson's Fridays.
The third leg is the online component which will consist of the online expression of the mystery system.
What I'd like to do at this point is go highbrow on books and literature and see if black art, or any art is truly and honestly serving society or if it is a distraction in the way Puritans might suggest. I'm going to start that here and now at Cobb, and see if it works here. If not then it will bleed over into Allmuseri. I hope I can keep that here.
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