At the moment I don’t wish to rehash the specific tenets of black Individualism. Partially, because I can’t recall them not currently locate the newsletters. I think that both of those methods of recall are available to me, but really I don’t wish to see how well the mind of twentysomething failed in his understanding of the world. Like many people of my age, I am more likely to say, “I don’t know” now that I was when I had it all figured half a lifetime ago.
That said, one thing that I wish to explore at this time is the power of words as it relates to the authority that an individual person has. For those familiar with the Christian Text the early account of the earth and humanity is the words that spoke the world into existence and the way man was most like GOD was in his ability to use words to speak things into existence. So how do we use words in the modern world to gain authority.? People consume words through texts and media. The words that we absorb influence or actions. To this one of the most powerful things that we can do is read books , but books I mean difficult books which help us live in a manner that is excellent or in the biblical sense pleasuring to God or more secualrly pleasing to our higher selves. In the modern world, reading a text may mean listening to a podcast or lictere posted through youtube or any other of the podcast homes. Or simply listening to a word for word reading of the book.
To that end, a part of Black Individualism going forward will be my speaking of words. Sometimes it may be a random thought that I start and continue or often just a reading of this weekly essay. The point is for me to share words first to myself then to an audience. I don’t know if they will always have the power to change, but the goal is to be useful. And I say useful over entertaining. I hope to entertain as a means of attraction, but not as a goal of this work. There are those that are meant to entertain. I am closer to the information and may entertain a long way.
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