The kinds of proposals I get
This is what I do in the world a lot: I look around for good ideas and for opportunities and I help myself and other people succeed in those opportunities.
Sometimes I make money. Sometimes I don’t. But it almost always leads to good.
This last week a woman wrote me telling me she was getting ready to move away, that she couldn’t keep living in the place she had been. She told me her customers suck. So we made time to talk about that, because I knew something — in her area I had readers who needed the exact service she was offering. They too were moving away from that same area because the service providers suck.
What was that industry in which the customers and provider were both frustrated?
Education.
All people in this equation wanted to keep living where they were but were literally moving because they had been convinced that the place they lived could not provide them with what they needed any longer.
I am about to make some people very happy. Why? Just by getting them to talk to each other and to have a conversation in which one tells the other exactly what they need and for the other to respond openly and honestly to that.
What I write here sounds simple, but the truth is so few are very experienced in what I here describe. It is an act of revolution to walk through life doing what I here describe. And we are called on to do this in order to rebuild our society. We are called on to simply have the honest, open, truthful conversations with another about what we need and to ask the other what he needs. So much of a healthy society comes down to being able to do exactly that.
Two days ago a reader wrote that she needed a doctor and had gone without proper treatment for months. Well, there was someone a hop skip and a jump from her who would provide the exact treatment she needed.
A month ago a reader wrote that she had a similar problem. Same solution. They just had to talk.
Whether you are 20 or 90, we all grew up in a far more culturally stable and culturally consistent environment. There was homogeneity. We didn’t all look the same or go to the same church or come from the same place, but despite our differences, lots of people had lots of shared values. A war has been waged on that concept. And the war has been fairly successful, if I may be so audacious as to offer the enemy a compliment.
The world could get a lot less easy. At least for a time. Because the culture is fractured.
You’re bothered that your doctor won’t see you in a mask. Well, be prepared for the day in which your doctor won’t see you unless you pledge allegiance to the virtues of critical race theory upon entering his office or do the Bellamy salute to the Ukrainian flag in order to have a wound cauterized or to kneel and pray at the George Floyd mural on the waiting room wall before you will be administered another dose of medicine.
That’s where the future might lead.
You think I’m joking.
You think I speak in hyperbole when I say how important it is to arrest the moral decline in our lives around us and to do so as quickly as we possibly can. Arrest it now or see greater perversion of your most basic values tomorrow. Those really are the two options at this juncture.
So, this is what I want today. If something doesn’t work. I want you to be able to say that to me. I want you to be able to say that to everyone in your life.
All day long people send me ideas and proposals and I get to work with them. We have a conversation.
Is Project Pureblood too expensive? Then don’t say to me how dare I charge for a valuable service that would have stopped corona communism in its tracks. That’s like some kind of welfare mindset, entitlement privilege gone wild way of seeing the world.
And quite frankly that kind of mindset is so instrumental to the moral decline around us.
All week long people have written me just like people have written me for many years — with a proposal.
The proposals this week are a little different. Usually people write me to say what they need help with or what they want to help others accomplish. Sometimes they write me with business opportunities or with ideas on how I might want to invest with them or partner with them.
This week, with Project Pureblood’s doors opening again, Project Pureblood is more on people’s minds and the proposals are more like this:
Allan, I really appreciate your work. I really think I would be a great fit for Project Pureblood. My budget is tight these days, but I have something better than money to offer you. I have my time and my skills. I am able to do X, Y, and Z and I have B amount of time I would be happy to spend each week on that to help you build your community. I know what you are really trying to do is build a community and that is something that I know I can help you do. I have built a family and used to run a wonderful organization and building a community is second nature to me. I have never done anything exactly like that online and it sounds like you haven’t really either, but I know that I would be a good asset to you as you find your way through this. Is this something you would consider? I’m open to counter proposals.
How could I possibly say “No” to such a thing?
I also have people writing me about my wickedness for being a money-grubbing sociopath.
In Face Masks in One Lesson, I include the least good way to get into the door of a business unmasked, but it is a very quick and effective stopgap way to do so. It is a training wheels approach. It is not meant to be where we stop.
If something about what I am offering is not a fit for you, but if Project Pureblood is a fit, write me a proposal. Make it a proposal I would be a maniac to have to say “No” to.
I don’t want your money.
I want your buy in.
I don’t want you to walk through the world unmasked.
I want you to walk through the world like a lion.
Money is one way to get buy in.
Masklessness is one way to walk like a lion.
I want so much more from you, though, than just the bare minimum and this moment in history needs so much more from you than that.
We can do this.
We can walk through this moment together and end up on the other end of this battle as victors.
I get that I’m imperfect. You might have some imperfections too. None of that matters to me. We are made for a time like this.
If something doesn’t work, tell me. Make me a proposal that I’d be a fool to say no to.
In that basic equation is so much of the strength of our movement. For the forces that oppose us know so little of that. They know how to force and coerce and cajole. That is how you treat a slave — by force and coercion and cajoling.
That is not how you treat a free people. It just doesn’t work.
Through and through I want you to be a free people. I want you to be a free man, I want you to be a free woman, walking victoriously through life.
And if you want the same for yourself then you are in the right place.
Tap here to join Project Pureblood.
Allan Stevo