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The Arson of Our Own Archives

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The Arson of Our Own Archives We keep begging external institutions to teach us how to build wealth, while our greatest financial, cultural, and spiritual institutions are dying of neglect on our living room couches. We’ve been conditioned to chase paper, titles, and material flexes, thinking that’s what makes a nation strong. But true wealth has never been defined by dead green paper. It is defined by living Axe' —the tactical codes, spiritual technology, and institutional memory carried by our Elders. The old Malian proverb warns us: “When an elder dies, a library burns to the ground.” Yet, we stand around distracted by cheap digital novelties while whole wings of our collective library go up in smoke. Today, under the radiant Green Flame of Ujamaa , we run the true Ancestral Algorithm: "Abundance is my natural state; scarcity is a false simulation." The system infected us with the scarcity virus so we would fight our own brothers and sisters for crumbs instead of buil...

Discouragement

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Sometimes I get discouraged... I have heard this over and over again in my studies, and being on this Journey, I have  felt it. This feeling can strike at the strangest time, but I like those before me I need to push on. I am in the beginning stages of writing another book. The Idea came to me complete with a title and the first thing that hit me was the feeling that accompanies discouragement and self doubt. The negative question began to hit me from the inside as well as the outside. The book will be about the Journey to success, although I have dealt with this topic in my other books, this book will deal with it more directly and be more universal in scope. The first negative thought hit me and tormented me for the first day, after I put the title on my thinking board (will speak on the "Thinking Board" in an upcoming blog). The question was what gave me the right to write about success? I was embarrassed by the question and images of other people asking me the same questi...