I am only willing to pursue this
with the overt blessing (and support)
of Norm's family and friends.

That said...

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Norm, on the merits, earned his place as an artistic and literary figure.  

His body of work is a legitimate "moth joke" strategy against AI and its aesthetics. 

And the Manhattan Project -- and comedians and smart and funny people (and the few students left who aren't robots) -- need a home base.

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A Norm Institute --
or any comedian-branded institute
(or a shitload of them)--

can be networked and Manhattan Project-ed and
do all the things I/we usually do
to try to unfuck higher ed
(by turning it into Late Night)

This shit is all homework. From lessons based on comedians.

  • And to make sure we could 'showrun' it with comedians, we already started turning college and AI / Disinfo / Privacy / Free Speech advocacy into 80s Letterman / 90s Conan / Tim and Eric / Eric Andre.

  • Remember: Jesus kids with no equipment and pricks threatening them with expulsion. They are ballsy AF.

CURRICULUM / PLATFORMS / STUDENT THINK TANKS and ORGS /
WORKSHOPS / SPEAKING EVENTS / CONSULTING and AUDITS

We already teach this with comedians.
We could fully rebrand it very fast.

Market for 3rd party education (non-ideological) on First Amendment, AI, disinformation,
civics, and privacy is enormous.

CONSULTING / COACHING / AUDITS
SCALABLE GOVERNANCE PLATFORMS

Want me to get some of the smartest nerds in the world
-- and a few hundred high school debaters --
cranking out Norm-based academic/legal research?

(We're also writing a book. Y'all are already in it.)

STRATEGIC PR / MEDIA CAMPAIGNS / CIVIC EDUCATION/ ART EXHIBITIONS / SCALABLE SOLUTIONS

Catalyzing allegedly impossible bipartisan and cross-cultural
coalitions and civic community conversations.

Or riling up an army of highly excitable Kat Williams and Larry the Cable Guy
fans when they are both being fucked with by AI.

The key to winning this ballgame
-- and making the AI and each other less dumb --
is to train everyone to be better rhetorical (i.e., comedy) critics.

That's what my art critic teams (and super nerds) do.
(We also have an internationally-recognized art collective.)

VIIST THE IAA

The colleges started this mess. But we need them fixed to survive. We can do this surgically using comedians as the baseline for free speech, AI, and disinformation.

Comedy -- and culture and literature that can't be reduced to 1's and 0s -- is the fastest way to fix robots and people now programmed like robots.


It needs to be protected, studied, and taken seriously as a key to understanding post-digital America.

WHICH, AGAIN, IS WHAT WE'VE BEEN DOING FOR 20 YEARS

(Video: Evangelical Christian students using Maher to discuss
how to fix postmodernism and post-AI tribalism.)

In ordinary times, the pitch would just be

A legit literature, AI, First Amendment, and comedy scholar is interested in ensuring that Mr. MacDonald (and comedy in general) have their proper place in the "canon" (and classrooms) during this uncertain time for free speech, the arts, and higher education.

But the world is on fire.

And comedians -- and all smart and funny and creative people (and students) -- have the most to lose in an inhuman AI cultural hellscape.

And the best chance to fix it.

  • And all artists right now need unwavering free speech defenders in the face of AI.

    We have the only thing that can keep some of these schools afloat. And we can't let one team take every piece of the information ecosystem.

    Because, again, the cavalry ain't coming.


  • Rock bottom prices, y'all.

    Right now, we could basically build a top world program for peanuts. Oppenheimers -- and academic real estate -- is bottom of the market right now. It's a national disgrace, but a steal if you are trying to build something.


    I've worked with/been headhunted by nearly all of the top dogs in First Amendment spaces. Post-AI / DEI, they are all now DOA and/or lacking a scalable solution or coherent brand.


  • P.S. did you know artists/comedians have a Constitutional right to digital public personas (versus "private"/IRL lives)?

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And there are lives that can only be
based on a true story.

Their ability to use art to tell them
is essential to privacy
and post-digital humanity.

Like Norm, my medical privacy was/is critical to my humanity: My body of work -- not my body -- should speak for itself.

And just another reason why comedy is so critical
in the fight for a just, free, and sane
AI world for everyone.

back to the backstage entrance

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