There is a whole lot of things that we have to do and we consequently need lots of exceptionally talented people to do every single one of them.

To achieve our goal of culturally conquering the continent for example, we need to know things. We need to understand specific details about each gathering of people. From large metropolitan areas, down to the tiny scale of villages of ten people, across all parts of sub-Saharan Africa which we care about (most of it).

To take over a society, we need to know everything about how everything there works, both material and non-material: Who is the most influential political person at each different level and scale? Do the children in tiny village x believe stoning stray dogs brings good luck? Which parts of what random remote area can become easily accessible with the fashioning of simple wooden bridges? We need to have access to incredible detail about a lot of little random things like this.

Gathering information and learning about different societies is enormously difficult work.

Since our means of cultural revolution is a religion, we need to properly articulate the case for this sort of God in concrete detail in ways that are understandable by our very varied and enormous demographic. We need to de-construct their current religions, completely invalidate them, and then gift to them our new, more correct and civilization-affirming one.

This will involve lots of different things. The existing high-perspective articulation is child's play in that sense. We also need to develop structure to our religion. Sure, we do have our fundamental understanding about reality which will guide us, but there are yet lots of elements of our religion to be created. What existing elements of current religions are profoundly psychologically useful? Prayer for example. Does prayer matter as an element of a religion? And what, specifically about it does matter?

We need to develop out multiple facets of the religion in this sort of way. Not only that, logistically spreading a belief system is incredibly difficult. The existing architecture of "a place (building and compound) of worship" is probably necessary, each one requiring, even to begin with, a complete staff of at least one "priest" and multiple other personnel.

This is all incredibly difficult stuff.

With hard material production, industry is enormously difficult. Everything, including very basic stuff like making pencils, requires very complicated multidisciplinary technical skill. Solving even only the most basic human problems like food, clothing and shelter requires enormously challenging technical sophistication. You need loads of people with technical expertise at lots of little things.

And on and on it could go with everything we need to do. Everything is simply enormously challenging. There is an incredible lot of work to be done.

So we have a lot to do and need lots of exceptionally talented people to do basically everything. But even before getting to all of that doing, which is torrid stuff, in thinking about how things work, there are basically no people who sophisticatedly — not to say correctly — understand anything.

No one is capable of thinking deeply at all, which is very worrying.

Africa's best are people like Russia-shilling conspiracy theorists like David Hundeyin with horrific epistemology, and Feyi Fawehinmi who cheerfully prescribes war and actively rejects natural advantages.

Those are both Nigerians, but you can look around other large countries like Kenya and South Africa and no one knows or understands anything in those places either. Ken Opalo is a conventional Political Science professor who has no original or interesting ideas, and there is no South African who has sophisticatedly articulated anything complex about their society.

This is why I was so impressed when I encountered Alpha Barry. Black guy with a broad understanding of fundamental things and not in the conventional sense?

Unfortunately, Alpha hasn't turned out to be our hero, and it is unlikely that he will ever turn out to be one. I didn't realize it at the time — but he is desperately obsessed with Western civilization.

The likely reason he thought it was possible to complete all necessary basic infrastructure across Africa between 2021 and 2030 as laid out in his Blueprint for the African Century was because that and successive industrialization were only necessary inconveniences to be gotten out of the way so that he could get to his actual goal: integration with the Western world and the pursuit of a global something something. I think the point of developing Africa in his plan for the African century was merely to earn necessary legitimacy so as to become on equal footing with the rest of the "civilized" world.

But, Blueprint was published in 2020. It is likely that his views have evolved over time. I do not think he even cares about developing Africa anymore. You certainly do not get that perspective from visiting his website now like you did in the past. It seems now that he simply wants to be a citizen of a multicultural, multi-racial society in which he personally acquires power and influence.

He deliberately ignores the problems with multi-culturalism/racialism and last year, took to Twitter to criticize the current US administration after the VP defended a young man in the employment of the USG accused of consistently expressing racist opinions on Twitter.

And then again, it may be that Alpha was never on our side. He is Sahelian after all. It is well-known the complexes with Sahellians as to where their loyalties lie.

My now disavowal of Alpha is not personal. We were never friends, merely had a chain of email conversation over a couple of hours a couple of years ago. He may not even remember me. I am only mentioning him here because I used to mention him to everyone as an example of the sort of talent that we need — someone with a broad and fundamental understanding of things beyond the party line.

Orbit is by far the best outlet for any black person for interesting ideas about how to think about society, which is very very sad given that Orbit is not even trying. I am not really a writer. I do not enjoy writing for the public at all as I am a lot more interested in doing.

Even then, Orbit cannot seem to gain a readership. No one cares about quality stuff which correctly thinks about the things that matter.

You always see these people on Twitter all of the time who pretend to be smart and care about interesting things — always limping from topic to topic, parroting words and phrases they do not really understand, never sufficiently understanding anything in detail. None of them read Orbit or have any interest in the content here.

Interestingly, the fact that what most people are doing is at the level of #BlackConversations is neither a problem nor a worry. The large masses in any society, left to their devices, are probably not capable of much more than that no matter how the elite try to dress up the intellectual quality of their people.

It is also not that surprising that there aren't a lot of people capable of broadly original and fundamental thought. One would expect a couple, just not a lot.

The big problem, and what is particularly worrying is what seems to be the absence of a genuine "intellectual middle class", people not really capable of fundamental and or original thinking, but who desire and are capable of a lot more than #BlackConversations, are not dimwit pretender intellectuals, but can spot and swim in the direction of quality intellectual stuff. Those are the kinds of people one would expect to read Orbit.

If we cannot find people who are interested in consuming quality content which thinks broadly and fundamentally interestingly and likely correctly about their society, how do we find people interested in acquiring technical understanding and various kinds of proficiencies of the sort we need, and with absolute devotion, to do the sort of work we need to do, and not for financial or status reward, but because they find them sufficiently challenging and interesting — all for the advancement of their own society?