People familiar with the story coming out tomorrow keep texting me, asking me about fear. Iāve taken the time to write a careful response.
At 39, Iāve lived a good life. Whether itās complete or not is not up to me. What happens next, I donāt know. If thereās more to come here, so be it. Iāve learned the pursuit of truth requires extreme risk while operating without a safety net. Iāve experienced so much. Iāve lived ten lives compressed into a fraction of one.
Thatās all that a man can hope for. Meteoric highs, extreme lows, and near-death experiences, Jail and jury trials, travels to every state dozens of times, adventures, travails, failures, betrayals, and loves lost and gained, repeated valleys, moving and climbing mountains, enduring multiple rebirths and renewals.
What I learned is written in three books, particularly American Muckraker, and filmed masterclasses, released and unreleased.
Iāve received love from a balanced family with honest parents and sincere grandparents who raised me to have a manically driven work ethic, all while believing in the best in people. From my vantage point, that last thing is on the verge of extinction unless things fundamentally change.
I built a good organization from nothing, which did good things. Iām taking lessons from the first company and building a better one from nothing, which I know will do more extraordinary things.
Challenging Leviathan itself is hard enough.
Leviathan doesnāt like being challenged. But as nearly impossible as that is, the enemy and its injustice is no longer what bothers me. An enemy canāt betray you. Only people you think are good can do that.
It has been an indescribable hell on earth for me to witness people go against everything they claim to believe in - everything good and right, in service to their love of money and power. Iāve witnessed envy destroy people whose hearts I thought I knew. Iāve seen an unhealthy obsession with comfort and safety from countless others. These weaknesses stand between us and what weāre āup against.ā
Which leads me to the video Iām about to release.
Iām not suicidal, but Iām also not afraid to die.
Now, Iām indifferent to the outcome and frankly numb to the consequences of truth-telling. Iāve adapted to faith over fear.
The mission is to discover other people whose principles are not for sale ā who will do the right thing rather than talk about doing the right thing. Iām tired of seeing 10s of thousands of people sliding into my DMs complaining to my team about how bad things areā¦ and then they make excuses or do nothing.
Iām tired, Boss.
So here I stand; I can do no other. As has been said, āIf theyāre gonna kill me, theyāre going to kill me.ā Letās do this. Letās get 2024 started. Letās inspire others to be brave. Letās raise the stakes. Letās expose them all!
In Truth,
James