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SCALABLE SOLUTIONS: K-CEO + CAMPUSES ON "BOTH SIDES" OF REALITY + COMPANIES

SCALABLE SOLUTIONS: K-CEO + CAMPUSES ON "BOTH SIDES" OF REALITY + COMPANIES

BIPARTISAN COALITIONS
(AND CIVIL CROSS-CULTURAL CONVERSATIONS)


BECAUSE ART IS THE ANSWER WHEN WORDS STOP WORKING
Action-oriented events and platforms
(on all the 3rd rail issues)
to forge new political alliances.
EXPERIENTIAL ED PLATFORMS + THINK TANKS + GOVERNANCE SYSTEMS + INDUSTRY NETWORKS
+ ART COLLECTIVES + DISINFO FIGHTING NETWORKS
BIPARTISAN COALITIONS
(AND CIVIL CROSS-CULTURAL CONVERSATIONS)
Two decades of working with ALL students, advocates, lawmakers, and experts to get people programmed to hate each other to
remember that they don't.
SCALABLE SOLUTIONS: K-CEO + CAMPUSES ON "BOTH SIDES" OF REALITY + COMPANIES
Award-winning higher ed leadership: Whether directing a school, teaching students how to build internationally-recognized think tanks as homework, or speechwriting. forTime's University
President of the Year
THE INSTITUTE FOR AESTHETIC ADVOCACY
CO-FOUNDER /CREATIVE DIRECTOR
BECAUSE ART IS THE ANSWER WHEN WORDS STOP WORKING
Action-oriented cross-cultural events and platforms (on all the 3rd rail issues) to forge new political alliances.
EXPERIENTIAL ED PLATFORMS + THINK TANKS + GOVERNANCE SYSTEMS + INDUSTRY NETWORKS + ART COLLECTIVES + DISINFO FIGHTING NETWORKS

PHD + MASTER'S IN LAW
The punchline?
Used The Daily Show to predict 2026’s reality crisis in '05.

And got promoted (as a grad student) to speechwriter for Time's top University President
(during a billion-dollar fundraising campaign).

.

for this crisis of code, culture, and Constitutional law.
PHD (ENGLISH) + MASTER'S IN LAW
The humanities -- not the programmers & social "scientists" who caused this mess -- have the actual solutions.

And got promoted (as a grad student) to speechwriter for Time's top University President.
The punchline?
Used The Daily Show to predict 2026’s reality crisis in '05. And parallel built everyting for comedians.

"Fear and Loathing in the New Media Era: How to Realign Our Rhetorical Judgments for the Post-Postmodern, Digital Age"
(Started with the hardest problems: Privacy law, God, and digital political culure.
If you aren't fixing everything, btw, you are making this mess worse.)

.

to get the left/right (and religous orgs) to work together on AI and college reform. It worked.
Since 2006, I have taught the EXACT SAME method + course sequence on digital ethics, law, politics, & culture...
They launch cutting-edge think tanks, art collectives, disinformation networks, and PR/news orgs as homework.
And are now an army of internationally recognized experts who have fixed our colleges and the technology that is dividing and destroying us.
Got left/right + all religions to partner together on fixing AI and the tech dividing us.
And classrooms/students from "across the filter bubble" to work together.
hundreds of students, lawyers, citizens, and artists on a bipartisan + multi-industry "Manhattan Project"
to align AI, disinfo, privacy, & free speech (and stop civil war) in time.
on a bipartisan + multi-industry "Manhattan Project"
to align AI, disinfo, privacy, & free speech (and stop civil war) in time.
The last crew got the receipts. Then our city blew up. (Twice.). Some asshat tried to shoot me in '21.
And then the real drama/hell started.
Got left/right + all religions to partner together on fixing AI and
the tech dividing us.
And classrooms/students from "across the filter bubble" to work together.
We were trying to get a couple of midwestern states (red/blue) the AI alignment win on the DL (in '22) as a national model. Got close.
..to 1000s of students across all disciplines + both sides of reality.
They launch cutting-edge think tanks, art collectives, disinformation networks, and PR/news orgs as homework.
And are now an army of internationally recognized experts who have fixed our colleges and the technology that is dividing and destroying us.
Dr. Aaron McKain, MSL
Minneapolis and Omaha / mckain.3@gmail.com
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