viyobi.com
Podcasts and YouTube Shorts that displace harmful narratives
Every episode is a record in the MOCSIE Engine — tagged on three axes, archived, and waiting for the algorithm that threads them into navigable narratives governed by democratic accountability.
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VIYOBI is one node in a 22-requirement governance specification. Here's how it connects.
① The Specification
VIYOBI primarily serves Layer 2: The Displacement Engine (producing alternative narratives that meet the same human needs as the ones being displaced) and Layer 3: The Contact Engine (engineering parasocial contact that satisfies Allport's six conditions for prejudice reduction).
View the full specification at mocsie.ai →
② The Engine
The archival and retrieval architecture that operationalizes the six layers. Every record enters the Global Domain at center. The rings expand outward: media genres, policy networks, individual media communities, narrative communities, sustaining institutions, and institutional memory at the outer edge.
③ Media Genre × Policy Network
Every record is tagged on two axes. Media Genre (the how): Performing, Touching, Seeing, Listening, Reading, Watching. Policy Network (the what): Living Opportunity, Living Women, Living Color, Living Diverse, Living Healthy, Living Peacefully. VIYOBI's coordinates: Listening × Living Diverse (podcasts) and Watching × Living Diverse (Shorts).
④ The Juggler's Self-Assessment
Every record carries a third coordinate: its governance function. Before you hit record, ask yourself what this one piece of content does better than the others. VIYOBI's primary function is #1 — The Echo Chamber.
| # | Function | The Question |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Echo Chamber | Is this record breaking into an echo chamber to displace a harmful narrative? |
| 2 | Empathy | Is this record demonstrating empathy to create space for an emergent narrative? |
| 3 | The Disconnect | Is this record reconnecting someone cut off from a community that should have been supportive? |
| 4 | The Campaigns | Is this record advancing a policy that will improve lives harmed by outdated policy? |
| 5 | The Missing Activists | Is this record reenergizing activists who burned out and gave up hope? |
| 6 | Marketable Multimedia | Is this record contributing to the self-funding requirement? |
⑤ The Institutional Landscape
Six columns of authority — Federal, State, County, City, School, Nonprofit — each with its own bureaucratic logic. Street-level bureaucrats, activists, and organizers operate at the interface. The Juggler bridges across silos, filling structural holes that sustaining institutions keep closed.
⑥ Where You Can Read About This
Five books in three registers — speculative fiction, autoethnographic memoir, and interdisciplinary curriculum — all built on the same architecture.
Personified in Chs. 5, 9, 47 — displacement as resistance
Personified in Chs. 8–9 — echo chambers & missing activists
Personified in Ch. 4 — parasocial contact through a screen
Documented in Chs. 7–8 — demagoguery & liberation
Taught in Units 7–8 — Displacement & Contact Engines
Practice exercises for Units 7–8⑦ The Destination
Every episode, every clip, every record VIYOBI produces contributes to the conditions for an Emergent Narrative Community. The dialectic between a dominant narrative and an empirically derived narrative resolves not through victory but through an engineered shared premise. That's what displacement does. That's what contact enables. That's where this work leads.
