Will
the Real Pimps and Ho's Please Stand Up!: Peeping the Multi-leveled Global Game
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by E. Raymond Brown
Publisher: Dreamscape Publishing
Introduction
Thank God the universe is such an incredibly creative place. Because this
book has certainly taken advantage of that and then some! I’m sure it will be
useful for the reader to at least have a glimpse of where this whole notion came
from. Plus, I know I’m going to be asked about fifty thousand times anyway, so
maybe this introduction can help trim that number down.
Well, about two years ago, I was working on a project dealing with the
study of archetypes. It was during that time that I became present to the broad
dimensionality of the pimp-ho dichotomy. It dawned on me how integral it is in
our modern world. But it wasn�t until early September 2002 that the whole
concept for the book occurred to me.
You know, I honestly don�t think that there’s anything more raw than paying
for, or selling the most intimate bodily act. I mean it’s quite a dynamic. You
pay, you get down, you go. Yet despite whatever impression the title might
create, I am not referring to such a process in this book much at all. What I am
using here is the rawness of the dynamic in the one context to relate to the
rawness of the social, political and economic dynamics in everyday life.
The fact that many people may not be able to relate on such a level is
understandable. It’s even a given. However, I can share with you that this book
just came from experience, plain and simple. Sometimes I feel psychologically
very groomed and fitted into all this everyday, run-of-the-mill conversation,
and its just business as usual. But mostly, I feel very raw. I look out at the
world and the things around me, and I see the rawness. I look at global
relations and the political state of things, which I am bombarded with
information about constantly, and I see a great deal of rawness.
So while I know how to cook up our reality and groom it just for the sake
of continuing the daily custom, the fact is I am just not always feeling that.
If you really want to know some of what I feel as an American, and more
specifically an African-American, then keep turning these pages. Because I can
guarantee you one thing � you may or may not be able to relate, but without
question, somebody in America will. And you can put that, as my ghetto
colleagues say, �on everythang!�
For I’m about to serve this up, �gourmet ghetto intellectual style.�
Sometimes I will be attempting to carefully carve out a certain type of subtle
social dynamic. Yet others, I’m throwing paragraphical flurries like Roy Jones
in a bad dream.
I can tell you, the more that I dealt with this subject matter, the more I
just had to put things down the way I did, Ebonics and all! I think you’ll find
the spirit of the project just came right on through me, and it called me into a
sort of intensity about it all. I must warn you, it’s a very confronting
conversation, and my only request is that you not blame or get mad with me for
how you experience yourself in it.
What’s funny, I have noticed, is that I would not be able to write with any
balance toward the two perspectives if I were not in the basic social
juxtaposition that I am in. Like many, I have great blessings, yet I’m still
struggling my tail off in a real way. Therefore I see both sides of the coin for
sure, first hand.
And it’s sort of a cool thing. I like the duality of it all. I like the
freedom and room I feel to just pour it all out and see what it looks like. I
find that we are all so strangely interwoven with each other. It’s both a crude
and fascinating experience at once.
I use a lot of humor. At least I call it that. I mean some of it is just
downright stupid, but mostly it serves an important function. For much of the
socio-political reality we humans have collectively created is just so blatantly
crazy. For instance, if you have any basic intelligence from a humanitarian
perspective, you have to look at a guy like George Bush, or U.S. foreign policy
for that matter, and just laugh at such gross absurdity.
But also, I feel that that being the case, the rawness of the general
commentary needs to be cut with as much satirical content as possible. In the
end I guess it’s like they say - the hell with them if they can�t take a joke!
Because this book, like life in general, requires a flexible sense of humor.
In chapter one, I’m just sort of creating context and getting the ol� ball
rolling. But by chapter two, I’m swinging away, like Barry Bonds surrounded by a
skinhead mob. Chapter three begins the socio-historical and archetypal hunt for
the pimp and the ho. I think you may view some of the findings as quite
revealing. In chapter four, we will begin to consider how much room we will
allow this whole thing, and how far it will go. Both archetypes have quite a
role in the American dream.
By chapter five, it’s back to some nitty gritty commentary. That’s all you
Americans respect anyway, no matter what you say. So we’ll just break it down,
even on a global level. Chapter six of course finishes this whole literary
fiasco. I tried to offer some interesting philosophical overview, and even
complete it all with a little ’mind treat� for the developing gamer.
I have some background in the study of both Taoist and aboriginal philosophy.
The relevance of Taoism is almost obvious here. Yin and yang make up the great
cosmic dichotomy that shows up in all its myriad forms. To tell the truth, I
don�t believe I�ve ever read any Taoist literature dealing with the pimp and ho
though. (Who knows? This might be a first).
Also in such a bizarre compilation as this, I have found that parts of
aboriginal cosmology are always somehow relevant. Perhaps this work could even
stimulate a little curiosity in the reader towards such an awesome and forgotten
culture. And this would make an even more ironic impact.
I look forward to the adventure of all the discussion, which I have already
started to encounter with this book. Some interesting points have already sprung
forth in the dialogue I�ve shared with some associates who have worked on this
project in various roles. Mostly I�ve seen the people who could deal with the
conversation become more present to how real some of it actually is. They range
from diverse economic and ethnic backgrounds, and identify in a multiplicity of
ways, sharing layer upon layer of the socio-political factors involved.
I am certainly not interested in presenting myself as any kind of authority
on anything other than my own experience. I have simply produced this book out
of a sheer creative impulse. However, there are several works available that I
recommend to anyone who wishes to do more investigation, or just explore more
sources. I have included a list of relevant material in the back of the book.
Lastly, I want to be as emphatic as possible with the reader that I am not
dealing with these archetypal roles in any gender specific sense. Anyone,
regardless of their sex, can be the experiencer of these dynamics in various
contexts. In Taoism, as well as many other philosophies, one learns that we are
all comprised of both the masculine and the feminine dynamic/principle.
Even the cosmos itself has both energies. So I am requesting the use of
your own intelligence to understand that I mostly refer to the feminine aspect
with the pronoun ’she,� and the masculine with �he.� However, you will often see
I use a �he/she� reference, or ’she/he,� because I know that I have to
continually remind many who will read this that I am basically not dealing with
gender specificity at all. In this book, she is possibly a he and vice versa, in
most any context referred to. Still, the dialogue is intense and confrontive
like life itself, so I anticipate any and all interpretations and responses.
Whatever the case, I hope that mostly the reader will get some humor and a
few insights out of the conversation. Or at minimum, it will just be a reminder
that the world in its rawness, given the opportunity, will be expressed!
Peace be unto you���baby!
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