The Birth of an Alter Ego
origin of Louis XX Player 1 of OptomystiK
05/05, 2025, 10:20 am
Origin of the “Yello Bit Road”
They Yello Bit Road was born out of an unmet need I discovered while living in Los Angeles — an educational system that puts our children on a path of resonance.
It took quite a bit of R&D to create a story and a setting for this narrative device. As the author, I developed an alter ego — Louis XX — who would exist in a parallel dimension as a pirate captain of a ship called “OptomystiX”.
As the Pirate Captain, it takes a bit of research to figure out the genre of the story in each chapter. Chapter 1 is “The Los Angeles Dystopia”. The genre must match the tone of the story. It must resonate. A pirate captain is the narrator of a 200-person, decentralized community. Leading a 200-person community is a complex riddle because as it expands, it loses its integrity — the first pirate ship must set the highest standards that can simulated by human behavior. My usual self does not function at the highest level, but the story requires me to “get into character” by embodying my alter ego — Louis XX
Louis XX must see the base reality — what is actually occurring, as opposed to what we are being told. Louis XX must try not to be fooled by wizards, witches, sirens, muses, and more. No matter what, the pirate captain must stay on course. There are many traps, many distractions, temptations that could lead the Pirate Ship away from its destiny — to simulate a supreme culture.
The pirate captain must perceive, then deliver something real to his crew. A pirate captain is an anthropologist, a writer, a director, then mostly an agent that curates choices — a three-pronged menu of freedom:
1) keep doing what you’re doing
2) do nothing
3) or create
A pirate captain must show how choices magically unfold into a story driven by a resonant narrative with worthwhile incentives.
Though there is a lot of preparation, none of it can really be planned; however, the pirate regulates how it occurs so everybody wins — driven by emotion, synchronized to truth, beauty, and freedom — OptomystiK is a chapter-based story that functions as a book of Interactive Parables — you must decide, you must prepare, you must adventure!
You many not know, but we are under a very powerful spell that hides the real truth. This spell has afflicted all of us, but Pirate Captain must try to become immune to this spell to break it with his own community — the OptomystiX!
Los Angeles is the real Land of Oz. The Wizards control us through our phone…but we are going to make a new remote control to a new reality.
Silly, isn’t it?
OptomystiX is going to simulate how a group of two-hundred people collaborate in a way that demonstrates how everyone can win on their very own Pirate adventure on a “Yello Bit Road”.
A Pirate Captain is a story engineer who focuses on the unmet needs of a community to create a story that resonates enough for them to participate.
This is easier said than done. Luckily before I became a public school film teacher, I worked as a copywriter for an agency that produced ads for Nike, then I worked as a UCLA research assistant who studied homeless populations; then I worked at Nissan North America doing customer service, legal department work, and market strategy & research for vehicle product development. Those experiences created a unique filter when I entered the Los Angeles Unified School District at Henry Clay Middle School in South Los Angeles.
It took me a while to understand what I was looking at throughout my 23-year career as a public school teacher. While I was delighted by the children, I found most of the problems had to do more with the behavior of administrators who formed judgments before seeking out the truth through the critical thinking process we’re all supposed to learn in college. In other words, LAUSD is a suprisingly toxic environment for a publicly funded entity. As a citizen, I found it unacceptable that our tax dollars fund such an unpleasant narrative for our children.
In LAUSD, the truthful narrative is often lost in a culture of an attitude that proved to fall out of the boundaries of what is real and acceptable to the general public who finances these schools. Ultimately, it would be my effort to intervene in this culture that caught the attention of the highest management levels at LAUSD. When I joined the iPad tech committee, I put myself on a collision course with senior leadership at LAUSD — specifically, getting included in web revenge from the head of instructional technology at LAUSD — Sophia Mendoza — a woman tasked with curating contracts with vendors — iPads, computers, software, services, and much more than one might think.
When I read about the corruption in the LA Times about the iPad tech committee, I naively believed it no longer existed — but it proved to be a naive assumption. I unwittingly became a target of Sophia Mendoza in a way that feed me a narrative that revealed the source of the culture I had witnessed for 23 years.
Although it was quite unpleasant, I discovered what I really wanted to know — why were our public schools in Los Angeles so neglectful in serving our children well?
Maria Pedraza will be playing the role of “Maria” on the Yello Bit Road
The answer disturbed me, at first — but as I experienced the depth of the corruption first-hand, I talked to God again. I had not done for quite some time because I knew God had always watched over me, and he had given me quite a good life. When I ran into this obstacle, I asked him:
“God, what do I do?”
“Do your best, Louis. Have a good attitude.”
That’s all God said.
“Do your best. Have a good attitude.”
LAUSD kept me out of the classroom for four years for the false accusations they concocted out of the pressure they put on me that would crush the little dream of a group of sixth graders who could no longer be in a movie because LAUSD had canceld my film program. The way this played out was almost like a movie. I won the case with the CTC (California Teaching Commission), which I heard is quite difficult — simply put, all of LAUSD accusations had no evidence.
Emma Roberts will be playing the role of Penelope, curator of the “Yello Bit Road”
But they still kept me out of the classroom so I came up with a plan to develop the story further through a narrative that was completely legal that would test if we actually live in a Dystopia.
It worked! Although it was a challenging mission, I was able to collect enough data to conclusively prove that LAUSD was
1) giving students leading prompts
2) Administrators were guiding student statements while the wrote them!
Now that I knew this was happening, I created a plan to capture the direct evidence of how it was happening; and I was able to do this at Van Nuys High School. The main idea here was to observe the actual behavior of LAUSD by pretending that something was occurring that was not occurring through a narrative I staged on my social media account that was not actually occurring in the classroom. This juxtaposition was legal because I had an active campaign as a Los Angeles Mayor candidate; but the mistake LAUSD made was that they never visited my classroom so to match the narrative that I created online would require them to engage in 1) giving students leading prompts 2) have administrator lead the answers by making false statements.
This action within our public school system is quite meaningful. Now, I actually had direct evidence of what is occurring in LAUSD — true treasure!
I really could not believe our public school leaders were acting like real villains.
“Do your best. Have a good attitude.”
What did that mean, God?
It was like what I had told my students for 23-years — do your best — it’s effort that’s important — you’ll catch on if you keep trying. Let’s make it fun!
And that’s how I became Pirate “Louis XX” .
Why would I behave in such a way?
It so happens that I have a real passion for interpreting real events to tell a story about reality. Reality is challenging, but as a tennis player I knew what it was like to be down and win. 5 games to Zero, Luv, Forty. I had felt these emotions on the court — inundated with doubt, upset by at myself, losing faith in the future — “it’s when you get present on the court that you have a real chance to win.”
I didn’t know what it meant to win against an opponent that all of our tax money funded so I dug deeper, researched — I needed an idea to incept — letters, words to convey the idea of a choice — a symbol — a logo — to create — a “Yello Bit Road” choices, signals within that match the exterior world — the validation of our own compass — a “Yello Bit Road”.
