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American
Colossus
A colossal monument
to freedom and
human triumph in
San Francisco Bay
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The Colossus of Prometheus
over Alcatraz
A lightning rod
for the
noble destiny
of
The West
AMERICA’S MONUMENT TO
BEAUTY
HEROISM
INGENUITY
MANIFEST DESTINY
TO STAND 1,000 YEARS
WHY PROMETHEUS?
Prometheus imbued Man with ingeniousness, indefatigable optimism and grit in service of great vision.
He represents the spirit of innovation and courage for the purpose of building, for the inborn nobility which elevates humanity to monumental thinking and achievement.
His symbol is THE ARCHETYPAL AMERICAN SYMBOL.
His symbol also profoundly describes the Bay and its technology leadership, which is the spearpoint for Western leadership of the technological future more broadly.
There is no more fresh, vital, and inspiring figure than Prometheus for the future about to unfold and the Renaissance in which we must embark.
WHY ALCATRAZ?
The jewel in the heart of the most beautiful harbor in the world…
…purpose-built for glorious optimism…
is yet squandered.
Alcatraz Prison is an historically uninteresting, defunct and dilapidated Ceaucescu-style side-show. An unworthy use of such a gift.
Today it symbolizes bleakness and regression, of what happens to a city and a society when ideological degeneration takes root. A mockery of our people and our ways.
We have the singular opportunity today to build a symbol of beauty and heroism that will stand 1,000 years.
MUSEUM OF BREAKTHROUGH TECHNOLOGY
ENCIRCLE ALCATRAZ WITH EXHIBITIONS OF BEAUTY AND GENIUS
DISPLAY THE SACRED FIRE OF MANKIND THROUGH A HISTORY OF COURAGE AND BRILLIANCE
PROMENADE ACROSS THE GREEN LAWNS OF RENAISSANCE
IMMERSE IN THE UPLIFTING VITALITY OF GREAT ACHIEVEMENTS
NEWS & UPDATES
September 15th, 2024
INTERVIEW WITH ROSS CALVIN
August 30th, 2024
MAN, THE SCULPTOR
July 4th, 2024
PICTURES OF OUR PROMETHEAN FUTURE, PT I
MAY 22nd, 2024
BITCOIN’S PROMETHEAN RENAISSANCE
MAY 15th, 2024
THE AIRSHIPS OF PROMETHEUS
MAY 3rd, 2024
WOKE WOMEN OF THE WEST
APRIL 22nd 2024
MANIFEST DESTINY
February 19th, 2024
YOU CAN’T TEAR THIS ONE DOWN
MARCH 12th, 2024
TITAN OF THE ROCK
FEBRUARY 19th, 2022
PROMETHEUS – THE GREAT COMEDY
JANUARY 1st, 2023
AMERICAN COLOSSUS – (Substack)
JULY 28th, 2022
A SECOND STATUE OF LIBERTY – (Substack)
A NOTE FROM OUR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Ross Calvin
Executive Director
Thank you for visiting American Colossus. We’re honored by your attention and eager for you to join myself and our board on a work of deep, powerful meaning.
American Colossus is building the country’s bold beacon of optimism and human triumph: the Great Colossus of Prometheus on Alcatraz. A Monument to American Manifest Destiny, to the liberating force of technology and entrepreneurship, and to the noble destiny of the West.
Standing taller than the Statue of Liberty, our Monument inaugurates a new golden age, revering creativity and the heroic nature of Man. It unapologetically symbolizes a brilliant, optimistic American future, calling us to visionary thinking, bold achievement, and forging this new world into a powerful ideal. It also marks the reclamation of our society from forces of desecration.
The Monument reaffirms independence, individual agency, and freedom with a new brand of American self-determination, scaled upward to meet an emerging accelerationist atomic and space age. It champions the pursuit of happiness as the perennial American covenant.
Prometheus, the Titan of innovative progress, will inspire 1,000 years of Americans to overcome for the sake of nobility, beauty and creative endeavor.
We aim to construct a legacy that will uplift and inspire millions of young Americans with a towering symbol of our commitment to a free and life-affirming future, the heroism of Man, and the triumph of American values.
Join our cause, alongside patriots of the West, our architects, engineers, sculptors, entrepreneurs, investors and creative media producers who believe great works of beauty and power can uplift and guide the course of our precious civilization.
-Ross Calvin, Executive Director
Ross Calvin
Executive Director
Dr. Jason Reza Jorjani
Director
Dario Mutabdzija
Director
ROSS CALVIN
Executive Director
Ross is a digital asset entrepreneur and founder of Parhelion Corp, a digital asset mining and bitcoin-focused venture studio. His work has been defined by a passion for the institution of sound money and that contributing to reengineering the monetary order is the most powerful and moral way to restore humanity’s creative genius.
For 15 years, Ross has relentlessly sought opportunities emerging from monetary dislocation around the world. Prior to Parhelion Ross was the founder/manager of Agrigentum Capital, a global macro manager in currencies, volatility and emerging market equity which was the first hedge fund strategy comprehensively rooted in the Austrian School of Economics. Agrigentum began experiments with Bitcoin mining in 2013 and in 2017 developed technology targeting the reinvention of the petrodollar. Ross is also the manager of Shadowline Capital, a builder of boutique properties which seek to instill poetic sensemaking for a fragmenting world.
View his missive and forthcoming conversation series Fire, Profit & Transcendence, covering topics such as mythology, poetry, entrepreneurship, global macro, and decentralized money.
He has resided in China and North Africa and lives in Wyoming. He graduated from Southern Methodist University with a BA in Economics and Mandarin.
JASON REZA JORJANI, PhD
Director
Jason Reza Jorjani, PhD is a philosopher from New York City. He received his BA and MA from New York University, and his PhD in Philosophy from the State University of New York (Stony Brook).
Jorjani is the author of a dozen books. His first book, Prometheus and Atlas won the 2016 Book Award of the Parapsychological Association. He is also a member of the Society for Scientific Exploration (SSE).
Jorjani has taught courses on Science, Technology, and Society (STS), the History of Philosophy, Heidegger, Comparative Religion, and the History of Iran at several universities in Greater Gotham.
Some of Jorjani’s surrealist/futurist artwork can be found on his website.
He is the founder of Prometheism or the Prometheist Movement: prometheism.com.
DARIO MUTABDZIJA
Director
Dario Mutabdzija is a dynamic entrepreneur, international attorney and blockchain-focused venture investor.
He was born in Sarajevo, experiencing the violence of the Bosnian War. As an immigrant to the United States he earned a BS from the University of Hawaii and a joint-JD from McGeorge School of Law and the University of Salzburg, Austria. In 2011 Dario launched the Blueseed Seasteading project and was legal director for the Seasteading Institute.