Our generation's test

I have just finished watching the webcast My Life: Chassidus Applied, by R' Simon Jacobson. I think that A Groiser Yasher Koach is deserved. I am a subscriber to his Omer and Elul daily email program and though I have learned a lot I don't faithfully carry out the program (perhaps it is too much for me, everyday working on another level, I like to go slower).
After the initial feeling of enjoyment, I felt a little sad (I had always looked down upon the generation which had Torah and/or Chassidus in the early twentieth century and to a large extent discarded it for a passing fancy of Communism or Socialism and to an extent Zionism which are less than a pale comparison to Torah and Chassidus. I have had a very strong education of the values of Chassidus, Rebbe and Kabolas Ol and feel sad when I meet or read about people which either didn't have as strong an education as I did or didn't accept theirs or rejected theirs. After watching this webcast I began to feel that this is our generations true test and that it really is no different than the early twentieth century test. The medium and symptom, that became the alternative, was that which was popular then, but the cause was the sensing (incorrectly) that Torah/Chassidus didn't apply (because it didn't have the answers) in a time of upheaval (or nowadays, it might be said that it is too lofty).
I was wrong to look down on that generation.
I watched the webcast with much delight as I felt that it answered that generation's, as well as this one's, main issue, How is it (Torah/Chassidus) applicable to me?
On another note, I feel that the role R' Jacobson, as well as R' Manis Friedman, have taken is the role of Mashpia. I sense and have heard that many people, including myself, are not able to find a Mashpia and it feels to me that that is the role this webcast has taken on. I look forward to watching more videos with great interest. I sense though people will have specific questions that can not be answered for a general audience and people will feel a void and also eventually become a little frustrated when they see the path tantalizingly in front of them but then they are not able to actualize it (which I think is the greatest reason that the inspiration of our youth has been extinguished. We ourselves (not someone else) extinguished it when we felt that we are not attaining it and do not want to deal with the failure).
And this brought me to another thought (in general I do not like trying to find explanations for why something is the way that it is, I find them usually pointless and generally wrong and slanted to our preconceived biases on how we see the world. But with that disclaimer), I sense that the reason so many people do not have a mashpia is not the way I used to, and so many others, think because no one has time or other similar explanations, rather it is that we want to find someone who understands our derech or where we are in life and that is very hard to find when one is looking in middle of one's life as opposed to someone who has known you since you were younger.
So if so many people enjoy these webcasts how can there be enough time to answer everyone personally? I propose that if there are like minded individuals that understand Chassidus similar to R' Jacobson and have clarity of thought to how it pertains to everyone, a list can be drawn up (hopefully 20 to 40) and people will feel comfortable going to them for more personal direction being as their outlook on life is similar to their own.
I know that this is quite far from being actualized, which led me to another thought. (As a personal note, sometimes I would feel down (either because of the matzav Ruchnius of myself or the world) and this feeling usually ends up as questioning, is the whole thing worth it? The best answer was watching the Rebbe say the Haftorah from a fast day, Dirshu, specifically the words Ki lo Machshivosay machshivoseichem v'lo darcheichem d'ruchoi, n'um Hashem), I think that utilizing the Omer and Elul framework of R' Jacobson can empower people to find that direction. I think that it should be structured as courses more than classes and the courses should be by topic so that people can choose that which they are looking for. And the course should be structured with explanation on the topic but together a significant part should be actual text and not just a snippet but a whole maamar or something of that length, it should be a curriculum of maamorim with explanation in between to internalize and actualize it and not let it remain as luft verter.
I think some of the topics should be Kabolas Ol, Ahavas Hashem, Yiras Hashem, Shlichus, Hashgocah Pratis etc. And in the course on Kabolas Ol, for example, we can have mamorim from the Alter Rebbe (Tanya. L"T) and other maamorim e.g. Achrei Havaya from the F"R, I think in '96 or '97, interspersed with activities that are grouped by categories that people are looking for (and here is primarily where one could utilize the framework of the Omer) e.g. people who are looking for help in their marriage relationship, or relationship with parents or bosses or G-d or children or any of life's different situations and they could be elucidated as how they pertain to a specific sefirah. And these activities would be a vital component to how Chassidus is relevant. The other vital component would be the Chassidus text itself seeing as Osios Machkimos and a lot of questions will fall away automatically (like my doubts when listening to the Rebbe. (which can lead to a component of multimedia to the course like listening to a specific shtikel fabrengen or a specific nigun with the biur of how this nigun pertains to a particular struggle.))
I see such courses filling a part of the vital need of a mashpia.
But b'ikar, Yisron HaOr m'toch HaChoshech.