During the middle of the day yesterday Overmanwarrior’s Wisdom passed the 200,000 viewership mark which I consider a significant achievement. This site does not feature silly pictures and gags that will generate a million views because of their trivial entertainment value. This site presents information that asks people to think and consider ideas, and to see that many viewers take the time to read my 1000-2000 word daily essays that number as of this writing to be 642 postings is deeply refreshing. I am seeing an average of 500-600 viewers per day everyday no matter what happens and for that I am appreciative. It gives me hope for the future—that there are people who are hungry to learn and consider ideas.
The most frequent question I get is—why, and who pays me? How can I write so much so fast and so often, and why would I do it? Well, before I answer all those other questions let me cover the why. About two years ago, I was working on a short documentary about the 10th Amendment with some friends of mine that we did as a project for the Liberty Twp Tea Party. We spent two months doing research on why the 10th Amendment was so routinely ignored by all governments, both state and federal, and what mechanisms were used by congress to erode away the effectiveness of the state sovereignty amendment. You can see the results of that video here. If you pay attention, you might learn quite a bit.
When I wrote the script for that video I had just learned the level of tricks that had been used to manipulate a very simple statement in the United States Constitution and the realization of just how far lawyers and politicians would go to manipulate our founding document in favor of leaving behind their own marks of memory was quite stunning. Using the same observation methods we used in making that video, it was easy to see that the same level of deceit was being done in virtually every phase of government.
So I began looking at all levels of government, especially my local school district and found that the same types of emotional, overreaching attempts were being employed there as politicians did with the commerce clause regarding the 10th Amendment. So I began to contribute frequent letters to the editor in my local paper to bring those observations to light. However I had a lot to say, and one letter a month was simply not enough to get out all the thoughts I had. So I began to participate in the online forums at the Pulse Journal and Enquirer to offer my two cents and I discovered there “facilitators” working on behalf of the labor unions in public education, that were openly harassing people who simply brought up good points. I immediately saw the motive behind these bullies.
Anyone who has known me for a number of years knows how I feel about bullies. Most of the conflicts I’ve had in my life have been the result of defending someone against the actions of a bully. A bully is the ultimate kind of evil because they seek to rob a person of their individual thoughts by coercing them into action against their ability to arrive at their own conclusions. A bully with physical violence or with peer manipulation are trying to impose their view upon anyone who might have arrived at a different conclusion, and that is fundamentally wrong—and I have no sympathy for it. It doesn’t matter if the bully is a man or a woman, a big person or a small person, a smart person or a dumb person, or a rich person or a poor one—a bully is a bully no matter what the form and they should all be vanquished.
The final straw for me came when some of those facilitators on the online forums attempted to paint me as a greedy, selfish, businessman because I spoke against the proposed Lakota School Levy. It was on that day that I started Overmanwarrior’s Wisdom to combat the network the labor unions have built to propel their thuggery upon my community and across the nation. I decided to use all the skills I had acquired over the years with media involvement, independent film productions, literature, and bullwhip arts to push back against the bullies of the world.
I have known from the beginning that the enemies of freedom—the type of people who work as facilitators to promote school levies, and presidents who use the “commerce clause” to ram through mandated health care coverage that the way to beat those bullies is with facts. I have set out daily to put out articles designed to get people thinking, because it is “thought” that the bullies of the world attack. Through the threat of violence, the bully hopes to make a person act against conclusions driven by their own thoughts. The bully also hopes to do the same with psychological manipulation, through fear, hope, or a need for security. When a bully tortures a victim this is what they are trying to pry out of the individual–something the individual deems must be kept in the sanctity of their mind. Torture is designed to drive out the thought and admit a truth the victim is trying to hide, or to get the victim to admit the truth they behold is actually a lie.
So the way to beat these bullies of government is with information, and since it is obvious that the news outlets will purge at the bullies feet in fear that the thugs might turn their attention on the outlets, an outlet is needed that will not yield to any bullies. This is the reason behind Overmanwarrior’s Wisdom. The goal is to do what the news can’t or won’t out of fear from the bullies.
The enemies of freedom are anyone who desires to alter the thinking of a reasonable people through any type of coercion, because in so doing, they are seeking to manipulate the fundamental elements of our country. Those enemies actively seek to make society ignorant by letting them know that thought means nothing, because in thinking, the results of your thinking will not matter. The will of the ignorant masses will have its way by sheer force. This is the way of the Obama administration as well as our local school systems. And this is what I have dedicated myself to combating at this site.
I spend virtually all my time thinking. It is my number #1 hobby and I could spend 28 hours a day doing only that if given the opportunity. So I have a lot to write about. When people wonder how I can write so much, so often, it is because I have done the work of thinking a great deal. I can produce a lot of material at will any time I want, so I do. I have no shortage of thoughts or the ability to put them down on paper. And I’m not limited to a solitary topic. I share those thoughts with others knowing that the process of thinking is the best way to combat the bullies of freedom—because it’s thought that they attempt to rob from the world. So in essence, the greatest act of rebellion one can achieve against such bullies is to fight for the right to think and act on one’s thoughts. That is the theme of Overmanwarrior’s Wisdom.
The enemy of freedom cannot do this. They cannot write over a million words as I have with original thoughts. They cannot talk on the radio for half hour segments without sounding like idiots. All they can do is make fun of those who do think, or disguise themselves as the educated elite and therefore hold the monopoly on thought. This is the position of Bill Maher’s Politically Incorrect and Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show. They act as bullies making fun of those who think. They are the social facilitators who advance progressive causes by ridiculing anyone who tries to look too deeply at a problem because the bully wants chaos, they want their victims to just nod and say yes for fear of ridicule. The enemies of freedom cannot write millions of words of fact otherwise their ideas crumble to dust in front of their faces. All they can do is write and speak about how bad “thinking” is. They cannot advocate their positions without fear being utilized in some fashion or another. That is why they are evil.
The way to beat them is by overloading their rhetoric with thoughts. This is why the advocates for our local school levy have called me “the most destructive force in the history of Lakota.” I’m not destructive to the family who is losing their home to foreclosure, or the businessman who does not want to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in additional taxes, or the senior citizen who is stuck on a fixed income of Social Security. But I am destructive to the progressive advocates who want infinitely high taxes and I’m proud of that. Most of that “destruction” has been from the words on these pages, because they can’t control the message, because I own it. They can try to use the press to manipulate what I say here to stop me, which is the refuge of a person who cannot compete in the world of ideas. They can’t convey messages at the same level of me, and they won’t be able to even if they hired a whole army of writers and public relations people to do so, because the thoughts in their heads do not come from them. They come from progressive institutions and they do not resonate in the world of ideas among thinkers. Thought is the enemy of the progressive, because their way of life resides in “fear.”
That is why I’m proud of the achievements at this site. I am proud that so many people enjoy it. I am proud that people are starting to value the art of thinking. I do not care if people arrive at the same conclusions as I do. But I know in the end right is right, and ultimately if people will think, they will arrive closer to where I am than where the enemies of freedom will take them. So I look forward to hitting a million hits and going beyond because with each increase in that number it is a sign that someone took the time to read some of these articles, watch the videos, and analyze the spreadsheets. And the process of doing that is a march toward the total destruction of progressivism and the bullies who advocate that mystic political position. With each word comprehended by a new mind, the task of unraveling the tangled web progressives have cast upon us comes undone just a bit more.
Oh–you want more proof? You think I’m kidding you? You think all this is a conspiracy, because the knowledge is not convenient? Then read what’s at the link below and you’ll see how it was all set up in 1958 to create the world we are finding ourselves dealing with today. I’ve made it easy for you. All you have to do is look for yourself.
Rich Hoffman
https://overmanwarrior.wordpress.com/2010/12/04/ten-rules-to-live-by/
http://twitter.com/#!/overmanwarrior
www.overmanwarrior.com
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This is a very important column. As I’ve said before, the main thing that attracted me to Overmanwarrior’s Wisdom is the wisdom. Rich has a great grasp of history and philosophy, and I have learned a lot in my time here. As I’ve always said, no matter now much you think you know or how smart you think you are, the minute you think you know it all and stop thinking and learning you’re done.
Also a distinction must be made between knowledge and wisdom. I know plenty of people who have the former but not the latter. The definition of wisdom is “the ability or result of an ability to think and act utilizing knowledge, experience, understanding, common sense, and insight”. Those last four attributes are much harder to obtain than knowledge.
And, back to my favorite book Atlas Shrugged 🙂 Ayn Rand considered a man’s failure to think to be the most egregious sin. She wrote that into the narrative of Atlas and other books. In her words:
“Thinking is man’s only basic virtue, from which all the others proceed. And his basic vice, the source of all his evils, is that nameless act which all of you practice, but struggle never to admit: the act of blanking out, the willful suspension of one’s consciousness, the refusal to think—not blindness, but the refusal to see; not ignorance, but the refusal to know. It is the act of unfocusing your mind and inducing an inner fog to escape the responsibility of judgment—on the unstated premise that a thing will not exist if only you refuse to identify it, that A will not be A so long as you do not pronounce the verdict “It is.”
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Nice example Phil and thanks. I didn’t intend it, but the solution has presented itself upon these pages. I didn’t read Ayn Rand until I helped promote the film here with Doc Thompson at WLW. He read it, said it was my kind of thing so I read it so I would know what I was promoting. Reading that confirmed the thoughts I had already been having for years, so I think seeing where she left off, is where we begin. We don’t have to reinvent the wheel. We just have to use it. The enemy wishes us not to think. And we can beat them if we allow ourselves to do it.
I didn’t start this site as a dedication to Objectivism or to Ayn Rand. I arrived where I am on my own 100%. But it has only been her work and that of Thus Spoke Zarathustra that confirmed my thoughts as not being isolated to just my observation. Reading Atlas Shrugged was like drinking a whole canteen of water after traveling three days in the desert with no food or water but only the knowledge that those things were somewhere straight ahead. Since I read her, I have given up on trying to reason with the fools and instead have decided to take away what they desire, ignorance. That is the Holy Water that kills the Witch of Oz.
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