The Oval Office: Meaning and symbols lost to America

It has not been an easy transition, even for me, to realize that virtually everything we know and see around us that relate to politics needs a complete revision. All the case-law our courts have created, all the laws our politicians have written, and years of media evolution have turned America into something that it wasn’t met to be on a quest intended to regress human kind back to just another European tribe in a village of the damned. The hard truth is that many of the beliefs that most Americans cling to are wrong, they have been taught incorrectly by their schools, their insecure parents, and their media revolution that put advertising before quality. Our nation is a wreck and only a series of broken images of its once great self.

Glenn Beck is thinking much the same thing as I am, but when I first saw to what extent he is taking his awareness, I thought he was proclaiming himself just another would-be king when he built a replica of the Presidential Oval Office to begin broadcasting from. However, the more I thought about it, he has the right idea. The modern American Presidency is a complete joke bought and paid for by lobbyists who could care less about the philosophy that made America great. So these days, the Oval Office of President Obama has as much meaning as this fictional set created by Glenn Beck. In fact, I’d say that Beck’s Oval Office is more “American” than the one that currently resides in The White House.

The kind of people who are bad—truly evil by terms that they are enemies of individualism, believe that Glenn Beck is the leader of a great new wave of patriotism. This is because they cannot understand any line of thought which does not require a leader to preach to them from a mountaintop. Glenn Beck rather is a guy who has arrived at his conclusions as an individual and he has decided to be productive with his awareness, and discovered that other individuals share his love and concerns, so they have purchased his products and Glenn has in turn reinvested that money back into his passions, which in his case is a reawakening of American philosophy.

His plans to broadcast those philosophies from his own Oval Office is appropriate since it was the people of individual thought and action who made him rich and gave him the ability to create an actual “peoples house.” I knew that Washington D.C. was lost in a visit I made there in 1997 where I took my family on a tour of all the popular tourist sites. Everywhere I went, I seemed to get into some kind of trouble. My wife almost got arrested at The White House for arguing with the Secret Service and I did in the National Archives for filming the founding documents in their vault. It was obvious to me that the caretakers of Washington D.C. had become lost in the image of the country and had committed themselves to the maintenance of their image, while forgetting what they meant. I told my children then on the sidewalks outside of The National Geographic Headquarters that America was not alive here in this dirty city full of scheming politicians who were no better than looting pirates, America lived in the ideas contained in the founding documents. The documents themselves could be burned to a crisp, yet the words written upon them would live forever in people’s minds. The White House could be destroyed by Aliens like it was in the movie ID4 and yet the idea of The White House could continue on in a tent. A president elected by the people for the people could still be a president in a tent the same as The Oval Office.

This is the sickness of collectivists, those who do not function as sovereign individuals. They tend to worship the images of things instead of their true meanings. They get lost into their own warped perceptions then seek to drag all of society down to their pathetic realizations. This is where we find our current nation, ruled by such infants clinging to the images of their beliefs but not understanding what anything really means.

It was not Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Rielly, or any other political commentator who opened my eyes to this terrible realization—that too many people sought the safety of the herd only to become lost in the collective vision of cowards—it was the fantasy writer Robert Jordan and his series The Wheel of Time.

I started that Robert Jordan series out of a hunger for more literature in the tradition of J.R.R. Tolkien and enjoyed very much the throwback to a time of the Middle Ages, where it took a long time to get from one town to the next on horseback.  Each book averaged over 700 pages and there were over 13 books so far with the fourteenth book coming out January 8th 2013. That will be the last book of the series. For me, the most shocking concept to realize in those books is that the primitive world of the heroes is actually a regression from a past civilization that was far more advanced, something that is beginning to actually show up in the reality of earths archeology. In the previous culture in the world of The Wheel of Time there were massive cities with advanced technology and cars that flew through the sky. But as with all things, times ended and began again in a wheel of action that goes on forever. The Wheel of Time is a haunting reminder from the world of fantasy that America is on that path.

America is regressing to a time before its creation guided by the convoluted will of a European mindset. Unfortunately as much as I love William Shakespeare he was dead wrong when he said, “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” It is that kind of evasion that has allowed the typical European to wither under their commitment to idealist philosophy in a war between Immanuel Kant and Rene Descartes as though the whole world existed between those two thinkers. This has led mankind to adopt the false philosophy of collective salvation, but they are all wrong. Any life that intrudes on the life of another is not a valued life, it’s a parasite. And the European world is full of them, as Shakespeare built his reputation writing about.

Those types of people are taking our nation back to a time before the American ideal, and we are letting them because we don’t wish to be in conflict. Collectivists use our reluctance to engage them against us as they drive our nation backward.

Collectivism is a disease of human thinking that promises to destroy everything that has ever been invented and any thought that’s been advanced. Collectivism is the ethical code of altruism and asserts that every human being exists to serve other humans beings. It is entirely possible that this way of thinking is why our society has gained and lost much technology over the years and finds itself constantly rediscovering scientific advantages rather than continuously advancing. Watching the collectivists in action makes me wonder how many times the human being has discovered the wheel in the millions of years that earth has been occupied, which is evident now that archeology is uncovering this knowledge. Then it makes me wonder how many times human beings lost knowledge of the wheel and all the history that points to it because collectivism destroyed society countless times already. Collectivism is the destroyer of all advancement since responsibility is shifted away from productivity. Under collectivism the weakest link in the chain of human ability determines the strength of that chain in society. With collectivism being the driving force, society weakens considerably. The producers are made into slaves to the parasites as the many in the collective seek to feed off the producer. At some point in time the producer will decide to stop fighting and become a parasite themselves—and this is the cause of most modern human misery.

America cannot survive if health care costs increase 20% per year, and education costs increase 8%. America cannot survive if technology and invention do not create more high-tech jobs leaving the population simply as a service industry serving foreign tourists. The same altruists who magically expect every business quarter whatever business they are affiliated with to increase 2 to 3% in profits forever, without new developments are out of their minds, yet that is the expectation of collectivists and has created a massive inflation of expectation called the housing bubble, the education bubble, and the savings bubble. Generation Y will have a lower standard of living than their parents had. They will have a lower standard of living because America yielded it’s innovation from individuals and resorted to collectivist parasitic consumption.

This is why Glenn Beck is beginning broadcasts from his own Oval Office. He has dedicated himself to discovering the individuals in America who can save its soul and he is not concerned about pissing off any collectivists in the current government, or the media, because they are part of the problem. They have no solutions because they are in essence parasites who cannot function if producers do not produce. So they are irrelevant to any discussion.

I have toured many labor union manufacturing facilities over the years and when the break bell rings, the workers drop their work and go to break without pause. I have seen on more than one occasion employees actually watching TV during their work day because they are protected by their union from management retaliation. Workers of this type are disconnected from the production process. They simply show up for work and collect a pay check. They do not understand or care where the money comes from. They only care that they get paid. People like this are collectivists and they occupy every industry from the highest political office to the lowest manufacturing job. What they don’t know is that a producer invented the job to begin with, and without those people, there are no jobs, there is no money. America used to be full of individuals who made jobs but the tendency toward collectivism has destroyed their ambition. These days too many people who might otherwise produce find themselves forever defending their interests in court from law suits or in constant fear of them. So they hold their cards close and don’t play their hand. And society suffers.

Glenn Beck is not addressing his Oval Office chats to those collectivists, but to the potential producers, the dreamers, the people who can solve America’s problems. The collectivists are purposely excluded because they are irrelevant. It does not matter that collectivists outnumber the rest of society’s individuals. It is the individuals who hold all the power possible in the world of tomorrow. It is the individual who is at the front of the train. It is the individual who invents, creates, and makes the world better. And it will be a society of individuals who lead the next fight for independence in America.

The next revolution will not be as simple as overthrowing the might of a terrible tyrant from a far away land by dumping tea into a Boston harbor. The new revolution is one of philosophy, because we’ve proven once that it worked and do not have to reinvent the wheel. It’s already been proven. We cannot allow ourselves to be tricked into regressing back to a time before the invention of “individual rights” in trade for “social justice.” Social justice is the way of the collectivists and ultimately the way to societal collapse. The solution to America’s problems comes from individuality and the rights associated with it. And it’s wonderful that such individuals now have their own Oval Office from which Glenn Beck can open its doors for the rest of us to save the world.

When free human beings are taxed and stuffed into collectivism, the products of free human beings is destoyed, because the products of freedom comes from free thought.  Without that element, every single society will end in dust.  It is in free action and free will that America was founded, absent of collectivism.  That is the key to American success and always has been. 

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Rich Hoffman
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