Obviously, Obama lost a Obamacare lawsuit, and it was embarrassing. So his administration wanted to change the news cycle. Literally, within hours of losing the court case Obama exceedingly overstepped his executive powers once again by imposing a ridiculous transgender rule against public schools.
Remember what I have said about public schools. If you vote for a school levy you are stupid. If you send your kids to public school, you are taking a serious chance of destroying their minds forever. If you love them, you should home school them, or send them to a private school. Public schools are dangerous, lazy, and obviously corrupt, and by Obama’s actions–are a part of the transgender psychosis promoting the advancement of mental illness as a substitute to logic.
As you can see from the picture Matt used on his Saturday May 7th 2016 broadcast he’s a little concerned about the direction of our country. About three-quarters into the hour-long show which he does each week on WAAM radio in Ann Arbor, Michigan I came on to add a little color. For your own sanity dear reader, you should listen to it now, then pass it along to a friend. It may well just save your life with a small dose of sanity at a key time in our American history.
Matt and I are doing an entire hour together this upcoming Saturday and it will be live, so if you’d like to listen or call in, you can catch the show at 1 PM at this link.
I wasn’t going to say much about it, but now that Donald Trump is the Republican Party nominee and tempers have abated a bit, proper analysis can finally be possible. Context is needed before everyone can move forward. I would think that Objectivists would be happier about Trump than they are. I would also think that Tea Party types would as well. Apparently they have in their mind something else that a POTUS is supposed to be which is really too much to ask. Trump essentially to me is the first Objectivist oriented candidate to ever truly make it to such a high position, and I think the benefits philosophically to our society will be immeasurable. It really comes down to the public versus private sector ability. Public sector approaches are too costly and grossly ineffective where private is much more driven by individual performance and that is the world that Donald Trump comes out of—and it will be exciting to watch.
I’m certainly not an Objectivist from Ayn Rand’s camp. While I admire the work and think it is the best thing the human race has come up with to date regarding management of government resources, it doesn’t go far enough for me. I make it no secret that one of my favorite books is Thus Spoke Zarathustra yet I would say that my thinking about things is naturally evolved further along than Nietzsche—which is understandable. That was over 100 years ago, and we’ve learned a lot since then. Ayn Rand’s work was 50 years ago, so it’s not exactly current. I have decided that I need to take those types of ideas to the next level before I can have meaning in them which is what I’m doing in the Curse of Fort Seven Mile series. I can’t just write stories for commercial endeavor. Even though I enjoy it, there has to be some earth-shaking sense in the work that steers the mind toward the answers for living. While Ayn Rand denied it, I see clearly that her novels were certainly extensions to Thus Spoke Zarathustra—which was to say, a graduation of mankind from a kind of dependent sacrificial being, into a self-aware, self-sustaining creature capable of immeasurable creation through sheer imagination.
Glenn Beck lost me back when he was on Fox News when he’d speak with ill will toward Nietzsche because Beck needed a “God” figure in his life. He and a lot of people like him apparently needed to feel that a “god” was guiding them through some divine providence toward some heavenly revelation—as if the plans for America were tied to the plans extracted from Heaven. To me, that’s lazy thinking—and I deep dive the reasons in my Curse of Fort Seven Mile series. You can’t just trust something that may not be even concerned with our dimensional reality. What might call itself a “god” to us may in fact be a disgraceful devil of some kind and we need our intellects to guide us through those decision gates. Ultimately however, the problem that these types of conservatives have with Donald Trump is that he has certainly graduated in his life away from the need to feel guilt about anything and is living as a self-professed intelligence. Trump to me is very much the character from Thus Spoke Zarathustra who lived in the mountain cave and came down to the village below to teach the world about the Overman. Biblically, Donald Trump is not an icon of virtual, but as a graduate from the necessity to sacrifice one’s essence for the benefit of the collective whole—Donald Trump is the first of his kind to emerge into public office. I say that now because the Hillary Clinton antics with Elizabeth Warren just aren’t going to be able to stop him in a general election. Yet Glenn Beck in his early days and even as recently as the latest Atlas Shrugged movies was very supportive of Ayn Rand, as was Ted Cruz, Paul Ryan, and Rand Paul. They apparently don’t understand what makes the characters great in Rand’s books. It certainly wasn’t a propensity to sacrifice themselves to some “divine providence.” Glenn Beck actually called on people to “fast” to beg God to keep Donald Trump from winning the presidential nomination. That is just ridiculous. Talk about sacrifice—Beck doesn’t understand—he has clearly lost his mind.
I understand that some people need a “god” to hold their life together. You can’t just live a life leaning toward meek sacrifice for 70 years of a life then stop on a dime and say that man has within its mind the power of the universe and that “god is dead,” as Nietzsche did in Thus Spoke Zarathustra. However, the need for a “god” is in mankind’s intellect, and the need to hold on to that crutch has kept our society in this ridiculously infantile state for far too long. You will never get to John Galt’s engine of the world by sacrificing bits of yourselves to a being beyond time and space. Whatever is out there in those folds of time needs to be properly vetted before trust can properly be established—you certainly can’t trust some Roman interpretation of a Christ metaphor passed down to us from the ages of Zoroastrianism. That’s just stupid. While I don’t fault people for their needs intellectually, I do when it comes to crossing the streams of proper government. Thinking is the key to human endeavor, not hoping that a “god” will show mercy and guide us to some Promise Land. We have to make that Promised Land though our intellectual gifts provided by “god,” but we can’t be passive recipients in our approach.
Donald Trump’s harshest critics are those who find it appalling that he is completely a man of his own making, that he seeks only his counsel when making a decision, that he loves himself and isn’t meek, and that he shows an indication toward the complete domination of his enemies. They can’t understand such a person because Trump is free from the need to sacrifice anything to make something—so they can’t understand how it will be possible as president. But praying for a god to save a nation is just as stupid as the athlete who scores a touchdown and points toward heaven as though “god” made such a thing possible. To say that America is great because God is behind it is just as stupid as the Muslims believing that Allah wants them to kill infidels. America is great because the thoughts of mankind have been free to unleash the gifts of imagination manifested into invention and that is something new. Donald Trump is a product of the American system. He is a graduate of individualism and that is what will make him a great president. I know I can trust Donald Trump because he works by the rules of individual integrity—he doesn’t need the judgment of God to keep him from smoking cigarettes or doing drugs—the way Glenn Beck uses God to keep back the demons from his past. Trump cares about himself and his family and he doesn’t want to be viewed by history as being bad, tyrannical, or a loser in any way. He wants to be loved as he loves himself and he wants to give people that feeling that he has when he gets up each morning—it’s the one thing that billions of dollars in the bank can’t buy, and it’s the one thing he wants more than anything in life. He wants the respect of those around him and the way he intends to get it is by the means of the individualists who have written in literature the foundations of our present circumstances—philosophers like Nietzsche and Ayn Rand.
Trump will unlock through his mouth the potential of America and that is the force behind the movement that is now afoot. That movement is what these #NeverTrump people are scared of. They fear that America will head toward Sodom and Gomorra with the inauguration of Donald Trump because they essentially don’t understand the power that drives people on the individual level. For instance, I was at a baseball game at the Cincinnati Reds home park and my wife and I were having diner in the Diamond Club. It was all very nice, the food was on the upside and the drinks were flowing all around us. People were happy, festive and we were all living a life of extreme opulence. The food was too good and many of us were still enjoying it when the game started. When the National Anthem came on everyone stopped and stared at the televisions to watch what was happening out on the field. That entire place went dead silent and everyone was enrapt with reverence toward the greatness of our country. Nobody told anyone to behave that way; it came out of the individual inclination of the collected masses. That is in essence the Donald Trump life. Work hard, have plenty so that there is an excess, and be gracious with that excess. But don’t be a loser, because if you are, you deserve to be bitch slapped into oblivion. Nobody likes a loser and America isn’t a nation of such people. It has been made to feel that way, but it’s time to stop feeling that way. And only Donald Trump can invoke that character once again by returning our nation toward an ideology centered on individual achievement instead of collective salvation. That is where the psychosis of the #NEVERTRUMPs crosses the line because their judgment of good and evil is in violation of the principles of actual success. America can’t afford their immature interpretation any longer. People don’t need to be told to be silent when the National Anthem is playing, and they don’t need to be told to be kind to their neighbor by someone like Glenn Beck. We certainly don’t need any more preachers. We need action by individuals to make our county great again—and we need a salesman to resurrect it within our culture. That is why Donald Trump will be such a great president. He offers a continuation of the philosophies which have evolved over the years toward individualism and now society can see a fine example from the White House which perhaps will save our nation by unlocking that potential in others. That is why the Trump nomination is such a big deal, and why so many people are having a difficult time with it. They don’t have the proper philosophy in their own life to understand–and that isn’t our fault. It’s their problem.
For me Star Wars has always been something of a vacation for my mind—a place to go for leisure and to think about basic formulations regarding good and evil. I am one who believes that books are far superior to movies made from them, so I am still extremely disappointed with what Disney has done with the franchise. However, I accept because of the Metaphysics of Quality that they do not understand at Disney how to do anything original and that they are essentially mining the old Star Wars novels for their new projects and claiming them as originals from the new regime at Lucasfilm. It has really bothered me. But of late I have respected what Lucasfilm has been doing with Disney—some of it anyway. I think Rogue One will be a great movie. It will likely be a combination of a lot of books that I’ve read, especially the A.C Crispin Han Solo novels and the video game Dark Forces but I have come to think that we shouldn’t throw the baby out with the bath water. The essential stories are still good even if they are mangled by Disney. To me, the books will always rule. But for kids, the way that the books have been reinvented and put up on the silver screen has value—real value and I have found that in this really rough world that we are all living in, that Star Wars certainly is one of the best things in it for families and little kids. They aren’t as good as they were when George Lucas was in charge, but they are still pretty good. My mood lightened a lot about Star Wars after I watched Harrison Ford introduce the new Star Wars land in Disney World, seen below. Lucasfilm finally announced that they found their pick for the new Han Solo films, and I had an opportunity to watch a Reds baseball game on their yearly Star Wars weekend where on Friday night they always do a fabulous fireworks display to John Williams music—which is always wonderful.
It was a beautiful night in May 2016. I was at the Reds game watching the sold out crowd enjoy the Star Wars festivities and noticing how much the kids in the audience were excited about the event. I was also thinking about the kid Alden Ehrenreich who got the part of playing the new Han Solo in the upcoming stand alone films. As I said many months ago I thought they would be smart to put Han Solo into all three of those new movies, and it looks like that’s what they are going to do. With the casting of Alden Ehrenreich I was suddenly very excited about that possibility. Even though I was very disappointed with The Force Awakens death of Han Solo, the possibility of a lot more Han Solo adventures suddenly perked me up and I found myself enjoying Star Wars for really the first time in months.
I remembered how much I loved Han Solo as a kid. Of course I’ve long outgrown that character, but I still love the idea of Han Solo and always loved Star Wars because of him. Without Han Solo for me there is no Star Wars. But now, with this new kid whom I am very impressed with, I am suddenly having fun in that world again. I am actually looking forward to the new films which is a bit of a relief, because like I said, for my mind which is very active, Star Wars was always kind of a vacation. I probably enjoy the behind the scenes art stories about how Star Wars is made more than I do the actual movies. So for the prospect of new Han Solo stories—of seeing some of the elements of the old A.C. Crispin novels about a young Han Solo being put up on a screen for everyone to enjoy, I’m excited about it.
As I was thinking of Rogue One, coming out this Christmas the prospect of Han Solo making a guest appearance is pretty exciting. It will be nice to share those new adventures with my grandkids even though they may never read the same books I did. I decided it was more valuable to share those experiences with them than to just check out. I am still concerned about all the progressive trends that are emerging because essentially the young people making all these new Star Wars movies are fans of the original films that grew up with more progressive values as opposed to the original westerns that George Lucas grew up on. I don’t think the new films will be nearly as good for me as the originals were, but for kids who don’t know any better—it will be very special to them.
More than anything, which was very obvious to me while watching the fireworks at the Reds game, the John Williams music alone was a proper bridge that is just beautiful to behold. The new themes from the most recent Star Wars film fit in quite nicely with the old ones and it was a special fireworks display for me because of it. It’s the first time I have heard the new pieces put together with the old and that’s when I thought—what the hell. There will be six new Star Wars films over the next 5 years and a lot of new music—and Han Solo will be back in the Millennium Falcon with Chewbacca, and those are some fun stories. And in just a few years there will be my dream of seeing a full-sized Millennium Falcon in Disney World. That will be a dream come true and I am far more excited about that than I should be. So even though Matt Clark and I torched Disney’s handling of Star Wars on the radio when The Force Awakens came out—I will give credit when I do see a reason for it and Disney is doing a good job—lately. Hopefully that trend will continue.
For the imagination, there is a lot to look forward to. For me, Star Wars is all about imagination and possibilities. That quest for the imagination is what makes me get up each day to face real world problems and work through massive tribulations. At the end of all those tribulations, it has always been nice to have Star Wars to rest my mind in. So in that context, it is nice to see that I may be able to continue enjoying it. Alden Ehrenreich was a very good pick.
I don’t say things until I’ve considered the evidence intently and one of the reasons I’ve been most insistent to write The Curse of Fort Seven Mile with an emphasis of late is because of a realization that I’ve discovered through quite a lot of research. These rumors of some type of life on the Moon of our earth have some weight to them. From the 1976 book written by George Leonard Somebody Else Is on the Moon (linked below) compelling evidence from actual NASA photographs open the topic profoundly. It’s an expensive book to get, but well worth it. Additionally I think it is the remarks of the astronauts who have actually walked on the moon, people like Edger Mitchell and Buzz Aldren who have provided such virtuous testimony—some intentionally, some not so much so. The evidence points more to the fact that there are constructions on the moon that shouldn’t be there and that there is presently, or has been, an alien race active on its surface. If you can’t afford the old Leonard book feel free to watch these following videos for some supportive evidence to the fact.
One of my first big memories as a kid was visiting the Neal Armstrong museum at Wapakoneta, Ohio while my family went on a trip to Put-in-Bay—I was around four years old. Years after that, my class went on a field trip to the museum there while in grade school and I oddly enough remembered most everything because I had been there before. I was the kid who always read the literature on the exhibits, so I felt very much at home compared to the other kids who had seen the place for the first time. Armstrong was a professor at the University of Cincinnati—which was in my hometown and his life occurred very much around me—and I was aware of that growing up. Aviation was born around me as well, so I’ve always taken some pride in the Wright Brothers and old test pilots like Neal Armstrong who was obviously the first person to walk on the moon—at least that we know of. What always bothered me about Armstrong was that he had turned inward after the experience. He wasn’t like Buzz Aldren—Armstrong didn’t relish the celebrity of being the first man on the moon—he had a secret which he avoided talking about and obviously took to his death.
Given Armstrong’s Midwestern roots, I think the guy didn’t like lying to people about what he saw on the moon when NASA switched to a private broadcast while he and Buzz were standing on the surface in July of 1969. I was one year old at the time and my parents were standing me up in front of the television to see the event. All I remember of the occurrence was the shape of the ship and the sounds of the transmissions which I recognized at the museum years later in Wapakoneta. I didn’t understand the context at the time, but the layers of memory solidified it in my thinking for years to come. While everyone was impressed that mankind was standing on the moon, Armstrong had confirmed much of what NASA wanted to see, which wasn’t filmed with cameras that were made public. We were not alone—not by a long shot—and it haunted him for the rest of his life—apparently.
Given all that evidence, it’s just a matter of time before we have to go to the moon and discover what NASA has been avoiding to tell us. Private space companies are headed to the moon and within just a few years of now, there will be hotels on the surface—and by then we’ll learn the hard truth—it won’t be a secret any longer. There is a presence of some life other than our own on the moon right now and they watch us from there for reasons that we’ll discover. I would propose that it’s a kind of interplanetary base camp and they find our civilization interesting and likely some kind of social experiment that they check up on frequently. Just yesterday I drove by the Serpent Mound site in eastern, Ohio and scientists are no closer to figuring out the reason for that strange mound than they were twenty years ago. In fact, they have more questions now than answers. If our science cannot figure out the meaning of things in our own back yards, then they surely aren’t prepared to deal with what’s on the surface of the moon—an entire celestial body that has not had any of its history covered yet by modern development. It’s an open text-book of mankind’s past and whoever was a part of helping to shape it from inception. And it floats there above our heads—all the answers we seek—yet we do not dare to uncover. Actually, you and I might dear reader—but our governments want to hold onto their power for just a while longer. The evidence is there for us to investigate and when we do we have a lot of hard questions to answer about ourselves. Of course the first step will be in returning—and I can’t wait for that to occur. I’d rather know the truth than live with illusions.
Europeans did not discover America–the giants in the Ohio mounds prove that. They were in North America before there was ever an Indian or a Christopher Columbus voyage. And we did not first walk on the moon. Someone was there before us and they are still there. ………………………………
The Overmanwarrior 