Pip: The Overmanwarrior is the kind of site where you click in expecting a blog post and emerge three thousand years later, slightly uncertain whether the Kaaba predates your mortgage.
Mara: Rich Hoffman’s recent writing does cover a lot of ground — we’re talking about the philosophical legacy of Ayn Rand, the hatred aimed at builders like Elon Musk, pre-Abrahamic sacred sites, and what data centers have to do with all of it.
Pip: Which is, genuinely, a lot to have to do with anything.
Mara: It is a wide frame, but there’s a through-line: who creates, who attacks the creators, and how old that conflict actually is. Let’s start with that argument.
Creators, Consciousness, and the Enemies of Both
Pip: The post opens with Ayn Rand — specifically what she got right about the creators and what she may have left unfinished. The question underneath it is whether rational self-interest is a complete account of why builders build, and why the hatred aimed at them feels so disproportionate to ordinary disagreement.
Mara: The setup is personal before it goes philosophical. Here’s the line: “What bothers me, what has always bothered me, is the character of the human spirit in her books and how that spirit keeps getting attacked in the real world.”
Pip: So the attack on Howard Roark and John Galt isn’t just a plot device — it’s a pattern that keeps recurring outside the novel, and the post is asking what’s actually driving it.
Mara: The argument is that Rand saw the looters and the envy clearly, but stayed inside what the post calls the fully rational adult framework. The counterexample is a child — specifically the story of the truck stuck under a bridge, where every engineer is stumped until a kid suggests letting the air out of the tires. Adults lose that outside-the-groove thinking.
Pip: And the post connects that lost capacity to consciousness itself — whether the body is the whole story or just the vehicle.
Mara: Right. The claim is that consciousness arrives as something before culture trains it into grooves. That’s where the post parts company with strict Objectivism and with hard materialism. On Musk specifically, the post notes he’s called Atlas Shrugged useful as a counterpoint to communism but says it needs to be tempered with kindness — and that his real drive is curiosity and expanding intelligence across the universe, which is bigger than rational self-interest alone.
Pip: Which lands him in the same crosshairs anyway.
Mara: Exactly. The post traces the same pattern of hatred — from Rand’s fictional creators to Musk’s actual projects. On data centers specifically, it notes that 71% of Americans express concern when one is proposed near them, and calls out the irony: people who once carried copies of Atlas Shrugged during the Tea Party years now discover selective individualism when the factory of the mind appears in their backyard.
Mara: From there the post goes deep into pre-Abrahamic history — dolmens across the Jordan Valley and Europe, the Old Copper Culture mining on the Keweenaw Peninsula dating back possibly nine thousand years, the Book of Enoch’s Watchers narrative, and the Black Stone of the Kaaba, which was already a sacred pilgrimage object before Islam redirected the site. The argument is that non-human intelligence has been operating through religious and cultural systems as control mechanisms for a very long time, and that anything expanding human capacity threatens that older order.
Pip: So the data center opponents and the Bronze Age priests are, philosophically, in the same coalition.
Mara: That’s the through-line. The post closes on it directly: “The creators keep building. The older forces keep reacting.” The power and water concerns around data centers are called real and worth honest mitigation — but not sufficient reason to reject the expansion of human intelligence itself.
Pip: The philosophical stakes are high. The practical stakes are your electricity bill.
Mara: Which the post would say is exactly the point — the abstract principle is easy, the concrete implementation is where it gets tested.
Pip: So: Rand, Musk, dolmens, the Kaaba, and your local utility grid — all one argument.
Mara: The core of it is that the war on builders is older than economics and deeper than politics. That’s the territory worth sitting with.
Pip: More of that territory next time.
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About the Author: Rich Hoffman
Rich Hoffman is an author, political consultant, and strategic advisor based in Cincinnati, Ohio, and the creator of The Politics of Heaven—a unique framework that connects biblical theology, ancient history, and modern power structures to explain how moral alignment and spiritual forces shape global events. Blending real-world political experience with deep research into archaeology, UFO phenomena, and suppressed historical narratives, Hoffman offers compelling commentary on topics ranging from ancient civilizations and the Dead Sea Scrolls to modern populist movements, paranormal continuity, and leadership strategy in chaotic environments. As the author of The Gunfighter’s Guide to Business and the forthcoming Politics of Heaven, he brings a grounded yet provocative voice to media discussions, supported by firsthand experiences and a cross-disciplinary approach that bridges science, history, and theology. For interviews, speaking engagements, or expert analysis, visit richhoffmanbooks.com or contact directly via phone at 513-307-5815 or email at rhoffman@richhoffmanbooks.com. If you’ve seen the movie, Disclosure Day and want to talk about it and the implications of Presidnet Trump’s UAP disclosures, let me know and we can bring some color to your coverage. https://richhoffmanbooks.com/media-inquiries-broadcast-topics-and-contact-info/?frame-nonce=ad51e7ecba I do have a firsthand UFO encounter to discuss.
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