Category: Education

Lessons From George Lang’s Primary Win in Butler County: Political terrorism isn’t the way to win people over

It was not surprising to me that George Lang won in the primary for the 4th District Senate seat.  He was the best person for the job and is an integral part of the MAGA movement in Ohio politics.  And I like the guy quite a lot.  However, some things happened in this primary that need to be discussed, particularly concerning Candice Keller, who ran against him.  I thought it was a huge mistake when I first heard that she would.  I personally like Candice, her husband, and her supporters.  However, my relationship with George was founded on years of built-up trust, so everyone should know where my support would go.  But I did get some nasty campaign utterances against George, which I could care less about.  But I heard from people who questioned me because they wanted to say that George Lang was a RINO just because they lacked the extra gear he has in politics.  I think there are all kinds of people needed in political efforts; there are people who throw rocks.  And some people make deals, and all sorts of people in between.  Just because a politician like George has skills that other people don’t have, it doesn’t make him a RINO.  As I said on election day, George Lang never ran away from Trump, where many people in Ohio did; he even put a picture of himself next to Trump on the slate card in Butler County.  I have known George for a long time, and his support of Trump goes back as long as mine does, well before many of the modern tag-alongs saw the light.  I’ve been involved in many scenarios with George Lang where I know better than most what kind of person he is, so my endorsement of him came with that knowledge, which should have been the end of the story.

Always stand by your people, and never let the mob impact your opinions

Yet, right before the election, another friend of mine, Jennifer Gross, a representative from the 45th District, had called George to let him know that she couldn’t publicly endorse him because all the Candice Keller people were giving her a rough time.  In general, some kid running against her got ahold of the recording and published it to embarrass her.  Jennifer is of the rock thrower variety in Columbus and tends to have much of the same support as Candice Keller.  By talking in a friendly way to George and not being antagonistic toward him, she somehow betrayed Candice.  By default, if you wanted to prove you weren’t a RINO, you had to support Candice Keller.  Jennifer should have been able to help George Lang with an endorsement and to do so without fear.  But that she did fear the Candice Keller people says a lot about what’s wrong in politics.  If one politician has a better platform than another, then that is a free market appeal toward politics.  But forcing people to vote for someone else is the same kind of garbage that the radical left communists do.  That came from the Candice Keller people, mainly as it was applied to Jennifer Gross.  This is precisely why Candice Keller lost her previous seat where she was in the State House.  It takes guts to get into the arena but more skills than that to stay in it.  She got into trouble and didn’t work to build the right alliances, and she soon found herself on the out.  Which is her fault, and hers alone. 

George Lang never turned away from Trump, while many others have

I like the kind of trouble Candice Keller gets herself into as a rock thrower.  She was the one who caught Cindy Carpenter campaigning for Democrats in Middletown, so her brand of politics has its place, which keeps everyone healthy.  Regarding George Lang, she doesn’t know him like I do.  And it was her choice to run against him, and if she wanted to be in the arena of politics, there were other positions she could have picked.  Instead, she tends to want to run against George Lang and see how much power she has within the evangelical community to pull votes away from one of the top Republicans in Southern Ohio.  That’s a choice she made that isn’t rooted in good tactics.  It might be interesting.  But the effort isn’t serious beyond rock throwing, with all things considered.  If we didn’t have George Lang to pick from, I would happily vote for Candice.  But when there is a George Lang in a race, George is better in many categories and would get the vote and public support.  Jennifer Gross should have felt she could publicly support anyone without harassment.  But she was harassed, which led to that phone call to George, and was recorded by political rivals trying to make a name for themselves.  When it comes to party politics, everyone either wants to win, or they want to make noise.  In this case, support for President Trump should be the establishing criteria.  Everyone should be able to agree on that as a baseline in politics and work from there. 

Just because someone is successful or has more skills in a field than other people doesn’t mean they are wrong.  George Lang, in my experience with him, is far from a RINO.  He might be able to work with RINOs and Chamber people.  But he’s always the same guy at the end of the day, and I know his politics.  Making deals and getting along with people is only bad if you compromise who you are, and George doesn’t.  There is a lot of evil in the world, and just taking a hard line about a progressive topic such as transgenderism might make sense from a biblical perspective, but in general politics, not everyone is driven by such motivations.  And at that point, politics is not an evangelical enterprise.  If the goal is to use politics to enforce scripture, then you will lose support from the public, not gain it.  Whereas, if you are accommodating people’s viewpoints, even if they are evil, you might end up with a few more people in the pews on Sunday looking for leadership in their otherwise rudderless lives.  Trying to intimidate people into submission isn’t going to do the work for God.  God sells himself.  Doing an excellent job for people who need it, politically, is the way to go, and we should always pick the best people to perform those tasks.  And not try to intimidate people into support through fear of peer pressure.  There were a lot of primary positions that didn’t have challenges, such as Sheriff Jones’ seat, which I think he’s very vulnerable.  It was a choice to go after George Lang, so there will always be costs in the aftermath.  However, people should be able to express their opinions for or against candidates in a free market way.  Otherwise, the tactics are the same as the terrorists from the Karl Marx left.  And we should all be able to agree on how we feel about them.  Yet the harassment of Jennifer Gross shows a deeper problem that, until fixed, will continue to keep us from winning the way we need to, where the evil truly resides, in collectivism that both sides utilize to cover a lack of political skill whenever they are at wit’s end. 

Rich Hoffman

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How Bernie Moreno Wins Ohio as the Next Senator: The three key factors

The results of the Republican primary for the Ohio Senate, where Bernie Moreno won over Frank LaRose and Matt Dolan, will be similar to how Moreno will beat the entrenched Sherrod Brown.  It wasn’t that long ago when Jim Renacci ran against Brown, and I thought Jim had a great chance to win.  I knew Jim a bit and understood his personality.  And I’ve had a chance to get to know Bernie, and I think the lessons learned will undoubtedly fall in Bernie’s favor.  With Moreno getting just over 50% of the vote in that primary election against two other good Republican candidates, it is very telling how this will play out, which is something that many outlets have been considering now that the strength of the Trump pick had performed.  Can Bernie Moreno beat the dreaded Sherrod Brown?  The answer is yes.  Matt Dolan was a good sample of the anti-Trump vote, whether they be RINOs or Democrats, and statistically spreading them out from what we saw in the primary over into a general election should be pretty similar.  Looking at the voting results precinct by precinct, Bernie Moreno performed very well in the north, better than might usually be thought.  And, of course, in the south, Bernie Moreno dominated, which is somewhat expected.  Anything south of Columbus in a matchup with Sherrod Brown could be considered Bernie territory, while in the north, he is vulnerable because he’s not the Trump-endorsed candidate.  The Rust Belt unions want Bernie and Trump.  They will vote for the person Trump wants, which makes Trump the kingmaker in the Senate race if the anti-Trump forces couldn’t generate more than they did against Bernie Moreno, especially with all the negative ads that tell you everything you need to know about the matchup between Brown and Moreno. 

Additionally, this is something I discussed with the Moreno team during a private sit-down a few months ago.  Sherrod Brown may have been in the Ohio Senate for many decades and is a bastion for progressive politics on the radical left side, but he is vulnerable in ways that Jim Renacci didn’t exploit.  Jim got caught up in the classic high-ground strategy of not exploiting the problems with Sherrod Brown’s domestic violence issue.  The previous election results showed that Brown was vulnerable, but Renacci didn’t go there. In several debates, Brown turned the whole issue on its head and told Renacci he should be ashamed of himself for even bringing it up.  Since that election, Sherrod Brown has been much less ostentatious publicly, showing cryptic vulnerability.  Instead, being a crafty politician, he has pivoted towards Trump support as he was the president then and hasn’t run away from him.  Brown acts like Trump is his best friend to confuse voters into voting for a union ticket for further support.  However, a swing of 7-8 points could be eroded from Brown on the morality and ethics front, which could quickly put Moreno over the top in November.  So I don’t think it is as close of a race as the national pundits think using conventional wisdom.  I believe convention will be thrown out in 2024 because a new set of rules that nobody has ever seen before will be applied.  And Sherrod Brown doesn’t match up against that wisdom at all.  He is built for classic unionized politics where Democrats controlled the narrative.  But they have lost that narrative, which can’t be ignored when looking at any election results from around the country.

Then there is the Trump factor, which Sherrod Brown has not seen much of.  The first time around, Jim Renacci was the Trump pick.  I met them at the airport in Lunken, just outside Cincinnati, and Jim was very excited.  At that time, Trump was a popular president doing well, but the political left was in the middle of their Russia, Russia, Russia nonsense, looking for a hook to attempt to derail Trump.  Covid hadn’t hit yet, so nobody knew what to do about Trump’s popularity.  But Jim Renacci, as nice as he was perhaps, was too well-mannered for Sherrod Brown.  So even though Trump endorsed Renacci, the power of that endorsement was not fully realized, not in the way that Bernie Moreno will experience.  After seeing Bernie with Don Jr., J.D. Vance, and Vivek Ramaswamy over the last several months, I realized there is a much different atmosphere to this 2024 election that the Trump endorsement machine understands.  And Bernie has a personality that won’t waste it, whereas Jim just didn’t put the teeth into the effort to knock off Brown.  So Brown was more than a little lucky in that last election, that he didn’t have to face the Trump endorsement now that it has matured into a well-oiled machine.  And that endorsement means voter engagement, actual votes in a booth on election day and before.  I would say that the personality difference between Moreno and Renacci is worth about 8 points in a race like this.  Both were successful business people who were in the car dealership business.  But Moreno is much more like Don Jr regarding a likeability factor than Jim.  Nothing against Renacci, but personality means a lot and Bernie has a lot of it.  If people get to interact with him, they will learn it quickly.

So, three things identify Bernie Moreno as the best option for the Sherrod Brown senate seat: to join J.D. Vance as a Republican and MAGA member of the Senate.  First, Bernie is very likeable and people will want to vote for him, especially where Trump is also on the ticket.  Getting the Trump vote by itself will likely be enough to win this race.  Then there is the juice of the race, the ability to attack Brown and exploit his natural weaknesses due to poor family maintenance.  The media downplayed the domestic abuse conditions of Brown’s ex-wife, and even she gave him a pass publicly.  But there was plenty there to exploit and Moreno will be able to bring those weaknesses to the surface in much the way he stepped up and over Frank LaRose and Matt Dolan in this primary.  Then there is the geography of the situation.  Bernie needs to perform well in the north, north of Columbus.  He doesn’t even have to beat Sherrod Brown in the Cleveland area.  He needs to just do well.  Because in the South, it’s Trump country, and Bernie is the man.  It’s an easy math problem, one that Renacci wasn’t able to tap into.  There is just more pop for Bernie, and he has more endorsements from people who will hit the ground running for him.  Right before the primary election, Trump flew in, and Kristi Noem was in Dayton.  Then, the next day in Milford, Ohio, Kari Lake campaigned for Bernie with J.D. Vance.  Just a few weeks prior, Don Jr., Vivek Ramaswamy, Kimberly Guilfoyle, and others hit the trail, especially in the south, and put their arms around Bernie to secure a victory.  And when that is done for the general election, the results will be very healthy for Republicans up and down the ticket.  So I don’t think it will be close.  Bernie cracks over 50% while Sherrod Brown will be lucky to get into the 40s.  And there is undoubtedly a clear path for Bernie Moreno to become the next senator in Ohio. 

Rich Hoffman

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Trump is Protected by the 8th Amendment: Letitia James, the communist, won’t get what she wants

I haven’t said much about the Letitia James case in New York against Trump because, in many ways, it’s such a joke.  Under no circumstances will Trump have to suffer under this ridiculous prosecution, and I think the Trump team has known this all along, as now they are talking about it a bit more since the talk of confiscating the President’s assets is now something this prominent communist Attorney General in New York is pushing for.  This is the communist playbook, the confiscation of private property, and is a direct result of the Marxist movement infiltrating minority communities, which was what Black Lives Matter was all about.  This goofy behavior by James is to see if she’ll get away with it because she is clearly in violation of the 8th Amendment; Trump is Constitutionally protected from excessive bail nor, excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.  The reason the Trump team declared that such a 454 million dollar bond was unreasonable wasn’t because Trump doesn’t have the money.  Trump can easily cover these costs with just the revenue from Truth Social.  However, to emphasize the protection of the 8th Amendment, the definition needs to be established that this is an excessive bond and is cruel and unusual punishment by an out-of-control government way out of its lane.  What Letitia James is doing with the loser Judge Engoron is illegal, and they represent the government trying to do what the government is not allowed to do, and that is confiscate property and take out political rivals with the legal system.  Something not new in history, but it’s certainly an expectation that people in America have, is the protection of their lives and property under the Constitution.  But all that outright Marxism is testing our courts now, an infiltration that many weren’t ready to admit to. 

It has been sad to see, even though I have warned about it for decades, the obvious problem of just how many people, especially in the media but Democrats in general, are salivating over this tragedy. This is the kind of government they want on the Jimmy Fallon show, on The View, and on just about every network television outlet, and it’s so far out of line from what ordinary people want in the country that it can be shocking.  Obviously, many of these people have never read a book, and if they had, they would understand some basic civics lessons.  But they are too happy that some crooked political judge in New York could come up with an excessive fine and impose an unreasonably high bond.  How do we know it’s unreasonable?  Why did the Trump legal team have to define it that way in court?  Because it’s the largest in history and proportional to case law, it is cruel and unusual punishment.  It’s not that Trump didn’t have the money or resources to pay the fine to keep his assets from being seized.   It was that he shouldn’t have to, and the power of the government had to be regulated by invoking the definition of the 8th Amendment.  The confiscation of wealth by the government is a big no, no.  It’s just something we cannot allow in our society, and its attempt is yet more proof that Marxism is the thrust behind the Democrat Party unleashed by the political rival in the White House, put there through massive election fraud.  We are seeing up close just how deeply this Marxist philosophy has infiltrated American society.  People didn’t see it because they assumed that the Constitution was the law of the land, which it was supposed to be.  But Marxists like Letitia James have been trying to overthrow the law of the land by getting elected into Attorney General positions and attempting to challenge the rule of law to erode constitutional limits and destroy our culture as a capitalist nation. 

These are the same people who ran the NRA out of New York, and those legal cases are still pending, but it’s the game plan of the radical left who have as their foundation of government China-style communism.  And there are a lot of people who have been purposely dumbed down in our education system to believe that all this was possible in American law, which we have not previously challenged because of skin color concerns.  Communism has been hiding in the background of racist talk purposely to set up this particular kind of intrusion on personal rights and protections of private property.  To the dumb and unknowing, it can be scary or thrilling to see the government abuse its power, such as Letitia James has.  But under our Constitution, which is the law of the land, this behavior is prohibited.  Without it, Letitia James has no control.  Power doesn’t just flow one way.  Suppose you abandon the Constitution under some conditions but not all others. In that case, the total of it no longer has any meaning, and any Constitutional oath of office that James might have would be cast away to the mob. There would be no stopping the violence that would follow if everyone abandoned the law, as she is suggesting.  The power of government is meaningless without the Constitution’s constraints, such as the protections under the 8th Amendment.  The purpose of the 8th Amendment is to keep the government from doing what it’s trying to do to a political rival in President Trump. 

There will be no confiscation of Trump’s assets by a communist judge in New York and a radical Marxist Attorney General.  All of Trump’s political enemies can laugh and giggle at the prospect of power exhibited by James and the hostile New York culture in general, but it will be short-lived.  This is the same kind of terrorism that was shown toward America in the World Trade Center attack, an attempt to stick a dagger into the eye of capitalism and cut it out of our culture by attacking symbols of it.  Trump is a symbol of that capitalist culture that they have targeted for destruction, just as terrorists always do.  But the perpetrators of this communist advocacy should have read a few books before they made a move because they aren’t going to get what they want.  It’s ridiculous.  The Trump legal team has smartly played these aggressors to reveal their hands, which showed who and what they always were, so as to establish to the Supreme Court an unchallenging perspective of a violation of the 8th Amendment.  They let the communists go too far to set a standard that history could then judge by.  By revealing the actions of the communist hostilities, the public at large can see what’s really going on and make decisions for themselves accordingly.  This isn’t just a legal case in New York; it’s an invasion of Marxists into our Constitutional Republic.  And by attacking symbols of capitalism, their radicalism is being unleashed for all to see.  This is why there was an 8th Amendment in the first place: to prevent this abuse from being passed by the courts.  We have seen under great desecration these past few years many cases like this one in New York where radical communists have infiltrated the legal system.  But that doesn’t change the Constitutional limits to their powers of government that keep them from harassing innocent people.  This is a hard lesson that Letitia James and the gang in New York will learn quite spectacularly.

Rich Hoffman

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‘Remember the Alamo’ at Lakota Schools: Fake news hiding lawyer activism toward progressive politcs

“Remember the Alamo” is all I could think of as I saw Julie Shaffer’s signature on the notification that was sent to Darbi Boddy, hand-delivered at 7 AM on Monday, the 18th of March, 2024.  The letter was to notify Darbi that they were going to vote on the Lakota school board to vacate her seat since she had not been attending meetings, and now that a 90-day period had occurred, they were going to act on it on Wednesday the 20th.  What they failed to disclose to her or the media in the wake of the incident was their complicity in the occurrence.  Darbi wanted to attend the meetings as a popularly elected school board member but couldn’t because of a court-ordered restraining order that prevented her from being 500 feet from Isaac Adi, another school board member.  So Darbi was prevented from attending the meetings by activism from that same school board, which did not work to resolve a condition they caused under advisement from Lakota’s lawyers and little Judge Lyons.  And I emphasize “little” because it exhibits a common trait many of these people get into politics for, to begin with, the power the office brings and what they are willing to do with that power.  In this Darbi Boddy case, abuses of power are everywhere, and it was interesting to watch.  But as I looked at that signature and listened to the lies that the various school board members told the public about the incident, I couldn’t help but wonder what kinds of lies Julie Shaffer told people in the wake of her famous “Remember the Alamo” dancing panties party at an education retreat where she had to be put back together again by another school board member after a night of scandal and degradation.  And here was this same person signing the notification to Darbi Boddy, her political rival on the board, to using legal gymnastics to remove her from the board, then lie about it to everyone in the wake.

Like I always say, the rules are often made to protect the incompetent

Of course, the actual Alamo that occurred in Texas during the Spanish-American War involved a mob of parasites who overran the outpost there on the wild frontier, and some of America’s greatest heroes were killed in the bloodbath.  That is what is happening at Lakota schools; only Darbi Boddy will live to fight another day.  What was lost was a seat that was worthless as there an onslaught of parasites converged under the pressure of radicalism to take back their school from conservative influence.  The most significant value in Darbi’s term in office was that it revealed all the bad things I have always said were there and showed them to the community for what they are.  I wanted the election process to work, and I worked with many people I usually wouldn’t talk to for the school’s good to help make it happen.  But upon seeing that letter given to Darbi, I felt relief and freedom from playing nice with people who didn’t deserve it.  It wasn’t the first time I was willing to work with people who were not precisely as conservative as I am to do something good for Lakota.  But I get tired of being let down by them because they don’t have the guts to follow through, and they always compromise with radicals.  Ultimately, many people like to drink and get disgraced at some of these public events.  Everyone knows the Julie Shaffer story of her “Remember the Alamo” event, yet she was in a position to play her part in removing a school board member to protect the real people who run the Lakota school board, the lawyers, and the courts. 

Very true stuff. Revenge is the balance of existence. Always remember the battle cry of The Alamo and the giggles of drunken fools saying the same

Until Darbi was on the school board, I hadn’t noticed how much the Lakota school board punted everything to legal advice.  We always assumed we elected school board members and they worked on our behalf to run a community school.  We didn’t know that the school board was but a front group for lawyers in the background who are very progressive.  I know many of them, and they are not bastions of conservative value, especially those in the big law firms.  They are very much aligned with the Larry Finks of the world, politically, so when Darbi or anybody would speak in public to stop political activism from infecting our children, these lawyers work in the background to advance their cause on the radical left.  And the value of school board members to them is to pave the way for political activism.  And anybody who stood in the way of that would be eliminated.  The public election process was only an illusion to keep the tax money flowing through what people thought were honest elections.  But when someone like Darbi got elected, this was how the system protected itself.  If they couldn’t be controlled, they’d be eliminated.  In this case, they found a complicit victim in Isaac Adi to play his role, just as Julie Shaffer has, and the new Bobblehead Doug Horton and the outright communist, Kelly Casper.  That school board doesn’t represent the public, but it does the dirty work for the lawyers and keeps money flowing to them with easy cases and billable hours.  Because they are too stupid to think on their own, the legal bills add up for the law office with easy money that they protect with viciousness, obviously present in this Darbi Boddy case. 

And many of the characters involved are so stupid they don’t see the obvious, much like the Remember the Alamo moment in history, or Julie Shaffer’s personal disgrace, the comfort of the mob mentality often hides them from reality.  They think they can build a five-member board with hand-selected advocates for a new facilities plan and that they’ll put forth a tax increase that the public will support.  Yet, just next door in Fairfield, they just tried for another levy, which was shot down rather spectacularly.  And they forget that Darbi Boddy was popularly elected in their drunken binges where clothes are undoubtedly optional, and they giggle about it within the power of their networks of misfits.  And that she is still popularly supported.  What they have done to her will be remembered, certainly.  I think Darbi is far better off.  We learned what we needed to learn from her being in that seat, and it exposed people I had previously thought were decent people.  But it’s better to know who is doing what and why they did it, which we know now.  Like that classic battle in Texas, the short-term mob behavior overran the fortifications.  But soon after, the entire war effort collapsed under its own weight.  This is what I see happening at Lakota schools as a direct result.  The politeness was gone.  Fake news was presented for all to see because they knew the truth of what the school board did to Darbi under the guidance of the lawyers who ran everything against the taxpayer’s wishes.  And yes, we will “Remember the Alamo.”  We now have the freedom to act on what we know, which we didn’t have before because we had to work with the system to prove that we could and were willing.  But now we are free of that burden, thankfully.  We can “Remember the Alamo” and apply justice without regret. 

Rich Hoffman

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The Best Way to Beat Global Communists: Be a man

There is an easy solution to all this wokeness.  I know it can appear shocking to witness all the incidences of woke behavior, but there is a classic countermeasure to it that makes beating this globalist strategy well within reach.  And that is classic manhood.  Be a man.  It really is that simple.  The truth is, the globalist progressives, the Marxists of communist advocacy, do not have an answer for manhood; that’s why they call masculinity toxic.  It is only toxic for them.  As it has always been, masculinity is wonderful for the rest of the world.  The progressive strategy of world conquest occurs only by forcing humanity to yield to its neutered power.  Just as when a dog is neutered to socially control behavior, this is what progressives have attempted to do to all of civilization by removing masculinity in our culture and replacing it with compliance and a docile nature so that the subject would be easy to control.  Just like a dog.  But in this case, the neutered behavior isn’t surgical, it’s purely emotional.  By taking away the outlets of masculinity, the belief was that they could remove its effects and, therefore, reconstruct the nature of society.  At the heart of wokeness, this was their strategy, and it is comical to watch their effects now, understanding the feebleness of the effort as a social movement.  These social movements are social experiments conducted by influences who believe that they have a right and obligation to conduct such a science experiment based on their acquisition of wealth, so someone like a George Soros type can pour money into avenues to promote the behavior, and much like Covid can implement a strategy that the rest of the world thinks is organic.  But it’s not; it’s purely the effort of a small mass of society to implement political control over those huddled masses. 

Masculinity has always been an essential part of social interaction, and when it works best, competition from other men pushes society to be better.  President Trump is a good example of this; using masculinity, he has established himself as a deal-maker worldwide, able to make the best business relationships and acquire the best women as a result in his life.  Which then produces pretty people in the Trump family.  These are horrendous elements of a communist society looking for sameness, this idea that a man could beat out other men for the right to mate with the most beautiful women.  Such a concept is precisely what the communists are trying to get rid of in society.  But by taking away the traditional reason that men and women get together and mate is to strike a blow at the core relationship of capitalism in a healthy society and to reengineer it with new values.  The best-looking women could then pick from the top-performing men to create a culture of genetic improvement based on performance.  So if a man wanted access to the best women, then he would have to work hard and be better than his peers.  This is why communists want to remove masculinity from their micromanaged culture and why woke rules were established, to begin with, to attack this essential element of civil society.  Communists hate competition, and competition is at the heart of masculinity, which elevates society in productive ways.  The reward for conquest has always been accessing beautiful women, so by removing the attributes of conquest, progressives, and other communists hoped to eliminate their rivals from global power with neutered dogs unable to exert a defense of their livelihoods. 

We knew there was trouble decades ago when these same personalities, the global communists, said that it was OK for men to cry, to show emotions, and to make them essentially into women.  As a result, we have a society of cry babies pleading to the mother government for appeasement rather than being a man and taking life by the horns and wrestling the problem to its rightful conclusion.  When social designers of this new political order were constructing their strategy, they desired to establish this parental role of government, much like authoritarian governments have over their people in Asian countries, especially China.  Women are not very well respected there, and men are only utilized as a service to their parental government.  They have been trying to establish this in America and Western cultures in general.  By making all the sexes the same, their objective was to replace the family idea with a society of children looking to the government for their parental necessities, then giving powers to those government roles for ultimate expansion, only to be ruled by mass compliance that suppressed biological necessity, at the core of all that was the elimination of competition between peers so that the government could establish value for the government’s sake.  I watched these policies arrive into American culture from the perspective of knowing better because it was not always that way.  And I watched the fools who adopted it with the same ease that they accepted fashion trends as if the idea of toxic masculinity would be edited out of our culture with ease.  It hasn’t; women still like men for what they are, and men who are men find great success in life because it’s how humans interact with each other at the heart of it all.  

Wokeness was an experiment in controlling the effects of masculinity on society.  But the moment those dumb rules are ignored, the impact of centralized governments falls apart quickly.  That is at the heart of all the Trump cases, which is trying to use lawfare to keep the president from running again.  Yet the reason all those efforts are failing is not just because they violate a constitution that projects limits on government power, but that by ignoring the woke rules of society, a man can easily conquer these political efforts.  The whole house of cards falls quickly to the men of society who ignore woke regulations and do what they are biologically inclined to.  People respect men, men and women.  This attempt to remove masculine efforts was always a politically driven science experiment by global communists who wanted to rule with a centralized government.  The social message for them was easily manipulated by a society struggling with growing up from their parents and living their own lives with courage instead of cleaving to the skirts of government as their new parental role model.  Manhood is how to beat the wokesters, at every level of society.  And it’s surprisingly easy to do once people understand the game that has been going on.  The best way to defeat the communist movement behind political progressives is to ignore their woke rules and to be a man.  Women will love you for it.  And other men will respect you.  And the power of wokeness will dissipate quickly.  The anti-man movement is now well into its effect, and people are growing tired of it.  The power of manhood is swinging back in the direction of tradition, and it will likely bounce back like never before.  And if you want to bring down global communism in embarrassing ways for them, then be a man.  Let manhood be toxic to them, and let them melt before our eyes for the lack of power they always had.  And enjoy the results. 

Rich Hoffman

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Interacting with the Spirit World: How incense provides a vehicle to a world beyond the living

I’ve been thinking about how the spirit world dramatically influences the politics of our lives, as most indicators point to massive manipulation of our politics from the realm best articulated in the traditional Bible.  I found myself in Japan visiting some of the best-known temples in Kyoto with friends and comparing them to what we know about the Temple of Solomon.  Even though there have been over three thousand years of evolution in them, I couldn’t help but see massive similarities and notice how a religious relationship with the politics of a nation has either a positive or negative effect.  The gods worshipped aren’t even the same; in the case of Solomon’s Temple, it was Yahweh.  In the temples of Kyoto, it was Buddha, but as I have been saying for a while now, even including the way that the original Hebrew Bible was written from back to front, right to left, just as Japan writes to this day, it is obvious that the influences along the Silk Road, even in ancient times were a massive culture of uniformity that has its influences even now.  It might be uncomfortable for many people to consider their regional specificity, but there is a common theme that is easily verified when visiting these religious places, and that is the use of incense to establish a relationship with spiritual entities for assistance in the here and now.  Watching people interact with incense in Japan by washing it over themselves and then stepping into the temple to pray to Buddha reminded me almost identically of the tabernacle rituals of Solomon’s Temple and many others worldwide.  However, the same approach to these sacred precincts established by the Jewish people was more than just a coincidence.  There was a science to the approach that worked at some unconscious level, and it had been established long ago and is still in use to this very moment. 

We don’t get to see such a spiritual alignment in the United States because we have allowed ourselves to be suckered into a church versus state argument that discourages public displays of religious value, which the Japanese people have no apprehension over.  As a direct result, you can travel the streets in downtown Tokyo at 2 AM and see nearly no litter and experience very little crime.  People are overwhelmingly respectful of each other, and much of the root of this behavior is their relationship with the spirit world, which they are very open about.  Visiting temples in Kinkakujicho, the Kinna-ji Temple, the magnificent Kiyomizu-dera Temple, and several others, the use of incense smoke to provide a place for the spirit world to manifest in our three-dimensional world is a foundation for establishing a relationship with those characters.  It is common for people to regionally associate their deities of worship with the specificity of their culture and give them names like people name their goldfish.  But in truth, there is much more than just mimicry across multiple cultures over vast periods.  There was a cause and effect that couldn’t be ignored and was at the root of all successful societies.  Much of the Bible deals specifically with the nature of having a relationship with God, as the purpose of the Tabernacle even before the Temple of Solomon was built, was so that God could exist with his people, to manifest upon the Mercy Seat over the outstretched wings of the Ark of the Covenant.  I often think of the Ten Commandments as being the key to a prosperous society, in having rules that work and structure people to work together with shared assumptions.  But even more than that, this relationship with God through incense smoke is unmistakably productive. 

When people stopped worshipping God, as chronicled in the Bible and stepped back into the worship of the high places with human sacrifice to Baal, those societies quickly crumbled into a heap of madness.  And that has been the same story of all cultures who stepped away from God over the many years, the God Yahweh, as the Jewish people came to know him.  As I watched people in Japan interacting with the smoke and washing it over themselves, I kept thinking that the smoke itself was something anybody could produce anywhere, from simple incense burners from Walmart.  There was nothing specifically special about the smoke.  It was only made at a place meant to take the participant’s mind away from the noise of their daily life and have a relationship with the spirit world and whatever Gods might answer.  They have their names for them.  Just as most religions around the world do as well.  But that the intent was the same was more than a coincidence.  If you wanted to see what temple life was like for the Hebrew people in the Near East and understand what a thriving culture looked like, Japan had its finger on it.  Whereas modern Israel is war-torn and under contention, purposely trying to suppress a successful religious experience, much of the world is in conflict over this essential relationship, I would argue.  This is not just for the regional aspects of nation-building but also for the soldiers of the spirit world themselves.  They are at war with each other, and they use the minds of men to corrupt them into conflict by interrupting a positive experience of chaos and maniacal lunacy, such as the church and state arguments. 

By eroding the values of a culture, people allow themselves to be manipulated like pawns in a grand chess game from rivals beyond the world of the living.  And in places in the world where that relationship is positive, they also have a political culture that is functioning correctly.  The best way to destroy a person is to destroy their relationship with the spirit world, no matter what they call their gods, whether those gods are the same character with different names or a pantheon of different characters sometimes called the same name.  It’s the relationship that matters and how it carries over into a political society.  And what about the smoke of incense that carries a relationship with God?  It’s a common theme we can learn from the longest-running, prosperous society of people, the Jewish people because they have been doing it for a long time.  In Japan, as I visited many temples last week in Kyoto, the functionary relationship with the spirit world is alive and well.  And it’s working for them successfully.  Few places on earth today are more successful culturally than what is witnessed in Japan, especially Kyoto, the old capital.  People had a relationship with the more significant aspects of dimensional confinement, and they were happy about it.  The incense smoke appealed to that relationship, which was tangible and precisely like the Tabernacle of the Hebrew people.  When people fell to Baal worship, they turned to appeasement of those gods through the sacrifice of the living.  Whereas to Yahweh, and eventually the Buddha, who came 500 years later, and then the influence of Christ from India, we see an approach that worked along the Silk Road many thousands of miles apart.  It can be shown that a successful relationship with the spirit world creates an opportunity for a prosperous society.  But the temptations to shortcut or abandon that relationship are all too common and involve politics beyond our lives, yet very much at the center of everything we do. 

Rich Hoffman

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Let the Communists Leave America: Nobody will miss you

It’s comical to watch, and we all deserve the pleasure of it.  But the communists are threatening to leave when President Trump is re-elected, and they think we care.  As in the threat of it will frustrate the America First political movement.  So, for context, let’s review how we arrived here.  For years, the communists, because that’s what they always were on the political left, communists, planned to conquer American capitalism with guilt by exploiting race tensions and gender roles to advance their Karl Marx agenda.  We can say what we couldn’t before because they have revealed their agenda in the wake of the stolen 2020 election.  The communists thought that their capture of the legal system would put Trump down for good and that the MAGA movement was gone forever.  And it’s not just Democrats; in Ohio, it was Speaker Stephens and the Blue22 coalition who have been working against state central committees to put Matt Dolan on the slate cards across the state over Bernie Moreno, which is just as dumb as when Governor Kasich, ignored the political sentiment of the state and continued to run for President, just as Nikki Haley just did.  The people they are talking to all believe they understood how politics worked in America and that they would continue to enjoy this left-leaning version, even in the Republican Party.  So it’s not just a few dumb people going through all this.  But in the face of the reality that Trump is coming back to the Executive Branch, and this time, there will be a lot more support in the House and Senate to support his administration, those same communist personalities are turning toward their narcissism as their last resort revealing the inherent insanity of their position, that people actually care what they think.  If they threaten to leave the country, people will miss them.

I would be completely fine with all communist-oriented people would leave America after this next election.  Go!  Please do us all a favor and leave.  Go to some other communist country and ruin their lives.  Please leave us alone in America.  We don’t want you!  Nobody will miss you!  If all the communists leave America because of the Trump election, then our country will be a lot better off.  And yes, communists is the right word.  Anybody who has sympathy and a yearning for anything Karl Marx advocated should be said to be a communist.  Those standing against the MAGA movement are functioning communists and that’s not an inflationary statement.  Even the soft-shelled Republicans like the Dolan supporters are functioning communists because they support a government form of collectivism and state controls that Karl Marx advocated for.  And that people are so willing to reject the communist plan is shocking to them.  That the race-baiting and exploitation of the sexes have run its course.  People are no longer sympathetic to the dumb messages in the NFL endzones, “stop racism,” and those types of propaganda.  They got suckered before, and people were burned when they watched the communists ruin their country with a communist insurrection in 2020 and endure the constant criticism the previous four years.  Now, we have had eight years of outright communist propaganda, and people are finally done with it.  Their economy is ruined, their jobs are infected with corporate communism, and life has been horrible.  But those same people finally see what I’ve been warning about for thirty years.  Communism has been loose in America through the Democrat Party and the Republicans who want to make deals with those communists, and it has been a good gig for those playing the game.  But it has been horrible for America, and people are finally ready to admit to just how bad it was.

Part of the communist plan was to control the media; it was one of their goals starting in the 1930s, during the “red decade.”  What kept communism in the background was the outbreak of World War II.  But it was communism that was behind the hippie movement and that dumb peace sign.  It was communism that was behind the Rap music radicalism of minority communities seeking to destroy America.  It wasn’t an organic movement but an attempt to overthrow the values of American culture.  And Americans put up with it for a long time because they were living somewhat decent lives.  There was bread on the shelf at the grocery.  They had March Madness to watch.  And they had easy access to gasoline.  Even though the communists continued to turn down the screws of their plan a little bit each year, the pace of change was slow enough for people to ignore.  That is, until the communists got desperate after Trump was elected, and they increased their radicalism, showing the world what they always had been.  In so doing, they exposed their scam all along.  People were shocked by what they saw happening, and those who doubted that communism was a real problem in America suddenly were seeing the light.  Which is about two decades too long, but who’s counting?  Communism has no place in America, not as a mixed economy, not as a social enterprise.  Communists must be destroyed just as McCarthy was trying to establish in the 1950s.  The threat was always there, but only recently were Americans forced to face the facts. 

I also talk about the public school system being designed by communists wearing the mask of progressives to avoid the stigma.  In public schools, children are introduced to the class system of a communist society.  To get into a higher class, you must appease the members of it to be accepted into their collective membership.  So they are used to setting the terms for their appeasement.  Such as, “I won’t like you if you don’t wear Nike tennis shoes.”  And some people become very stressed about these parameters.  Over time, the communists in America have gotten used to setting the priorities for their appeasement because they controlled a political class, and like dummies, Republicans and Democrats crawled through broken glass naked to appease them.  “No, I’m not a racist.  See, I voted for Obama.”  Or, “See, I’m not a sexist or a member of toxic masculinity because I wore a pink dress shirt with rainbows on it.”  And in so doing, we have worked to undo our country and its values and to usher in a society of communists. That is, until now.  Knowing that the class setting the standard was communists, Americans are now changing their tune and are not working to appease those people.  And now the communists, in a fit of anger, are threatening to leave, as if we ever really cared.  What they fear is that people don’t care because that was the only leverage point that they had was that people would want to appease them for acceptance into the communist class in a social structure.  In that context, what we are seeing now was something that it took us over a century to admit to, and I think we will be far better off for it.  The communists have been exploited and shown for what they always were.  And finally, people are ready to confront them honestly, instead of trying to appease them.  This means there is a lot of hope for the future that we are just now beginning to understand. 

Rich Hoffman

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Frank Herbert’s ‘Dune’: The kind of political philosophy that will take mankind into a space economy

I spend a lot of time thinking about the challenges of becoming an interplanetary civilization.  When people ask me why I do what I do, I tell them it’s not for money, it’s not for popularity, and it’s certainly not for a platform for politics.  I am interested in philosophy as Socrates exhibited it, specifically, the thinking it will take to move humanity off the Earth and become a multi-planetary species.  This past week, two things happened that reminded me of this task. The first was the Starship launch, which was very successful with SpaceX.  The second Dune movie did very well at the box office, showing continued interest, which I think is terrific because it gives people access to the old Frank Herbert books, which I think are masterpieces on a biblical scale, as opposed to just science fiction.  I have been thinking a lot about Frank and his books lately, the six he wrote, then the final two in the original series that his son continued to conclusion. 

If we want to be an interplanetary civilization, we must first solve some fundamental problems. One of those is the problem of power and why people crave it. One great example of exploring that problem is the novels by Frank Herbert in, Dune, the eight-book analysis introduced to the world through the latest movies, which are very good. But just the start of quite a journey.  More people would better understand our current circumstances if they read Frank Herbert’s books because he deals with a lot of serious stuff in that fantastic series.  Yes, as in the movies, they are dealing with the human race as they have colonized space, all over the universe space, not just a regional galaxy, 10,000 years in the future.  The politics are very similar to the concerns of the Old Testament, with bloodlines and kingdoms at the heart of the story.  Frank is very concerned with the nature of politics, so these Dune books are more about sociology and politics than they are about science or fiction. In the movies, the one from 1984 and now these recent ones, the lead character rises to greatness to become the new emperor, and that’s the end of the story.  That fits a typical narrative for a Hollywood movie.  But Dune is much more than these things, so these stories have been hard to make into movies.  The point in building up the lead story and characters is that the rest of the book rips them apart in a kind of libertarian study of the human race and how power corrupts, or does it?  One thing that Frank does that I am very interested in, that very few anybodies has ever touched, is how the spirit world influences the politics of humanity.  It’s an offering of the kind of Divine Council discussed in Psalms 82 and certainly reflects what Paul talked about in Ephesians.  Who rules us from beyond the grave, and how far down the rabbit hole does it go?  In those Dune books, Herbert even calls his work a prediction, not fiction, as he sets out to study ecology.  I think of our political life as just the surface reflections of much deeper forces at work, not all of them human as we think of the word.  And not just spiritual as we think of Casper the ghost or the Holy Spirit.  We must look at the spirit world as it strives to exist outside our known universe and expect that they are using self-interest to manipulate our lives to their advantage.  Frank Herbert deals with that level of political management, and it’s fantastic and can’t really be captured in the movies. 

As crazy as our political system is, I consider it a healthy necessity.  What America is going through is needed for global management of political systems that can then carry over into off-world colonies, which are coming at us much faster than people realize.  And we must solve some of these problems before we come to that impasse.  We must have a political system based on a healthy understanding of capitalism before we start moon colonies and cities on Mars.  Too much micromanagement of adventures into space will stop progress, and as Herbert assumes in his books, humanity reverts to the biblical necessity of royal bloodlines through the Vico Cycle.  I disagree with a lot about Herbert, especially regarding drug use.  But like the work of Graham Hancock that I have talked about in using ayahuasca to communicate with the spirit world, the spice in Dune is essentially the same kind of thing, and I think Herbert is on to something essential as far back as 1965.  Many of the Baal worshipers of Canaan also used psychedelics in their rituals, and in that context, it is likely the cause of the frequent turning away from God that is a majority of the narrative in the Bible.  Frank Herbert in Dune explores why this is the case and when drugs are used to speak to other spirit beings, who they are, and what they are motivated by.  And by coming to terms with that, you can then understand the kind of evil that is loose in the world now, and understand it with some perspective. 

Herbert goes so far as to place political motivations for spiritual influence in his many Dune books and migrates beyond universal influence, which is pretty impressive as a work of fiction.  I would put it on the level of Atlas Shrugged and other Ayn Rand works.  I don’t agree with everything she does either, but the thought process is beneficial.  Somewhere in these intellectual works are the answers we need to become an interplanetary species, so I don’t get too excited about transitory elections.  What we are all fighting against each other to achieve is the war of ideas that survive into the future, and I tend to think of these efforts in the most extensive picture possible. The trajectory of change will far exceed standard election cycles.  It’s why people win that matters, why certain people are attracted to power, and how power corrupts or is helpful to society.  And how a tyrant today might be a benefactor tomorrow.  Morality is often not so much determined by what we see but by what we are growing to understand and how that understanding is influential across over 22 dimensions.  And as we continue to build nations and colonies in space, what kind of political system should they have to accommodate with all considerations available, as we can know them, through science or fiction.  The Dune books have some magnificent things to say along those lines, and I think it is wonderful that the movies are doing well and that people are learning about the books for the first time.   One thing that space travel needs is a healthy appreciation of government systems that embrace capitalism.  Future religions must be joined at the hip; otherwise, their value will fall apart.  So, it’s not enough to build a Starship and start moving people into a new space economy.  We must work on the deep philosophical problems that have permeated the human race since the beginning.  And we have to solve them with something fresh, and America is the leader of that movement.  In the long run, it will make much more sense for people.

 

Rich Hoffman

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Joe Biden is a Communist: The American government is the new criminal syndicate on a global scale

What did I think of Biden’s speech?  Well, I have been traveling, so I haven’t had much time to talk about it with people, and I have received hundreds and hundreds of email requests asking me about it, which I have not gotten around to answering, even but a handful.  And before I replied, I thought about it to take the edge out of my opinion.  It would have been easy to pick on that ridiculous State of the Union speech by Biden, who was an inserted president, not one selected by the people in an honest election.  The 2020 election that put Biden in power is by the exact control mechanisms that keep dictators in power in Cuba, China, Russia, Venezuela, and other communist countries around the world.  Elections in those countries are not free and by the people.  They give the illusion of free choice, but there is too much power and money for people to vote away that power with an election.  Who is dumb enough to believe that not to be the case, and that is why there are so many stupid election laws in America disguised as “voter equality” when, in fact, it’s voter suppression on a mass scale?  The mail-in ballots are something that Russia and China would come up with to stay in power, and Democrats in America think that same method is going to work here, too.  That’s why they were so cocky with Biden, because they believe, even with such a dumb fool, that they control the process so audaciously that it’s laughable that Trump would ever be in office again.   What was that the FBI said during pillow talk?  “We won’t allow it.”  Yeah, don’t be a sucker, what Biden has been and still is was purely the Deep State showing it has the power over American elections, and they are daring people to challenge them, and they have the power of government behind them, which has made them even more arrogant.  The J6 prisoners are all about reminders to the population to submit to their authority and to say uncle, hoping to get some semblance of normalcy back to their lives, in gas prices, bread, and a job that can barely pay the bills. 

No, what Biden’s speech delivered was exactly what Democrats and some Republicans have been accused of since the McCarthy hearings: it was communists on parade, and what’s different now than in times past is that Biden is not a particularly good spokesman for it.  Bill Clinton could sell a used car as new well, as could the domestic terrorist Barack Obama, the foreign kid from Indonesia who lied about everything but hid the scam behind racism.  Joe Biden is just a corrupt old fool who was stuck into power as a placeholder until they could figure out how to kill off the MAGA movement with their massive control over society, from the courts to the media to elected offices.  They have been using the China model.  And I say they because it is “they” the globalists who support global communism through corporate boards and banks as their delivery method.  However, further support goes to their European secret societies and trade unions.  Communism is as alive today as it was before the fall of the Berlin Wall.  But to take the edge off the public, they just allowed for a breakdown of the wall so they could get rid of people like Ronald Reagan from office and get one of their assets into positions of power, like George Bush, the senior, the ex-CIA director.  I told you guys when I had a chance to talk directly to the CIA Director, Mike Pompeo; I asked him way before anybody about the significance of the intel community who lied about Trump and Russia, the famous 51 now.  He was embarrassed, of course, but he knew.  He tried to do something about those problems but couldn’t put his desire for presidential office down long enough to do any real good.  Or they would have just gotten rid of him, too.  I’m not talking about these things in the vacuum of ideology, but most of the time with a wide perspective and input from the actual people.

When Biden says he’s a capitalist, he’s playing the identical plan Castro used to take power in Cuba in the ’60s and ’70s.  Biden is too compromised to be his own man, so they put him in power.  So they could control him.  And they have told him, “they” being the same globalist malcontents, that if he wants to stay out of jail, then he has to keep the office of president.  That’s why many of these criminal types wish for power, so they can control the law and stay out of jail.  I also told everyone about how the mobs moved out of localized control and into government for the same reasons.  Mobsters stopped having shootouts with the cops years ago.  Now, they raised their kids to grow up to be attornies, to keep their crooked operations into power without fighting the courts.  Instead, they became the courts, and they have expected to get away with it.  Biden is a communist, and we know it because we’ve seen this communist scam in most countries around the world.  I had the opportunity to see all this clearly by being in Japan for the last week, the third most powerful economy in the world, but they do it with far fewer people.  And it becomes apparent the communists have been in control through the Democrat Party for a long time.  And with MAGA we are looking to put them out of power without it turning to bloodshed.  And the Biden speech of 2024 announced the apparent necessity of that ambition.

The system isn’t so far gone that we have to scrap everything.  But we must put the people back in charge of their own government.  Right now, the globalists are in charge of their radical communist European interests.  While in Japan, I had an interesting conversation about zoning, because we were comparing American zoning to Japanese zoning, and I had to report not happily that the United Nations has been in charge of American zoning for more than three decades now, and most city planners are trained Marxist right out of our colleges who have been converted to the same.  We call them liberals, Democrats, Progressives, Rinos, everything but what they are, and that is communists.  But we need to start naming the beast for what it is.  I had the benefit of clarity gained through travel.  But in America, that’s what we all must face.  Biden is a communist and so are the Democrats trying to keep him in power.  And we are at a place where we have to do something about it now, or we will have more significant problems later.  Because they aren’t hiding it anymore, they can’t afford to.  But they believe they have so much control over the process that they can’t lose power.  That is what was behind Joe Biden’s speech: a tired old man who didn’t even have the gas in the tank to sell communism any longer.  He was running for president to keep his family out of jail because, in his warped way, even though he likes to take showers with his daughter and he has a crackhead son, he loves his family and doesn’t want them to suffer for the sins he committed while climbing for power.  And they will do anything they have to do to stay in power.  Including adopting the Marxist playbook.  Biden can’t afford to be a moderate, as he has sold himself in the past.  Because if he doesn’t support the communist playbook, he’ll have far worse trouble.  So, all he could do was throw people off the scent by declaring himself a capitalist.  Nothing in his speech indicated that he even remotely understood what that was.

Rich Hoffman

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Thinking Big With Starship: How to ask the right questions to the answer we all know

I don’t think it’s getting nearly enough attention, and that is the launch of Starship 3, which occurred at the SpaceX facility in Boca Chica, Texas, on March 14th 2024.  I would place that effort as one of the top events in the human history of the world and will forever be remembered as a great leap for mankind, a leap more significant than the first moon landing with Neil Armstrong.  I know some people believe that the moon landing was faked, and based on this government and the temptations of government propaganda, I can certainly understand that.  But Neil Armstrong lived near me and was never the same after it, and his exploration into Ecuador, looking for the secret library of an ancient race of people, revealed more than what has been said under classified breaths over the years.  And humanity has been waved away from space travel, which should have never happened, for our governments have behaved like jealous parents who are afraid of their children moving out of the house.  They have done everything they can to stifle the human race from reaching into space, which has been ridiculously stupid.  But then comes along Elon Musk and SpaceX to make good on a promise not so long ago, 19 years or so, to take civilization into space, and their launch vehicle, Starship, is a tremendous engineering feat to perform just that.  And that it flew into space and achieved many of the mission parameters was stunning, and jaw-droppingly significant.  I was watching the launch from Japan with friends, and I can tell you that the next day, many people I met were stunned by what had happened.  At breakfast at the top of the Oriental Hotel in Kobe, a couple of Americans celebrated with me in a moment that no matter where people were in the world or what their politics were, the launch of the Starship into space successfully, and it maneuvered and was able to behave like an actual spacecraft was more than just another significant event.  Life is much better off because of this magnificent achievement, but a company that could only be born in America and produce such an independent objective on a massive scale was more than encouraging.  It was validating.   When you want to understand the miracles of capitalism, look at SpaceX and that Starship launch.

As I spoke to people after the launch, I was thrilled to hear that the essential philosophy of SpaceX came up.  Probably the greatest philosopher of our modern age was Douglas Adams, the author of the five books of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series produced during the late 1970s through 1990s.  Many people think of them as comedy writings, a kind of Monte Python literature series consistent with the type of material they produce on the BBC, precisely, Doctor Who.  However, Elon Musk is a tremendous fan of the first book, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. I am a massive fan of the second book, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.  There are three more that are all good.  But they are excellent in what I call “conceptual faculty, ” the ability to think about something in a way that wasn’t previously achievable.  The Adams books take away through humor all the drama of origins and the meaning of life and make the universe as a whole manageable, as a way of thinking about huge things in manageable bits.  It does this by figuring out how to ask questions and providing answers.  The SpaceX philosophy has been to solve horrendously complicated engineering problems, with a Douglas Adams flair to them in what the hidden genius truly is behind the purpose of the work. 

Everything built by human intellect

The point of the books is to understand the meaning of everything, which in the book the answer is learned at the end of the first book is the number “42.”  Everything in life can be summed up by that number, which is the comic element of the literary classic.  The other four books then ask the more important question: what questions do you ask to learn the answer to “42.”  How do you ask the right questions to get to the answer?  So, from there, the critical question of any philosophic premise is to learn to ask the right things to get to the answer you wish to seek.  So, if you know you want to go to Mars as a civilization, what questions should you ask to achieve that objective?  Do you build a rocket to go there?  If so, how big, how many, what kind of fuel does it use?  How many people would fly on it?  Those kinds of things.  Once you know the answer, you can ask the right questions leading up to it.  It’s the way humans can focus their imaginations properly to achieve great things that the universe can’t do for itself.  In that way, the meaning of life is to bring meaning to it through the mechanisms of invention, which then becomes a running theme throughout the entire book series.  As I watched Starship fly in space, preparing to land in the Indian Ocean, the SpaceX method of science and invention proved Douglas Adams more correct than any other method of thinking so far utilized in the human race, and it was a pleasure to watch, which I will never forget. 

The famous Kobe Beef

Later that night, I discussed the launch with some knowledgeable people, and we talked about its significance.  We were on the top floor of a costly bar, looking out at one of Japan’s most cosmopolitan cities, Kobe.  We had just finished at a very top-class restaurant eating Kobe Beef where the cook explained to me that the way they made their sweet potatoes so sweet was that they kept them in a dark container to keep the light from damaging the cell structure of the food, which gave it a unique taste.  Just as Kobe Beef had the human imprint of cultivating nature with intellect to get a distinctive flavor.  And I pointed out to these brilliant people that everything we saw, from the fancy whiskies available in abundance around the bar to the stacks and stacks of buildings we could see as far as the eyes would allow, all started with human intellect taking the tools of nature and bending them to the will of human imagination for a purpose that is our answer for the number “42.”  Things are worth doing, and most importantly, unleashing the shackles of the human race with a proper philosophy that teaches us to ask the right questions is the purpose of our lives relative to the universe and everything in it.  Governments try to suppress this universal need for their silly attempts to be gods and the centers of power relative to their place among the stars.  But when an intellect like Douglas Adams unleashes those limits through art, and someone like Elon Musk and companies like SpaceX put that thinking to full use, magnificent things can and do happen.  And I have a feeling we are seeing just the start of a splendid future that will quickly outgrow the politics of Earth and need to be redefined by the needs of the human race and the tools the universe provides for the answer to everything, that exists just outside the known universe, and its multiverse brothers and sisters, to the heart of it all.  And we must ask and fulfill the many trillions of questions to get there.   It’s all very fascinating.

Humans strive for greatness and the questions we need to get us there.

Rich Hoffman

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