Overmanwarrior’s Wisdom: A philosophy forged by the bullwhip
I remember the classes I took in my twenties at the Cincinnati cable access station learning how to edit video tape with all the style and flair of a nightly news broadcast. The editing room had dual tape feeders and a massive mixing board which made me feel like the power of my imagination was the only limit in communicating whatever I had on my mind. But there was a limit—you had to book the room by the hour—which was a real pain in the butt. I used that video room to help out the Ross Perot campaign, and the movement that came directly after called the Reform Party. Over the years that work has gotten lost in the thousands of home videos that I have of my family, and they certainly aren’t floating around on the internet because it hadn’t been invented yet—at least on the scale that we know it today. So I can state accurately that one of the greatest freedoms of our modern age is the ability to take that room full of complicated million dollar equipment and compress it down to the size of an iPad—and make it dramatically better. That is the age we are in. The imagination is the only real limit as much as government would like to think otherwise. We have all the power in the world to communicate whatever we want to whomever we want at any time of the day or night. With that said, I thought it was time to do an actual ad for this blog site of Overmanwarrior’s Wisdom celebrating the heart of it—where it was born—in my back yard practicing with bullwhips.
The philosophy that I have utilized since the Overmanwarrior’s Wisdom inception is one that is discussed in the ad—one centered around my work with bullwhips. I have practiced for many hours over several decades with bullwhips and I always think a lot while doing it. Those thoughts translate to unique concepts and strategies in dealing with complicated problems and have helped me do things that seemed impossible to other people. I have attempted to teach executives how to run their businesses better with bullwhip classes so that they could understand what I do—that the whip is a minimalist effort exerted with great force—which is how business strategy should be conducted. Too many of these businessmen are concerned about their organization charts instead of the task of executing strategies and team building with those who can help them. The bullwhip is a lesson in how to take a small amount of force and turn it into something that can cut a pop can in two with just string and leather. The same force can be applied to the neck of a villain opening the arteries of the neck wide open and killing a man within seconds. Most people, particularly government try to implement strategy the way a gun works—with great force discharged up front—which quickly dissipates the further way the bullet gets from the muzzle. This is bad, especially with large organizations. By the time an intention is expressed, the velocity of that intention gets lost down the organizational chart until the force applied is next to nothing by the time it reaches its target. This is primarily why large companies like General Motors or the Federal Government fail when large bureaucracies stand between their intended strategies and the target of their implementation.
I have learned through the bullwhip that a small force applied in the right way can turn into a mammoth force by the time it reaches its target because of the tapered design. The limits are that you are restricted to a close range, but for a melee weapon it is far superior to a club, a knife, or a sword as the reach is greater, and the force applied is much less—and far more flexible. When wielding two whips at the same time there is no group of people who will be able to close around me with just their bare hands or melee weapons. Firearms are a bit trickier, but not all that difficult to thwart, easier than it might be thought otherwise. But these are the results of three decades of whip work. I have tried to teach people how to apply these tactics to their everyday lives but mostly—if they don’t learn to master a bullwhip—the lessons are lost to them.
Needless to say that I do apply these lessons to my life—many cannot understand how I do so much—at so many levels–because they don’t understand the bullwhip. Overmanwarrior’s Wisdom is just one of my daily tasks and the reason behind this site is very similar to using a bullwhip in a combat situation. I have witnessed the need to accomplish mammoth tasks on the liberty front—but applying a strategy to those tasks cannot be done properly using weapons of diminishing marginal return—where great effort is applied at the start, but it is greatly reduced by the time it reaches its target. I know people who have spent their entire lives on the liberty front fighting the good fight only to be continuously swept away by the big waves of machine politics, so I had to approach the problem differently. I think it is quite clear now after four years of Overmanwarrior’s Wisdom what I have been up to. Go back and read the newspapers anywhere in the country and read the union talking points and compare them to today. I have not given a rat’s ass about reaching the masses—the everyday Joe’s and Mary’s. My targets have been very specific and the force of that momentum has had a great influence on the media, on radio conversation, on television, on the arts—and in politics. Now I haven’t been the only one—a lot of people have chipped away at that former power structure—but my job has been a support role to those troops on the ground while also striking at targeted cuts out there in the hidden areas—behind the curtain.
It was not an accident when I went on Doc Thompson’s radio show years ago and dared President Obama to put me on his insurgent list. I knew in doing it that The White House would read Overmanwarrior’s Wisdom every day to see if I was a threat. In reading every day, they are learning things whether or not they wish to. It forces their hands to learn what others are learning and takes them away from their game—just a bit. By seeing this action, others also dare to be so bold—and they add in mass a force sometimes more diligently applied overwhelming our foes. It is kind of a anti-Saul Alisnky—which is a very good thing.
The work at Lakota displayed on this site has forced a change in public education in general. That school wasted many hundreds of thousands of dollars fighting me to prevent the truth—and people have witnessed it. Currently Lakota is pinned down heavily. They know that anything they do will be heavily scrutinized here at Overmanwarrior’s Wisdom so they are very, very careful. This keeps them in check enormously. I don’t mind revealing that strategy now—because it is already too late. The next part of the strategy is already underway—and they can’t stop that either–and they know it. This has changed the dialogue in Columbus as many thousands of important people have learned about other education reformers through Overmanwarrior’s Wisdom. In many ways those people put a lot more work into the effort than I do—most are committed to the task day and night—but the media has excluded them from the discussion and few people know about their web sites because they are blacklisted in the newspapers. I am very proud to have changed that dialogue.
Glenn Beck is doing some of the best work in the country right now with The Blaze—but being a completely online network it is being shunned by the media. Sites like Overmanwarrior’s Wisdom, Freedomworks, and other outlets have helped that network get off the ground to what is now a powerhouse of information. I would call that strategy the way of the “whip,” a minimum up-front force applied to get explosive back-end results.
So it’s time to give Overmanwarrior’s Wisdom a bit of the credit it deserves not just as a work by me which started in my back yard, but for the very subtle path that it has paved behind the curtain the last couple of years. There are now more sites like it doing the same work and the effect is compounding nicely—just like how a bullwhip strikes a target. So given the tool availability that is out there so readily available now as opposed to back in the Reform Party days, it’s time to use them for “maximum” effect. And with that—I hope you enjoyed the first official ad for Overmanwarrior’s Wisdom and the intention I have to unfurl a strategy that has been coiled up for far too long—until just the right moment. That moment is now………………………………………..
Rich Hoffman
