How to Slay a Wizard by Owen Benjamin

Review by Perrin Lovett

 

Words have meanings. And when their meanings are distorted or subtly channeled, they become spells. Who casts spells? Wizards. They’re real, and they are not limited to the silly variety found in movies like Fantasia. Consider that, just a few years ago, millions and millions of people took a known poison out of fear, all because a wizard in the form of a talking rat on the television told them to. That’s misused authority and appropriated power. It’s a problem that calls out for a solution. Luckily, Owen Benjamin has given us one. 

(© Castalia / Owen Benjamin)

Smith, Benjamin Owen, How to Slay a Wizard, Switzerland: Castalia, 2026 (Kindle Ed.).

Owen Benjamin might be the tallest comedian on earth. And he’s one of the best. Despite being canceled by the usual suspects for speaking truth to wickedness, he continues to use humor as a weapon against evil and as armor for the good and decent. As a former insider and a man blessed with keen discernment, he knows exactly how to call out the movers and shake-downers of Clown World. Find him on UATV. How to Slay a Wizard is available from Amazon.

Within the 185 pages of How to Slay a Wizard, Benjamin packs an abundance of truth. Wizards are ultimately only servants of satan’s lies. But the threat that they represent is immense. Word wizardry convinces otherwise honest, ethical people to do things like modify their DNA based on lies, support wars against people who mean them no harm, live child-free and miserable, limit what they say for fear of offending some nebulous victim or another, and on and on. This is today, just as it has ever been, a legitimate challenge. 

The modern dominance of the wizards started, as Vox Day once suggested, by breaking the Christian prohibition against blasphemy. The people were told that anything was allowable under the guise of free speech and the like. Yet, no sooner had the wizards vanquished the old safeguards than they instituted new rules of their own. Free speech became hate speech, a concept Benjamin deals with decisively in his book. From page 88: “The word ‘hate speech’ is a wizard term. It means speech the wizard hates, because it threatens his position.” 

Benjamin uses famous wizards, like Saul Alinsky, to show precisely how a wizard’s mind works. He points out that, like all evildoers, these shifty spell masters can only invert and mock; they cannot create. As such, and I was surprised to see the connection made, instead of formulating their own new formulas, the modern wizards only stole and perverted the tactics from The Art of War by Sun Tzu. (See page 53.) 

As astounding as much of what Benjamin presents is, it is also very simple, as he explains it. He has quite the gift for communication. And he uses it, on page 178, to expose the “big lie” behind all wizardry: four simple words. And once one sees the lie, how does one then slay the wizard? Benjamin answers that question in only five words on page 129. 

A good book provides needful information and entertainment. How to Slay a Wizard hits that mark and surpasses it. A great book also allows the reader to become involved in some small way, or it recalls some memory the reader might have forgotten. Your reviewer was drawn in, with laughter, several times in this manner. 

Who needs to read Benjamin’s excellent book? You. It will be a special service to younger readers who seek a means to identify the controlling works of the word masters and how to halt their effects. These defensive tactics were once a part of the grammar, logic, and rhetoric study lessons available to Western students. Sadly, those civilized exercises have vanished from what now passes for schools in places like America. But much of the deficit can be filled with just one book, How to Slay a Wizard. As such, I highly recommend it. Buy a copy and read it today. Your reviewer gives great thanks to Mr. Benjamin for his time, talent, and dedication in writing it.