My Neighbors Hunt
American Thinker,
by
Richard Moss
Original Article
Posted By: DVC,
4/23/2020 12:45:40 AM
My neighbors hunt. They can survive in the forest, hills, lakes, and rivers, here in Indiana. They understand the world of nature, its vicissitudes and savagery. Appreciating its transcendent beauty and cadences, they also accept its fierce cruelties. They do not worship nature. They seek reconciliation with it that they may endure and protect their loved ones. They admire the natural world, its towering majesty and microscopic complexity, but they do not hold it on a pedestal, pristine, and viewed from a distance. Theirs’ is a realistic appraisal of nature and its vagaries, and what they require to survive.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 4/23/2020 12:47:12 AM (No. 388319)
A friend who writes sometimes for American Thinker once said to me, "We know everything they know, and they know nothing of what we know."
He really meant about politics, history and the human condition....but it sure fits about what the doc is talking about, too. Yep, hunt, fish, grow, can, pickle, make cheese, make jerky, process meat, lots of handy stuff. And some of us have taken courses in EMT medical care, too. And a neighbor down the road is an MD, handy, if TSHTF.
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Dr Moss, it's them against high rise mavens. Guess who wins when the stuff hits the fan ?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DVC 4/23/2020 1:20:11 AM (No. 388337)
When I was young, I read all of Robert Heinlein's stories. Great stuff.
He had a list. It starts, "A human being should be able to...."
https://www.azquotes.com/quote/347078
There are three things on his list that I have not had the opportunity to do "plan an invasion", "fight effectively" and "die gallantly". I have all the other boxes checked. Still time for the others.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
belwhatter 4/23/2020 1:59:57 AM (No. 388358)
What beautiful prose Dr. Moss writes as he contrasts respect for nature with idolatry of nature.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
walcb 4/23/2020 7:37:03 AM (No. 388489)
The book/movie Time Traveler by HG Wells comes to mind. The time traveler travels thousands of years into the future and finds a civilization of beautiful people, care free and seemingly everything is taken care of for them. They seem to only have one fear, night time when the Morlocks (an underground living class of humans who have evolved to be ugly and brutish) come out to hunt the beautiful humans, take them underground and eat them. Are we seeing the beginning of the evolution of humans into two subclasses? I think I will evolve with the Morlocks--I've already got a start on the ugly part.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
franq 4/23/2020 8:07:08 AM (No. 388530)
Saw an eloquent post on this site yesterday similar to #5's analysis. It said we are dividing into the aristocracy and the "rest", for lack of a better term. The aristocracy are pulling the strings and are pretty much insulated from the fallout of their bad decisions. The rest of us have to make do.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/23/2020 9:00:45 AM (No. 388594)
Excellent observations and accurate description of the older generation in this country. We fought in Vietnam because we felt it was our duty. We will survive anything the marxist morons throw at us and continue to defend the Constitution, long after Washington has become a ghost town, because we still recognize our duty. Our new generation of atheists, city dwellers and snowflakes will not make it but we will. Do not test us.
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udanja99 4/23/2020 9:03:34 AM (No. 388595)
#6, sounds like The Hunger Games, but without the games. I lived in communist Romania for 3 years in the early 80’s and The Hunger Games reminded me of my experience there.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Sunhan65 4/23/2020 9:25:51 AM (No. 388627)
#3, yep, great stuff. Heinlein kid here as well. An article once described Robert Heinlein's books for young people as chapters in a lost instruction manual called "How Life Works." It went on to describe each book by its "real" title: "What To Do When You're Up The Creek" (AKA "Tunnel in the Sky"), "When to Fight City Hall" (AKA "Red Planet") etc. My personal favorite is "Have Spacesuit, Will Travel." If Spacesuit were a chapter in the manual, it would be called "How to Deal with Bullies."
Weirdly, I re-read Heinlein's classic "The Puppet Masters" 7 weeks ago. If it were a chapter in the manual, it would be called "What Happens in a Pandemic." It's thrilling and brilliant. However, one warning: It's not for the faint of heart.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Clinger 4/23/2020 9:31:57 AM (No. 388634)
I live in Illinois some of my neighbors don't know where meat comes from, others do and think it's immoral to feed humans by sacrificing animals but are perfectly fine with sacrificing humans for the convince of other humans.
Want to trade?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Urgent Fury 4/23/2020 9:50:46 AM (No. 388661)
We call my BIL Daniel Boone and he lives nearby. We all good.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 4/23/2020 10:07:34 AM (No. 388677)
Since my youth and military experience I have maintained much on my own with my family. At a very young age I recognized where this country was going in the 1960s when I returned home from Vietnam. I didn't have to wait for President Trump to point out to me 'fake' news. At 20 years old I knew Cronkite, Rather et al were commie fake news commentators. I see some people mention "I use to be a democrat years ago" I never was. Those campus hippie protestors are now our federal government. Will it take armed confrontation we will see but some haters on the left might not make it after all we saw what they hoarded when this all began, toilet paper. I cast lead bullets and reload ammo for the last month.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
curious1 4/23/2020 10:55:55 AM (No. 388744)
#6, the self-anointed elite aren't as 'insulated' as they imagine or hope. In fact, they aren't insulated at all, we just haven't decided to play Cowboys and 'aristocracy', yet. (AKA Cowboys and Leftards.)
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bgarrett 4/23/2020 11:40:42 AM (No. 388814)
#12 Lots of hippies were doing the hippie thing not knowing of any connection to the socialism part and we are now Conservatives. See Gerard Van Leun
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Videodrone 4/23/2020 12:25:50 PM (No. 388883)
Also grew up reading RAH and had the pleasure of meeting and corresponding with him several years before his death.
#1, 3 where did you get the star-ship to pilot?
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Hank Jr. said it best, "A Country Boy Will Survive".
In my family, two things were learned at an early age.
1- Don't kill it unless you plan on eating it.
2- If you kill it, you clean it.
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Yep. We know all that "outdoors stuff", and how to make and fix things. And I can use the subway, too. I just don't WANT to.