(urth) The Politics Of Gene Wolfe

[brunians at brunians.org]

Dunno, here in the Hayfork Valley people are heavily armed, and reasonably
polite. Even the hippies are heavily armed and measurably less noxious
than hippies tend to be.

What there is, here, is strikingly little serious crime. We had a murder
two years ago: some tweaker beat his wife to death with a shotgun, so I
guess it was a gun-related murder. The last one before that was thirty
years ago.




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> As someone who lives in the Wild West, I gotta say it ain't all it's
> cracked up to be. They say an armed society is a polite society, but
> mostly it's just a belligerently overconfident society.
>
> Don
>
> Doggerel
> www.don-doggett.blogspot.com
>
>
> --- On Tue, 3/17/09, Son of Witz <sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org> wrote:
>
>> From: Son of Witz <sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org>
>> Subject: Re: (urth) The Politics Of Gene Wolfe
>> To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
>> Date: Tuesday, March 17, 2009, 10:43 AM
>> >Anyway, the "Wild West" is too imbeded, it
>> seems to me, on the minds of the Americans. That's
>> normal. Plus, there's the constitution. The conquest of
>> the vast and wild frontier, frontier life, and the inerent
>> dangers of such a setting, all this was pretty different
>> from the european experience in the 19th century. I think
>> this is something, together with your constitution, that is
>> still pretty much alive in your minds. It generates passions
>> regarding the whole "guns or no guns" issues that
>> are completely alien to europeans.
>>
>>
>> That's how I took your post, and I thought it was an
>> interesting insight. I didn't take it as a dis on
>> Americans.  Of course, not all of our families were even
>> here during the wild west, but it's suffused into the
>> culture, for sure.
>>
>> ~witz
>>
>>
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