The Cowboy Mythos and the USA

This is ingrained in our culture. It is a large part of everything we do here, from SF to NYC.

It could be why insulting 'rednecks' here on DU is an unofficial crime, even thought most of those who would be self identified 'rednecks' would be nothing like those who defend the redneck meme.

It is why we all think one of these days one of us might strike it rich, finding the mother lode on our 'prop-er-tay' or, more likely, that black gold that runs the American Empire, as if to ruin.

We all see ourselves in some form as cowboys. It has emboldened the individual's spirit. It has given the "non-team player" reason to hope.

That our square peg in a round hole status might be our salvation some day.

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Take some of the greatest music from 1950-1980. We have 30 years there. We can include 'cowboy' bands in there from everywhere in our musical lexicon. From Buddy Holly to The Allman Brothers. From The Grateful Dead to Dwight Yokham. I haven't even mentioned REAL cowboys like Hank Williams Sr yet have I?

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The cowboy is alive and well in the USA. Go to Austin - see what a real cowboy is. Someone who bucks tradition. He or She is a liberal in the heart of Nazi Texas. He or She bucks the local trend, in the face of people with lots of guns and not much brains.

This is real America. If Texas ever secedes, make sure to bring Austin into the fold of the rest of the US - Austinites are our geniuses in the face of adversity. Losing them would be like Texas losing its oil.

Have an airlift if you have to. Ich Bin Ein Austinites if you have to. They are worth it.

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All I can say is that the Cowboy, the REAL cowboy, the one who takes chances, even when it is logically impossible to do so - is alive in the US.

Quite honestly, its the only thing that really keeps us going...

Want too, because I agree farming is an honorable profession, don't want too because I think all people have prospects. Plus it is a bit violent. Also the poster name segwaying off your post is a bit baitish. But still it was a good movie.

But honoring farmers is more important then any negative stuff, plus it has the fast hand trick in it, and it has the concept of team efforts.

Little light on the love, but it is a great movie.

Why not, I always liked that movie.

Magnificent Seven.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0vqQjaXLOU


There is another key point to this video that makes it wrong, the farmers did not win by help from a group of people, but from their own justice deserved, but in metaphor it still works out that way in the clip.


(Note I don't play the game, so don't think about it that way, just like part of the sentiment in the clip)

Come a ti yi yippee yippee yi yippee yea, come a ti yi yippee yippee yea

With a ten-dollar hoss and a forty-dollar saddle, I wuz off to make my fortune herdin Texas cattle. Come a ti yi &c&c
Got my seat in the saddle and my hands on the horn, the best damn cowboy ever wuz born! &c&c
Started up the trail on October twenty-third, lookin at the back ass of the Double Bar herd. &c&c
Et bacon and beans most every day, and I think I might could rather eat prairie hay. &c&c
Woke up one morning on the Chisholm trail, with my rope in my hand and a cow by the tail. &c&c
It was dark and cloudy and startin to rain, and my damn slicker wuz back in the wagon again. &c&c
Finally rounded em up and put em on the cars, and that was the last of the old Two Bars. &c&c
Went to the boss to collect my parole. He held out a ticket, said "Yer nine dollars in the hole." &c&c
So I sold my horse and hung up my saddle, and I said Farewell! to the longhorn cattle. &c&c

Is that a song?


Here is a Country song. With rock in the title. And a bit less harsh then your paragraph

:)

Just a fun clip :)

Brooks & Dunn - Rock My World Little Country Girl.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Rneoxfrsr0

where does that enter in to this?



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was driving the swather.

there were no overland rail routes to the pacific coast at one time, and if you did travel from the populated east to the rugged west by land, it would not be very quick.

Stories get passed down...

mmmm cowboys