Originally posted by RedondoGolfer
Thank you Dennis and Skeet for the kind words and welcome.
Then the question might/would be "why don't they today?" The quest is not so much about bravery as finding oneself alone with one's own dream. The
military is purported to be as well trained and competent as ever so I'm not disparaging them, but it's a different experience.
I think some of the historical quest came from an innate human desire to push the inner border, and outer physical borders. So the American experience
might have been Manifest Destiny, the indigenous people to make a man able to push onward to new hunting grounds. One of more extraordinary things
I've ever read was regarding settling the Americas by the Amerinds. Imagine the original Amerind gene pool crossing the Arctic bridge was 4 men and 13
women, their decendents travelling and settling and becoming distinct cultures, all the way to Patagonia in 12,000 years. Extraordinary. these people
were fueled by more than physical needs, they were always scanning the horizon.
My grandchildren live in Montana and have no idea, or interest, their grandmother's grandfather settled the Crazy mountains at the time of Custer,
that he had arrow wounds from encounters, lived to 104 as a working cattle rancher off the grid before solar panels and gore tex. They bounce in front
of the TV to Wii machines like kids in suburban New Jersey while their mother irons their soccer uniforms and frets about whether they should wear
helmets with this rough game.
We apparently don't want any true individuality, or hero's, or men who have seen the Golden Goat. |
