‘Looking Back at Lewis and Clark’

Posted on September 4, 2012 by KG

‘..What a difference from today, where the handwringing of nervous housewives (“God forbid little Jimmy should encounter peanut traces in his food”) dominates our daily existence, and the liberal imperative of nanny-state overregulation promises the illusion of lives lived in perfect safety and perfect comfort, without risk or suffering or even unpleasantness.  Self-sufficiency is anathema to this mentality, but the Lewis and Clark expedition was self-sufficient to an almost unbelievable degree: they not only hunted their own food, but, when necessary, built their own boats; sewed their own clothes; and when it was too cold to travel, built their own forts — not once, but twice.
In our modern republic, where large segments of our population compete to be declared helpless victims so they can receive government handouts, one cannot help but think that little Jimmy might benefit from being sent out with Drouilliard: “Here’s a musket, son — now go kill that deer, and don’t miss, because if you do, there’s a strong possibility you might starve.”…’                    source

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4 Responses to ‘Looking Back at Lewis and Clark’

  1. Darin says:
    September 4, 2012 at 13:44

    Good article and right in line with my thoughts over the last couple weeks.Hurricane Issac came in and even though there wasn’t much wind,there was more than enough water.Lots of people rightly got out of the way and went to higher ground,some,many actually did not.They figured the new levees the Army Corp had installed would be sufficient.Well not so much,seems the new levees worked fine for New Orleans,but all that water they displaced had to go somewhere and many places outside the city flooded 10 feet deep as the norm.Once again the survival minded folks with common sense knew better and left and those who believe in government stayed with the predictable outcome.

    Being stuck inside for a few days and nothing better to do some old memories of Katrina came back to the surface.Remembering what I did and what others did was all.To keep from going batty I watched a few movies on TV(we never lost power) one channel was running war movies,the other chick flicks,since I’m not married or gay I went with the war movies.Two movies in particular kept me in my train of thought.Red Dawn and an Australian flick “Tomorrow When the War Began”.

    Both movies follow roughly the same plot,a group of high school aged kids are shocked out of their world when troops from an invading country show up and start sacking the place.Both films eventually leave the viewer with some hope for victory in the end,but then it struck me,they were still both fiction.

    When I was younger when we had family get together everybody young and old would get together and the conversations would range from pulling Corn to skinning a Deer or which rifle cartridge was best for what game.Sometimes we would have a family work day around the grand folks place,roofs would be fixed,wells re-lined and tractors made ready for next season.It was a simpler,slower time and it wasn’t that long ago.Over the years the old folks died off,families moved away and even my own family has parted ways and gotten their selves busy elsewhere.We still get together around Christmas or the 4th,but the conversations have changed.Even my two brothers who had the same upbringing as me now know more about cellphones and I-pads than anything practical.I still retain all the knowledge I picked up as a youngster and since and do still have a command of skills not common in society today,I can survive.

    But what of the “kids” when the movie becomes reality?What happens to them when TSHTF or something else happens?After Katrina my brothers both quickly reverted to Farm living and began wielding chainsaws and driving tractors and cooking food over flame under the stars again,but what if there was a war on?They were raised to be self sufficient.Neither has shouldered a rifle in a decade or more and the one brother with kids has gone soft in raising them in survival all except for the youngest which is teaching himself.What will all those ignorant of basic survival knowledge do?The answer I come up with is A-riot or B-willingly submit to anything that comes down the pike whether it’s Marshall law or invasion.Neither answer bodes well for humanity.

    Today’s generation and the previous one are exemplified by a recent video where a young woman was walking along a city sidewalk busily texting away and never noticed the fountain in her way which she promptly tripped on and fell head first into.I guess modern life isn’t so far removed from the Lewis and Clark expedition in one way,all it takes is a moments lapse in attention to get in trouble.Still if most folks these days can’t manage to stay aware of visible danger how can they be expected to keep notice of the less visible or hidden dangers?Do we want these people voting?

    Today the Democrat convention was gaveled in with a Muslim prayer and a few minutes later the debt clock clicked over $16,000,000,000,000.Meanwhile a good 50% of the nation did a header into a fountain.

  2. KG says:
    September 4, 2012 at 13:56

    Great comment, Darin and it’s the sad truth.
    “Today the Democrat convention was gaveled in with a Muslim prayer and a few minutes later the debt clock clicked over $16,000,000,000,000.Meanwhile a good 50% of the nation did a header into a fountain.”
    We’re screwed.

  3. jekkie says:
    September 4, 2012 at 14:46

    When I was quite a bit younger, one day I was talking to an old chap who had humped his swag during the Depression so that he could support his family and I asked him had they had any sort of social security benefits in those days. His reply?

    ” No, in those days there was a great incentive to work. It was called ‘starvation'”.

    About sums it up really.