Bull Shift

Nature Existentialism

Bull Shift

Artificial Selection

By Stephen L. Wilmeth

            Eric Hoffer once wrote that every great cause becomes a movement, which becomes a business … which becomes a racket.

            The political parties have long since moved into racket status. A case in point took place on our local airwaves last week. Conservative talk show host, Kelly O’Connell, had the local newspaper editor and a Democratic city councilman on his show discussing among other things the attempt to recall the councilman. When asked why he was an intended target for recall, the councilman waffled awkwardly and never came close to the disclosure that his stance on issues follows an external progressive agenda that has little to do with local issues. He even suggested at one point he didn’t really know.

            Nonsense!

            He was represented in his defense by the local editor who has recently filled a weekly slot on the show exhibiting the same political rationale. The discussions have prompted a growing number of callers, but any objective listener must come to the conclusion the editor, through his daily paper, is selling and couching every issue based on the radical liberal agenda. The question to readers is why do we read a paper that systemically represents one side of every issue? Furthermore, why do we even know the political leanings of the editor? Wouldn’t his profession, and, certainly his paper, be better served by the crafting of comments that minimizes his personal beliefs?

            Why should we bother to buy any subscription that is always biased, is predicated on defending a political party, and provides a front line defense for the tedious progressive agenda that has little to do with local culture?

            Several times during the course of the morning’s show, the councilman turned to the editor for his defense. The crowning point came when the editor suggested that no councilman should be confronted with recall unless or until malfeasance is proven. In other words, once elected a progressive hack with his network of handlers can do anything he or they want until he is convicted of a crime. He even rebuffed the host’s suggestion that voters have a continuous right to superintend their local governing councils. His point was the real measure of control the voter has is when he pulls the lever for his preferred candidate. He grounded that suggestion on his belief such an approach gives the voter more power.

            Indeed, the political system in America has passed Hoffer’s movement stage. It has gone beyond the business stage, and has entered the realm of racket. It has succeeded in marginalizing the individual and it relegates the matter of people to a conditional status of importance.

            They are important only on the basis of voting for the right candidate.

             Bull Shift   

            I have had my fill of run off, fight you with anything progressive editors, slick bulls, and indeterminate councilmen.

Yesterday morning was one of those rare southern New Mexico occasions when it is cool and overcast with a threat of rain. The early monsoon has been hit and miss and we have been on the miss side of the ledger. There is such a short period of time when conditions allow our summer rains, and, when chances are missed, anxiety always increases. Maybe that has as much to do with my frame of mind as anything, but the bulls haven’t helped.

            I was behind the first trailer when I pulled into our Butterfield headquarters. Leonard was already gone with three horses and two of his grandkids so I turned right and headed to Trail Pasture where I would find him. He was gone from our Monterrey pens when I got there, but he had been there long enough to pen a neighbor’s bull which was part of a group of cows that we intended to gather and put back through the fence.

            Thinking we might need the pen where the bull stood, I stopped long enough to run him into the load up and reopened the gate into the water lot. I got back in the truck and hadn’t gone 100 yards when I spotted the second of the two bulls we knew were with the cows. I unloaded Bailey and, without much effort, had him penned in the water lot. We had both bulls gathered.

Before I could even get the gate latched, though, the newly penned bull was trying to fight one of our bulls through the fence at a fence line drinker. I drove our bull out of the pens, and left the other bull alone hoping he wouldn’t find something else to fight.

I found Leonard and his grandkids near the gate where they had just put a dozen cows and calves through. He told me what had transpired and I told him about the second penned bull. He told me that bull wouldn’t drive and had tried to run up under one of the kid’s horses.

We went about our business and found another dozen head of cows and crossed them back home. We then went looking for the hole in the fence. That was found within the hour and repairs were made. It was time to deal with the penned bulls.

That lasted long enough to return to the corral to find the second bull again fighting another of our bulls through the fence. He was on the prod. Leonard said that was how he acted when they had tried to get him in the corral earlier. Not putting a horse in with him like he was, we went in on foot only to have him challenge us and then turn and charge the corner of the pen. The wood and wire corner shattered like glass as the sailed through it. He ran out about 35 yards, turned blowing snot and pawing the ground, and was ready to fight all comers that dared challenge him.

I decided I’d call Jim and tell him his milk pen calves were at the Monterrey pens ready to be hauled home to their mamas. One was in the run up acting like a gentleman, and the other was outside the pens waiting patiently for him.

            So it is with animals and … men.

            Artificial selection

            The scientific evolutionary pantheism that the American progressive movement has become cannot be overlooked. The review must begin with self imposed study of history.

Every American should take at least some time and review the Nuremburg trial transcripts and then attempt to follow the threads of decision making back to the philosophic originators of the holocaust. What is revealed is ghastly.

Perhaps more than any Nazi, philosopher Martin Heidegger offers a clear picture of what it means to categorize the masses into necessary and unnecessary segments of humanity. His most horrific contribution to the German nationalist socialism philosophy was actually revealed after the war. It pertained to the matter of killing Jews and other undesirables as determined by Nazi hierarchy. The explanation must start with the basis that the Nazis believed western man had lost all suggestion of symbiosis with the natural world. Jews were deemed to be the most extreme example. Because they were not tied to Germanic land and the environment, they did not exist within an authentic lifestyle.

Without that authentic lifestyle, those beings could not properly serve the needs of the nation much less the party, and, in fact, they were foreigners to true existence. Without that authentic lifestyle and its accompanying true existence such beings could not authentically live hence … they could not authentically die.

On the basis of that warped philosophy, the holocaust didn’t really take place. In essence, the murder of millions of people didn’t actually happen because such deaths were unrecognizable by logic!

This should prompt us to hearken back to the suggestion by the local editor that withdrawing electoral oversight actually elevates the power of the people. Such logic can only be tied to the artificial selection of which people he actually refers. In the case of local elections, the network led by the editor and his authentic progressives has perfected the means to prevail in local elections by targeting low turn out communities and precincts. They then flood the community with prescribed news interpretations. By doing so, they can then prevail in installing their agenda.

The people of such empowerment are not the majority, but a minority of authentic naturist existentialists supported by their core group of believers who will go to the polls upon command. Then, without a conviction of a crime, the radical liberal office holder can continue willful disregard for local customs and culture without concern of recall.

In conclusion, I’ll trust the bulls over men every time … at least they reveal their true colors.

Stephen L. Wilmeth is a rancher from southern New Mexico.