The Case of the Naked Emperor

 

Satisfaction in Drudgery

The Case of the Naked Emperor

Insanity

By Stephen L. Wilmeth

 

The electorate is deeply attached to its democratic rights, not just when it come to form … elections being held, and results respected … but also in terms of ethos. It expects the great questions of the day to be carefully discussed, and for voters to have the ultimate choice between meaningfully different options. Decisions cannot be delegated to self-anointed, conformist oligarchy.

Allister Heath 

There are overtly and anticipated attempts to rule the world by measures of insanity, but even the blind can see through most nonsense.

Robert Coppersmith

            Satisfaction in Drudgery

            It has been another week of rebuilding fence.

            Most of the world has an affinity against physical labor. Try to find a qualified cowboy. Try to find any native-born laborer. For that matter, try to find a qualified truck or a forklift driver. Moreover, try to find one that can pass a drug test.

            It shouldn’t be that way, but it is.

            There is something fundamental in being able to look back at efforts and see actual results. That’s what the work of this week has revealed. We are at two full miles of repair of a 90-year-old fence line. Every wire has been cut from the posts and retied at our protocol for placement. Steel is being added in intervals. Broken staves and posts are being replaced, and wire staves are being added in open panels.

            The realization is these old fences were never maintained like they should have been. When they were patched, something was tied up to close the gaps.  There are implications galore. Generations of fence jumping cows have been raised because of poor, ongoing maintenance.

            These are lessons to be learned.

            That’s not just for planned tasks for the future, but reminders of how important it is to work with what you have when you have it. Pepe knows as much as I do how race relations can be improved and strengthened by such joined tasks.

            I respect him immensely, and I hope he has a similar view of me.

            The whole world could gain some perspective from our way of life. Our nation certainly could use a dose spawned by austerity and accomplished by unified effort. There is an immense body of work that exists only because of unimaginable effort on these ranch lands. If there was respect it was earned by the individual not the whole. If there was dissatisfaction it was also directed at the individual and not the whole.

            That is the way it should be, but there are efforts to alter history. The woke crowd is trying to dispel truth, but critics and woketards be damned. Lessons of truth are only revealed with supreme effort and endurance.

            Go build some fence once in a while.

            The Case of the Naked Emperor

            The Hans Christian Andersen’s short tale, The Emperor’s New Clothes, is about the promise to the emperor that his new set of clothes will be invisible to those who are common. The implication was to expose the slackers of society. When the head cheese donned his new wraps and strutted before the subjects, though, a child cried out, but he isn’t wearing anything at all!

            If our English teacher was schooled in this story before our arrival, she told us the majority of common men share a collective ignorance of obvious facts despite recognizing some absurdity. The current interpretation would suggest unempowered subjects are not privy to nuances of the ruling class, but there is also a question. What about our current day, occasional visitor to the Oval Office who has the shared trait to appear naked in front of others?

The point isn’t about his propensity to swim naked in front of his security detail. The point is we are reminded we don’t understand the implications of his important agenda.

            Insanity

            This fellow has no impulse control.

 There is reason for concern. Remember, the first lady did remind us during the campaign he has suffered at least two strokes. Friends (including a medical practitioner who has interacted with him) suggest two traumatic brain injuries have also contributed to the absence of any braking mechanism for self-control. The more generalized theme of the juggernaut that America is witnessing, though, rests not only with this man.

            There is an emerging voice shedding light on a societal ailment that has long been witnessed, but is largely left silent. It relates to cultural norms that have evolved over time and generally shape the way people act. To depart from those markers occasionally may not be serious, but to depart continuously leads to a severe prognosis.

            Two definitions are in order. The first is such unsoundness of mind as frees one from legal responsibility, as for committing a crime, or as for signals one’s lack of legal capacity as for entering into a contractual agreement. The second is extreme foolishness, a foolish senseless action, policy, statement, etc. The former is a legal and the latter is a psychiatric definition.

Both are definitions of insanity.

            The journalist, Joy Pullmann, does a wonderful job setting forth the symptoms of insanity the Woke crowd is demonstrating. Her approach is very convincing. Society might change over time, but never in a wholesale manner and certainly not immediately. Something else is in play, and the medical discussions point to the matter of contagion. Insanity seems to beget insanity. How else, for example, can an entire portion of a citizenry agree in principle to terminate the pending births of 63,023,737 fetal souls (since Roe V. Wade) as if the process broke no natural law much less the heart of Biblical teachings.

            This country has a huge problem, but I’ll pass on accepting these people to work on fences or corrupt my surroundings … they likely can’t pass a drug test anyway.

 

            Stephen L. Wilmeth is a rancher from southern New Mexico. Isn’t it time to suggest the woke and the left are synonymous?