About Cowboys and Indians

On Wednesday, July 2, 2014 4:21:03 AM UTC-4, Malcolm McMahon wrote:
On Friday, 27 June 2014 11:07:59 UTC+1, Free Spirit wrote:

By the say I think you should have stuck with Wise Tibetanmonkey - much more original.

I still am. But I want to share my belief that the Indians were truly free and that my riding a bicycle makes me truly free as well --except that I have no room to ride it. Nothing is free in the land of the free anymore.

Yes, the cowboys were basically free as well in the wild west. Life was cheap but you didn't have politicians regulating everything. Now the cowboys "need" a big SUV to be tough. A bicyclist in Texas would be a true rebel, taking a last stand against the machine. I don't mean cyclists as in Armstrong, but a man or lady getting around on a bicycle, doing practical stuff.

Notice the Indians were essentially spiritual people that were the victims of the Christian policy of "multiply and conquer." Today Indians are sitting down, suffering obesity and depression. Some Indians have set up casinos taking advantage of old laws, and have beaten the whites at their own game.

The horse/bicycle remain the symbols of liberation, but the bicycle still is highly practical. You get on a bicycle and go "hunting gathering" in your community. You come back with a bag of groceries, recharged from the moderate exercise outdoors and the socialization with common people. I don't think an SUV can ever give you that. I don't think the successful Indians can have that.

It's a very basic wisdom I'm selling: Use it or lose it. Without it we fade away like Cowboys and Indians, the last free spirits.


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"The jungle has never been this much fun!"

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On Wednesday, July 2, 2014 12:04:52 PM UTC-4, Free Spirit wrote:
On Wednesday, July 2, 2014 4:21:03 AM UTC-4, Malcolm McMahon wrote:

On Friday, 27 June 2014 11:07:59 UTC+1, Free Spirit wrote:



By the say I think you should have stuck with Wise Tibetanmonkey - much more original.



I still am. But I want to share my belief that the Indians were truly free and that my riding a bicycle makes me truly free as well --except that I have no room to ride it. Nothing is free in the land of the free anymore.



Yes, the cowboys were basically free as well in the wild west. Life was cheap but you didn't have politicians regulating everything. Now the cowboys "need" a big SUV to be tough. A bicyclist in Texas would be a true rebel, taking a last stand against the machine. I don't mean cyclists as in Armstrong, but a man or lady getting around on a bicycle, doing practical stuff.



Notice the Indians were essentially spiritual people that were the victims of the Christian policy of "multiply and conquer." Today Indians are sitting down, suffering obesity and depression. Some Indians have set up casinos taking advantage of old laws, and have beaten the whites at their own game.



The horse/bicycle remain the symbols of liberation, but the bicycle still is highly practical. You get on a bicycle and go "hunting gathering" in your community. You come back with a bag of groceries, recharged from the moderate exercise outdoors and the socialization with common people. I don't think an SUV can ever give you that. I don't think the successful Indians can have that.



It's a very basic wisdom I'm selling: Use it or lose it. Without it we fade away like Cowboys and Indians, the last free spirits.





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"The jungle has never been this much fun!"



https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...it?usp=sharing




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