I dislike authority
I dislike authority.
I have a problem with it.
Some folks think it's a flaw.
I don't care.
I really dislike big government. In fact, I deplore it. I don't need to live in a nanny state.
I am really annoyed by what Transylvanian Horseman describes as the Romanian government's plan to ban horse carts on many roads in that country as some bureaucratic idiot's idea of modernity.
This stupidity pisses me off just as much as the mountain hiker tourist from some large metropolitan city in his $500 worth of REI hiking duds who doesn't want to step in horse manure on a mountain trail in the middle of the wilderness that belongs to all Americans. And so from time to time we hear whispers about how horsepeople are going to have to fight in the future to be able to ride our horses in our national parks.
People who complain about horses are simply un-American. There. I said it. And, in the case of what the Transylvanian horseman's tale, I'd venture to say un-Romanian.
Heck, the U.S.A. was built on horse power. Looks like Romania is still running on it. If the idiots will stay out of the way and let people live their lives the way that they want to live it, I'll bet those hardy folks will be just fine.
I guess I'm a bit of a libertarian at heart. I want to live my life as free as possible. With as little intervention from the suits and bureaucrats as possible. Have you heard about how people in California may no longer be able to control the thermostats in their own homes? Do we want the government having control of the termperatures in our homes?
Hell no. I won't go.
Toby and I will be heading up to the wild country any day now for good. I'm considering a career as one of those mountain women. As far away from the rule makers and the architects of our soooooooper dooooooooooper modern future as possible.
Singularity is a concept that both concerns and intrigues me. "One conversation centered on the ever accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, which gives the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race beyond which human affairs, as we know them, could not continue."
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It bothers me a lot that so many people in this day and age view horses through such a constrained lens, and forget that they still have so much importance in our society. And I'd be willing to bet good money that your local sheriff has a mounted posse trained and ready to roll when that hiker with the 500 dollar duds and the $200 sunglasses gets his city-slicker butt lost or injured in the mountains. And won't he be just DELIGHTED to see those hay-munching beasties when he's slowly succumbing to exposure or hypothermia?
Posted by: Kelley | January 18, 2008 7:32 PM
Kimberly, thank you for mentioning the current problems out here in Romania.
It bothers me that the real problems are not taken seriouly: the finite supply of oil being one of the biggest. No, technology won't find us the means to drive big cars and live a suburban lifestyle in air-conditioned houses once oil becomes scarce. However, rather than stimulate a debate, government looks for laws to control us. Turning the heating off to conserve power was normal practice under the Soviet system. Perhaps government doesn't want to talk seriously about the shape of life in 20 or 30 years time because that might cause panic? Well, I'd rather risk panic now than meltdown of society later.
I have a rather dystopian image in my mind that, when I'm old, we'll be growing food and living healthily with our animals up here in the mountains, whilst our young men ride around in bands keeping the maurauding remnants of ex-city dwellers from raiding us.
Posted by: Transylvanianhorseman | January 20, 2008 2:51 AM
I whole heartedly agree Kimberly. Excellent post. (And also nice to see a fellow Libretarian in the horse world!)
Glad I found your site. I look forward to checking back often, and seeing what else we may have in common, along with, of course, equines!
Posted by: Mrs Mom | January 21, 2008 8:06 AM