Woolleybugger
Mayor
I am reading a wonderful book about War Cloud, the chief of the Sioux during the Indian Wars of the 1800s. The Sioux, Lakota, Cheyenne, Crow, Blackfeet, Omaha and all the rest of the plains and mountain tribes were vicious to each other to and to the white man. The white man had already killed all the Eastern Tribes out long ago yet they still had enough bloodlust to kill each other by the hundreds of thousands in a civil war. The Indian wars turned everyone into monsters by our modern ethics. But the Indians did not invent barbarity nor did they perfect it, leave that to civilization to finely tune for nothing kills more effectively than civilization. It becomes an art form in the hands of the industrial giants and leaders. We make very efficient killers on a mass scale.
But one thing really strikes at me during the whole book and that is the insane slaughter of millions of bison by white men. Men would shoot 1000 of them a day taking only the tongue and skin leaving the rest to rot or become food for predators. The immensity of the carnage is hard to grasp in today's world unless one cares to watch Japanese or Norwegians slaughter whales and dolphins. We all recoil at the absolute craven nature of these kills not really thinking that any modern person could enjoy killing on this scale.
And yet here we see a standing US Senator holding an event where 1000 pigeons are released while men stand around with shotguns to mow them down in hearty celebrations of manliness. I tend to get on Oklahoma a lot because it is ground zero for all that is wrong with the GOP today. This just adds to the argument I make which is that the culture in OK needs to change.