Thread: Trampers 'frightened' by unspecified proximity of hunters.

Originally Posted by Tussock

I went back to the works and it had been made "safe" which means it had become a very cruel environment. When I started, if one of the weakest guys was copping it from a bully, there was a third kind of guy there. They broke bullies for sport and I am not going to lie, I was an enthusiastic participant. No one stood for that shit. If you wanted to dominate some poor fool, you made yourself a target. You want to play that game, then sweet. You can be some actual strong persons source of amusement for a while. It was not a good life choice. For me, coming from a school where bullies were protected by rules, coming to a place where there were no rules, it was a huge relief. If someone wanted to be a dick, chances are someone far worse would be willing to fight them, just to break up their day a bit.

Now its safe, the people are horrendous. The straight up friendly guys who can actually scrap, but are nice friendly genuine blokes are hamstrung. They have no role. When I started at 18, they were terrifying, but if you were respectful they did not let people harm you. The petty bullies have the run of the place inside the rules now. I saw people being treated the way they are bullied in an office. The kind of thing I go there to avoid. The kind of thing we left the rules open here to avoid. We need honest stable people to step up and set the tone, rather than outsource the responsibility to petty officious little conductors.

I am on a media blackout. That shit it filtered. You don't want it in your head. It will taint your thoughts. These people say what they say due to their afflictions. Deep anxiety that comes from thinking crime is news. Its older than population growth. Its original sin. Old hangovers from various organisations methods of keeping people in line. Fearful anxious people, while very very useless, are very very manageable. When society is full of strong independent free thinking people who are not harmstrung by fear, a power structure is very hard to maintain. Its the fear that makes people compliant.

When you are afraid, you have a very reliable and predictable mammalian response. Its been used by everyone from the Nazis to Cosmopolitan magazine to exploit people. Now no one talks to their neighbours. Instead, they peer over each others fence, petrified of what people on the other side think of their consumer purchases.

I bought into this a wee bit after I was injured. Its hard not to. Then I noticed I was just doing less and less. Nothing was safe or sensible enough to be viable. I realised in the old days, all I focussed on was increasing my ability to meet those challenges. I routinely bit off more than I could chew, and chewing it was the making of me. Granite was just a bit more than I could chew. No drama, back on the horse.

Now I am thinking about getting a horse. I'm petrified of them. Its not an animal that appeals to me, which makes it the only one. It seems like the options are put myself in an uncomfortable place, or become like these people.

We need to dig up and maintain the old ways. Not the things we used to get wrong, but the things we used to get right. Hunters are the last people clinging to their link with reality. You evolved for that task. If you don't have that link to what you were built for, then you are going to fret. You are going to feel out of place in the world. You are a square peg in a round hole. We know this, because we know what it feels like to find our own food, and we know it tastes better, because of the process.

We should not sell ourselves cheap. I see you guys as increasingly important. I'm a resource geo, and the tank is very very low. If we are to be responsible, we need the people who remember how.

The line "hunters are only interested in their resource" speaks volumes. At least some people understand resources. Because very soon, people will be learning about them the hard way.

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Preach!