Dr. Gray looked at the student with weary contempt and said, "this is a law school, we teach law here, not morality. But as in any upwardly mobile reincarnation, the hero changes, becomes different, more spiritually cognizant. Society comes around to acknowledge that the hero's skills in violence, albeit at odds with its notion of "civilization", do come in handy when the nit gets true gritty. "You may be a secretary but you're no general. Eject) quoted another writer (sorry I can't remember his name) about the make up of society by pointing out that some people are wolves, most people are sheep, and then there are the sheep dogs. [T]he final happiness of man consists in this -- that in his soul is reflected the. [W]hen the first cause in which all else can be known is reached, the quest of the spirit comes to an end. My own personal favorite Western, where the libs actually had to pay a price for their cowardice and have it rubbed in their faces, was High Plains Drifter with Clint Eastwood. He's something apart from society, which evidently finds his presence a bit unnerving. His version of the song appears on his 1976 self-titled album for United Artists Records. "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys" is a country music song first recorded by Ed Bruce, ... "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys" (1978) "There Ain't No Good Chain Gang" (1978) Willie Nelson singles chronology "Something to Brag About" (1977) "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys" (1978) "If You Can Touch Her at All" (1978) Waylon Jennings … Is this strumming pattern correct? from what I remember, the hero is at least accorded the special status of being needed during times of trouble. great call on thatWolf/Sheepdog/Sheep article.i've read it before and it fits this thread to a "T".maybe i can find a link.here 'tis:_________________________________Eject! If we don't know where we're going, all roads lead there. "Stagecoach", eg. Every writer comments indefinitely on his brief original text.--Dávila Search My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair! Dr. Bob,Here's a classic example of the pattern you cited, albeit in a sci-fi/dystopian setting: THE ROAD WARRIOR (AKA MAD MAX II). TV series, there's something about them that kids still pick up on - personally all the campiness and mocking of the heroic in that show were totally and completely lost on me and my friends; all we saw were Good Guys standing up for what was right and taking down the Bad Guys. Also, the Magnificent Seven (the most lyrical Western screenplay EVER, in my view) in which the two main heroes McQueen and Brynner ride away from the town which they have successfully defended, Brynner commenting that, "We lost. please comment Verse 1: D G Cowboys ain't easy to love and they're harder to hold A D They'd rather give you a song than diamonds or gold G Lonestar belt buckles and old faded Levi's and each night begins a new day A If you don't understand him and he don't die young D … That individuality would imply more self-awareness, less capacity to be blindly moved by social forces, thus more spiritual responsibility. Not only did Shane ride away at the end, but it seems to me that many if not most Western heroes end up doing as Shane did rather than joining society. Eject!:"TRIBES"http://www.ejectejecteject.com/archives/000129.html_________________________________. let me think . i think the mistake is the idea that the Hero is like a deus ex machina(or that that is what's desirable ie: "to be rescued")clearly the Hero *is* a rare individual(and that is part of the Tragedy too,isn't it? "The classical Christian spiritual masters give anyone who *wants* to have 'signs and wonders' in their lives a good hard smack upside the head - that is NOT something you deliberately go looking for. If you are so concerned with morality, go across the street (at Villa Nova University) and cry on the shoulder of one of the brothers over there.This quote was one of the reasons that I decided I wanted to look myself in the mirror each day and bailed. The "End of Cowboy Diplomacy" if that is indeed true will actually spell the "End of Western Civilization". . The Religion the Almighty & Me Works out Betwixt usmulti-undisciplinary circumnavelgazing around the whole existentialada!with • Neotraditional Retrofuturism • Mental Gymgnostics • Verticalisthenics • Dilettantric Yoga • Leftwing Ridiculism • Freevangelical Pundamentalism • Advanced Leisure Studies • Comparative Nonsense • Flaming Homilies • Jehovial WitticismsThe Cosmos is our school, The Intellect our Faculty, Truth the first Principal. Bet he never wanted to be a cowboy. My personal favorite western that fits into your theme is Pale Rider. In late 1975 and early 1976, Bruce's rendition of the song went to number 15 on the Hot Country Singles charts. ", Dear Bob,Let me just say that I find your site one of the most valuable on the Internet (right up there with Roger Simon and The Belmont Club, sites that are valuable in an entirely different way).Your sense of humor, too, is priceless.In a previous incarnation you must have been a Zen master.Jamie Irons. He was shot on a Friday. ", "Maverick", "The Virginian", "Bounty Hunter", "The Rifleman" they made up re-run heaven when I was a kid. It's where we want to be and why we set out the laws... to point the way for others.Nowadays, too many liberals want to argue over the roadmap's format and colors without answering the question of, "But, where are we going? In other words, there is a thin line between sinner and saint, but it's a very distinct line. The hero gives up his special status, the society accepts the hero, and the hero enters society." The hero seems to constitute an un-assimilatable "warrior class". Jimmy Stewart's character, the more introspective of the two, manages some realization of this, but Wayne's - the true Cowboy - never does. "Nevermind that," they say, "just build another road, and we'll wait and put it on our beautiful map." I suppose it is that, that is "True Grit", and while it may be to generalizing, ala Campbell, it does seem to be the Core Trait amongst Heroes from Achilles, Heracles, Antigone, Samson, Beowulf, the Celt's Cuchulain or Arthur, Roland, Wyatt Earp, et al - the unwillingness tolerate Evil masquerading as "Authority" to trespass over what everyone recognizes to be the true limits of Justice, but which only he is willing to break the false restraints of the "rules", to do what is Right as opposed to what is allowed. My notes indicate that there is "the classical plot" (e.g., Shane), the "vengeance variation" (e.g., One-Eyed Jacks) and the "professional plot" (e.g., Rio Bravo, The Wild Bunch, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid). Can we get there from here?" God bless them and may we be more aware of just how valuable they are to a law abiding society. Whamo!Joseph Campbell thought that all Heroes lived some variation of the same cycle - if I remember right it was something like: unique birth with special yet hidden parentage, enforced humble circumstances in youth, taken under wing by a wise old mentor, then bursting forth in all his glory to defeat a colossal menace, later suffers a betrayal and even a fall from grace, but is ultimately redeemed and dies or otherwise exits in glory.While I think that there is something to that, it always seemed to me to be only a little bit removed from saying that all stories have a Beginning, then there comes a Middle, and then... finally... (wait for it)... an End! All I wanted to be went I was little was a cowgirl. Because it is disorienting and possibly unpleasant and almost always problematical.Fascinating post re: the Western.Looks like some Westerns, then, might not really be 'Westerns', but another one of the Stories, just set in the West. . When the fighting is over the members of the armed forces fade away into the sunset (forgotten by society) until their services are needed again.Bill Whittle (Eject! Will--Yes, the template is just a model, so there are probably more films that deviate from it than there are that follow it. I found myself thinking of "Shane," which closely follows your outline of the classic structure of the Western film except, perhaps, for the last element. Also, Clint E's disappearance at the end of Unforgiven, this after he violently cleanses the town of the baddies. Yank, I think you're right that Roland and El Cid and a whole host of epic heroes "reincarnated" in the Western hero. You're a diplomaggot who sees to it that evil flourishes in plain sight. They are not mysterious or romantic figures like the cowboy. Mama Don't Let Your Cowboys Grow up to be Babies (... Reincarnation: Haven't I Begged this Question Som... More Trialogues with Sigmund, Carl and Alfred. Tab by Unregistered. When I first saw it, I was struck by how close the basic plot followed SHANE, THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, and many other classic Westerns. Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. According to my class notes, Stagecoach is a variation. The Horizontal etchings that make up our laws and codes, is but the attempt to freeze the Vertical into this plane as best as possible, but those moments which differ in sharp relief from the normal, require a Conceptual, Vertical, grasp of Justice, and actively applying it to THIS contextual moment in time requires an independent, mature mind, willing not only to judge, but to be both faithful to reality, and responsible within it, for his decisions. Unlike the Western where it is a lone wolf, outsider who saves the day, in times like these it is the soldiers, marines, and airmen who stand on the ramparts protecting society. "Many people who undertake a spiritual practice--apparently some more than others--are subject to all sorts of sometimes bewildering (and not always pleasant) physical sensations and experiences. Strumming: Willie Nelson - Mammas Dont Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys (chords) Rejected on Jun 25, 2017. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend. Instead they are young men and women from every walk of life who, like Rooster Cogburn, know that someone has to have the "True Grit" to stand up to those who would prey on peace-loving people.The ending, however, is still the same. Yes No. (whoa, I get chills)Anyway, point being that the most iconographic of Western directors (Ford, Hawks) seemed to isolate the hero and his special skills from civilization. But one thing I have noticed that is seemingly common to all Heroes whether in Westerns, Sword & Sandal epics, Knights or Space Opera's - whether their character is outgoing or withdrawn, cocky or humble, whether in the written word, on stage or film - when that line has been crossed that marks the end of the approved Horizontal limits and the only direction they can resort to is Up - in some way there is communicated an unblinking glint of iron in the eye, a set to the carriage of their head (where did the phrase "level Headed" come from? Thanks Bob for pointing out the fact that while feminist society derides testosterone in all its forms, there is a virtuous masculinity that civilization always cries out to save it when it finds itself in over its head as a result of capitulation and appeasement. But what should we do about this? And even if the story tellers do try their best to hide the hero, as in the campy "Batman!" But the hero never really enters society; he's never really domesticated. Thank God for that one in one thousand willing to see things as they are and make a stand.