Deconstructing the Western "myth"

[craig_henry]

I'm working my way through the podcast archives.  In #327 you mention that you had no desire to see the Lone Ranger movie because you were tired of deconstruction Westerns. 

I couldn't agree more.  Because let's face it, the debunking westerns are no more true than the classics.  When i hear an actor or writer talk about the urgent "need" to deconstruct the myth of the western, i also think of Louis L'Amour's  dedication to "Bendigo Shafter":

"To the hard-shelled men who built with nerve and hand that which the soft-bellied latecomers call the 'western myth'. "

Love the podcasts and the TV shows.  I've learned a lot from Best Defense.

[Hazcat]

Welcome to the forum.

[craig_henry]

Thanks!

[Michael Bane]

Thanks of the kind words!

Of course, "deconstruction of myths" is the cultural wing of the progressive movement in America, which is unfortunately going along just swimmingly.

"It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail."
 — Samuel Adams, 1772

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[craig_henry]

"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."
Orwell, 1984

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