Crucial point that reminds me so much of ‘Traditional America’, where bizarre cults of violence, murder, control and bias masquerade as domestic ‘culture’.

But the author should have mentioned slaughtering everything that moves and most of what doesn’t… with guns for animals and RoundUp (nightmarishly toxic ‘herbicide’ that essentially poisons everything forever…) for vegetation…

Ed Abbey on the cult of the rancher:

~ The rancher strings barbed wire across the range, drills wells and bulldozes stock ponds everywhere, drives off the elk and antelope and bighorn sheep, poisons coyotes and prairie dogs, shoots eagle and bear and cougar on sight, supplants the native bluestem and grama grass with tumbleweed, cow shit, cheat grass, snakeweed, anthills, poverty weed, mud and dust and flies – and then leans back and smiles broadly at the Tee Vee cameras and tells us how much he loves the West. ~