You know, I've never been able to figure out why "cowboy" has such negatives associations among the senile old men of Old Europe.
Even in the mock-comic old television series about cowboys, usually, generally, most of the time, cowboys were portrayed as they actually were, and are.
Laid-back, mellow, indulgent, tolerant, welcoming of anyone coming their way.....and then fiercely combative when someone tries to cheat, or tries to wrong a woman, or proves himself a dastardly coward.
So I am mystified as to why this is a "negative" stereotype behind the bottle-bottomed myoptic lenses of Old Europe.
This came up when Ronald Reagan was first elected, and then was resurrected when George Bush became president.....and I am always wondering, what is so bad about being a "cowboy"?
Maybe because cowboys typify what's good about America, and they hate that. I think they are threatened by the fact that America is so successful, in spite of being a bunch of backwoods hicks (by their estimation).
Being anti-cowboy is a "sophisitcated, in your face" means of expressing ones cultural superiority. Unfortunately, the more you learn about cowboys the more they categorically resemble knights in shining armor. Old Europe has no room for "the good, the bad and the ugly", they have drowned in a sea of Sartrian existentialism and feel wonderful about themselves for doing so.
Leonard Cohen sang that a drowning man wants to die - Europe is controlled by the culture of death and the new world order which is in some part due to the pervasive dominance of anti-Christian secret societies who know who they are.
Judicial systems from top judges to lowly constables are owned by secret societies all over Europe. Old Europe is in some kind of end stage death-throw.