The Reckoning

Pajamas Media ^ | June 5, 2009 | Victor Hansen

[Cruz]

A Farmer’s Tale

In short, Obama reminds me a little of myself–at 26. I had left the farm for 9 years to get a BA in classics, PhD in classical philology, and live in Athens for two years of archaeological study-all on scholarships, TAships, research-ships and part-time summer and school jobs tucked under the aegis of the academic, no-consequences world. By the end of endless seminars, papers, theses, debates, discussions, academic get-togethers, I had forgotten much of the culture of the farm where I spent years 1-18.

The Return

Then after the requisite degrees I left academia, and returned to farm 180 acres with my brother and cousin-and sadly was quickly disabused of the world of the faculty lounge.

Oh yes, I came back to Selma thinking, “I am not going to be the grouch my grandfather was, yelling at neighbors, worried all the time, nervous, seeing the world as rather hostile, hoarding a tiny stash of savings, worried as if bugs, the government, hired men, weather, and markets were out to destroy him. I’ll farm with my Bay Area manners and sort of think, “I will reset the farm, and things will at last work as they should” (not thinking that my grandfather raised three daughters, sent them to college while mortgaging the farm in the Depression, and spent on himself last, and was a saint compared to my pampered existence in the university).”

[Cruz]

Read his "Farmer' Tale" in the middle of the article, not so surprising story of human nature.

[sthguard]

I read it earlier this morning— it’s an astute extended analogy about human nature, fair play, and government. Well worth a read.

[RC2]

Good story....you gotta love the honesty of the old timers. My kids great grandfather, on my wifes side, was a South Dakota farmer. Many years ago, when tractors first came out, he was using mules. His neighbors talked him into buying a tractor. One day, his neighbors drove by and saw him using his mules. They asked why. He simple leaned on the plow, behing the mules, and said “I know what these mules are going to do.” As far as we know, the tractor is still sitting in the barn.

[rbg81]

Yes, a good story. I think he err’s though in thinking that Obama will come to his senses. He won’t.

[RobinOfKingston]

Yes, a good story. I think he err’s though in thinking that Obama will come to his senses. He won’t.

You are correct. He will not. The square and round pegs will continue to be pounded into the round and square holes, respectively.

[mick]

ping for later

[PubliusMM]

0bama will never “come to his senses”...he has no reason to do so. He has gotten everything he’s pushed for, to this point, and has advanced his socialist agenda beyond even his own expectations.

It’s time to take back the country.

[marsh2]

I was in a conference where they were discussing the Myers Briggs personality archetypes in regard to group process. It takes the “Feelers,” the “Fact Finders,” the “Alternative Developers” and the “Action/Implementers” to make things work in a balanced way. Obama and the left are coming from the “feelings” quadrant. They stifle/ridicule facts that do not align with their feelings on what should be so. Consequently, they also eliminate possible alternatives to the course of action they feel should be. They they implement a completely imbalanced and unsound decision because of it.

[Cruz]

Your post led me to google Myers Briggs and check out books written by her at Amazon. If I could just buy one book from her, would you have a recommendation?

[marsh2]

http://www.amazon.com/Not-Crazy-Just-You-Personality/dp/0891060960

Here is a good one on the theory: “I’m Not Crazy, I’m Just Not You: The Real Meaning of the Sixteen Personality Types” (Paperback)by Roger R. Pearman and Sarah Albritton