> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://thedailyeudemon.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Jouvenel Corner - URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/11369/ - Published: 2009-10-01T07:05:10.000Z - Updated: 2009-10-01T07:05:10.000Z - Author: Eric Scheske - Tags: TWE, #wpChunk ![Hank-Williams-Jr.frontpage_thumbnail](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Hank-Williams-Jr.frontpage_thumbnail.jpg "Hank-Williams-Jr.frontpage_thumbnail") Country Boys "\[T\]he egoism of Power profits by public insecurity." *On Power*, p. 142. Lincoln, Wilson, FDR, LBJ, Bush II, and now Obama. All used public insecurity to bolster the federal government's power. And once the crises pass, the means to deal with the crises remain: social security, medicare, welfare, Department of Homeland Security (though, admittedly, that crisis hasn't passed), disregard of states rights, disposing with the gold standard, higher taxes. > It was in this way that the Hundred Years War, by multiplying the occasion on which the monarchy was forced to request the cooperation of the people, accustomed them in the end, after a long succession of occasional levies, to a permanent tax, an outcome which outlives the reasons for it. *Id.* [Bocephus and his ilk](http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/williams-hank-jr/country-boy-can-survive-10123.html?ref=thedailyeudemon.com) are Power's nightmare constituency. > The preacher man says it's the end of time > And the Mississippi River she's a goin' dry > The interest is up and the Stock Markets down > And you only get mugged > If you go down town > I live back in the woods, you see > A woman and the kids, and the dogs and me > I got a shotgun rifle and a 4-wheel drive > And a country boy can survive > Country folks can survive > I can plow a field all day long > I can catch catfish from dusk till dawn > We make our own whiskey and our own smoke too > Ain't too many things these ole boys can't do > We grow good ole tomatoes and homemade wine > And a country boy can survive > Country folks can survive > Because you can't starve us out > And you cant makes us run > Cause one-of- 'em old boys raisin ole shotgun > And we say grace and we say Ma'am > And if you ain't into that we don't give a damn > We came from the West Virginia coalmines > And the Rocky Mountains and the and the western skies > And we can skin a buck; we can run a trot-line > And a country boy can survive > Country folks can survive > I had a good friend in New York City > He never called me by my name, just hillbilly > My grandpa taught me how to live off the land > And his taught him to be a businessman > He used to send me pictures of the Broadway nights > And I'd send him some homemade wine > But he was killed by a man with a switchblade knife > For 43 dollars my friend lost his life > Id love to spit some beechnut in that dudes eyes > And shoot him with my old 45 > Cause a country boy can survive > Country folks can survive > Cause you can't starve us out and you can't make us run > Cause one-of- 'em old boys raisin ole shotgun > And we say grace and we say Ma'am > And if you ain't into that we don't give a damn > We're from North California and south Alabam > And little towns all around this land > And we can skin a buck; we can run a trot-line > And a country boy can survive > Country folks can survive I've often speculated that much of the derision poured on survivalists and gun advocates stems from an intuition that they don't need Power to protect them. Because they don't need Power's help, they resist Power's attempts to take any ounce of their freedom--whether it's an extra tax dollar, their guns, or their right to associate with whomever they please--in the name of helping someone else. And what's even worse for Power's incessant grab: those country folks are often poor, and the poor is normally Power's fodder and ammunition: in the name of the poor, Power rises up. But those country folks, they're often poor, yet they don't need a hand-out. They can hunt for their food, they can grow their food. And when they're low on food, they have family. Power also dislikes the family, just for that reason. More on that some other time.