Let us begin with an extract from Josey Wales creator, Forest Carter’s, novel The Vengeance Trail of Josey Wales. This extract was Carter’s explanation for Wales’ background. THE MOUNTAIN CODE . “ The Code was as necessary to survival on the lean soil of mountains, as it had been on the rock ground of Scotland and Wales. Clannish people. Outside governments erected by people of kindlier land, of wealth, of power, made no allowance for the scrabbler. “As a man had no coin, his coin was his word. His loyalty, his bond. He was the rebel of establishment, born in this environment. To injure one to whom he was obliged was personal; more, it was blasphemy. The Code, a religion without catechism, having no chronicler of words to explain or to offer apologia. “Bone-deep feuds were the result. War to the knife. Seldom if ever over land, or money, or possessions. But injury to the Code meant---WAR! “Marrowed in the bone, singing in the blood, the Code was brought to the mountains o
[This offering couples well with the prior Apache Awareness Pop Quiz .] Strange as it may seem, there is an intriguing overlap between the, so-called, “artistic eye,” and the Indigenous Warrior concept of “Always Seeing.” [ Suakhet’u .] · Always Seeing can also be gussied up to the tactical jargon of “Always Awareness.” · Always Awareness, to my mind, surpasses the weak tactical sister, and far-more touted “situational awareness” which is, by definition, situational, that is, used upon occasion. · “Always Seeing” is just that, alive and awake to The ALL of the Wide World Before Us, the Heavens Above Us, and the Flora and Fauna Around Us. [Those curious two-footed Fauna we call humans, included.] · Situational Awareness by dint of being a cortisol activated bottom-up neural process can not be elevated to Always Awareness as the continuous cortisol infusion would create health problems [mentally, emotionally, and ultimately physically.] ·