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March 19, 2018 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Texas TOUGHNESS comes from extreme hardship
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Mike Adams.
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You know, people marvel at the toughness and resiliency of Texans.
And I gotta say, it's because a hard life makes you a good prepper.
You look at the hurricane, the Hurricane Harvey and the floods in Houston and how difficult it is to live in Texas sometimes because you do have extreme weather.
We had extreme fires and droughts or floods or what have you, hurricanes, tornadoes up in Dallas.
It is a place of extremes, but what comes out of that are survivors.
It's almost like a natural selection type of dynamic where you get really hardcore people, hands-on people, resilient, adaptable people, people who overcome.
I'm one of them, and that's why I love Texas.
That's why Texas has suited me ever since I moved here many years ago.
It's the place for me.
It's the place for preppers.
It's the place for people who don't want an easy life.
I don't want an easy life.
I want a fulfilling life.
And sometimes that means overcoming big challenges and being able to make it through very difficult things.
And Texas is like a training ground for that.
You know?
And contrast that.
Well, first let me say, like, New York, for example.
New York City is also a tough life, and that's why New Yorkers are very determined people.
In a sense, it's interesting, not politically, but in terms of self-determination, New Yorkers have a lot in common with Texans.
New Yorkers don't put up with a lot of crap.
They don't take a lot of BS from people.
New Yorkers, they take care of their own.
If things go wrong, they band together.
They solve problems.
New Yorkers have a tough life, and it's partly because of the weather.
It's cold in New York.
You get winter storms, you know, you get snow storms, and then just the urban environment itself, with the geography being very limited in New York City, surrounded by, you know, all the water and the bridges and the isolated geography.
New York is a difficult place to live, but it creates stronger people.
That's why I like New Yorkers.
I know I've never said that probably publicly before, but I do like New Yorkers.
I like the New York attitude of it's a can-do attitude.
It's a toughness.
And everybody that I've met from New York, like some people might describe them as rude or curt or what have you, but I just think they're get-down-to-business people.
They get things done.
Now compare that to what you call like the California coast people.
Not all California people, but California coast people.
Who, let's face it, just to say it bluntly, there's a culture of laziness and being pathetic and being, you know, incapable of doing anything.
And this is where the snowflake culture comes from, like Berkeley, right?
UC Berkeley.
The University of California college system.
They're not even turning out students who are capable of anything anymore.
It's just an indoctrination system for hatred and bigotry and intolerance because they don't learn anything.
In those universities anymore.
And California, the West Coast of California, it has pursued a culture of easiness and everything should be given to you.
It's a culture of entitlements.
And that's why California is so far to the left politically because they think life is easy.
They've never had to overcome anything that difficult.
You know, everything's handed to them.
The weather is easy.
They don't have storms to deal with.
They don't get flooded out.
They don't have snow.
They don't have to shovel snow.
Even as kids, everything was easy.
Just surfing.
Surfing the oceans.
Sunning on the beach.
Life is easy.
Well, the problem is that creates apathy.
It creates ineptitude.
And that's a key difference.
I mean, just compare New York to, let's say, West Coast of California.
New York people are tough, determined, and get things done.
West Coast California people, not all of them, but I mean, as a general rule, are not motivated, especially the youth, right?
They're not motivated.
They're lazy.
They're really kind of pathetic, right?
They're weak.
They can't do anything.
They don't think they should have to work.
They think everything should be given to them and so on.
The average New Yorker is like, they know they got to earn their way.
They know they got to struggle.
They got to work.
That's the only way to move up in the world is to get something done and make something of yourself.
That's a New York attitude.
It's also a Texas attitude.
And so I challenge you to think about these relationships between geography and And culture.
That's what this is really about.
That the more difficult the geography, the more resilient the culture.
And the easier the geography, the easier the weather, the easier the food supply, all of that, the more quickly that culture devolves into a pathetic group of incapable, incompetent people.
Isn't that interesting?
And in fact...
If you look at the history of the world, of human civilization as we know it, why has most of the world been ruled by Europeans?
I mean, think about it.
You know, the colonization of Southeast Asia, the colonization of India before...
The rule over the world is by Europeans...
And modern America is, of course, an extension of that European rule.
Why do these people from a relatively small island, currently called the United Kingdom, but Britain in particular, why does a small group of people from there, the kings and queens of years past, why does that small group of people rule the world?
And part of the answer, believe it or not, is because of the harshness of the climate.
The difficulty of living in the UK with the short growing season, the harsh weather, the rain, the just relentless rain, for God's sake, let up on the rain, you know, the snow and the ice and And the natural disasters that can happen there, you've got ocean weather that brings ocean storms and so on.
It is a difficult climate, and over time it made a very rugged kind of culture that then became very colonial.
In wanting to expand out and dominate and control other nations and so on.
And that's a lot of the history of the world, was Europeans seeking to dominate and control everybody else.
I mean, just look at the history of the Roman Empire.
You know, the Romans were tough people.
The average Roman laborer was ten times the man of the average even American person today.
They were tough.
They were resilient.
They were athletic.
They could get things done.
They could row boats across the Mediterranean Sea.
You put 16 of those guys in a big ship, and they turned it into a ramming weapon.
They were tough, resilient people.
And the women were tough, too.
Everybody was self-reliant.
Everybody was capable.
And today, you just have the society in places like San Francisco, Los Angeles, California, Where it's just, everything's just too easy.
Everything's given to you.
You know, the children aren't even required to really perform academically anymore.
You've got college professors that now say, well, if you're triggered by the grades I gave you, you can assign yourself your own grade and we'll just go with that.
I mean, they don't have to earn anything anymore.
They don't have to work for anything.
Everything's given to them, so they become pathetic.
And this is why, by the way, I love Texas because I don't want to ever live in a place that makes me lazy.
I don't want anything to be too easy.
If it's too easy, there's a catch.
You lose your resilience.
You lose a part of yourself.
You should hope that life is a little bit difficult, maybe a lot difficult.
You should hope that you have to work, that you have to Take care of problems and solve problems and think critically and use your hands and do physical work.
Because that makes you a real person who has real resilience against our crazy world where you're going to be challenged.
There are going to be natural disasters.
There's going to be probably civil war.
There are going to be challenges to you.
And if you don't have that resilience, if you don't have that personal fortitude to be able to make it through difficult times, then you're lost already.
I mean, the world is not going to hand you solutions on a silver platter just because you're a cry bully.
The snowflakes are not going to do very well in the long term.
They may think they're doing okay now because they're getting A's in all the classes that professors don't even require them to do anything.
Except hate Trump.
I guess if you hate Trump in college, then you're given an A in basically every class at this point.
But when they are required to do something real in the real world, they get Fs.
They fail because they don't have any real world skills.
So the key is to stop thinking about how to make your life convenient and easy and instead start thinking about how you grow through challenges.
And are you challenging yourself enough?
How hard is your life?
This morning, I was wrestling a longhorn cow by the horns who was on the ground and I think is going to have to be put down, by the way.
She might already be dead by now, but we were trying to help her.
We were trying to save her because...
Her front legs had gone to sleep.
She had fallen, I guess, during the storms, the hurricane.
She had fallen, and her legs went to sleep.
She couldn't get back on her feet.
We were trying to get her back on her feet.
You know, a 900-pound animal or whatever with four-foot horns.
And I was wrestling with this with another person, well, two other people, who were trying to save this cow.
That's not unusual for me to be hands-on like that, dealing with my tractor or dealing with the donkeys that I take care of on my ranch or dealing with animals or dealing with all these different animals and creatures because it's part of a farm and ranch operation.
It's not unusual.
I don't want my life to be too easy.
I want to have to solve problems.
I want to have to use my hands and get things done.
And I just want you to think about that.
If your life is too easy, you might not be growing as much as you need to grow.
You might not be as tough as you're going to need to be when things get crazy.
Because things are going to get crazy.
So keep all that in mind.
And thanks for listening.
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