Machismo, the number one killer in America and the World
Was watching one of my favorite westerns “Gunsmoke” and heard James Arness quote a passage. He said that “there’s never a horse that can’t be rode and a man that couldn’t be thrown.” Thinking about that gave me the inspiration to pen this article and attempt to educate as well as warn others about what this passage means today and how appropriate it is. Some take this “survival of the fittest” thing way too far which means that the above quote is even more pertinent now. Because there has never been a horse that can’t be rode or a man that could not be thrown, we need to understand that no one is bigger or better than the other, that every person has a match and can be defeated at any time by anyone. Look closely at all of your professional sports team. None of them is unbeatable which makes the times when we see a team go undefeated like the Miami Dolphins did, we should take time to marvel at it. This proves that every horse can be rode and eve...