cellini's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Point What has ultimately entranced me about hunting is the fact that it so very productive in such an elegant, immediate and eternal way. The man who goes into the forest, kills something, brings it home and turns it into food has worked a kind of alchemy. It is a skill and perhaps a trade that owes nothing to other men. You can't be a web designer or an insurance broker or a data entry clerk or an accountant in a vacuum. If you depend on skills like those to make a living and don't know how to do anything else then you are a sort of societal parasite. I was such a parasite for many years. People with jobs like this - and I mean no offense, for as I said I spent most of my life hitherto in such a situation -- are worth a tiny fraction of what any carpenter or iron ore miner is. Having a few such people around is certainly necessary in a large society. But we've got way too fucking many of them now. Too much dross. I like hunting because the value of the skill is so immediately real. I can feed people. When there is no food to be had, I can go into the w1ld and make it appear. This skill can save people's lives. Everyone needs to eat. Mining and manufacturing are the same sort of thing. Carpentry, logging, farming, Engineering, medicine, chemistry. These are all inherently useful things. I would also include historians, geographers and astronomers among the ranks of the truly useful. Not the paper pushers. Jesus fucking Christ, did you really have to be a data entry specialist? A programmer? A financial services professional? Go do something useful. Be a sailor or a fisherman or a machinist. BE SOMETHING THAT IS WORTH SOMETHING. I feel pretty good about my new career because this is what I'm doing. I hunt f0r food and I teach other people to do the same and I encourage people to take personal responsibility for their local ecosystem. What I do best, at my best, is bringing out the primitive hero in every man and woman who comes to me for help. I guide them towards killing and butchering their first animal, building their first rifle. This is, every single time, one of the most important experiences in their lives. I give their lives meaning where there had been a void. This is the simple truth that all of the journalists have been missing. Every media outlet that has profiled me has failed to understand this incredibly important thing. What I do best is put human beings in a position where they can experience some of what really matters about being human in a way that no video game or movie will ever offer them. 1:46 a.m. - 2011-01-18 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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