WHY WE NEED JOHN WAYNE MORE THAN EVER-HIS BASIC PSYCHOLOGY

There’s a classic scene in The Cowboys where the Duke did a little rudimentary child psychology on a kid with a nervous speech impediment.

The kid almost lost a buddy because he couldn’t yell for help during a cattle stampede. Duke’s answer? “Stop that stuttering or get the hell out of here”.

Simple effective advice.

No hovering over the kid, no over thinking the problem, no Oprah/Dr. Phil pop psychology-just basic Duke Wayne child-rearing that worked.

Later on the Duke gave these kids the biggest lesson of all when he took on despicable Bruce Dern and his gang of lowlifes. He faced Dern head-on when they decided to rustle his herd. The Duke took round after round of lead from these outlaws after he kicked the liver out of Dern in a fair one on one fight.

The Duke died defending these kids in a righteous cause and illustrated, by example, a giant lesson in toughness-facets of 21st century life that are rarely seen. Now guys are measured on the toughness scale by the sheer number of buddies you can round up to win a fight-or, in extreme situations, how many Glock 9 mill handguns you can bring to the dustup.

These aren’t honorable traits. The Duke only threw down when challenged to a fight by scumbags like Bruce Dern in The Cowboys and drew down only when out of options and the shootin’ iron was the last resort. And never over a trivial matter.

Today’s society is full of kids who either (a) are micromanaged and helicopter–parented into their 30s or (b) completely ignored and end up with a semi-automatic in one hand and a crack pipe in the other.

Bad options and no Duke to take these freaks on a character-building cattle drive.

Man I miss John Wayne.

COMMENTS

CHARLES:"Amen to that article!!"

FREDDY:""John Wayne hey,what a legend!"

DENNIS:"My step-dad had a life sized cardboard statue of John Wayne in his office. The kind you used to see in the lobby of a theatre. That's the way I was raised, "no excuses". It took a long time to sink in. I thank God every day he lived long enough for me to one day slap him on the back and say, "Never thought I'd grow up to be the normal one, did you".

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