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Hey everybody, this is the Van Mullen, you're from 3DMain, this is the truth about the

Wild West. So of course, you know, Capoyce, it Indians all of the games that were fun and exciting

and obviously kind of goofy that I played as a kid. I'm sure we all played at least those of us

north of a couple of decades. We played and as a Wild West, there was the typical scenario,

there was the town, there was the innocent, cheap like townspeople, there was Black Bart,

the guy constantly stroking his mustache and grabbing the butts of women at the bar and then the

with helpless men who just didn't know how to shoot straight and then there was the guy often with

a bit of a facial scrub but a toothpick sticking out the side of his mouth and spoke low and he spoke

in tough guy voice and he would take on the bad guy and free the town from the malevolent

influence of the bad guys who were terrorizing everyone and so on and this was the myth, I guess we

all know this kind of story, this kind of myth and what does the myth tell you? Well, the myth tells you

that in a lawless area, the Wild West in a place where the government has not yet

rounded up and corned it in text. The population, well, you're just under the chaos of crazy

violent people and it takes the sheriff, it takes the government to bring order to chaos and

you know, as I sort of got older and I did work of course in small towns in Northern Ontario

after high school as a gold panor and prospector and while they were kind of wild places, they were not

criminal places, they were not lawless at all and I began to suspect over the years that all of

this was just kind of like propaganda, it's just kind of like a siop which says without the government

it's just lawless, violent, crazy, hobsy and nature, red and tooth and claw and you take the

government to come in and bring order and it just struck me as a kind of propaganda just to tell

you how necessary the government is and to make people frightened about the absence of government

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