A Cabin Ain't a Cabin Anymore

 

A cabin used to be a symbol of American individualism, pioneer spirit, and true grit as they say. Rugged men and women,literally carved out a homestead,in a hostile environment, often with only an axe and their two hands. Because that was all they had.

Cabins of old were built out of the cheapest most available materials. Whether it be rock, log or sod, they were all built for the same purpose, practical, effcient, safe shelter. Protection from the elements, and whatever else might want in.

Fast forward 200 yrs. more or less. Now the most hostile thing you face, while staking out your place in the sun, may be planning  and zoning. Now as then you still need to watch your back. Somethings never change.

That lowly cabin used to be a symbol of the desperate financial condition this countries new arrivals experienced. Days gone by, never to return. These days it's a symbol of the opposite financial condition. A symbol signaling that you have arrived.

Then again, somethings never change, and that something is the people. That same American spirit that is willing to enter a world of unkown hardship and danger, to let their fortune rise or fall at their own risk or reward. Picking oneself up with your own two hands, just as the early settlers of this country did. Two hands to work, play, fight, or pray as they saw fit.

Now every 50 to 100 yrs. a group of people decide it's their job to tell us how to do our job.  Again somethings never change.

There are groups now calling for change. Some are demanding change, some are threatening change or loss of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Where have I heard that before. All for our own good of course. But honestly, I cannot hear them calling, from my cabin.
As I said before, somethings never change.

RLR