Bill, I've been reading your work for over 25 years, way back to the paper mail letters. Baltimore, France, Ireland, the resort you and Doug Casey built in S. America and of course the ranch...I think I listed them all. We are the same age I think, 79, and you have weathered the storm well. Not bad for an old bird! As David said below, this is a nice break from crazy world we live in.
I love the day in the life post. It reminds me of your posts 25 years ago when you would write about your adventures in the French countryside with your school-aged children, your wife, your mom and your gardener.
Well Bill this missive is very picturesque but it doesn't meet my standards of political engagement. I Iike to wakeup with my fellow dear readers and have a little sport with your politics and libertarian proclivitities. But alas, today I must settle for an aging recluse for whom painting pictures with words has been elevated to an art form.
Thanks for taking me away to your exotic experiences in the highlands, for a few minutes. Now back to battling the rats, squirrels and rabbits for the mangos ripening quickly in our tree.
Two continents away and the lesson is the same: life can only be one way. It can be a remote, relatively few people up in the primitive mountains of northern Argentina, or it can be a teeming ghetto in modern America, but the common denominator of human nature is the constant. A culture develops and takes root, and that's it. It can't and won't be changed. Best always. PM
Well basically your comments regarding culture are true. But within American culture there are subcultures. Some of them are resistant to change e.g. Muslim culture. However, many others are acculturating e.g American Chinese and Japanese communities, some of whom are more American than New Yorkers.
Yeah, I was going to say that as it is true as researched by Thomas Soul in his book "Black Rednecks and White Liberals". However, I did not want to confuse the point by introducing American black culture into the discussion.
And I thought I had it tough as a kid. Grade school was 35 kids, 1st through 8th grade. High school was 70 miles away, with the first 24 miles being dirt road. At least a bus ran and I came home nightly, though there were times the washes were running and that arrival time was after 8. I do miss that country, beautiful and rugged.
Hi Bill, been with you for a long while. US centric background but living in Australia mostly for 26 years now. You are doing what many Australians would be saying..."He's having a good go"...keep it up, keep it coming unfiltered, it's what you do...carry on.
Bill so nice to recall your initial venture into the Argentina high country and that you are still supporting it even if via your now extended fmaily .. great to have kids that value what their parent wer or are still trying to do .. I think this was once called "foreign aid" but what ever you call it what matters is that people are better off today than they were before you arrived .. sadly that can't be said for most of the rest of the world were the US Govt has interfered in the life of local people to 'democratize' them against whatever dis-ese might come along (socialism) etc What a great example of stupidity that now looks like when you can hardly drive across the USA without being shot at robbed or assaulted by folks who believe that they are entitled to your good fortune because you have it and they don't .. so much safer traveling in Argentina than anywhere in the US of slaves demons and conspiracy fanatics ! well done Bill!
Bill, I've been reading your work for over 25 years, way back to the paper mail letters. Baltimore, France, Ireland, the resort you and Doug Casey built in S. America and of course the ranch...I think I listed them all. We are the same age I think, 79, and you have weathered the storm well. Not bad for an old bird! As David said below, this is a nice break from crazy world we live in.
Jim Marshall
Mr. Marshall, Bill's at his best when he writes about his adventures in Argentina; and, on the financial side, how true wealth is built and sustained.
I love the day in the life post. It reminds me of your posts 25 years ago when you would write about your adventures in the French countryside with your school-aged children, your wife, your mom and your gardener.
Well Bill this missive is very picturesque but it doesn't meet my standards of political engagement. I Iike to wakeup with my fellow dear readers and have a little sport with your politics and libertarian proclivitities. But alas, today I must settle for an aging recluse for whom painting pictures with words has been elevated to an art form.
Thanks for the ride! AC
Thanks for taking me away to your exotic experiences in the highlands, for a few minutes. Now back to battling the rats, squirrels and rabbits for the mangos ripening quickly in our tree.
Two continents away and the lesson is the same: life can only be one way. It can be a remote, relatively few people up in the primitive mountains of northern Argentina, or it can be a teeming ghetto in modern America, but the common denominator of human nature is the constant. A culture develops and takes root, and that's it. It can't and won't be changed. Best always. PM
Well basically your comments regarding culture are true. But within American culture there are subcultures. Some of them are resistant to change e.g. Muslim culture. However, many others are acculturating e.g American Chinese and Japanese communities, some of whom are more American than New Yorkers.
Yes, and White Redneck culture which was, unfortunately, adopted by so many urban Blacks.
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Yeah, I was going to say that as it is true as researched by Thomas Soul in his book "Black Rednecks and White Liberals". However, I did not want to confuse the point by introducing American black culture into the discussion.
And I thought I had it tough as a kid. Grade school was 35 kids, 1st through 8th grade. High school was 70 miles away, with the first 24 miles being dirt road. At least a bus ran and I came home nightly, though there were times the washes were running and that arrival time was after 8. I do miss that country, beautiful and rugged.
I hope your daughter is holding up well.
Let's hear it for Zane Grey! "The cowboy ejaculated." Lots of times, look it up, eh.
Hi Bill, been with you for a long while. US centric background but living in Australia mostly for 26 years now. You are doing what many Australians would be saying..."He's having a good go"...keep it up, keep it coming unfiltered, it's what you do...carry on.
Richard Woodward
Bill so nice to recall your initial venture into the Argentina high country and that you are still supporting it even if via your now extended fmaily .. great to have kids that value what their parent wer or are still trying to do .. I think this was once called "foreign aid" but what ever you call it what matters is that people are better off today than they were before you arrived .. sadly that can't be said for most of the rest of the world were the US Govt has interfered in the life of local people to 'democratize' them against whatever dis-ese might come along (socialism) etc What a great example of stupidity that now looks like when you can hardly drive across the USA without being shot at robbed or assaulted by folks who believe that they are entitled to your good fortune because you have it and they don't .. so much safer traveling in Argentina than anywhere in the US of slaves demons and conspiracy fanatics ! well done Bill!