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 Sketch of the house as described by Dad. The two railroad tracks were right in front of the house. The Number 12 tunnel a few yards away. |
I am Jack Bowman. I was born in 1943 beside the L&N
railroad tracks near Renfro Valley, Kentucky. Dad said he believed it was the first year that the streamlined locomotives came through. They were all modern after that. Fifty years later Dad would get visibly upset when he talked about the creek rising and flooding the corn on the farm that he was sharecropping the summer of 1943. It was his last attempt at farming for many years. |
All cultures exist within the family group. If there is no family group then you are just an individual member of the species and you have no need for culture.
All members of my family had lived within a sixty mile radius of where I was born for nearly two hundred years. With this many generations behind me I had the culture that fit the land in which I was born. In fit the land I mean, the climate, the trees, the dangerous animals. All the things that surrounded me. This is just something that happens after two hundred years. Adding to that was my Cherokee Indian ancestry. Perhaps a thousand years before my Indian ancestors were acclimating to the Kentucky hills.
| Within a short walking distance of where I was born was the house my Grandfather Jordan died in around 1927. He had worked in the Limestone quarry just across the tracks and died of an undiagnosed lung disease. He was the first of my ancestors to die from industrial pollution. My mom was only eight years old when he died. There was no compensation for the large family offered by either the State or the Capitalist. The Capitalist required the poor workers to make their money. Capitalism requires the constant recruitment of the poor as fodder for the fire. |
In 1998 the house was still standing. They took one of the windows out to remove the coffin when they buried Grandfather Jordan. |
 Isaac Bowman, on the left, ran a sawmill. His children helped him work it. Amos Bowman and my father Jack are in the middle. Myrtle Bowman is at the right. |
Both my Mother and Father came from large families. The many, many generations before them also had large families. The children would then help the adults as they got older. Our family of five stopped this cultural trait. I am sure this came from several factors. |
Among them was the death rate had decreased so all the genetic material could be trusted in fewer offspring. Another was that to be at or near the top of Capitalistic society you could not afford to raise many children. All your energy was being used just to be economically stable.
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in the above photo of Grandpa Isaac and the mill the same thing I see in Fox Talbot's
photograph of the laborers in Lacock Abby. But I hear the words of JeanAnn Bolliger when she reads her poem called ARMCO now AK Steel ,"In Busters bar or at Bill's Cafe in Mayfield....They cash pay checks from this city every Thursday.....You will find many of its denizens there....answering to different names, their voices rising in the smoke. and like the dammed, ....their expressions remain unrecorded." The available recorded History, either photographic or written is 99.9% to promote capitalism and the worker or common man is deleted or "remain unrecorded" |
 Photo of unknown Laborers at Lacock Abby around 1840 by Fox Talbot (the inventor of the negative system) |
A major problem with Capitalistic culture is that there are a few that must be consider intellectually superior so they can lead or abuse the intellectually inferior many. You can also take this formula and you realize that when the normal many become few then the few must import more claimed intellectually inferior. This has been done to the Kentucky Hillbilly culture for the last sixty years and is now being done to the Mexican culture. I don't know if you have noticed but we (now the capitalist few) are always complaining about the Mexicans coming across the border. What the government and capitalist leaders will not tell you is that If you, the Kentucky Hillbilly, and others refuse to be enslaved by the capitalist that they have to find more people and they actively pursue the cheap labor. In doing so they destroy their culture just as they have destroyed the Kentucky Hillbilly.
You may say this is all well and good. If you work hard you become the Capitalist few and you deserve it. Those that now work for you are intellectually inferior. But there is another problem that Capitalism causes.
Over a long span of time evolution will play it's game. The capitalist few are actually in control of evolution by being in control of the environment. Capitalism, through evolution, will turn the human species into an insect colony. The individual species members will exist for the colony and will not exist for the family group nor the individual. Capitalism itself is the greatest evil ever perpetrated on the species. It actually will cause the species as we know it to become extinct and a new species of insect like creatures will replace us.
The Summer of 1958 Why I quit reading Science Fiction and started hating Capitalism
Between High School and the Army
I joined the U.S. Army in 1964
Brother James I Bowman and his turbulent life
1985 Why Jews don't hunt rabbits and Catholics censor
...to be continued....
