@Armando van Haaren I like to think Costco is pretty good. At least they pay and treat their employees well without ripping off their consumers. That really goes to help building a strong country in my opinion.
...however, if the big cities give you the'fizz', then by all means stay there. Just keep yourself from telling us, out here in the boonies, how to live when you come visit.
Yes it is. People like you and me are playing on our smart phones or computers instead of doing something productive or creating something memorable. My comment is not made with malicious intent, it's just my perspective. Have a great day.
It's fading because capitalism is commodifying every aspect of life, including culture and identity. It's simply not profitable to have citizens that are rooted, traditional, and virtuous.
@@DL305 this is the answer. It's the result of "progress" brought by capitalism. You can say how much better things were, but keeping those things in the face of Walmart and Amazon and McDonald's has costs. People are choosing the superficial.
@@DL305 I agree with you to a certain degree. Consumerism drives capitalism in my opinion. People always have to have the newest and best of things. To upgrade what they already have that may still be in working condition. The capitalism comes in on the heels of that. Fast food restaurants many times ask if you want to upsize your order. We create the culture by our actions. With so many people out of work , I think bartering will back into fashion. Have a great day!
Small businesses are falling like dominoes in the blue states because of the leftists attitude of not allowing their cities to open back up because of the fake virus so sad but very true if Biden gets in office this fall kiss America good-bye!!I know Portland will never be the same after nightly riots for the last 106 days.
Janine Wellman such a beautiful part of the country too, just ruined by these leftists/democrats/communists. You’ve got to vote them out of office. I would hope that even the liberal leftists would get tired of the BS, but I guess not. Sometimes people have to lose everything to appreciate what they had.
Children growing up in single parent households is a huge contributor to the problems in our country. The "everyone gets a trophy " mentality also is a huge contributor as is the "no child left behind" initiative in the public schools. The public school system has essentially held the top performers back by dumbing things down so that all can meet the requirements of the Government ie. standardized testing. Teaching someone how to pass a standardized test isn't providing them an education.
We close on our homestead in October. A 1930's farmhouse with a shop and land to do what we want. I want to thank you, Cody. You are one of the reasons why I am starting my freedom in a few weeks... Our family's culture will be getting a huge fix soon.
Ronald Reagan made this astute observation: “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
Free or free AND free thinking? Big difference. From an outside perspective yes Americans are free, same as the rest of the western world. It's not unusual! Free thinking? Not so much. So briefly, the CIA have been working non stop since the end of WW2 to shape the public understanding of the world. Just one example is sanctions. Promoting "freedom and liberty" by literally subjecting everyday Joes (and Joannas) to abject misery in the hope they rise up against the government that the US disagrees with. The protests that are gripping and ripping America apart right now is what that looks like! Yet the US promotes that. Literally the things that a lot of you guys are complaining about is what the US is trying to make happen in other countries RIGHT NOW! And you believe the BS that is fed to you. Freedom doesn't need to be "fought for" in the way you understand it. The fight is for real facts. Real understanding. The US is no more at risk of losing "freedom" than any other western country. The threat is from within. Believing BS is a major factor. From conspiracy theories to being agitated to take a side to, I don't know, any one of a thousand ways your country works to slowly remove your freedoms while getting you to chant "freedom" against something that just ISN'T a threat! You are now being constantly surveilled. And that was Bush, Obama and now Trump. It's constant! You're made to dance to a political tune. The pied piper is coralling you. "Oh wasn't Bush terrible!" "Bush was a hero, saved us from 911!" (He wasn't, CIA knew it was about to happen and did nothing because it HELPED them in a POLITICAL fight to get more power, and Cheyney fed Bush BS to make it happen.) Obama, "Hope and Change" abandoned AS SOON as he got in office. Trump rode the discord and animosity to the Whitehouse but nothing changed. Nothing! Bush, Obama and Trump. Can't get more different but NOTHING changed! (O.K so now I.C.E are a law unto themselves and are carrying out hysterectomies, which for those anti abortion folks, should be a MASSIVE red light....) but nothing has changed. "Leftists" "Trumpists" PLEASE STOP BEING PUPPETS TO THESE COMPLETE A HOLES. Think. What is my life like, what problems do I face and what solutions would I like to see. Guarantee most of you are not affected by a random Mexican popping up! Some of you have had your land seized by Trump's government to build that wall. IT'S IN YOUR HEAD! If you were united, it wouldn't matter who was in power or who moves in. This is America, right? The greatest country in the world! F'in act like it! America was built on just pushing through. The Appalachians, making that road, getting that next step, reaching the west coast. You guys landed on the moon! Defying adversity. Nobody told you what to think back then. Why are you so acceptant of BS narratives pumped to you now? Understand that, regardless of whether your man or woman is sitting on the throne, you are being fed the same s**t and encouraged to fight with your neighbour for the sake of distracting you. Stop believing BS, narratives, conspiracy theories. Stop being sooooo hyper partisan. Hey! Trump is a bad leader. So was Obama! JFK and Eisenhower. Last two really good ones. Pick better!
And, immigration. I personally spend a considerable amount of my work day / night monitoring crossings of migrants. It's exhausting! Because it's constant. Where do they come from? Africa and the Middle East. Why are they leaving? Because mine and your Governments, across BOTH parties in each country have espoused foreign policies that make these people's lives MISERABLE! Our governments have created this problem, Your immigrants are from South America, mine in the Middle East and Africa. They are being driven from their homes by OUR foreign policy. So instead of blaming people for seeking a better life, which if you're white, your ancestors LITERALLY did the same, can you guys please focus on WHY THEY ARE LEAVING AND SOLVE THAT PROBLEM? Utterly fed up with reactionism above analysis. Please, for the good of the human race, take some time to think and stop being sheep.
I, like you, find peace, purpose, and pleasure in the outdoors. I also realize that it's okay that people are different from me. Some people find fulfillment, purpose, and excitement in the city. America is great because well all should have the freedom to pursue our own happiness as long as it does not infringe on the rights of others.
I remember as a child traveling across the nation, when there were no interstate roads and there were different traditions, now its McDonald's and Walmarts. Sad
"The coming peril is the intellectual, educational, psychological and artistic overproduction, which, equally with economic overproduction, threatens the wellbeing of contemporary civilisation. People are inundated, blinded, deafened, and mentally paralysed by a flood of vulgar and tasteless externals, leaving them no time for leisure, thought, or creation from within themselves." G.K. Chesterton
Communism only places value on material production. There’s no value to the spirit because it doesn’t exist in communism. People think communism and capitalism are different. They’re not. They’re the same thing.
Traditions are important BUT Culture has been a constantly changing and evolving thing throughout history on a global scale. Yes, it is important to remember your origins but that doesn't mean you can't evolve as a community that is static and it won't work. Dead is, what doesn't change. However, the real reason behind any collapse on this scale is the inability and/or unwillingness to compromise. To accept and tolerate other opinions. Ideology in itself is not a bad thing. But forcing your ideology onto others is. That goes for everyone across the political and religious spectrum. Golden Rule people. That's all that means.
I cant imagine anything nicer than a snowy winters day tucked up in a cabin like that with a fire going and a good book. Or on the couch under a blanket with the wife and cuppa tea. Absolute bliss👍
I appreciate the reverie for tradition and for holding things like this cabin, the region, etc. so closely. My own "home stomping ground" is the Appalachian mountain region through Pennsylvania which is where I grew up, played, hiked, etc. From the natural aspects as well as the specific impact of man on the region, it has its own unique feel that is similar along the whole range from north to south. You make a great case for the beauty of the PNW forests, but I'll always be home in Pennsylvania's ancient mountains and forests.
Love this. Gave me chills. I am a born and raised "Mainah". Living in the maine woods gives me the same vibes. Fishing, hunting, making syrup, snowshoeing etc. Love it. Now my kids are doing it❤.
@@BruceInFlorida I'm really not sure. I didn't watch Wranglerstar for a little while and then started watching again, but when I came back, I saw the jokes about the toupee, Locktite, and heard the east/West coast jokes. I'm an east coast guy myself, but I'm closer to the Appalachian mountains than the Atlantic ocean.
The chains you mention: Olive Garden, Chili’s, etc. are most often found in suburban retail centers, not in “big cities.” The renaissance of American Cities has spawned independent, healthier farm to table restaurants, local brewpubs and a stronger sense of place without total dependence on cars to get around. Am I wrong in thinking this?
OMG! Mr. Wranglerstar I just checked and there's no Gifford Pinchot Forest at the foot of Mt. Fuji, or in Japan at all. I think something might be amiss with google maps. A conspiracy of the highest order?
If we quit having the mentality I can't do that or there's no way for me to get there and instead say how do I get to that point in my life and not put people down but use them as a resource we could be that much better off. A good reminder to myself too!!
Remember, this world is not our home - we are just passing thru. But while we are here, lets leave a daily legacy of integrity that will inspire those MEN and women who are following in our footsteps.
Ya, I grew up In an old gold mining town in the Cleveland national forest. I get 100% what your saying. That experience growing up there is something I can't explain to ppl who grew up in the city. My soul and memory are generational. That which those created long before me still exists. It was passed down to me and seared into my being. Even the natural world, trees, lakes, rocks and hills that had stood for thousands of years. God gave me those timeless memories preserved in the land and all it's things. The city makes me kinda sick, like the feeling after you eat too much junk food.
Nah, he was spot on. He meant that not enough people care enough to stand up and preserve what they value. The video was about what fills his soul and what he cherishes as an example to people to recover their values
I want to move to the Montana, Idaho or another North Western state with mountains and forests after I get out of the Marine Corps. I enlisted this summer and am wanting to save up money to buy a good chunk of land to hunt, fish, and homestead.
yes I do understand the hate I will get Lets’s talk White Privilege, Well I have different version. I grew up in a small town with as much as any person could. “Very Little’. My father worked almost every day in the Oil fields had his back broke and his heart too, my mother struggled to take care of his children, one girl and four boys. I saw my father go to work every day during the week and almost every Sunday. When he did not he worked on the farm. He asked us all to help and we did. My mother would put away can goods to make sure that we would have food to eat when my father would either get hurt or be out of work when the oilfields would shutdown and they always did. He stood up for us when nobody would and my mother always had our back. My father always said “Don’t trust anybody and don’t let anybody behind your back” The best advise I have ever learned. I am so sorry for anybody that have been f-with in there life but so have I. I was born poor and I will not die rich. Some people will fight for us but it is “Not the people that say they fight for you “ “They are making money off of you” Stop standing in line for someone to save you”. I stood up just like my brothers and sister and made something out of me. No paint on the street and no chant will fixed my or your problem. I did!! and so can you! I Thank my Father and Mother for their love and Guidance and my Girlfriend for keeping me grounded and my Brothers and Sister for keeking me in a good spot in my life. Thanks, Not White privileged CCH Sent from my iPhone
White privilege is not just "Growing up with money" white privilege is growing up without being attacked for the color of your skin. If you are white, you have white privilege. Having white privilege doenst mean you havent been through hardships, it just means that you havent faced those hardships because you are white.
Cannot remember when I have ever disagreed with one of your videos Cody, but I am respectfully disagreeing a wee bit with this one, which made me cry a wee bit.
There are disabled veterans, elderly folks who have paid their dues, been responsible who are between a rock and a hard place. Yes, younger folks like you and others may well be able to achieve the goals you have had. But even you noted in a past video you had help when you bought the place you just sold. Not everyone may have family or friends who support their old fashioned ways, goals, and are unwilling to help them move to a more rural area where they can be both free and more self sustainable. They may not have ANY type of a support system.
We had always been wise and frugal. Our only child was born with serious medical issue and 1/3 of our income for years was set aside for our share of medical costs. Then Ron was hit by an uninsured drunk driver in '90 and left 100% disabled, and I became his 23/7 caregiver for 14 years until he succumbed to the injuries.. But we sold all non essentials, downsized to an even smaller (600 square feet) place, and cut ALL expenses, No tv, no high tech stuff. After he died it took me until last year to pay off the $250k in medical debt which was the 10% of costs our medical insurance didn't cover. Did this by using all our savings, and then 20% of what I got from Social Security each month. Did not eat out even once until last year.. Only new clothes I bought was underwear. Last vacation I had was in '89 when we went to visit family in Seattle.
Am old enough to be your mother and I am trying the best I can to stay frugal and be able to have a THOW (tiny house on wheels) sans steps, and a walk in shower, on a wee bit of land for a vegetable garden like I have where I am now in the Sierra foothills. God's honest truth I just got a 90 day notice today, that my rent is going up $50. $50 is what I have been setting aside in savings for emergencies. Know folks who because of COVID 19 have been living off their emergency savings and have moved into a used RV they paid cash for, since it is cheaper than the $2k rent they were paying for a small one bedroom apartment. They have been looking for land here in the Sierras, up in Oregon, Idaho, southeastern Washington, where others seeking to escape from the city are also seeking to move. Bet land prices will be going up in your rural area if they have not done so already....
I sometimes complain about something in my life that I don't like....some people never get much of a chance to have something they want. I hope you find some peace and stability... and get a break.
I currently live in a craftsman home built in 1916. It still has most of the original features that are normally removed during renovations, such as the wide trim. It still has 2 old coal fireplaces originally used to heat the home, even if they are no longer functional (they were bricked up). It even still has the chimney to the coal-fired kitchen stove hidden behind some drywall. This house is older than any of my living relatives by a decade. Old craftsman homes really give me this fizz.
I can relate to your feelings of loving where you're at. As I'm listening, I'm looking at Miles and Miles of open country with the Wyoming range in the distance.
Preaching to the choir here. Twelve years ago I moved my young family from a city in Alberta,[Red Deer] to a small logging village in B.C.[Nakusp]. My wife and I sacrificed a lot so our kids could grow up free to roam with clean water and air. My kids are so connected to this place and I'm sure they'll raise their kids here.
Anti - Ethnic Cleansing, Why do the liberal Democrats support Planned Parenthood especially in black urban neighborhoods? In Democrat controlled NYC there are more black babies aborted than born. Isn’t that Ethnic Cleansing? Somebody has gotten your head in a twist that you need to get straightened out yourself.
The only thing I have going against me is my physical disabilities now, so living outside the city is near impossible, but I always enjoy seeing wisdom passed down.
The unique smell of my small hardwood wood lot in the Midwest will always be treasured. And good luck trying to remove me from it! I understand. I’m tied to this land more than anyone may ever know. Every season has a special smell. Every tree and creek bend. Now I sound ridiculous. But I seriously understand
I love those huge trees. I used to travel for work and the Lake Tahoe area gives me the double fizz! Mountains, trees, and cabins will one day be my home. Kids will be off to college in a few years and I'm out!
I agree with you. But almost every State in this great Union has historical areas that the residents should learn about and enjoy. I’m an east coast city guy. We don’t have strip malls with Olive Garden and Chillis.
In a world where everyone is “special”, no one nor anything can truly be special, lest the masses become offended that they aren’t receiving that attention.
"When everyone is special, NO ONE will be!" Syndrome, "The Incredibles" It is so weird how Hollywood can be so full of $#!†, but have truth like this in a movie.
@@janinewellman1814 It's just a myth until you see one or hear one. I saw one as a young child and was scared to tell my parents because I thought they would think I was lying.
i have been in construction my whole adult life, 55 yrs old now. in my entire career i have only read one thing in the job site porta-potty that is worth repeating. " Excuses are a poor mans way of making up for his own inadequacies"
My great Aunt Lula had a two story cabin with an open loft when I was a child in the fiftys and early sixtys in WEMMY. The Sandy River was at the front door. I can't begin to tell you the love and hundreds of memories I have of that area including the Ivy Bear. We would stop and visit the bear almost every time we went past. While I was in Vietnam the cabin was seized by the its. It seems my great uncle Rufus neglected to pay the taxes. I was devastated when I found out. JERRY B SEATTLE WASH.
American culture isn't lacking it's just continuously evolving; we are not a mono-culture and never have been. Every region, and even different regions of each state, were settled by different people groups. As such our architecture, arts, food, dialects, and stories are all different. Yeah if you drive down the main strip of any mid sized city you'll find the usual capitalistic interpretation of world. Go down town and you'll see a wider world. People in the Bronx are different than the people in Manhattan or Queens. You didn't find culture or traditions because you didn't put down roots in those places.
Canada welcomes immigration and believes that diversity provides assets and strengths. There is a true sense to find the things that make us all the same, rather than focusing on the ways that we are different. One race...the human race!
I'm a dumb old country guy and i love this country it's worth fighting for. I believe in neighbor helping neighbor, having faith in God. I've lived out in the country most of my live and keeping things simple
A Nation exists when an area has borders, language, and culture. People exist in the border, speak the language, and live the culture. A house divided cannot stand. The reason people talk about Balkanization is because they recognize that a singular nation no longer exists.
Right on. Some will disagree, but, what held us together, even though a horrible civil war, was those three things. Michael Savage wrote a book, oh, maybe 15 years ago, sharing this sentiment. If you look at any other country, low and behold, that's what we find. The "mixed" areas are where we find the most inner conflict. Look at india, china, the middle east, any nation in Africa, the fading Europe. What made each country was, as you rightly said, a common language, culture and a border.
AMEN AND AMEN! Losing TRADITION creates ISOLATION...isolation disconnects us from COMMUNITY/CONNECTEDNESS... It's very sad. Blessings to you and your family. LUCRETIA
We're in very sad times, there's not one person in history that you can't find fault in. We're allowing people to destroy everything because of something that didn't even happen to them. We're being shamed out of our culture.
Where we came from....Here in Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, our culture runs deep. We are descendants of indentured parents, Scotch-Irish ruffians, looked down upon by those east of the Blue Ridge for decades that became centuries, tolerated only because we would do back breaking, laborious work providing sustenance for the self important. And now traveling I-81, many of the exits have become uncultured swaths of disconnect - franchised brands promising jobs and tax revenue first replacing culture and now the deconstructionist are seeking to bury it.
In my studies for my Natural Resources degree I learned that Gifford Pinchot, a personal friend of Teddy Roosevelt, was commisioned to arrange the preservation of the tract of land that encompassed what is now a national forest that bears his name. I had forgotten the huge expanse of that tract. Great video, Cody. I hope it gets wide dispersion. 🤠
Like that quote (tradition). Cheers, Mark ********************************* PS Olive Garden, I call: "The Italian Denny's". Cool your jets buttercups, my Mother and Step-Father are Italian. *************************************
"Kicked off" would make sense if the majority of them were intentionally displaced. 90% succumbed to smallpox, measles, or the flu before the second colonial ship arrived.
Jonobrother03 don’t take their agency away from them. They fought valiantly and viciously and were defeated. They may retake some holdings or they may not. These conflicts are cyclical, I believe
Hi Cody. Nice chats. Our unique culture is being replaced by the 'playa' hip hop style culture. But I do see a resurgience (spelling) in traditional value culture among a large group of 20-30 age range. Seems to be a backlash against the free for all of the late 60s and early 70s, and against those they see as worthless persons (faux character/fake personality.) Another TH-camr Alec Steele (black/Blade smith, UK now Montana) is making a Damascus Firefighter's Pulaski. He is auctioning it off when done to benefit Wildland firefighters. Didn't know if you knew.
I gave it a thumbs down. He shits on places where large retail has replaced locally owned independent business and buys everything he can off Amazon. That's a pretty tall horse to be talking down from.
With respect to your comment on Revelation 13, we are in the era of the 8th head, the head which was and is not (Rev 17), and the beast with two horns like a lamb, the head to come (Rev 17), he was the 7th head, and deceived those who dwell on the earth (Rev 13), and his (Constantine) deception was to establish the Roman Catholic Church and their Trinity doctrine at his Council of Nicaea in 325 AD. The beast of Rev 13:3, the one "slain" and was healed from his wound, the 5th head, Julius Caesar (emperor/Kaiser), is represented in this era by the 10 horns of the 8th head of the beast, such as Mussolini, the father of fascism, and his brother Hitler, the father of Nazism, whose "black crow" policies for Jews, was derived from the democrat Roosevelt in the 30s, and whose Nazism is now imagined in Portland's Antifa movement. The "end time"/Har Mageon, comes with a great earthquake, in which all the cities will "fall", and the mountains "fall" (Rev 16:16-18). I would think that an area around a super volcano (Seattle), would not be a good place to be. The best one could do was repent and turn away from evil (abortion), and get rid of the progressive, then maybe God would repent and turn away from destroying Eastern Oregon. The fleeing progressives from Portland, will probably not find safety. Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho sit on a super volcano. That is why the 3rd of November is important. If progressives win in the election, there will be no where to run.
Cody, if these are in national parks, and you have already paid for your national parks licence/admission, surely then it would be "double dipping" to charge for the old shed? Here in Australia, we are charged not once for all parks, but for every different park... over 46 different parks, each up to $16AU per day! (I really admired that when I was in the US in 2011, we only needed 1 park licence for all parks). "Never seen the triple trees, the carpenter must have had his own little creativity with that". Cody, I think that is known as "Artistic licence" In our "Snowy Mountain" national park & other places where it can get extremely cold outside, we have really old shacks like this, usually heritage listed free for use (some are for emergency situations only), sometimes with a chained donation lockbox in the place. If you have read this message, and gotten this far, I really admired the secret house tour. I love Mrs. W's colour scheme, that particular green she chose really cannot be seen for the true beauty on the mobile or on my 4K smart TV. You really did deserve the holiday that you gave to yourself and your family, the little one is growing so fast! I hope you can get enough wood together for this coming winter. I am in Australia and we have just gone into spring. God bless you and your family. Take care, look after your back, from an Australian "East Coast guy" 👍
I live in the Missouri Ozarks, moved away from Chicago, a cold climate and culture. Love living isolated in the country.... That is a very cool setting... I could live there... Thanks for sharing the splendor of your world, its beautiful!!!
“A place that speaks to me.”’ Wow, well said sir. I’m a west coaster stuck on the east coast and boy I never feel like I belong here. When I travel home (parents home, my old home)…man everything just clicks for me! But, to say big cities don’t have culture is absolutely incorrect. It’s not that they don’t have culture, it’s a different culture from what your comfortable with. Big cites provide opportunities to meet different people, to expose yourself to different foods and experiences. It opens you up to different views and often bolsters ones empathy. Boy, what would it be like if we all stayed in the same place our whole lives? Comfortable…yea, but I’m not on this planet for comfort. I’m here to experience (in so many different and wonderful ways). Just my opinion.
Sad thing is that the family unit has been so attacked and broken down, that many don't have people to have traditions with :( this is why a healthy body of Christ is so important, we are to be that family and home for those who don't have it...
So true about living in the country, at least for me. I lived in Seattle, Centralia, Aberdeen, Yakima, Bellingham and even Mexico, but I find living in the country for 27 years so much better than living in any city. I worked in the woods for about 10 years and even though I am to the point that I can hardly do any physical work, and have not worked in the woods since 1992, I still take drives on the logging roads to this day ( unfortunately, now most private lands owned by the large timber companies are closed ). God wants all of us to have our own piece land . Ezekiel 28:26.... '' And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence, when I have executed judgments upon all those that despise them round about them; and they shall know that I am the LORD their God.'' Sounds like country living to me. There is nothing like taking the time to see God's marvelous creations, how all things in nature rely on one another to survive. For the most part, you can only see these things living in the country.
Nice little tour. Thank you. I agree with the root of your message; however, to many the big city is the environment that speaks to them. It is not to me and apparently not to you, but we cannot/should not dismiss the concept that culture does speak to others. I do not agree that America is collapsing, change and collapse are different. Having said that, if America I collapsing it is most likely due to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Socialist Democrats, and a few preachy people. God save us from them. Again, thank your sharing a view of a beautiful part of our country.
We are refugees from CA. We have found the place that speaks to us, Alaska! I get what you’re saying. However, it is snow machine, not snowmobile. 😎😂😂 It’s an Alaskan thing.
Love the channel. Been a huge fan for years. We don’t always agree politically. But you do realize people of color don’t necessarily have that history with our country? Absolutely love the Gospel, but Paul had no concept of this country when he wrote Timothy so long ago. Americana and the Gospel don’t mix.
"Move to a smaller house". Good luck with finding a spot, hopefully it's smaller than where you are. You aren't probably worthy of having a spot you've been living in. God bless.
I agree with what you have said . We have to protect our land and the way of life. I love this country and I am willing to fight for it. GOD BLESS AMERICA FREEDOM
Can't quite agree with the premise in the video description "... the reason America is collapsing is a lack of unique culture and tradition". There's a rather unique American cultural mythology that has been cultivated in public education, art, print, media, and officialdom. It's about American exceptionalism, embracing manifest destiny, enterprising individualism, The American Dream, etc. Calling it a mythology doesn't mean it's a complete fabrication. Rather that it's based on real exemplary individual and collective actions at various places and times, embellished and generalized to apply to a corporate soul of the nation and its successive generations of individuals, families, and institutions. Where to question the reality and current state of such a culture is in that generalization, practice, and adherence by the current populace. And, is the arc of history leading to a future where that cultural mythology has any practical reality. The writing on the wall, so to speak, that a culture replacement or morphology is occurring. The values once associated with that American exceptionalism have been gradually disappearing being subsumed in a utilitarian "progress and empire at any cost" ethos coupled with a fragmented induction of socialism on many fronts of the society. And that's not just a recent trend although it seems to be accelerating in the most recent one or two generations. The endeavors of Cody and family as documented on Wranglestar are a great example of trying to recover and adhere to a lifestyle more in tune with exemplary lives and times of a past that is becoming less known to current and future generations.
This monotony of Olive Garden and Target, etc. is more typical of the suburbs. Big cities have thing like museums and interesting architecture. This notion that everyone should want what you want is annoying. Also, if the people of Seattle and Portland all headed out to your forest, it would probably get pretty crowded out there.
Great amazing cabin ! Very wise words ! 100% why I love it here in New England ! Getting outside in mother nature seeing all her beauty ! Showing my Son what is truly important ! This is a great country we live in so much to see .... I watch this video with him he say wow dad just like what we have seen in NH , VT and ME
America Is Collapsing not really it's imploding.......Sad to see all the trees cut down as you were driving to the cabin... My dream was to have a log lodge in the middle of 100 - 200 acres with a small creek flowing near with a water fall... Sorry to say it will forever be a dream...
What’s not to love about the Gifford Pinchot National Forest? It’s awesome. I hear what you’re saying about that connection with the trees, the humidity, and such. We live in a truly wonderful part of the world. $50/night for that cabin is a steal.
Hmmm, Gifford Pinchot. East coast fellow. PA governor. Father of modern forestry, in PA I might add. PA is littered with the wonder and history he brought to the wild areas of our state. Did I mention...East Coast Boy?
So, let's all move to the forests and mountains. Will we all fit? How much of our current "necessities" will we have to give up? Think of all the things (not people) that you value. Where do they come from. Could their production continue? Entertainment? Government? Military?
Ya know, I've always understood why our country needs the power and leverage of corporations to build submarines, and skyscrapers, etc. But never understood why we need them to flip hamburgers, bake pizzas or sell groceries at the corner store. Just say'n.
I did just what you said, 3-1/2 months ago; I bought a house; a house that looks like a lodge, wood stove, 1.5 acres and lots of trees....i love it. It'll be a work in progress but worth it. Great video Cody.
As a truck driver i get what you are saying. As i drove thru many different cities they all began to look the same. We called it anywhere U.S.A. I tried to get away from the beaten path by using state highways instead of interstates all the time. I was able to see the beauty in each state and get a feel for the different cultures across this beautiful country. Im retired now. 36 years was enough for me. But I do cherish the sights and sounds and smells of the different places I traveled thru. I know you dont think very highly of east coasters but there is beauty from Maine to Cali and from Spokane to Miami I hope to cross paths some day and if God willing we will. So YOU keep us in your prayers and I will you. God bless.
Absolutely agree 100%! I was born in 73 and I remember all the traditions of my childhood and what a great time to be a child! Nowadays everything is so commercialized, life is to fast paced and hectic and schools don't teach children that traditionally patriotism for our country. I look at my 20 year old daughters generation and see they really don't know what it really means to be American and have pride in your country! Its a shame!
Excellent video. Thanks. Just got back from a week communing with nature at Table Rock Lake Missouri. We make it a point to eat at small family owned restaurants . That's one of the ways you keep the Spirit of America alive.
Beautiful, and priceless setting! Maybe a few similar on your commercial property? Building one teaches lots of skills, and latter to be used as housing for workshop attendees! Food for thought! Love going along on your journey.
It's a tad more complex than Chilis and Olive Gardens invading your town, but if that's your level of commitment to understanding the dynamics of an evergreen process of self governance then stick with that, it's your story, you tell it.
Those screws in the firewood box are spiderdrive lag screws. Super high corrosion resistance. Great for marine environments, but they’re about $0.50 a piece so I’m not sure why they would’ve used them here.
Incredible the you can earnestly upload a video labeled "my new house" and then immediately upload a video "america collapsing".... sure ain't collapsing for you eh?
The place where I grew up was forests and lakes and wide open spaces. Now it's golf courses, gated communities and million dollar McMansions, Walmart and Home Depot.
Cody, I would rent this cool tool shed turned into a wood cabin with all the beautiful trees and the wood burning stove in a heartbeat and come out for a visit with you and your family if I was invited or out to the new community land with all the other subscribers who are like minded folks who support your channel. Your meaningful comments about folks who could move out to a wonderful place to raise their family. My husband has to have special care for all his medical needs wouldn’t work especially with different members of the family who have a say in where he can live. It’s very expensive for my husband and I. I really thought that if you served your country for 20 years that medical care would be taken care of but it’s not the case here. At least not until all our resources are deminished down to only our own home. I hope this comment is not to jumbled to understand what I am trying to convey. Please pray for God’s will with my family but especially for my husband.
It seems that the concentration of just about anything, over a long period of time, is bad. Too much of a good thing, can be and often is bad. Wealth, power, sugar, fat, and Applebee’s. All must be applied in moderation.
You must have that homing pigeon syndrome that inflicts those that have grounded placing. I have Jackson State Demonstration Forest as my backyard and Mendocino National Forest as my front yard, we celebrate our community uniqueness on the 4th of July with many who travel home to attend our now 93rd consecutive rodeo with all year highschool reunion and a community spirit that has built a state of the art hospital and continues to see a community togetherness despite a now migration of 5 finger Mary money mongers that see this as a often hokie tradition and the activities we enjoy as old antiquated lifestyle as the new big thing.
Couldn't agree more. Every exit from the Interstate looks the same. When we would take trips; a good bit of the excitement was just to see the different cultures, buildings, etc. Much has been lost.
You always bag on us East coast guys, I may be a coastal Newenglander here in Newport RI and I make a living as a restoration carpenter... but my family has always vacationed up north, my grandparents built a camp in fryberg Maine . I still go north to vacation, and am looking to move that way... any how the north east is much like your north west ... well with out the protesters
The more urbanized a country gets a more out of touch the people end up with what lives all about I know in my country in the city's house blocks have went from 1/4acre to just having enough room to fit the house and that's it that's not living you may as well go live in a flat. That lifestyle you are not living your just existing to go to work sleep vegitate inside the house and we wonder why we have men who can't even change a battery in there car it's a bad joke. People in the city's wouldn't know what living all about like the people out in the country and they never will unfortunately.
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exact quote for the curious
“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.”
― Gustav Mahler
Ha, I had it wrong, Wranglerstar subs are smart,
@@wranglerstar close enough for government work!
@@roberttaylor9259 That's a pretty low bar, though.
@@roberttaylor9259 As a federal gov't worker, I resemble that remark!
I prefer WS's misquotation: "not the worship of ghosts, but the keeping of a flame"
“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.” ― Gustav Mahler
Ha I had it wrong, Wranglerstar subs are smart!
The German original reads: “Tradition ist nicht die Anbetung der Asche, sondern die Weitergabe des Feuers” ….. Gustav Mahler
"Weitergabe des Feuers" translates nicely to "passing of a flame" as well
Even though it's putting off the inevitable, try to shop local mom and pop's. Corporate America isn't always pro America.
what mom and pop ? They're all dead now, by design I'd bet.
@Armando van Haaren I like to think Costco is pretty good. At least they pay and treat their employees well without ripping off their consumers. That really goes to help building a strong country in my opinion.
@@dedalliance1 but most of the corporations are not like costco
Corporate America was NEVER pro America. The billionaire class were NEVER pro America.
the top 1% in this country (about 200k people) have never been for regular folk. only dollars and exploitation since the inception of this country.
...however, if the big cities give you the'fizz', then by all means stay there. Just keep yourself from telling us, out here in the boonies, how to live when you come visit.
amen brother....stop the invasion of the wendys (wealthy trendys)...they have ruined our rural county.....
I agree. Man all the uniqueness of our past is fading. So sad.
Yes it is. People like you and me are playing on our smart phones or computers instead of doing something productive or creating something memorable. My comment is not made with malicious intent, it's just my perspective. Have a great day.
It's fading because capitalism is commodifying every aspect of life, including culture and identity. It's simply not profitable to have citizens that are rooted, traditional, and virtuous.
@@DL305 this is the answer. It's the result of "progress" brought by capitalism. You can say how much better things were, but keeping those things in the face of Walmart and Amazon and McDonald's has costs. People are choosing the superficial.
@@DL305 I agree with you to a certain degree. Consumerism drives capitalism in my opinion. People always have to have the newest and best of things. To upgrade what they already have that may still be in working condition. The capitalism comes in on the heels of that.
Fast food restaurants many times ask if you want to upsize your order. We create the culture by our actions. With so many people out of work , I think bartering will back into fashion. Have a great day!
@Robert Thomasson oh boy do I hope so
The fall of small businesses is what will dramatically change r country
Jacob King and the communists/democrats.
Small businesses are falling like dominoes in the blue states because of the leftists attitude of not allowing their cities to open back up because of the fake virus so sad but very true if Biden gets in office this fall kiss America good-bye!!I know Portland will never be the same after nightly riots for the last 106 days.
Janine Wellman such a beautiful part of the country too, just ruined by these leftists/democrats/communists. You’ve got to vote them out of office. I would hope that even the liberal leftists would get tired of the BS, but I guess not. Sometimes people have to lose everything to appreciate what they had.
@@100texan2 well said
Children growing up in single parent households is a huge contributor to the problems in our country. The "everyone gets a trophy " mentality also is a huge contributor as is the "no child left behind" initiative in the public schools. The public school system has essentially held the top performers back by dumbing things down so that all can meet the requirements of the Government ie. standardized testing. Teaching someone how to pass a standardized test isn't providing them an education.
Watching things disappear is the worst part of growing older. It’s the erasure of local history and the destruction of belonging
very cool cabin
Would suit a man with a beard!
My man!
Mrgunsngear Channel I love your channel & FB page. I hope you get it back soon. 👍🇺🇸👍🇺🇸
Big fan of yours!
We close on our homestead in October. A 1930's farmhouse with a shop and land to do what we want. I want to thank you, Cody. You are one of the reasons why I am starting my freedom in a few weeks... Our family's culture will be getting a huge fix soon.
God bless yall, im hoping i can do something similar someday
I’m happy for you, as we plan on doing the same soon. God willing in under 2 years!
Best of luck and many blessings to you and yours! Do it right, and set an example for those of us doing it wrong.
We’ll…it’s been a year. I just saw this video. It’s 2022 and I’m curious how are you and the family doing? I noticed your comment was one year ago
Ronald Reagan made this astute observation: “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
What movie was that in?
Presidents are selected not elected there is no right or left wake up
@@sterlingstoots3215 yep, right wing,,,,left wing,,,,the same bird!!!
Free or free AND free thinking? Big difference. From an outside perspective yes Americans are free, same as the rest of the western world. It's not unusual! Free thinking? Not so much. So briefly, the CIA have been working non stop since the end of WW2 to shape the public understanding of the world. Just one example is sanctions. Promoting "freedom and liberty" by literally subjecting everyday Joes (and Joannas) to abject misery in the hope they rise up against the government that the US disagrees with. The protests that are gripping and ripping America apart right now is what that looks like! Yet the US promotes that. Literally the things that a lot of you guys are complaining about is what the US is trying to make happen in other countries RIGHT NOW! And you believe the BS that is fed to you. Freedom doesn't need to be "fought for" in the way you understand it. The fight is for real facts. Real understanding. The US is no more at risk of losing "freedom" than any other western country. The threat is from within. Believing BS is a major factor. From conspiracy theories to being agitated to take a side to, I don't know, any one of a thousand ways your country works to slowly remove your freedoms while getting you to chant "freedom" against something that just ISN'T a threat! You are now being constantly surveilled. And that was Bush, Obama and now Trump. It's constant! You're made to dance to a political tune. The pied piper is coralling you. "Oh wasn't Bush terrible!" "Bush was a hero, saved us from 911!" (He wasn't, CIA knew it was about to happen and did nothing because it HELPED them in a POLITICAL fight to get more power, and Cheyney fed Bush BS to make it happen.) Obama, "Hope and Change" abandoned AS SOON as he got in office. Trump rode the discord and animosity to the Whitehouse but nothing changed. Nothing! Bush, Obama and Trump. Can't get more different but NOTHING changed! (O.K so now I.C.E are a law unto themselves and are carrying out hysterectomies, which for those anti abortion folks, should be a MASSIVE red light....) but nothing has changed. "Leftists" "Trumpists" PLEASE STOP BEING PUPPETS TO THESE COMPLETE A HOLES. Think. What is my life like, what problems do I face and what solutions would I like to see. Guarantee most of you are not affected by a random Mexican popping up! Some of you have had your land seized by Trump's government to build that wall. IT'S IN YOUR HEAD! If you were united, it wouldn't matter who was in power or who moves in. This is America, right? The greatest country in the world! F'in act like it! America was built on just pushing through. The Appalachians, making that road, getting that next step, reaching the west coast. You guys landed on the moon! Defying adversity. Nobody told you what to think back then. Why are you so acceptant of BS narratives pumped to you now? Understand that, regardless of whether your man or woman is sitting on the throne, you are being fed the same s**t and encouraged to fight with your neighbour for the sake of distracting you. Stop believing BS, narratives, conspiracy theories. Stop being sooooo hyper partisan. Hey! Trump is a bad leader. So was Obama! JFK and Eisenhower. Last two really good ones. Pick better!
And, immigration. I personally spend a considerable amount of my work day / night monitoring crossings of migrants. It's exhausting! Because it's constant. Where do they come from? Africa and the Middle East. Why are they leaving? Because mine and your Governments, across BOTH parties in each country have espoused foreign policies that make these people's lives MISERABLE! Our governments have created this problem, Your immigrants are from South America, mine in the Middle East and Africa. They are being driven from their homes by OUR foreign policy. So instead of blaming people for seeking a better life, which if you're white, your ancestors LITERALLY did the same, can you guys please focus on WHY THEY ARE LEAVING AND SOLVE THAT PROBLEM? Utterly fed up with reactionism above analysis. Please, for the good of the human race, take some time to think and stop being sheep.
I, like you, find peace, purpose, and pleasure in the outdoors. I also realize that it's okay that people are different from me. Some people find fulfillment, purpose, and excitement in the city. America is great because well all should have the freedom to pursue our own happiness as long as it does not infringe on the rights of others.
I remember as a child traveling across the nation, when there were no interstate roads and there were different traditions, now its McDonald's and Walmarts. Sad
"The coming peril is the intellectual, educational, psychological and artistic overproduction, which, equally with economic overproduction, threatens the wellbeing of contemporary civilisation. People are inundated, blinded, deafened, and mentally paralysed by a flood of vulgar and tasteless externals, leaving them no time for leisure, thought, or creation from within themselves." G.K. Chesterton
He also said, referring to the USA:
'The wild worship of lawlessness and the materialist worship of law end in the same void'.
Bang on the money.
Communism only places value on material production. There’s no value to the spirit because it doesn’t exist in communism.
People think communism and capitalism are different. They’re not. They’re the same thing.
Traditions are important BUT Culture has been a constantly changing and evolving thing throughout history on a global scale. Yes, it is important to remember your origins but that doesn't mean you can't evolve as a community that is static and it won't work. Dead is, what doesn't change.
However, the real reason behind any collapse on this scale is the inability and/or unwillingness to compromise. To accept and tolerate other opinions. Ideology in itself is not a bad thing. But forcing your ideology onto others is. That goes for everyone across the political and religious spectrum.
Golden Rule people. That's all that means.
I cant imagine anything nicer than a snowy winters day tucked up in a cabin like that with a fire going and a good book. Or on the couch under a blanket with the wife and cuppa tea. Absolute bliss👍
cuppa tea. Your so an englishman or your wife is from over there :-) You forgot Digestives...
That does sound nice.
I appreciate the reverie for tradition and for holding things like this cabin, the region, etc. so closely. My own "home stomping ground" is the Appalachian mountain region through Pennsylvania which is where I grew up, played, hiked, etc. From the natural aspects as well as the specific impact of man on the region, it has its own unique feel that is similar along the whole range from north to south. You make a great case for the beauty of the PNW forests, but I'll always be home in Pennsylvania's ancient mountains and forests.
Love this. Gave me chills. I am a born and raised "Mainah". Living in the maine woods gives me the same vibes. Fishing, hunting, making syrup, snowshoeing etc. Love it. Now my kids are doing it❤.
You get it,
Italian-Americans don't let friends eat at Olive Garden.
Toupee looks a bit rough today. Must be a windy day.
It's an inside channel joke
He was out of locktite which he uses to hold it in place.
@@austinpresley6187 I thought it was an east coast joke.......
@@BruceInFlorida
I'm really not sure. I didn't watch Wranglerstar for a little while and then started watching again, but when I came back, I saw the jokes about the toupee, Locktite, and heard the east/West coast jokes. I'm an east coast guy myself, but I'm closer to the Appalachian mountains than the Atlantic ocean.
Not called "square drive". It's named "Robertson". Another proper Canadian invention.
The chains you mention: Olive Garden, Chili’s, etc. are most often found in suburban retail centers, not in “big cities.” The renaissance of American Cities has spawned independent, healthier farm to table restaurants, local brewpubs and a stronger sense of place without total dependence on cars to get around. Am I wrong in thinking this?
OMG! Mr. Wranglerstar I just checked and there's no Gifford Pinchot Forest at the foot of Mt. Fuji, or in Japan at all. I think something might be amiss with google maps. A conspiracy of the highest order?
If we quit having the mentality I can't do that or there's no way for me to get there and instead say how do I get to that point in my life and not put people down but use them as a resource we could be that much better off. A good reminder to myself too!!
Remember, this world is not our home - we are just passing thru. But while we are here, lets leave a daily legacy of integrity that will inspire those MEN and women who are following in our footsteps.
Matthew 24:46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
Ya, I grew up In an old gold mining town in the Cleveland national forest. I get 100% what your saying.
That experience growing up there is something I can't explain to ppl who grew up in the city. My soul and memory are generational. That which those created long before me still exists. It was passed down to me and seared into my being. Even the natural world, trees, lakes, rocks and hills that had stood for thousands of years. God gave me those timeless memories preserved in the land and all it's things.
The city makes me kinda sick, like the feeling after you eat too much junk food.
Julian?
@@judd_s5643 Yes, wow! Are u from there?
I would have used a different title, maybe Forest Service's new cabin
Nah, he was spot on. He meant that not enough people care enough to stand up and preserve what they value. The video was about what fills his soul and what he cherishes as an example to people to recover their values
Well Dan...
When you start up your TH-cam channel
you can title your videos whatever you want...
I want to move to the Montana, Idaho or another North Western state with mountains and forests after I get out of the Marine Corps. I enlisted this summer and am wanting to save up money to buy a good chunk of land to hunt, fish, and homestead.
yes I do understand the hate I will get
Lets’s talk White Privilege,
Well I have different version.
I grew up in a small town with as much as any person could. “Very Little’.
My father worked almost every day in the Oil fields had his back broke and his heart too, my mother struggled to take care of his children, one girl and four boys.
I saw my father go to work every day during the week and almost every Sunday. When he did not he worked on the farm.
He asked us all to help and we did.
My mother would put away can goods to make sure that we would have food to eat when my father would either get hurt or be out of work when the oilfields would shutdown and they always did.
He stood up for us when nobody would and my mother always had our back.
My father always said “Don’t trust anybody and don’t let anybody behind your back”
The best advise I have ever learned. I am so sorry for anybody that have been f-with in there life but so have I.
I was born poor and I will not die rich.
Some people will fight for us but it is “Not the people that say they fight for you “ “They are making money off of you” Stop standing in line for someone to save you”.
I stood up just like my brothers and sister and made something out of me.
No paint on the street and no chant will fixed my or your problem. I did!! and so can you!
I Thank my Father and Mother for their love and Guidance and my Girlfriend for keeping me grounded and my Brothers and Sister for keeking me in a good spot in my life.
Thanks, Not White privileged
CCH
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White privilege is not just "Growing up with money" white privilege is growing up without being attacked for the color of your skin. If you are white, you have white privilege. Having white privilege doenst mean you havent been through hardships, it just means that you havent faced those hardships because you are white.
Cannot remember when I have ever disagreed with one of your videos Cody, but I am respectfully disagreeing a wee bit with this one, which made me cry a wee bit.
There are disabled veterans, elderly folks who have paid their dues, been responsible who are between a rock and a hard place. Yes, younger folks like you and others may well be able to achieve the goals you have had. But even you noted in a past video you had help when you bought the place you just sold.
Not everyone may have family or friends who support their old fashioned ways, goals, and are unwilling to help them move to a more rural area where they can be both free and more self sustainable. They may not have ANY type of a support system.
We had always been wise and frugal. Our only child was born with serious medical issue and 1/3 of our income for years was set aside for our share of medical costs.
Then Ron was hit by an uninsured drunk driver in '90 and left 100% disabled, and I became his 23/7 caregiver for 14 years until he succumbed to the injuries.. But we sold all non essentials, downsized to an even smaller (600 square feet) place, and cut ALL expenses, No tv, no high tech stuff.
After he died it took me until last year to pay off the $250k in medical debt which was the 10% of costs our medical insurance didn't cover. Did this by using all our savings, and then 20% of what I got from Social Security each month. Did not eat out even once until last year.. Only new clothes I bought was underwear. Last vacation I had was in '89 when we went to visit family in Seattle.
Am old enough to be your mother and I am trying the best I can to stay frugal and be able to have a THOW (tiny house on wheels) sans steps, and a walk in shower, on a wee bit of land for a vegetable garden like I have where I am now in the Sierra foothills.
God's honest truth I just got a 90 day notice today, that my rent is going up $50. $50 is what I have been setting aside in savings for emergencies.
Know folks who because of COVID 19 have been living off their emergency savings and have moved into a used RV they paid cash for, since it is cheaper than the $2k rent they were paying for a small one bedroom apartment. They have been looking for land here in the Sierras, up in Oregon, Idaho, southeastern Washington, where others seeking to escape from the city are also seeking to move.
Bet land prices will be going up in your rural area if they have not done so already....
I sometimes complain about something in my life that I don't like....some people never get much of a chance to have something they want. I hope you find some peace and stability... and get a break.
I currently live in a craftsman home built in 1916. It still has most of the original features that are normally removed during renovations, such as the wide trim. It still has 2 old coal fireplaces originally used to heat the home, even if they are no longer functional (they were bricked up). It even still has the chimney to the coal-fired kitchen stove hidden behind some drywall. This house is older than any of my living relatives by a decade. Old craftsman homes really give me this fizz.
I can relate to your feelings of loving where you're at. As I'm listening, I'm looking at Miles and Miles of open country with the Wyoming range in the distance.
Same can be said of Family, we're losing the traditions and closeness of family.
Preaching to the choir here. Twelve years ago I moved my young family from a city in Alberta,[Red Deer] to a small logging village in B.C.[Nakusp]. My wife and I sacrificed a lot so our kids could grow up free to roam with clean water and air. My kids are so connected to this place and I'm sure they'll raise their kids here.
Four words: America is not collapsing.
Andy Klein, Just the Democrat Party. 🇺🇸
It most definitely is, and you’re in denial (as is the channel owner if he is “hearting” your comment).
@@anti-ethniccleansing465 sadly demoncraps are tearing it down
Anti - Ethnic Cleansing, Why do the liberal Democrats support Planned Parenthood especially in black urban neighborhoods? In Democrat controlled NYC there are more black babies aborted than born. Isn’t that Ethnic Cleansing? Somebody has gotten your head in a twist that you need to get straightened out yourself.
Yeh it is.
The only thing I have going against me is my physical disabilities now, so living outside the city is near impossible, but I always enjoy seeing wisdom passed down.
The unique smell of my small hardwood wood lot in the Midwest will always be treasured. And good luck trying to remove me from it! I understand. I’m tied to this land more than anyone may ever know. Every season has a special smell. Every tree and creek bend. Now I sound ridiculous. But I seriously understand
I JUST LAUGH BECAUSE IT WOULD BE MORE FITTING IF HE WAS JUST LYING ABOUT EVERYTHING, WHICH I ASSUME HE DOES SINCE IT IS A TOUCH OF ABSURD
I love those huge trees. I used to travel for work and the Lake Tahoe area gives me the double fizz! Mountains, trees, and cabins will one day be my home. Kids will be off to college in a few years and I'm out!
Check out Yosemite Prepper on TH-cam. He has prepping videos (I’m a fan)
The hairpiece is looking stellar today.
Those west coast guys call it a ‘rug’
He would look straight up Walter White bald.
I agree with you. But almost every State in this great Union has historical areas that the residents should learn about and enjoy. I’m an east coast city guy. We don’t have strip malls with Olive Garden and Chillis.
In a world where everyone is “special”, no one nor anything can truly be special, lest the masses become offended that they aren’t receiving that attention.
Well said and I concur
"When everyone is special, NO ONE will be!" Syndrome, "The Incredibles"
It is so weird how Hollywood can be so full of $#!†, but have truth like this in a movie.
Gifford Pinchot National Forest is prime bigfoot territory. Lots of sighting in this area.
Bigfoot hahahaaaaa just a myth
@@janinewellman1814 for thousands of years
@@janinewellman1814
It's just a myth until you see one or hear one. I saw one as a young child and was scared to tell my parents because I thought they would think I was lying.
@@janinewellman1814 ---No, those things are indeed far from a myth! Even law enforcement have reported sightings of those things!
i have been in construction my whole adult life, 55 yrs old now. in my entire career i have only read one thing in the job site porta-potty that is worth repeating. " Excuses are a poor mans way of making up for his own inadequacies"
That cabin is my kind of vacation.
My great Aunt Lula had a two story cabin with an open loft when I was a child in the fiftys and early sixtys in WEMMY. The Sandy River was at the front door. I can't begin to tell you the love and hundreds of memories I have of that area including the Ivy Bear. We would stop and visit the bear almost every time we went past. While I was in Vietnam the cabin was seized by the its. It seems my great uncle Rufus neglected to pay the taxes. I was devastated when I found out. JERRY B SEATTLE WASH.
There is no god. Don't be silly with these childish myths.
American culture isn't lacking it's just continuously evolving; we are not a mono-culture and never have been. Every region, and even different regions of each state, were settled by different people groups. As such our architecture, arts, food, dialects, and stories are all different.
Yeah if you drive down the main strip of any mid sized city you'll find the usual capitalistic interpretation of world. Go down town and you'll see a wider world. People in the Bronx are different than the people in Manhattan or Queens. You didn't find culture or traditions because you didn't put down roots in those places.
Excellent response!
Canada welcomes immigration and believes that diversity provides assets and strengths. There is a true sense to find the things that make us all the same, rather than focusing on the ways that we are different. One race...the human race!
I'm a dumb old country guy and i love this country it's worth fighting for. I believe in neighbor helping neighbor, having faith in God. I've lived out in the country most of my live and keeping things simple
A Nation exists when an area has borders, language, and culture. People exist in the border, speak the language, and live the culture. A house divided cannot stand. The reason people talk about Balkanization is because they recognize that a singular nation no longer exists.
I agree
Michael Savage of the Savage Nation Radio Broadcast coined that phrase and philosophy 👍 Borders, Language, (American)Culture!👍
Well said.
Right on. Some will disagree, but, what held us together, even though a horrible civil war, was those three things. Michael Savage wrote a book, oh, maybe 15 years ago, sharing this sentiment. If you look at any other country, low and behold, that's what we find. The "mixed" areas are where we find the most inner conflict. Look at india, china, the middle east, any nation in Africa, the fading Europe. What made each country was, as you rightly said, a common language, culture and a border.
@@drew8642 I didn't see this until I finished my comment... :) guess we listened to the same type of AM channels, lol
If you don’t like the city y don’t u move there and do ur part to help it become better
AMEN AND AMEN! Losing TRADITION creates ISOLATION...isolation disconnects us from COMMUNITY/CONNECTEDNESS... It's very sad. Blessings to you and your family. LUCRETIA
We're in very sad times, there's not one person in history that you can't find fault in. We're allowing people to destroy everything because of something that didn't even happen to them. We're being shamed out of our culture.
Where we came from....Here in Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, our culture runs deep. We are descendants of indentured parents, Scotch-Irish ruffians, looked down upon by those east of the Blue Ridge for decades that became centuries, tolerated only because we would do back breaking, laborious work providing sustenance for the self important. And now traveling I-81, many of the exits have become uncultured swaths of disconnect - franchised brands promising jobs and tax revenue first replacing culture and now the deconstructionist are seeking to bury it.
Hey David, live in Shenandoah Valley also, in Grottoes, VA. Where are you?
In my studies for my Natural Resources degree I learned that Gifford Pinchot, a personal friend of Teddy Roosevelt, was commisioned to arrange the preservation of the tract of land that encompassed what is now a national forest that bears his name. I had forgotten the huge expanse of that tract. Great video, Cody. I hope it gets wide dispersion. 🤠
Very well said. You couldn't pay me enough to live in the city. Being out in the God's country is priceless.
I'm a newfie ! And couldn't be more proud to be one .our little island is full of tradition , bayman and townies lol
Check out Yosemite Prepper on TH-cam. He has prepping videos (I’m a fan)
Like that quote (tradition).
Cheers, Mark
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Olive Garden, I call: "The Italian Denny's".
Cool your jets buttercups, my Mother and Step-Father are Italian.
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This is how native Americans felt but they got kicked off their home lands :(
"Kicked off" would make sense if the majority of them were intentionally displaced. 90% succumbed to smallpox, measles, or the flu before the second colonial ship arrived.
Jonobrother03 don’t take their agency away from them. They fought valiantly and viciously and were defeated. They may retake some holdings or they may not. These conflicts are cyclical, I believe
Native indians like Firewater
9 min and already 300 thumbs up, and 15 thumbs down The video is 8:31 seconds long... Someone didn't wait till the end. (As i thumbs up at 0:04) :-D
I agree we need to find something that calls to us and brings us together not fighting each other.
Amen. In town I feel constricted and unhappy. In the high country, my heart soars. Thanks for the additional inspiration as we seek our escape.
Hi Cody. Nice chats. Our unique culture is being replaced by the 'playa' hip hop style culture. But I do see a resurgience (spelling) in traditional value culture among a large group of 20-30 age range. Seems to be a backlash against the free for all of the late 60s and early 70s, and against those they see as worthless persons (faux character/fake personality.) Another TH-camr Alec Steele (black/Blade smith, UK now Montana) is making a Damascus Firefighter's Pulaski. He is auctioning it off when done to benefit Wildland firefighters. Didn't know if you knew.
this has been up for like 1 minute, how did 3 people put a thumbs down on it?
Seriously. Haters gonna hate.
They must work at chili’s live behind a strip mall and buy all their stuff from target.
Dumb people everywhere lol.
I gave it a thumbs down. He shits on places where large retail has replaced locally owned independent business and buys everything he can off Amazon. That's a pretty tall horse to be talking down from.
i think it is a fair feature, where the like dislike button can only appear AFTER running like > 50% of video duration
With respect to your comment on Revelation 13, we are in the era of the 8th head, the head which was and is not (Rev 17), and the beast with two horns like a lamb, the head to come (Rev 17), he was the 7th head, and deceived those who dwell on the earth (Rev 13), and his (Constantine) deception was to establish the Roman Catholic Church and their Trinity doctrine at his Council of Nicaea in 325 AD. The beast of Rev 13:3, the one "slain" and was healed from his wound, the 5th head, Julius Caesar (emperor/Kaiser), is represented in this era by the 10 horns of the 8th head of the beast, such as Mussolini, the father of fascism, and his brother Hitler, the father of Nazism, whose "black crow" policies for Jews, was derived from the democrat Roosevelt in the 30s, and whose Nazism is now imagined in Portland's Antifa movement. The "end time"/Har Mageon, comes with a great earthquake, in which all the cities will "fall", and the mountains "fall" (Rev 16:16-18). I would think that an area around a super volcano (Seattle), would not be a good place to be. The best one could do was repent and turn away from evil (abortion), and get rid of the progressive, then maybe God would repent and turn away from destroying Eastern Oregon. The fleeing progressives from Portland, will probably not find safety. Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho sit on a super volcano. That is why the 3rd of November is important. If progressives win in the election, there will be no where to run.
Cody, if these are in national parks, and you have already paid for your national parks licence/admission, surely then it would be "double dipping" to charge for the old shed?
Here in Australia, we are charged not once for all parks, but for every different park... over 46 different parks, each up to $16AU per day!
(I really admired that when I was in the US in 2011, we only needed 1 park licence for all parks).
"Never seen the triple trees, the carpenter must have had his own little creativity with that".
Cody, I think that is known as "Artistic licence"
In our "Snowy Mountain" national park & other places where it can get extremely cold outside, we have really old shacks like this, usually heritage listed free for use (some are for emergency situations only),
sometimes with a chained donation lockbox in the place.
If you have read this message, and gotten this far, I really admired the secret house tour.
I love Mrs. W's colour scheme, that particular green she chose really cannot be seen for the true beauty on the mobile or on my 4K smart TV.
You really did deserve the holiday that you gave to yourself and your family, the little one is growing so fast!
I hope you can get enough wood together for this coming winter.
I am in Australia and we have just gone into spring.
God bless you and your family.
Take care, look after your back, from an Australian "East Coast guy" 👍
I live in the Missouri Ozarks, moved away from Chicago, a cold climate and culture. Love living isolated in the country....
That is a very cool setting... I could live there... Thanks for sharing the splendor of your world, its beautiful!!!
“A place that speaks to me.”’ Wow, well said sir. I’m a west coaster stuck on the east coast and boy I never feel like I belong here. When I travel home (parents home, my old home)…man everything just clicks for me! But, to say big cities don’t have culture is absolutely incorrect. It’s not that they don’t have culture, it’s a different culture from what your comfortable with. Big cites provide opportunities to meet different people, to expose yourself to different foods and experiences. It opens you up to different views and often bolsters ones empathy. Boy, what would it be like if we all stayed in the same place our whole lives? Comfortable…yea, but I’m not on this planet for comfort. I’m here to experience (in so many different and wonderful ways). Just my opinion.
I felt like you were talking directly to me when you said, "Excuses, excuses, excuses."
I'm comfortable where I'm at. I make up excuses as well. But like I said I'm comfortable 🤓
Sad thing is that the family unit has been so attacked and broken down, that many don't have people to have traditions with :( this is why a healthy body of Christ is so important, we are to be that family and home for those who don't have it...
So true about living in the country, at least for me. I lived in Seattle, Centralia, Aberdeen, Yakima, Bellingham and even Mexico, but I find living in the country for 27 years so much better than living in any city. I worked in the woods for about 10 years and even though I am to the point that I can hardly do any physical work, and have not worked in the woods since 1992, I still take drives on the logging roads to this day ( unfortunately, now most private lands owned by the large timber companies are closed ). God wants all of us to have our own piece land . Ezekiel 28:26.... '' And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence, when I have executed judgments upon all those that despise them round about them; and they shall know that I am the LORD their God.'' Sounds like country living to me. There is nothing like taking the time to see God's marvelous creations, how all things in nature rely on one another to survive. For the most part, you can only see these things living in the country.
Nice little tour. Thank you.
I agree with the root of your message; however, to many the big city is the environment that speaks to them. It is not to me and apparently not to you, but we cannot/should not dismiss the concept that culture does speak to others.
I do not agree that America is collapsing, change and collapse are different.
Having said that, if America I collapsing it is most likely due to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Socialist Democrats, and a few preachy people. God save us from them.
Again, thank your sharing a view of a beautiful part of our country.
We are refugees from CA. We have found the place that speaks to us, Alaska! I get what you’re saying. However, it is snow machine, not snowmobile. 😎😂😂 It’s an Alaskan thing.
Love the channel. Been a huge fan for years. We don’t always agree politically. But you do realize people of color don’t necessarily have that history with our country? Absolutely love the Gospel, but Paul had no concept of this country when he wrote Timothy so long ago. Americana and the Gospel don’t mix.
"Move to a smaller house". Good luck with finding a spot, hopefully it's smaller than where you are. You aren't probably worthy of having a spot you've been living in. God bless.
I agree with what you have said . We have to protect our land and the way of life. I love this country and I am willing to fight for it. GOD BLESS AMERICA FREEDOM
Can't quite agree with the premise in the video description "... the reason America is collapsing is a lack of unique culture and tradition".
There's a rather unique American cultural mythology that has been cultivated in public education, art, print, media, and officialdom. It's about American exceptionalism, embracing manifest destiny, enterprising individualism, The American Dream, etc. Calling it a mythology doesn't mean it's a complete fabrication. Rather that it's based on real exemplary individual and collective actions at various places and times, embellished and generalized to apply to a corporate soul of the nation and its successive generations of individuals, families, and institutions.
Where to question the reality and current state of such a culture is in that generalization, practice, and adherence by the current populace. And, is the arc of history leading to a future where that cultural mythology has any practical reality.
The writing on the wall, so to speak, that a culture replacement or morphology is occurring. The values once associated with that American exceptionalism have been gradually disappearing being subsumed in a utilitarian "progress and empire at any cost" ethos coupled with a fragmented induction of socialism on many fronts of the society. And that's not just a recent trend although it seems to be accelerating in the most recent one or two generations.
The endeavors of Cody and family as documented on Wranglestar are a great example of trying to recover and adhere to a lifestyle more in tune with exemplary lives and times of a past that is becoming less known to current and future generations.
This monotony of Olive Garden and Target, etc. is more typical of the suburbs. Big cities have thing like museums and interesting architecture. This notion that everyone should want what you want is annoying. Also, if the people of Seattle and Portland all headed out to your forest, it would probably get pretty crowded out there.
Great amazing cabin ! Very wise words ! 100% why I love it here in New England ! Getting outside in mother nature seeing all her beauty ! Showing my Son what is truly important ! This is a great country we live in so much to see .... I watch this video with him he say wow dad just like what we have seen in NH , VT and ME
America Is Collapsing not really it's imploding.......Sad to see all the trees cut down as you were driving to the cabin... My dream was to have a log lodge in the middle of 100 - 200 acres with a small creek flowing near with a water fall... Sorry to say it will forever be a dream...
What’s not to love about the Gifford Pinchot National Forest? It’s awesome. I hear what you’re saying about that connection with the trees, the humidity, and such. We live in a truly wonderful part of the world. $50/night for that cabin is a steal.
Hmmm, Gifford Pinchot. East coast fellow. PA governor. Father of modern forestry, in PA I might add. PA is littered with the wonder and history he brought to the wild areas of our state. Did I mention...East Coast Boy?
So, let's all move to the forests and mountains. Will we all fit? How much of our current "necessities" will we have to give up? Think of all the things (not people) that you value. Where do they come from. Could their production continue? Entertainment? Government? Military?
Ya know, I've always understood why our country needs the power and leverage of corporations to build submarines, and skyscrapers, etc. But never understood why we need them to flip hamburgers, bake pizzas or sell groceries at the corner store. Just say'n.
I did just what you said, 3-1/2 months ago; I bought a house; a house that looks like a lodge, wood stove, 1.5 acres and lots of trees....i love it. It'll be a work in progress but worth it. Great video Cody.
As a truck driver i get what you are saying. As i drove thru many different cities they all began to look the same. We called it anywhere U.S.A. I tried to get away from the beaten path by using state highways instead of interstates all the time. I was able to see the beauty in each state and get a feel for the different cultures across this beautiful country. Im retired now. 36 years was enough for me. But I do cherish the sights and sounds and smells of the different places I traveled thru. I know you dont think very highly of east coasters but there is beauty from Maine to Cali and from Spokane to Miami
I hope to cross paths some day and if God willing we will. So YOU keep us in your prayers and I will you. God bless.
Absolutely agree 100%! I was born in 73 and I remember all the traditions of my childhood and what a great time to be a child! Nowadays everything is so commercialized, life is to fast paced and hectic and schools don't teach children that traditionally patriotism for our country. I look at my 20 year old daughters generation and see they really don't know what it really means to be American and have pride in your country! Its a shame!
Excellent video. Thanks. Just got back from a week communing with nature at Table Rock Lake Missouri. We make it a point to eat at small family owned restaurants . That's one of the ways you keep the Spirit of America alive.
Beautiful, and priceless setting! Maybe a few similar on your commercial property? Building one teaches lots of skills, and latter to be used as housing for workshop attendees! Food for thought! Love going along on your journey.
It's a tad more complex than Chilis and Olive Gardens invading your town, but if that's your level of commitment to understanding the dynamics of an evergreen process of self governance then stick with that, it's your story, you tell it.
Those screws in the firewood box are spiderdrive lag screws. Super high corrosion resistance. Great for marine environments, but they’re about $0.50 a piece so I’m not sure why they would’ve used them here.
Incredible the you can earnestly upload a video labeled "my new house" and then immediately upload a video "america collapsing".... sure ain't collapsing for you eh?
The place where I grew up was forests and lakes and wide open spaces. Now it's golf courses, gated communities and million dollar McMansions, Walmart and Home Depot.
Cody, I would rent this cool tool shed turned into a wood cabin with all the beautiful trees and the wood burning stove in a heartbeat and come out for a visit with you and your family if I was invited or out to the new community land with all the other subscribers who are like minded folks who support your channel. Your meaningful comments about folks who could move out to a wonderful place to raise their family. My husband has to have special care for all his medical needs wouldn’t work especially with different members of the family who have a say in where he can live. It’s very expensive for my husband and I. I really thought that if you served your country for 20 years that medical care would be taken care of but it’s not the case here. At least not until all our resources are deminished down to only our own home. I hope this comment is not to jumbled to understand what I am trying to convey. Please pray for God’s will with my family but especially for my husband.
It seems that the concentration of just about anything, over a long period of time, is bad. Too much of a good thing, can be and often is bad. Wealth, power, sugar, fat, and Applebee’s. All must be applied in moderation.
Thank you . Pleasure to view. Respect. Your a good man. Regards Gareth Wiltshire UK. Gratitude. Quality.
4:54 those are HeadLOK spider drive screws. They will certainly, as you say "Give you the fizz". They're brutally strong.
You must have that homing pigeon syndrome that inflicts those that have grounded placing. I have Jackson State Demonstration Forest as my backyard and Mendocino National Forest as my front yard, we celebrate our community uniqueness on the 4th of July with many who travel home to attend our now 93rd consecutive rodeo with all year highschool reunion and a community spirit that has built a state of the art hospital and continues to see a community togetherness despite a now migration of 5 finger Mary money mongers that see this as a often hokie tradition and the activities we enjoy as old antiquated lifestyle as the new big thing.
Couldn't agree more. Every exit from the Interstate looks the same. When we would take trips; a good bit of the excitement was just to see the different cultures, buildings, etc. Much has been lost.
You always bag on us East coast guys, I may be a coastal Newenglander here in Newport RI and I make a living as a restoration carpenter... but my family has always vacationed up north, my grandparents built a camp in fryberg Maine . I still go north to vacation, and am looking to move that way... any how the north east is much like your north west ... well with out the protesters
The more urbanized a country gets a more out of touch the people end up with what lives all about I know in my country in the city's house blocks have went from 1/4acre to just having enough room to fit the house and that's it that's not living you may as well go live in a flat. That lifestyle you are not living your just existing to go to work sleep vegitate inside the house and we wonder why we have men who can't even change a battery in there car it's a bad joke. People in the city's wouldn't know what living all about like the people out in the country and they never will unfortunately.