BEING DOG WALKED? HOW TO KNOW

What’s it mean to be dog walked?

 

“Time to get the leash. The slang dog walk is “to overpower” or “outsmart” someone, as if in utter control of them, as when walking a dog.”

 

When does it happen?

There are clues, such as:

Knowing the difference between right and wrong and agreeing with wrong because the current culture agrees with wrong and you are more than happy it provides you with direction in your life.

But, you say, anyone making any reference to ‘current culture’ is an attempt to dog walk you with fancy words.

BoomerPdx is fancy? Noooo, but?

Current culture defined for the non-fancy because I’ll take a stretch and explain without looking anything up, which is baby boomer blogger magic:

Current culture is how the mainstream of a people from a nation, a state, a city, or town, do things specific to them.

Take food and eating said food.

Some people eat pizza with a fork and knife.

Some people refuse to eat food in a moving car. Weird, I know.

Our visiting English cousin from Cambridge wasn’t a fan of food on the run and said he needed to stop to eat.

I interpreted his request as a vomit warning. It wasn’t.

Eating in the car just felt too uncivilized.

As a considerate American I did as asked, lost my place on the freeway, and wasted another half hour on forced civility at a Nevada rest stop.

The truth is, it wasn’t as bad as I expected.

In fact, it felt virtuous giving a foreigner enough room to be themselves.

It’s not like I was getting dog walked to conform to another culture?

 

My Youthful Experience In Common Culture

Mom and Dad G had a habit of taking their kids to visit their parents, our grandparents.

My Mom’s side was small town central Oregon, Bend in the boom time of logging.

Grandpa was a logger with such a refined skillset that he taught timber falling at the local community college.

Grandma was a civic minded six foot tall woman in local politics.

Some called her a force of nature. Hurricane Florence.

My Dad’s side wasn’t off the grid, but close.

They had rust-colored well water and outdoor plumbing.

An outhouse near the backdoor made going to the bathroom an adventure.

When using an outhouse, lift the toilet cover and let it slam down to dislodge any spiders.

Your welcome.

 

Grandma G: You’re raising your kids too soft.

Dad: Soft?

Grandma G: They complain about the water, about the milk on their cereal.

Dad: Mom, the milk is curdled and the water tastes like rust.

Grandma G: Now I know why they are soft. Well, the milk isn’t that curdled, and it’s the same water we’ve been using all along.

 

We were too soft for the current culture.

 

My Current Culture Experience, Maybe Your’s Too

When you rise to a position of leadership, you need to assume certain responsibilities.

Put aside your personal peeves and step up for those who need a voice to be heard.

A cultural leader like an activist, a religious leader, a civic leader, all need to represent those who tune into their message.

Things get convoluted when the messaging and images harken back to dark days in bad times with sketchy uniforms and costumes worn in public.

Instead of wrapping myself in my coffin cover flag and assert my right to stuff my face while hurtling down the highway, I listened to a new idea and pulled over for others.

My Grandpa knew how to fell trees safely and not kill himself or others in the process, and passed that knowledge along to a new generation of loggers.

Grandma loved sitting in with the movers and shakers of her town and rise to being an equal.

She knew she was an equal before she started and everyone else woke up before she stopped.

You and I, as American citizens, know the drill. 

Others, many others, too many others, are letting themselves be dog walked away from the idea of America.

If a man or woman doesn’t like the way something is portrayed in the historical record?

Ignore it.

If a man in power isn’t happy with how history is portrayed?

Delete it.

Dog walking is for dogs, not you.

Who’s a good boy.

PS: Roll over?

Or,

PSS: Stand guard?