Material for a song… maybe

Well, I have an alternative view of Toby Keith’s lyrics in “it’s the American Way”. It has always rubbed me the wrong way because it is presenting something as American which is actually quite un-American. I sent him the following material about a month ago in hopes he would see the light regarding this. Yes, it was probably a long shot that his reason could be appealed to, but I think it was best to bring it to his attention first. I am now submitting the same material to one of the most prolific and original songwriters I can think of in hopes that something closer to the truth may be written as a more analytical response.

Mr. Toby Keith,
I am hoping to convince you that “Putting a boot in your ass” is not the American way—quite to the contrary it is the way of a common enemy of mankind. This enemy was well represented in the ranks of the Tories that we revolted against, they love slavery and were certainly in the ante-bellum slave South and they probably instigated what happened in both Japan and Germany in the 1930s.
Not long ago, and still continuing today, but in a place far, far away exists a slave civilization that is the home of this enemy. There is no OSHA there. Since workers there have no rights there is much greater leeway for the work supervisors (slave overseers) to take measures into their own hands (or feet) to increase production. If you ask what a supervisor with no conscience could do to cause those supervised to work harder and faster, the obvious answer is pain or the threat of pain. The more pain, the more response. The problem with pain, though, is that it normally accompanies bodily injury and such injury would normally cut across the ability of the body to function. Ideally a slave master would want to inflict a high degree of pain but not cut across the ability to be productive. How to do this? For inflicting pain it is hard to beat breaking a bone, then applying a force to the broken bone. I’ve experienced this myself, and I can tell you I would be surprised if there were a person found who would not scream in that situation. If you look at a skeleton you will see only one bone of the body that allows the body full functionality to work if it is broken—that is the tailbone. Its only function is to provide support when sitting. It does not impair any other functionality in the slightest way. With a broken tailbone you can run, you can jump, you can lift, you can use your hands, but—if you have ever had the experience of having a broken tailbone hit or kicked (or just drop down into a chair on top of it before you realize it is broken) you would scream in pain, and you would probably do a lot to avoid having that experience repeated. You would probably be willing to do a lot in the workplace that OSHA would object to in order to avoid a repetition of that experience.
Well, that slave civilization is still going on and periodically “drops off” some of its unwanted former citizens who carry with them usually many, many lifetimes worth of the “butt-kicking” work experience. These souls will commonly associate increased group causation or increased production with “butt kicking”. They also commonly associate it with establishing a ranking order among individuals, since this slave civilization is very heavily based on a non-volitional hierarchical ranking system of the individuals of the population, and of course every “butt-kicking” incident is establishing the idea of “I’m the boss—you the slave” in the mind of the kickee.
The enemy that I referred to earlier are not these souls who are dropped off (although they can become enemies of mankind), but the local agents of the remote civilization who, I suppose, are posted to what they would consider a “personnel dump” , but we consider our home—Earth. This might be something like an FBI agent being posted to Alaska. It is probably not a plum posting.
Not everyone on Earth is from this slave civilization. I estimate that between 30-40% of males are in this category, but I could be off a little. Unfortunately those of this minority are a liability to be influenced by the local representatives of their former slave masters on a non-volitional basis to some degree from time to time if they are not careful to live ethically and maintain analytical, volitional control of their minds and actions.
Here is an alternative “American Way”. Freedom is the ability and opportunity to use the mind to come up with the right answer and put that answer into effect. If you are not free to think and act for yourself then what is the point of freedom? People who only want to follow the herd do not need freedom. Someone seeing the film of the Twin Towers and reading subsequent newspaper articles should have wondered:
1) If the second tower was hit 10 minutes later, and the plane did not hit it head on as it had the first tower so that much of the fuel spilled outside the building, and it was constructed identically to the first building, then why did it fall first?
2) Why was molten metal reported in many newspapers as found to be present in the wreckage of the Towers as it was being cleaned up, WEEKS after Sept. 11th?
3) If the Twin Towers came down from the two planes alone, then it was due to the heat of jet fuel, which burns at less that 2000F. Steel will not melt at that temperature. So it would never have become molten, AND IT WOULD NOT HAVE CAUSED MOLTEN METAL TO BE FOUND WEEKS LATER IN THE WRECKAGE.
4) What DOES melt steel is Thermite. It is used in demolitions of buildings. Imagine something that can go from ambient temperature to OVER 12,000F IN A SPLIT SECOND! That is what thermite does. It goes to something between 7000C and 8000C in a SPLIT SECOND! That is what melts the support columns in building that are being demolished. They apply it to the side of the steel column and angle it downward and inward. Then when it flashes off the column instantly becomes two solid pieces that slide against each other – downward and inward.

R Laird,
Colorado