OR KILL ME!! - Principia Discordia

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Millions of Screaming Yahoos #15:
Wyatt Earp
The common wisdom is that Wyatt Earp and his brothers were
the good guys, and the Cowboys were the local criminals. The
story we all heard as children was that the Earps and Doc
Holliday - an infamous killer - came into tombstone, and
cleaned it up...killing or driving off the organized crime gang,
the Cowboys (led by the Clanton family). As with most legends,
the truth is somewhat different.
The reality is this: Wyatt Earp was a gambler and a pimp, and
the fight was actually a turf war between two competing gangs,
over the riches to be gained by fleecing the miners and the
cattlehands. Oh, and the truth about Doc Holliday? It seems
that his legend was self-created. In his lifetime, he killed a
grand total of three men, and all of them within a two week
period.
The Earps were a family chasing the American Dream...that
nightmare of "money for nothing", and constant oneupmanship,
even unto death. They all died young, except for
Wyatt, who wiped out the entire Clanton family before the feud
was over, and died wealthy in bed in the 1920s.
It's easy to sympathize with Wyatt, when you are in a situation
like mine...and not much has changed since the horrible times
of 1881-82. Many of us still openly wear guns (AZ is the most
gun-friendly state in the union), and dead bodies still regularly
appear on the streets in the morning...stabbed, shot, or OD'd on
Meth.
Tucson is all the worst parts of America, in microcosm...subhuman
dogmen prowl the streets, watching each other for signs
of weakness, always with their eye on the main chance.
or kill me