April 10, 2022
I’ve been watching this TV show called Yellowstone with my family, and it’s a good drama, but it also poses a couple of great questions.
Questions it poses:
- What is family supposed to be?
- Can you really “get away” from things?
- What does it take to amass and keep power?
- What does it take to keep something that everyone wants, and what makes it worth-it?
- How far is too far?
The main premise of the show is that there is a family, the Duttons, who own a crazy amount of land up in Montana. Amidst a ton of family drama, they’re trying to keep their land from all of the people that want it.
They do questionable things, get involved in too much, and are willing to go to the end to maintain their “security.”
Now, it’s the American’s right to have and keep his property. I don’t have an issue with that.
The real issue is the question of — how far are you willing to go.
There’s one character, my favorite character, who walked away from his family to raise a family. Then he’s looped back in (because it’s a drama…of course). The whole first season, though, all he tries to do is the right thing.
And the world keeps giving him the shaft.
It’s almost asking him “how much can you take?”
This is the main question on my mind —
How far would I be willing to go to maintain my beliefs?
If I say “to the end” like I hope that I would, then those beliefs need to be like concrete.
That’s what I’m working on right now.
I need to decide what should be concrete and why, and then I need to lay and set the foundation so if and when life comes to ask me, I’m ready to respond.