Kwai Chang Caine Re-Imagined

[Michigan Swamp Buck]

First off, the show bored the hell out of me until Kwai Chang beat the hell out of the ignorant cowboys and racist bigots. It was true for me then, even more so now. Even as a kid, I felt he should have done more than self-defense and laid in with a few extra blows or special moves to teach them a good lesson they'd understand.

That wouldn't work from either a practical or a philosophical standpoint. You can beat a man into knowledge, but you can't beat a man into intelligence. That would be like trying to beat the spots off of a leopard.

So, such a beating would only "teach a lesson" of how to better hide it, not a lesson in thinking from a higher vantage point. In other words, you'd just teach them to be sneakier about it, and that would get passed on to their offspring.

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I was thinking more along the lines of how the white ignorant bigot settlers and cowboys were used to a good ass whooping when they got out of line. So they expected to go to the woodshed for a strapping when they didn't listen and follow the rules. That was how they learned 'em back then in the Old West. Of course you had a good lynching if they didn't get learnt. So I'm saying they were conditioned to pay attention only after they got what fer.

I'm not suggesting that Caine could actually beat them into a higher state of consciousness and have them become enlightened beings. Although, now that I think of it . . .

Pound them not just into submission, but all the way to Nirvana. I like that line of thinking, that Kwai Chang Caine had become a master to the point of using martial arts to the highest degree of beating the sense into someone.

Kwai Chang Paine! This is starting to get good, thanks!