A Message to Garcia

Today in human Geography class we talked about “A Message to Garcia.” This story is about how President McKinley wrote a letter to be given to a General named Garcia, whom at the time was very hard to find. President McKinley was told of a man named Rowan, this man would go on to complete the task for the president without even asking where Garcia was.  In the rest of the story the author talked about how no one is like Rowan, so willing to do the job without asking how or why, this story should tell us that if someone is told to do a job or task, they should do what Rowan did and they should not be questioning the person who gave them the order. The author also continued to explain that when he was a child there were more people like Rowan, willing to do their jobs, but nowadays there aren’t so many people like Rowan, we have gone downhill and people have become lazy. So how are we supposed to work together if we can’t even do our individual jobs ourselves? If we don’t do our jobs right then we will get fired- survival of the fittest/ culling of the herd-to weed out the slow and less able. We talked a lot about how the culling of the herd can refer to animals as well as humans, like deer can either move when they hear a hunter or they stay and get shot, the more focused and determined you are the better. Humans have evolved from the earlier forms of life; we are more adapted to the world that we live in now, but we all need to be more like Rowan.