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Thomas Jefferson Farnham, a New England attorney, wrote in the 1840s, “In a word, the Californians are an imbecile, pusillanimous, race of men, and unfit to control the destinies of that beautiful country” (Weber, 295).
Hartley is also aware of the issue, and he includes imbecile with the comment: “A common term of contempt in gaol, used particularly of the warders.”
Throughout the individual is given his due, experience seen as a sort of leveler: There is no tree the wind has not shaken; He whose hands are in water is not like him whose hands are in fire; or, taken a stage further, An imbecile can manage his own affairs better than a wise man the affairs of other people.
It was the main conceit in Anderson's first film, Hard Eight , a neo-noir set in Reno, Nev., about an ex-mobster who takes on an imbecile protégé and loves him like a son.