Spiritual Enlightenment, Competition, and the One-Way Street of Violence
Note: Another one from 2006, so the argument is rough-hewn. I make the same points better, later—but this stands as a hopefully interesting artifact showing the genesis of my thought process. Violence and How It Relates to Its Social Children: Martial Arts and Combat Sports Violence is eons older than polite society. It […]
Filthy Lies
Every now and again something gets stuck in my craw, jammed in there so tight that the only things that are going to get it out are a tire iron and a liberal dose of bile. Here’s some of both for three things that got stuck in there recently—lies I hear people tell themselves, and […]
All the Reasons Why You Can’t
No sane person wants to be involved in violence. If you did, all you’d have to do is run outside and punch the first person you saw in the neck as hard as you could. Getting involved in a violent act is easy—the fact that you don’t go looking for it is a testament to […]