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We are socially conditioned. The conditioning I refer to is about conflict, violence and violent conflict. That distinct human form of communications, i.e., what the social survival groups we gravitate toward use to establish status, hierarchy and the rules, etc., necessary for that group or tribes survival. It appears to me that groups of folks who were educated by various media such as television, movies and now the socially driven monkey governed media that uses phones to frame certain agenda’s and so on.
“Almost all of society is set up to perpetually brainwash them so that they never remember their own power.” - Rory Miller, Chiron Blog “Convergence dtd Thursday, May 21, 2015
As I understand tho, there are many groups in the world that still understand our human nature in this regard and still govern accordingly. Not the news media dominant ones we are currently conducting violent actions with such as Iraq and/or Afghanistan, etc. but ones that are not exactly on our rader - at least not yet but who knows when their way will inflame our senses or scare the piss out of us.
In a recent article I read it was explained, and I accept, that it is not all that hard physically to do others damage or even kill them but it is about that social conditioning from our society that stops conflict and violence at all levels or at least tries to discourage what society perceives as unacceptable forms of conflict and violence. It is all a matter of perspective according to knowledge + experience = understanding of such complex issues, etc.
How do we bridge that gap so that we can apply appropriate physical actions in self-defense, especially in the preferred model of gaining a preferred and safer distance and orientation from a duel type model along with all the adrenal charged stress conditions, i.e., chemical dump with its emotional monkey driven parts?
Most martial arts systems of self-defense fail to address, as I have posted many times, those issues necessary to actually and properly teach self-defense. In addition to all that has previously been written here there are a few other issues to address, thanks to Rory Miller for pointing them out, such as how we drill self-defense techniques, i.e., making the “Attacks to be attacks with speed, commitment, intent, strong, etc. (for more read his latest, Convergence here: http://chirontraining.blogspot.com/2015/05/convergence.html )
It is not about just “Fighting very hard,” but far more, more than what is taught in self-defense martial arts - mostly. The good thing is that this kind of stuff is getting out there and influencing how things are done. At least in my mind for those who are not just giving lip service to learning self-defense for ego esteem boosting reasons but for real life applications. This is exciting stuff.
Read Rory Miller’s post/article, I found many parts extremely relevant to self-defense in martial arts training.
Bibliography:
Miller, Rory. “Convergence.” Chiron Blog. Thursday, May 21, 2015: http://chirontraining.blogspot.com/2015/05/convergence.html
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