Honor and Dignity and Self-defense

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Social conditioning seems to be pushing society, ours anyway, toward a more “Dignity based” culture where dependence on “Others” to handle our conflict and violence is dominant. I say this with trepidation because I feel that leaning too far toward such a culture is a lead up toward chaos and oppression. In truth as I hope I understand it, we need to create a society that is balance in an “Honor Culture” with a “Dignity Culture.” In order to understand that a bit more it is beneficial to read the following article by Ronald Bailey dated September 11, 2015 at 1:30 pm at reason.com

You can read the article here: “Victimhood Culture in America: Beyond Honor and Dignity”

Since the article goes into the honor culture as well as the dignity culture I won’t try to express any personal views on the subject other than what I have already, i.e., trying to find a balanced culture of Honor and Dignity.

The article makes some excellent and what I see as relevant statements as to how we are becoming a heavy proponent of the Dignity culture, i.e., where we condition our society to depend on others rather than develop our own coping skills and those skills necessary to resolve those things that lead to conflict and violence.

In my view one of the tools necessary to achieve a true balance is the use of violence as a communications tool as well as an enforcement tool. Don’t mistake the use of the term violence as they types you often see glamorized and dramatized in the media, that is only one kind and there are many levels from merely using verbal violence all the way up to what is called, “EBD or Educational Beat Down” versions and so many variants between and even some that exceed the EBD. 

Only through education, training and most importantly, “Understanding,” will society develop the balances that will leave the so termed, “Victimhood Culture,” the authors tell us about in the article. 

I welcome comments and suggestions on this viewpoint, both mine and the articles, because it will promote such understanding toward a more balance social order that promotes our personal ability to resolve issues and helps us become more confident in handling such issues will less and less dependence on “Others.” 

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As to self-defense aspects, one can achieve greater ability and understanding on some of these concepts through, “Appropriate,” training, practice and applications of a fuller comprehensive models of self-defense and martial arts self-defense. This is most difficult but remember an important part of self-defense is the ability to communicate in conflict, i.e., called, “Conflict Communications.” (See Rory Miller’s book of the same title)

p.s. thanks to Marc MacYoung for presenting this article, the one linked above about Victimhood, on his Facebook page/wall.