Social Conditions

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Modern social conditions and that resulting conditioning of our species is reaching critical mass. Our modern society is being driven toward two conditions that if not restrained or even reversed will spell the doom of said society.

• One, we are creating a social condition that is becoming too complicated for our species to understand.
• Two, there are those in our society that are willing to take advantage of these conditions to distort it for fun and profit.

It is a fact that our species is great and our brains capable of many wonderful and extraordinary things but it has its limitations. It is why we have traits like our biases because when our brains, our minds, become confused we default to those biases so that we can simplify, especially stressful, things enough to understand. Mostly that works for us as a species because when it comes down to it all we have to do is two things, i.e., “Survive and Procreate.” 

Now, since my writing in this venue is about survival through martial arts, karate and for self-defense we have a dual issue that makes us resort to our biases to get-r-done and often with results of not so nice repercussions due to the distortions promulgated by the very industry who are more than willing to distort things and manipulate things for profit. 

• First, we make the requirements of training, practice and application way too complicated in our credential oriented school type testing and certifications that also build on the complexities of validations toward rankings, levels and perceived uses of the very disciplines taught. 

• Second, we also work hard to provide a perception of simplification by using meme’s that promote a one stop shopping this will always meet your self-defense needs symbolized by another complexity of warrior-like attitudes and efforts that in the end if use indiscriminately as advertised will ‘get you locked up, gravely damaged or even killed’ and that is not good. 

This issue of violence and defense is complicated and the program to avoid or defend is also complex and the training and practices to meet the requirements are complicated so the simplistic answers sold in the industry are not adequate but we can still work diligently - over time and with patience - to achieve a social and personal conditioning that embraces the very complexities that will let us avoid or deescalate or utilize the appropriate accepted defensive requirements to stay within the social laws, requirements and conditions that are self-defense. 

The simplest method is to create a social condition and conditioning that will foster, promote and validate an ability that will naturally handle the very nature of the human condition that is our natural inclination of survival and procreation in spite of human conflicts and possible violences. 

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