--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "do.rflex" <do.rf...@...> wrote: > > For example, Chuck Norris, the preeminent black belt and > prospective Red Shirt, wrote earlier this month on the > conservative blog WorldNetDaily: "How much more will > Americans take? When will enough be enough? And, when > that time comes, will our leaders finally listen or will > history need to record a second American Revolution?"
Here's an interesting tidbit about Chuck Norris, for those who care. Way back in the Sixties, in my first no-contact karate contest, I lost the luck of the draw and wound up fighting Chuck Norris. I was a mere brown belt and he was on his way to his first World Championship; he whupped my ass good. But in that contest I caught a glimpse of what would later turn into his secret ultra-conserva- tism and what underlies it. One of his students in that contest was, in my opinion, better than Chuck was. There was no doubt in my mind that the younger student would have won, had he gone ahead to fight Chuck for the title. But he didn't. And the *reason* he didn't is that Chuck had a rule in his dojo that said that no lower-belt student in his karate school could ever fight a higher-belt student in a public contest. So the younger guy just bowed to Chuck and conceded the contest he should have won. THAT is conservatism. The artificial preservation of the status quo, with the people at the top *staying* at the top, enforced by "rules" that ensure that they stay there, regardless of merit. Later in life, that student grew tired of Chuck's endless bullshit in the dojo and left and formed his own. He was the person who took Chuck's World Championship away from him. When it happened, all of Chuck's students, both past and present, cheered. There is a lesson of some sort in this, one that spiritual teachers and pretend-kings should learn.
