Oh Shit ... nobody can ever trust me ... had a rough and tumble phase!!! On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 5:40 PM, Travis <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > > > > > > > > > http://takimag.com/article/never_trust_anyone_who_hasnt_been > _punched_in_the_face/print#axzz4llz909QnNever Never Trust Anyone Who > Hasn’t Been Punched in the Face > <http://takimag.com/article/never_trust_anyone_who_hasnt_been_punched_in_the_face> > > by Scott Locklin <http://takimag.com/contributor/ScottLocklin/161> [image: > Description: http://takimag.com/images/global/feed-32x32.png] > <http://takimag.com/contributors/contributor_feed/ScottLocklin/> > > September 07, 2011 > > > > [image: Description: Never Trust Anyone Who Hasn’t Been Punched in the > Face] > > Conservatives like to talk about the causes of Western Civilization’s > downfall: feminism, loose morality, drug abuse, Christianity’s decline, > reality TV. Blaming civilization’s downfall on lardy hagfish such as Andrea > Dworkin is like a doctor diagnosing senility by an old person’s wrinkles. > The fact that anyone listened to such a numskull is a symptom, not the > cause, of a culture in decline. The cause of civilizational decline is > dirt-simple: lack of contact with objective reality. The great > banker-journalist (and founder of the original *National Review*) Walter > Bagehot said it well almost 150 years ago: > > *History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little > progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have > thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the > world gave a chance for it.* > > Every great civilization reaches a point of prosperity where it is > possible to live your entire life as a pacifist without any serious > consequences. Many civilizations have come to the state of devolution > represented by *modern Berkeley folkways* > <http://takimag.com/article/the_dawn_of_decadence>, from wife-swapping to > vegetarianism. These ideas don’t come from a hardscrabble existence in > contact with nature’s elemental forces; they are the inevitable consequence > of being an effete urban twit removed from meaningful contact with reality. > The over-civilized will try to portray their decadence as something “highly > evolved” and worthy of emulation because it can only exist in the hothouse > of highly civilized urban centers, much like influenza epidemics. Somehow > these twittering blockheads missed out on what the word “evolution” means. > Evolution involves brutal and often violent natural selection, and these > people have not been exposed to brutal evolutionary forces any more than a > typical urban poodle. > > “I think there is a certain worldview that comes from violent experience. > It’s something like…manhood.” > > Through human history, vigorous civilizations had various ways of dealing > with the unfortunate human tendency toward being a weak ninny. The South > Koreans (for my money, the hardest men in Asia today) have *brutally > tough* > <http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/31/world/asia/31marines.html?pagewanted=all> > military training as a rite of passage. I’ve been told that the Soviet > system had students picking potatoes during national holidays. The ancient > Greeks used *competitive sports* > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Olympic_games> and constant > warfare. The Anglo-American working classes, the last large virtuous group > of people left in these countries, use bullying, violent sports, > fisticuffs, and hard living. > > I think there is a certain worldview that comes from violent experience. > It’s something like…manhood. You don’t have to be the world’s greatest > badass to be a man, but you have to be willing to throw down when the time > is right. > > A man who has been in a fight or played violent sports has experienced > more of life and manhood than a man who hasn’t. Fisticuffs, wrestling > matches, knife fights, violent sport, duels with baseball bats, facing down > guns, or getting crushed in the football field—men who have had these > experiences are different from men who have not. Men who have trained for > or experienced such encounters know about bravery and mental fortitude from > firsthand experience. Men who have been tested physically know that > inequality is a physical fact. Men who know how to deal out violence know > that radical feminism’s tenets—that women and men are equal—are a lie. We > know that women are not the same as men: not physically, mentally, or in > terms of moral character. > > Men who have fought know how difficult it is to stand against the crowd > and that civilization is fragile and important. A man who has experienced > violence knows that, at its core, civilization is an agreement between men > to behave well. That agreement can be broken at any moment; it’s part of > manhood to be ready when it is. Men who have been in fights know about > something that is rarely spoken of without snickering these days: *honor* > <http://www.alternativeright.com/main/blogs/virtus/what-happened-to-honor/>. > Men who have been in fights know that, on some level, words are just words: > At some point, words must be backed up by deeds. > > Above all, men who have been in fights know that there is nothing good or > noble about being a victim. This is a concept the modern “conservative > movement,” mostly run by wimps, has lost, probably irrevocably. They’re > forever tugging at my heartstrings, from No Child Left Behind to Israel’s > plight to *MLK* > <http://www.alternativeright.com/main/blogs/untimely-observations/the-patron-saint-of-white-guilt/>’s > wonders to whining that the media doesn’t play fair to the overwrought > emotional appeals they use to justify dropping bombs on Muslims. The > Republicans are even taking seriously a pure victim-candidate: Michelle > Bachman. As far as can be told, she’s a middle-American Barack Obama with > boobs and a slightly loopier world view. > > Modern “civilized” males don’t get in fistfights. They don’t play violent > sports. They play video games and, at best, watch TV sports. Modern males > are physical and emotional weaklings. The ideal male isn’t John Wayne or > James Bond or Jimmy Stewart anymore. It’s some crying tit that goes to a > therapist, a sort of agreeable lesbian with a dick who calls the police > (whom he hates in theory) when there is trouble. The ideal modern male is > the *British shrimp* > <http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2024001/UK-riots-2011-London-Birmingham-people-forced-strip-naked-street.html> > who handed his pants over to the looter in south London. > > How did we get here? *Estrogens* <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phthalate> > in the food supply? Cultural Marxism’s corrosive influence? Small > families? Some of the greatest badasses I’ve known had many brothers to > fight with growing up. When good men who will fight are all extinct, there > is no more civilization. No lantern-jawed viragos are going to save you > from the barbarian hordes. No mincing nancy boys with Harvard diplomas will > stand up for the common decencies: They’re a social construct, dontcha > know. The conservative movement won’t save you: They’re chicken-hearted > careerists petrified of offending a victim group. > > Teddy Roosevelt, my ideal President, kept a *lion and a bear* > <http://www.cracked.com/article_15895_the-5-most-badass-presidents-all-time_p5.html> > as pets in the White House and took his daily exercise doing jiu-jitsu and > boxing. He even *lost vision* > <http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Was_Theodore_Roosevelt_ever_blind> in an eye > in a friendly boxing match while he was president. Our last three glorious > leaders are men who kept fluffy dogs and went jogging. I don’t trust > squirrelly girly-men in any context. When confronted with difficult > decisions, they don’t do what’s right or tell the truth—they’ll do what’s > easy or politically expedient. Unlike the last three, Teddy Roosevelt never > sent men to die in pointless wars, though he was more than happy to go > himself or risk his neck wrestling with bears. > > I’m no great shakes: I’m a shrimpy egghead in a suit who thinks about math > all day. I don’t train for fighting anymore, and my experiences with > violence are fairly limited. Nonetheless, I judge people on these sorts of > things. When I first meet a man, I don’t care what kind of sheepskins or > awards he has on his walls. I don’t care if he is *liberal* > <http://streetbonersandtvcarnage.com/blog/double-play-i-got-knocked-the-fuck-out/> > or *conservative* > <http://old.nationalreview.com/derbyshire/derbyshire200310150828.asp>. I > want to know if they have my back in a fight. 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