The capacity for violence is imperative to being a man.
The idea that the capacity for violence is a virtue seems backward to this modern world where to be good is to be docile.
To understand why this is a virtue is rather simple. Just imagine two identical people who spend the night out, who is better off in every situation, the pacified man or the man with the capacity for violence?
The reasoning for this is that your capacity for violence is held by you as a form of confidence.
You are able to walk through life and its many situations knowing that if need be you are able to protect yourself and those around you.
This gives you a swagger. You feel untouchable and are without fear of violence against you.
It is only once you have this capacity for violence that you can become the protector, that you can become a man.
"One can be silent and sit still only when one has arrow and bow: else one chatters and quarrels" - Friedrich Nietzsche
So every man must pick up a martial art.
Through the practicing of a martial art, you can come to trust your own body and have faith that should battle arise you can defend yourself and those around you.
So it is time to embrace your wild side, your violent side, and get to thoroughly know this side of you in a disciplined environment. This path will straighten your posture, bring you new confidence and add to your presence.
It is time to get violent!
🖼 Eugène Delacroix - The Combat of the Giaour and Hassen - 1835
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