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July 20, 2015
It’s time to quit worrying and learn to love the battle axe.
There is substantial evidence to support the notion that violence has always been a part of human life. Every day, archeologists unearth another primitive skull with damage from weapons or blunt force trauma. The very first legal codes were shockingly grisly. If we feel less threatened today, if we feel as though we live in a non–violent society, it is only because we have ceded so much power over our daily lives to the state. Some call this reason, but we might just as well call it laziness. A dangerous laziness, it would seem, given how little most people say they trust politicians.Violence doesn’t come from movies or video games or music.
Violence comes from people. It’s about time people woke up from their 1960s haze and started being honest about violence again. People are violent, and that’s OK. You can’t legislate it away or talk your way around it. Based on the available evidence, there’s no reason to believe that world peace will ever be achieved, or that violence can ever be “stopped.”It’s time to quit worrying and learn to love the battle axe.
History teaches us that if we don’t, someone else will. Violence is Golden - Jack Donovan
Posted by gerardvanderleun at July 20, 2015 2:08 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
Your Say
My clan has lived by the sword for centuries.
My clan does not play. When they like you they stare at you with cold, mean, dead expressions. When they don't like you they just get up and leave without saying a word. Very dpjk.
That’s Don’t Play, Just Kill.
A fundamental truth: given a perceived need, there is no race more implacably murderous than White folk.
Posted by: chasmatic ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://americandigest.org/sidelines/nav-commenters.gif)
at July 20, 2015 5:49 AM
"There is no evidence to support the idea that man is an inherently peaceful creature."
"There is substantial evidence to support the notion that violence has always been a part of human life."
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Those two things are NOT opposites, though the author is suggesting they are.
Yes, man IS inherently a peaceful entity because the opposite position is terminal which defies the very notion of life itself.
YOU are more valuable to me alive than dead until such time you prove otherwise.
Posted by: ghostsniper at July 20, 2015 7:03 AM
Must See TV: "Forged in Fire" on History Channel has its premier this month:
http://www.history.com/shows/forged-in-fire
Tonight the competitors must forge a Crusader Sword.
In previous episodes they made, e.g., a Japanese Katana, which was tested by using it to split a bullet fired from a pistol.
Really coll stuff.
The blade smiths are big hairy manly men. Not a chick show at all.
Posted by: Fat Man at July 20, 2015 7:21 AM
Oh dear. First it was Vikings, now this. Almost makes me wish we had cable or a dish.
Nah.
Doin' is better'n watchin'.
Posted by: ghostsniper at July 20, 2015 8:50 AM
Josey Wales: Whenever I get to liking someone they ain't around long.
Lone Watie: I noticed when you get to disliking someone they ain't around long neither.
Posted by: browncoat at July 20, 2015 3:47 PM
Uh-oh, somebody opened up a can of that Josey Wales whoop ass.
My favorite: "Dyin' ain't much of a livin' boy."
Posted by: ghostsniper at July 20, 2015 6:34 PM
"Men are bad, unless compelled to be good."
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
The problem today is that society is immoral. There is no morality. What was considered evil, and punished, is now accepted. Abortion is A-OK. But we can't execute serial killers! It's their poor upbringing, see?
I don't know how we get back on track again. But things cannot keep going on like they have been...
Posted by: Smokey at July 20, 2015 7:59 PM
Kill anybody you have to ... as soon as you need to.
Posted by: chasmatic at July 21, 2015 12:21 AM
In my teens, I recall having heard of a study that counted the days in recorded history in which a war was _not_ being conducted some place on the face of the earth; it was about 30 days in total.
Posted by: ahem at July 22, 2015 5:38 AM