This is not a scientific discussion about this topic but rather I want to open up some questions as well as discuss solutions to a society wide problem. One thing you hear about a lot is shootings and stabbings, especially when it comes to schools. Some say that these things have always happened and others say the only reason they’re so big is because we have national broadcasting about them.
Others have said because these people who do these things become famous and get lots of love letters they otherwise would never get that leads to others committing the same crime. While others say that they shooters are often patsies or all on drugs like SSRIs and are tools being used to further government agendas.
I can’t comment on any of that. All I can comment on is the nature of violence and men and how I think as a society we are going wrong on addressing it. This is about fundamental biological masculinity and the nature of man. Even if you have no interest in helping or healing society there are still lessons about masculinity and yourself to be learned here.
Let’s dive in.
Masculinity & Violence
Males were bore to fight, its in our nature, our DNA. We were designed to fight and kill others just as much as to desire women with round butts and slim waists. It not something that is going to change in the next million years or so or maybe ever. We are essentially cave men that are living in a modern world and that leads to a lot of problems naturally. In society’s never ending quest to “tame” or change human nature we’ve deemed violence and dealing with things with violence as “bad”.
However in the real world many things are dealt with through violence and dealt with healthily. That’s not to say violence can’t go wrong, it very obviously can. However to simply declare all violence bad is foolish and short sighted. Men are going to fight, boys, males, we’re all going to have disagreements and solve them physically. Words, rules, and the such only have limited utility in the real world.
However no one can decide if a fist across the face is going to affect them or not, the laws of physics already have that figured out for us. And because of this when words or rules fail or are seen as ineffective, physical violence is going to be used. This can be anything from a little dust with some tears and slight bruises to massacres. All are considered violence and all are considered “bad” by modern standards.
However I can’t help but wonder if the lack of ways to express low level violence and solve disagreements leads to a lot more high level violence like shootings.
Violence As A Channel
I’m not someone who believes that human nature can be changed or told to “stay put” for religious or political reasons. Human nature at best can be harness or channeled but never stamped out or controlled completely. To say to males “Just never fight because it’s always bad” just doesn’t work and doesn’t take into account reality. I think males need ways to express violence and solve disagreements physically in a healthy way.
In some schools they used to allow kids to put on boxing gloves and solve differences in the ring, this stopped them from having to resort to more extreme measures like gang beatings, ambushes, clubs, knives, guns, and the like. Things are settled like men and then they can both go on to live and exist another day.
I think males need a way to express this nature as well. If I were Grand Leader for a day I’d make combat sports mandatory for all males in school from adolescents to graduation. Far from encouraging violence I think it would instead tamp out much of what we see. Not one hundred percent but a lot of it. I think it might be a solution that would also have lots of other benefits.
Discipline, strength, the development of courage, moral character, what people call “sportsmanship” though normal “sports” don’t actually develop this, and a whole lot more.
Just A Suggestion
Males need to fight. It’s unnatural for them not too and when they don’t fight and don’t have that expression bad things can happen, as we see in the modern world. That’s not to say that there aren’t a lot of problems but one thing at a time. As males we need some sort of violent expression in a healthy and controlled way. That or self-neutering I guess but to me I think the healthy expression is the far better option. Maybe I’m wrong but I don’t think so.
What do you think?
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-Charles Sledge
