He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. "Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. Ellis Amdur, from Dueling with O-sensei (p. Certainly the values that writers such as Dan Millman extol are admirable, but I would hesitate to call anyone a warrior unless we are not talking about a fellow ubermenschen, but instead a deeply flawed and guilty human being, who strives at the risk of the loss of comfort, of home, of even his or her own soul to protect what must be protected, to maintain a moral sense in a place where no morality can conceivably exist." The warrior as metaphor often offends me, because the battlefield stinks of blood and shit, and sings of screams and flies. But these writers seem to forget that the warrior’s values, as admirable as they may be, are won at terrible cost. We imagine the warrior in bed, in the boardroom, in marriage, the warrior on the golf-course. "New-Age America produces books and workshops on the ‘New Warrior,’ a man or woman who lives impeccably - austere, protecting the weak, willing, perhaps, to stand his or her ground and fight, but more important, calm and graceful - the warrior as metaphor. ![]() Also, the first few segments will be very.martially orientated, because of the source, but it will diversify further in.
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