{"id":487,"date":"2018-07-04T21:29:18","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T21:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mandirigmafma.com\/?p=487"},"modified":"2025-04-30T15:43:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T21:43:32","slug":"a-short-truth-on-human-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mandirigmafma.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/04\/a-short-truth-on-human-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"A SHORT TRUTH ON HUMAN VIOLENCE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll leave this:<\/p>\n<p>1. People survive violence daily, the world over, that have zero training. Far more so than are trained, regardless of your reasoning why.<\/p>\n<p>2. The highest kill-count, by far, in the world\u00a0 is from completely untrained civilians. Jails are full of them. Many walk free among us. Some are waiting to happen. But the fact remains&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>3. The ability to inflict violence has minimal to do with physical systemic or stylistic training&#8230;it has to do with will. (which supersedes any training)<\/p>\n<p>4. The majority of the various (there are many, not at all just limited to the physical) types of violence are inflicted upon us by known entities &#8211; friends, family, acquaintances, satellites, etc. &#8211; NOT by the highly-perpetuated &#8220;stranger danger&#8221; that the majority of instructors are training you for. Global statistics, facts, case studies, and hard facts bear this out regardless of your personal belief.<\/p>\n<p>5. Yet, through all this, we live in the generally the safest time in recorded history.<\/p>\n<p>All 5 of these are usually denied vehemently by the majority of martial arts instructors, as they don&#8217;t go along with the rhetoric needed to create a business usually based on fear, anxiety, and paranoia.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/IW4VIgwcqV4\/maxresdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for cavemen violence\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The theory forever perpetuated that we &#8216;need&#8217; all these systems and subsystems and styles and arts and methods and belts and titles and certificates and self-defense classes and fight records to protect ourselves&#8230;is just that, pure theory. Evolution and experience have given us a ton of tools with which to do so and they&#8217;ve been pretty damn effective to get us this far on the timeline, long before any organized syllabi ever existed.<\/p>\n<p>Remember:<\/p>\n<p>a. Most modern systems are &#8216;very&#8217; new in the grand scheme of things, if we&#8217;re really researching their origins, and were created for an abundance of reasons specific to their culture, location, time, creator, need &#8211; much of which likely has absolutely nothing to do with your current existence.\u00a0 Others of old have been lost forever, often for the same reasons.<\/p>\n<p>b. Instructors constantly bring their rather subjective opinion on violence based on their personal experience\/s, which may (or may not, as is far more often the case) have anything at all to do with yours.<\/p>\n<p>c. Methods are predominantly gimmick-driven by nature&#8230;some new inventing-of-the-proverbial-wheel idea that no human since the dawn of time has ever thought of with regards to physical conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Head up, eyes open, logic and common sense activated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll leave this: 1. People survive violence daily, the world over, that have zero training. Far more so than are trained, regardless of your reasoning why. 2. The highest kill-count, by far, in the world\u00a0 is from completely untrained civilians. Jails are full of them. Many walk free among us. Some are waiting to happen. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mandirigmafma.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/04\/a-short-truth-on-human-violence\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A SHORT TRUTH ON HUMAN VIOLENCE<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mandirigmafma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mandirigmafma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mandirigmafma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mandirigmafma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mandirigmafma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mandirigmafma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2914,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mandirigmafma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions\/2914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mandirigmafma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mandirigmafma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mandirigmafma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}