DEAR FANTASY MILITARY CLOWNS Dear Clowns. Soldiers and warriors are athletes. Fi

DEAR FANTASY MILITARY CLOWNS

Dear Clowns.

Soldiers and warriors are athletes. Fitness is perhaps the most important asset other than basic weaponry. No matter how fit you are weight matters.

It doesn’t get better than a spear, a sword, a saxon axe (Tomohawk), a knife, a shield and armor until we’re talking about bullets. At the point we’re talking about bullets it doesn’t get better than concealment, cover, movement, distance, RPG’s, RPM’s, and accuracy – until we’re talking about darkness. The point we’re talking about darkness it doesn’t get better than night vision, silenced .45 smg, and a carbine – until we’re talking about distance. And at the point we’re talking about distance it doesn’t get better than artillery, cruise missiles, and missiles, until we’re talking about science fiction. And at the point we’re talking about science fiction in the future or about fantasy in the past – its no longer worth talking to you. Japanese martial art is all about compensation for.. well, physical inadequacy that isn’t necessary in Scandinavian and germanic martial art. And germanic martial art is all about emotional expression that isn’t necessary in technological martial art. And technological martial art is all about anthropomorhpization – so that we can maintain the emotional expression of physical size and invulnerability that isn’t necessary in technological reality. Because in technical reality we are not in any way trying to impress the enemy with our chest thumping – it merely makes one a targte. We are trying to be as small, as light, as fast, and as invisible as possible so that we can destroy those things that are big, and strong, and threatening, and inspiring because people are making the mistake of chest thumping rather than smallness, lightness, fastness, and the concentration of increasing amounts of energy in smaller and larger places.