A Conceptual Approach to the “Art” Of Violence

[PAUL]

I thought the following ideas may be helpful to “new” people – or those who’ve recently started taking the idea of violence seriously. These ideas certainly won’t hurt, regardless. Not you, anyway.

When beginning a thing, it’s important to think of the end of a thing. The end is what you’re going for.

With respect to violence, the endgame is to be capable of killing someone who intends to kill or seriously harm you. The judgment of when can only be left to you, but what’s certain is that the honest goal here is to be capable of killing a bad guy. Mentally first, physically second.

We cannot dance around this reality. It’s not self defense. Self defense is just what naturally results from a violent offense. The greater the violent intent, the greater your chance of success.

The highest violent intent is killing. This doesn’t make you bad or crazy. It makes you sane and honest. You can always stop killing after you start – maybe – but you can’t start killing after playing around, if you were never prepared to in the first place.

Obviously a situation is quite serious to warrant the actual killing of another person. Which is why I absolutely do not take this subject lightly. Nor should you. I feel that a lot of people – most really – still approach the idea of violence with too much sanitized detachment.

So imagine yourself – YOU – smashing a bad guy’s skull fifty times with a hammer, until it’s unrecognizable as a skull. This sounds crazy, of course. But if that guy REALLY warrants death, then there is NO such thing as overkill. Kill, overkill – all the same. But overkill is always safer.

The reason you should envision YOURSELF doing THAT – to your rapist, or whoever Satan sent for you – is because if you can handle THAT, then you’re prepared to continue.

THAT is violence. THAT is “self defense.”

If you CAN’T handle THAT, then you’re wasting your time, and you’re still lying to yourself. I’m not trying to be an asshole – it comes naturally.

Having established a firm mental grasp on reality – on violence – now you can proceed to the physical preparations for killing whoever needs killing.

I’m always annoyed by how “good” people are portrayed in popular media. Books, films, etc. Always showing mercy to evil – and at the worst possible times. Understand that mercy is reserved for good people. Good people who are often assholes, and good people who all have flaws and character deficiencies which we must endeavor to handle with grace and kindness.

Good people, however, will not attempt to rape you, or kill you, or do any other number of horrific things to you. Good people can be bad, but we’re all know the difference between bad and evil without being able to define it.

If the situation warrants killing, there is NO mercy. None. You must remember that the evil man is also a deceiver, an actor, and a liar. He will attempt to regain the initiative through deception if you begin to prevail. When this happens, you DOUBLE your killing fever.

After all, he was about to rape you. Now he wants mercy? He will receive NONE.

You may only stop killing him – not because he’s begging you to stop – but because he is physically INCAPABLE of presenting ANY threat to you.

However, understand that if he is still CONSCIOUS he remains a threat. Because the only weapon – yours or his – is the MIND. If he’s still conscious, he’s STILL armed. And even if he’s unconscious – you’d better be damn sure that he’s not acting. The highest level of warfare is deception, not physical fighting. It’s also easier.

This is why you double tap corpses in the head after a gunfight. Playing dead is for the movies.

If you’re okay with that, then you’re mentally prepared to continue. This is THAT serious. Obviously we all as good people would prefer to not do any of this. But a good person who’s not honest is no good person. Honesty is the only distinction between them and us.

I’m honest, therefore I don’t attempt to rape women to appease my self deception. I can honestly deal with my own issues.

Many victims of violence have made themselves so by way of their own dishonesty. We even see a world full of the self deceived being preyed upon by better liars.

You can’t change them, but you can practice Ruthless Honesty for yourself. However seriously you think you’re taking violence – you’re still not taking it seriously enough. Anytime I’m even tempted to lose my temper, I’m reminded of this.

Because violence is easy. A 12 year old girl could easily kill the greatest special forces soldier – if she really wanted to. It would literally be child’s play. The downside of training is that it naturally encourages a dangerous level of self confidence.

It is important to remember that the highest art of Violence is deception. Not force on force. People who are physically weaker will ALWAYS pose a greater threat than the strong.

Why? Because by virtue of their weakness they absolutely MUST be cooler and smarter about how they’re going to kill you. This is why I observe that women tend to approach the subject of Violence far more honestly than men do.

Men are far too egoistical and falsely confident. I don’t even really enjoy talking to men in general precisely because it always inevitably turns into a macho masculinity reinforcement thing.

But this also works to your favor if you’re humble and honest. Predators naturally seek the weakest victims. Not necessarily because they’re cowards, but because it’s easier. Who wants to work hard when they can work smart?

Is a lion really afraid of ANY gazelle? Or even a bunch of gazelles? No. But when the lion wants to eat, does he necessarily want to do a Jackie Chan movie first? Maybe if he signed a deal for 20 million gazelles..

Likewise, your approach to violence should be the same. Apply the strongest assets to the weakest points. Only the result matters. The weakest point could be the enemy’s ego. Or parts of their body. Etc, etc.

As a potential rape victim – if you view YOURSELF as the predator – you actually have a huge advantage due the proximity necessary to commit a rape. Which is about as close as it gets. You are the bait for the trap. Just keep acting weak..

Even closer than getting into the body though is getting into the mind. NEVER forget that the ONLY weapon is the MIND, and that everything else is merely an attachment. Don’t get attached to attachments. Only attach to the result. Death by fatal victim selection.

Which brings me to the real point here, which is cultivating the freedom of improvisation. By only attaching to the result, and not to the attachments of moves and weapons and so forth, you Free yourself to improvise. To do anything at any time. With whatever you want to use. You maximize your ability to adapt to situations and environments.

Systems and structures are inherently bad at cultivating improvisational ability. This is one reason I’m unemployable in a corporate or bureaucratic structure. But the same thing which makes me unemployable there is the SAME thing which has given me a ridiculous level of client loyalty and referral in my regular job.

Because I only ever think about the result. I do nothing, and tolerate nothing which interferes with my objective. Which is maximum excellence and awesomeness for my clients. But this same attitude makes me the worst enemy of systems and bureaucracies.

Systems, hierarchies, corporations – they all serve themselves. Any clients merely exist as assets for this end. The same way I have faith in God, but I despise religion.

And I’ve always been struck by the similarities between martial arts and religions. There is no freedom to be yourself. To truly be free. To improvise and to do whatever you want so long as your only goal is truly doing good to others.

Violence is no different. Though the goal is killing, the highest purpose is doing good. Ending evil. Preventing the triumph of evil and wicked individuals. Removing an inconvenience to reality. Which conveniently has YOU available..

So now the physical aspect of violence. And training it. The highest mastery of any skill is improvisation. You can see from great athletes what a great warrior would look like, even though athletics are not remotely close to violence. They do however involve moving your body. And Violence too involves moving your body.

Guys like Barry Sanders or Micheal Jordan ultimately had no moves. Yes, fans would attempt to describe their actions as if those actions were moves. But the actions of great athletes are just points in an improvisational flow of movement. Which is where you want to get. And then keep getting.

Guys like Sanders and Jordan would often LOOK flashy doing something, but they were ALWAYS fixated on a single goal. Winning – not just scoring.

Other athletes like to look flashy but aren’t fixated on winning. Just looking good.

The point of Violence is to kill. This is done by destroying targets – the ultimate target being the mind or consciousness of your enemy. How this is done doesn’t matter as much as your single minded fixation on doing it. By any means.

Which means that you have to train with the same fixation. You can’t get distracted by techniques or moves. Different people will prefer different ways of doing the SAME thing. And as you train, the idea is to give yourself MORE ways of doing the SAME thing.

Which is the essence of improvisation. The more physical ability you build and cultivate – the more options you have. For example, the more flexible your body is, the more range of motion you have available IF you need it.

THIS is the proper approach to training. Not building a library of techniques and moves, but in building your body’s freedom of MOVEMENT. You want to maximize your ability to strike from anywhere to anywhere with anything – without yourself or losing balance.

Think about it. This is simple. You’re going after targets on the human body. There’s an endless amount of ways to crush these targets.

You don’t need a five year black belt to crush a throat. But imagine spending five years developing your physical ability to crush a throat from every position imaginable. With every part of your body imaginable.

Maximum freedom for maximum improvisation. This freedom gives you the ability to flow and to make up stuff without thinking. Because the targets are limited in number. But the ways of getting to them are infinite and endless. The more ways your body is comfortable moving, the more freedom you have to improvise.

In addition, the more ways you can move WHILE remaining BALANCED – the more freedom to improvise you retain.

Consider: If you never lose your balance, then you can literally do anything from anywhere. Any position. And by building strength and agility and flexibility WITH balance then you’re building an improvisational nightmare for enemies.

This is where systems fail. They want you to mindlessly repeat the same stuff over and over. They do not encourage improvisation. Someone may demonstrate something that you would prefer to do a different way. Do everything how you want to do it – but always in the context of how you feel YOU can deliver maximum destruction to the enemy.

For example, I’m not a huge fan of the edge of hand strike. However, I still view it as a highly useful strike in certain situations, at certain angles. I’m prepared to use it while improvising, but I don’t naturally favor it overall.

Likewise, YOU are alone out there. YOU can do whatever YOU want to do. YOU have to do the killing. Not me. Not your instructor. YOU must feel comfortable doing things the way YOU want to do them. But ALWAYS with the single goal of totally destroying the enemy. Anything that works goes. Anything you can do goes. Be yourself. Don’t be a copy. Of a copy. Of a copy. Which is martial arts.

Improvisation is first mental. It means you have no rules.

Even tho I don’t favor the edge of hand, I don’t view the edge of hand strike as a.. strike. In other words, the physical motion of striking with the edge of your hand is merely just another flow of movement. Since I’m only practicing maximum flow of movement, this means that I will naturally use an edge of hand where it’s convenient if needed. Without thinking of it as a specific strike. If it fits in at that moment, from that angle, then it’s going in..

I only see targets. Then whatever movement is most CONVENIENT to that target – that’s what I’ll do. What it ends up looking like isn’t important.

If you’re running through an obstacle course, you’re not thinking of moves – you’re thinking of moving. There’s a big difference. The more ways you can move, the more options for moving you have. NOT – the more moves you have. The more WAYS of MOVING you have.

An old arthritic lady has few ways of moving. She can’t even pick up groceries. Does she need more moves? Or does she need more ways of moving?

She could still probably crush your throat, but her WAYS of doing it are severely limited.

I’ve always been an artistic person. Any art I both enjoy and I am good at. Music, painting, whatever. So my concept of Violence as art is Violence as natural expression and improvisation. No genuine artist in anything just wants to mechanically repeat stuff. Those are the people making shitty music for idiots. For the money. Most art is garbage. Especially when money gets involved.

Martial art means your total freedom to be yourself and to do whatever the fuck you want to do. I mean, did God create clones, or highly unique individuals?

Systems create clones. Marginally effective clones against other similar clones. I stopped watching sport fighting long ago because it’s nonsensical in the context of actual violence. Even a simple thing like backing off your opponent and circling. Whereas with Violence, once you engage you absolutely do NOT stop until they’re dead.

But it’s also boring because clones rarely improvise.

Improvising in real life is your ONLY real advantage. Doing anything at any thing is your advantage. If you and I are both improvising, then we each retain an advantage, regardless of disparities in obvious assets. Anything can happen. Violence is chaos. Chaos is improvisation.

What is chaos really but unseen order. Of actual chaos existed then reality would collapse. But reality is perfect Order. It only appears to be chaotic because we try to impose an artificial order upon actual order. Artificial intelligence upon actual intelligence. Which tells you where AI is fated to go..

Improvisation frees you from the need to control and define everything. Like systems do. Systems ALWAYS fail. Just a matter of time. Every great civilization? A great system. Not so great. They all died.

The improvisation of reality is seen by us as chaos. Because we can never know, and thus predict, all of reality. But if we are prepared to meet improvisation with improvisation, then we have a chance. Pride goes before destruction. Control always falls to chaos. Our control always falls to actual control.

Which is also why the “Law of Attraction” is nonsensical. You do not control reality. You never will. You can only flow with it by not trying to control it. And WHILE knowing that the natural flow of reality is perfect good, which is perfect Order. Even if that order appears to be chaos to us, the ignorant.

So if anything can happen, then it stands to reason that the honest approach to training is to make yourself as mentally and physically comfortable as possible responding to anything that may happen.

Practically speaking, in physical terms, this means training your body to be able to move with strength, agility, flexibility and balance in as many positions as possible.

In mental terms, it means that you only fixate on crushing targets by any means, from any position – and not on the ways you’re told to do this.

Your mind targets. Your body executes. Unless you’re an old arthritic lady whose body can barely respond to any mental commands.

There are basic and obvious principles. But then there’s a universe of ways to exploit these principles. No one can doubt that being able to keep your balance while moving as many ways possible is the single greatest physical asset. Every other physical asset is LOST if you lose your balance.

Same mentally. If fear surpasses target fixation, then creativity vanishes. Improvisation goes away.

A scary dog might bite you, but it’s going to do what it does regardless of what you do. So disregard what it can do to do, and only think about destroying its vulnerable targets. Maybe it still bites you. But you’re going to kill it.

Obsessive compulsive target fixation. With maximum freedom of balanced movement. That’s the goal. Even a large mechanical, bureaucratic army can be easily destroyed by a smaller ghost force that does whatever the fuck..

The wind is coming. The best your enemy should be able to do is to hide from the wind in a bunker.. The wind is nowhere and everywhere. All the time. It has no moves, but it is always moving.

So with respect to striking techniques, what is the real goal? It’s to become comfortable striking with anything – on your body or otherwise – from anywhere, and to any target available on the enemy.

You can practice improvised movement literally doing anything through out your day. You’re carrying groceries, and open a lever handler door with your knee. Whatever. Everything becomes a possible way to practice improvised movement. If you practice this way, then you’ll operate this way.

The only real essential is balance. So all your movement should flow from your Center of Balance. Shoot from your COB, Strike from your COB, etc etc. Other than that — do whatever works at the time.

When all movement flows from your COB then you have zero need for stances. You’re ALWAYS in a stand, cuz you’re always balanced. And this also allows you to always look non threatening cuz you don’t need an over posture of balance. Aggression. People use stances necessary they lack balance.

Balance can be very subtle. It’s something you develop a feel for by moving in different ways. By improvising. When you see a guy over sprawling to avoid being taken down it’s cuz his sense of balance is weak. You can’t take down a guy on ONE leg who’s got a finely developed sense of balance. Not without doing something else first.

Balance is the single enabler of improvisation. Mentally and physically. People lose mental balance if things don’t go the way they predicted. Which is guaranteed to happen with Violence. If mental balance goes, then the physical is gone too.

The enemy’s sense of control is their false balance. This self deception should be encouraged to continue right up until the moment that lie is stripped away.

And don’t make the same mistake. Don’t feel in control. Just feel ready. For whatever.

Self confidence is self delusion. If you think about it, a target fixation makes confidence irrelevant. You’re only thinking about doing some work – not yourself. There are targets. I must destroy those targets. How I feel about myself is not even relevant.

I have extremely loyal clients because I’m only obsessed with good work. Often I have to improvise solutions and do things I’m not used to. Solely in the interest of achieving a desired result.

Excellence is the answer to confidence. Confidence is a weakness. Excellence will make you better than you are. By approaching tasks with a sense of excellence, I always find a way to get an excellent result. True Excellence is always improvised because truly giving a shit cannot be systematized. Which means that you will have to step outside a system in order to augment that system’s deficiencies. Because a system never matches reality. Ever.

My personal mission statement is “To Murder Things With Extreme Excellence.” Literally, that’s what it is.

When you’re ONLY committed to excellence, confidence becomes irrelevant. Excellence will always require you to exceed whatever your delusional level of confidence was.

If I only do what I feel confident doing, then this feeling will vacillate wildly depending on the situation or task – or what I just ate.

If I only fixate on doing something with excellence, then even if I have no clue what I’m doing – I’m going to figure out SOME way of getting THAT result. My confidence is meaningless. If I can think, then excellence is possible. So I end up doing things to help people out, in which I’m not qualified. Because my sole objective is their excellence.

And because most of the people qualified to do the shit I end up doing lack a commitment to excellence. Which is why they suck at doing what they’re good at knowing, while I suck at knowing what I’m good at doing.

So developing “self confidence” with respect to violence is delusional. That’s just a feeling that fluctuates. Totally useless. The only thing that matters with respect to violence is targets. Period. How else are you going to win?

Only think about targets. What fills your mind fills your life. And kills the enemy.

Target. Move. Destroy. Target. Move. Destroy.

And training is just developing the freedom of movement in between seeing a target and destroying a target, so that you have as many ways of destroy a target as possible.

Developing physical.. excellence. Clearly most people who train are not truly interested in excellence. A person who is solely focused on excellence will find it IMPOSSIBLE to just mindlessly regurgitate techniques without at least eventually thinking for themselves.

Because if you’re TRULY focused on excellence you will quickly discover the limits of any system. Ultimately, excellence is your OWN unique expression of that excellence. It can’t possibly be someone else’s.

How are YOU going to get the job done – As destructively as possible? That’s the question. Everything’s a possibility. You get to put them together however you see fit.

“Students” of violence should never be praised. They should be encouraged – especially to improvise – but never praised. There is NO space for confidence in Violence. A praise worthy “move” at one moment could be societal the next. The only praise worthy attribute is total target fixation. Total destruction.

If you become distracted or frustrated with some move or technique then forget it. It doesn’t matter anyway. Violence ain’t that complicated. You can crush a target any way you damn well feel like. Do what feels best. What feels natural.

As I mentioned earlier – for me personally, but maybe not you – the edge of hand rarely feels natural to me, but it does feel natural in certain limited applications/situations/angles. So I don’t just throw it away. It’s there if I need it.

I could jump over the hood of a car and stomp someone’s throat coming down. Likely? No. But it’s there if I need it. Freedom of movement is like a mechanic collecting tools. Not moves. Just ways of doing stuff. Makes things easier and easier.

Also, a great reason not to neglect the Breah falls. Being able to fall on different surfaces in different ways without injury is extremely helpful. It’s gonna happen sometimes, Violence or not.

I broke my elbow at age 14 riding my bike at 530am to my job as a caddy at a golf course. I hit water and landed hard, trying to use my arm to break the fall. Arms break. Not the falls.

Later tho, I was wrestling some guy for fun – I thought – and my pants were slipping, so I chose a bad moment to grab them, and the guy picked me up and slammed me down on the ground, which was concrete. My back hit, but I literally felt nothing. No pain, no injury. Nothing. Obviously I didn’t attempt to use my arms to break my fall. The guy actually just entirely stopped after that seeing I was completely unaffected.

So being able to roll with stuff – not just dish it out – is incredibly helpful. Falling, rolling – on concrete and not mats – is useful. You develop graceful movement because a lack of grace is unforgiving. Even true spiritually.

It’s never force on force. It’s force on target. Meet strength with weakness, and weakness with strength. Flow away from strength and towards weakness.

The ground is strong, so I roll with the ground. The throat is weak, so I crush the throat.

By thinking in these ways, you’re opening up your freedom of movement and ability to murder with extreme excellence if you really need to.

But I felt it may be helpful to express some of my own ideas here for those new to the serious contemplation of this subject, given the deluge of delusion with respect to violence.

And keep in mind that there is no such thing as crazy. Everyone operates by their own perfect logic. This means that everything a person does makes TOTAL sense to them. Empathy is NOT an asset because it is merely trying to use your OWN logic to understand others. This is potentially fatal in the realm of violence where you should never pretend to understand your enemy.

The devil comes to steal, kill and destroy. Why? Who gives a shit? He’s about to die..

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