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4. Aggression has its time and place. Unleashed and unrestrained, power begins to consume itself. If arrested promptly, in a mass media society, prestige gained will compensate for the effort. One wants to revel; one realizes the consequences. Self control is something usually obtained through experience and formal training. A few possess the instinct. One way or another, deceleration expends energy. For some, the toll is less.

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3. Showing fear is frowned upon by most non-decadent cultures. Paranoid display is not welcome in matters relating to life and death. The calm are universally respected. Even so, nervousness does have its place. It does not behoove one to get overly comfortable in potentially hostile situations. Mostly, when immediate action or decision is required, the better tact is to show no uncertainty or jitteriness. By admitting fear in oneself, one is given sight, and hence greatly increases the odds of coolness under pressure. If you know something is coming, one can brace against its impact or go limp as appropriate. Only experience will allow one to know for sure.

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2. Fear is a force to be mastered. If one can admit (if only to one’s self) those traits and experiences wherein vulnerability lies, one can master the expected response. In so recognizing this insight, the ability can be transferred outward. In so exercising, one realizes that many motivations are really quite simple. One eats because one is hungry. Anything deeper is irrelevant in the moment. Reflections are vital, but one must survive to get the chance.

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Part Seven.

On Dostoyevskian Psychology–

1. Dostoyevskian psychology is pure art, intuition and instinct. Science provides a useful check in its retrospective, but usually is not something that need be appealed in the moment. Understanding what goes on inside the heads of others can be crucial in a number of situations. Such skills are a useful way towards aggressive means, or avoidance. The potential for enmity can be negated by just the right amount of fear–too little emboldens; too much leads to a knife in the back. Outnumbered, This Modern Warrior Archetype does not necessitate enemies.

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13. In conflicts, where escalation is undesirable, This Modern Warrior Archetype will need to fight primarily through non-physical means. Baring living in a fortress, the Technical Morality cannot be avoided. One can always be trampled by the many. Deterrence may be employed by the numerically disadvantaged. Psychology is a suitable tool for the ends of survival. However, one must take care to avoid the foolishness often associated with its popular manifestations. Indeed, an earlier approach is much more useful. One must develop the ability to look within. Modern academic psychology is generally too analytical for such used. Observations must come from the real environment, and be based within its context. The collected works of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky are an excellent resource for developing these skills.

End of Part Six.

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12. A technological society will inevitably adopt at least some machine values. The degree is directly proportional to the decadence and nihilism contained within the affected societies. A healthy society can not be encroached so easily by the cold dictates of the drive towards efficiency. The machine prospers, hence it must be a model for those with nothing else better. The result is decay within a shiny chrome finish.

Yahia Lababidi

Yahia Lababidi's Aphorisms.

Yahia Lababidi is one of a very few contemporary writers to have their work included in an Encyclopedia of the World's Great Aphorists by James Geary, due November 2007.

Samples

"Liar: one who claims to tell the truth, always."

"Time forbids attachments. Clinging to a particular time is courting madness."

"Looking death in the eye is like staring into the sun; for a while, you see its impression everywhere, stare too long and you see nothing else."

Read the rest Here.

I'll be sure to read his book.

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11g. Who benefits by being ground down? This great error is the belief that everything must end in the dust. Why go to such extremes? This greater error is explained by a perverse desire to project upon the world one’s cravings. The bright flame burns quickest. Historical inevitability has a tendency to turn out not to be so inevitable.

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11f. If intellectualism is unknown, can such an environment really give rise to anti-intellectualism? Its products are what they are. The simple do not necessarily believe themselves to be so basic. Some things are not easily analyzed; other matters do not warrant the effort. Projection is the enemy.

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11e. Some things are worth more walking away.

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11d. Intimidation is a powerful weapon that is easily squandered by bravado. Why be a target?

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11c. Fighting occurs on many different levels and fields. Most would be warriors view physical aspects to be supremely important. Although in emergencies situations the upper hand may go to the physically superior, in many situations the mental and moral levels are far more important. Whether positively or negatively, the masses cannot be reached any other way. Reputation is difficult to earn, but easy to dispel through rash and ill-though actions. Only a tool believes otherwise.

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11b. Although easy to discuss, new courses are difficult to implement. Social and cultural inertia are drags on substantive change. On the other hand, many impulses toward change are based upon wishful and even delusional thinking. Desire does not make all things possible. Therein a difficulty arises: how to tell the difference between resistance and the impossible. The first step is observing the world as it is, rather than how one wants it to be. Will is not always a power.

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11a. As Things Fall Apart, an impulse toward destruction for its own sake may be emergent. As civilization falters, nihilism is spawned. Decadence leaves little worth preserving, and certainly inspires no desire to fight for its defense. Dirt is better cleansed. Culture can be separated from its rotten society by moving on. A lost cause is better given new direction.

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10. When everyone is a deviant, then no one is.