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5b. Leadership is often a lie. Rather than earned, status is conferred. Legitimacy is eroded. The pretenders seek influence but only spawn alienation. Their failure is inevitable. Their cause is not worth supporting. This Modern Warrior Archetype does not require enemies. All scales and levels suffer the idiot. Stampedes are better avoided. Fortunately, anyone with minimal powers of observation and a little sense can see it. History is a good guide of what not to be.

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5a. Rash action often results in disaster. As for nations, so may individuals become bogged down in quagmires of their own making. A situation may engulf one whole. Since satisfaction will never be achieved, the price is never worth it. Trying is often over-rated by those who have never done anything worth mentioning. This Modern Warrior Archetype has done enough to know better.

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4c. Self-discipline is sometimes necessary in achieving the means to an end. One must learn to control reaction. In conflict situation, maintaining a cool head is imperative. At the very least, the appearance is intimidating. The easiest targets are not calm. The hurricane’s eye is shielded by fury. Even if one has not truly reached the level of this Modern Warrior Archetype, the screen will allow one to build confidence. If those you fear also fear you, then they must not have been so very fearsome in the first place.

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4b. Suffering may impart harsh but extremely useful lessons. Pain is an excellent means for motivating memory retention. Of course, care must be taken not to cross the line into sadism (or masochism). Physical exertion is an almost universal means for pushing toward individual limits. Intellectual and most other heights are too uneven. One may develop sufficient character towards greatly ensuring survival under adverse conditions through physical means. At least, one knows things could be worse.

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4a. In conflict situations, weakness can be compensated, but one must be self-aware to be successful. By failing to acknowledge limitations, one will never fully recognize those subtle strengths found within. However, a danger does lie when one becomes self-absorbed by the process. This Modern Warrior Archetype must walk the line between introversion and extroversion, or else one may stare downward when one should be facing forward. Therefore, the moment is not seized, and failure is part of the price. Even so, one may still learn from such errors. As noted by Nietzsche, that which does not kill us makes us stronger.

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3d. Inflation is a danger spawned by projection. One whom projects their desires on reality often gets burned. Self-image is inflated beyond anything sustainable, thus vulnerable to bursting. In addition, as a consequence, one will often find oneself a target. Predators can smell those whom are all talk with nothing to back it up. This Modern Warrior Archetype is realistic in identifying weakness and finding a way to overcome. One may even find strength through acknowledging failings. However, in doing so, it is not necessary to broadcast everything.

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3c. Anger can be a positive or negative force for motivation. Its extremes are generally self-destructive over all but the shortest periods. Struggle can lead to constant agitation. Anger can fester. Internalized, anger leads towards depression. Externalized, one loses self-control and makes stupid mistakes. One may loose the ability to calculate. Response is better measured than spewed. Backlash is ensured through instability. Moderation can be doled-out slowly and surely. The result can bring down mountains. Restraint will greatly increase the chance that one is not buried by the collapse. This Modern Warrior Archetype does not need any more enemies.

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3b. The insecure often wear their anxieties like an old coat. Their fear is obvious. Easily manipulated, they may be driven. The herd is only as smart as its dimmest members. The sub-average may rise to great heights. This Modern Warrior Archetype had better never underestimate the stupid. The worst wallow. The most annoying are those whom believe their mediocrity to be something superior. Avoidance becomes a primary maladaptive trait. As usual, their faith is misplaced. History has no qualms grinding anyone into the dirt.

Interlude: Concerning 5GW

A few thoughts, mulled over while reading ZenPundit's post 5GW REVOLUTIONS:

I believe 5GW is warfare waged by individuals or very small groups. The Unibomber and possibly the OKC bombers are examples (assuming no greater network was involved). In making Things Fall Apart, their major role is showing individuals can make a difference in helping to destroy the state. It emboldens those individuals with a serious grudge against their targets. The ruling power elite are very vulnerable to the lone actor. He emerges without warning and strikes. He also creates a state backlash that further helps to erode the legitimacy of the state.

Although, I don't condone such things as mass destructions of innocents[1], I see the success of 4GW and 5GW actors against a mediocre power structure as basically inevitable. Once a lone nut can unleash a plague we are all going to pay.

As an aside, Man Accused of Sabotaging Ariz. Gas Lines illustrates the potential for trouble a disgruntled individual may cause.

[1] The victims of terrorism are not pretty sights. I am acquainted with someone, who was sleeping several block from the OKC bombing, that had her womb blown apart by the concussion of the blast. Thinking it was thunder (Oklahoma's weather really is that bad). she rolled over and went back to sleep. She awoke to a mis-carriage situated in the middle of a medical crisis.

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3a. Guilt is an obstacle to empathy. One will never understand without experience. Relating requires certainty that may only be gained through adversity. One must know failure to understand reaction. The fragile lash out unnecessarily. The sturdy know there is a time and place for everything. This Modern Warrior Archetype might be anti-social but never sociopathic. The rigid only break. Adaptability implies observation. The maladaptive eventually wilt. Those unable to see must listen. Fortune does not favor the stupid. Idiocy is a challenge.

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2b. Intimidation is both a learned and innate art. Some just don't have the means. The inability can be compensated with attitude and bearing. The ability to shoot straight does not hurt either. This Modern Warrior Archetype walks like it owns the place. The fact is predators look for easier prey than someone capable of striking back. Unfortunately, such judgements are not equal. If called out, one must be willing to strike quickly and then leave quickly. Ground is not always worth keeping.

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2a. Fear requires management. A little fear is healthy; too much may lead to rashness or even prove paralyzing. A simmer allows for better direction. Opponent may be lead down the path of their own consternation. The disquiet life is profitable. This Modern Warrior Archetype is a master of unease. Swimming below the surface, an adversary's dread is an opportunity for managed projection. Why put effort into something that will maintain itself. The mental plane is a primary sphere of conflict. However, it must be executed with enough consistency to avoid ambiguity. The consequences should be obvious.

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1c. Escalation often marks the path of no return. This Modern Warrior Archetype must tread wearily when stepping into such courses. Alternatives must be exhausted. The psychological battle must be entirely spent. In such situations, covert methods and means will often be preferable to overt action as less neutral parties will be dragged into the conflict. Nobody needs more enemies. People like things quiet. Feuds are better silent and distant. The shadows provide useful concealment but muffle nothing.

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1b. Psychological warfare can be cooler than other forms of conflict. Insecurities are opportunities to be capitalized. The most subtle will keep an adversary away. The better approach is encouraging an antagonist to further believe that which they already want to believe. Why swim up stream? Fears are easily magnified. If someone chooses to believe something anyway, reinforcement is a much easier task. Why worry about those who will become paralyzed. Hence, neutralization is achieved without lifting a finger. Anything more or less is wasted effort.

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Part Three.

On Conflict–

1a. As stated previously, conflict is better avoided by this Modern Warrior Archetype. Unfortunately, sometimes conflict is unavoidable. In such circumstances, initiative is the surest (although not assured) path to prevailing. However, unless forced by outright physical attack, this Modern Warrior Archetype preferably ramps escalation forward. In fact, the lower intensities may be played subtly enough to be barely noticed. Intimidation can be a fine art. For such purposes, human behavior is key. One whom knows oneself sufficiently, one may better understand and exploit the small weaknesses of one's adversaries.