on one level

“Martial Arts and self-defense, on one level, is the manufacture of cripples and corpses. If you need better words you have not come to terms with what you may need to do.” Rory Miller, Drills, Training for Sudden Violence

Comment: Reality, the reality of our very essence as human beings, as both predator and as prey. Self-delusional beliefs in what we do are about our comfort, not about the discomfort of conflict, violence and violent conflict. We have forgotten deliberately the history and essence that is combatives for the sake of camaraderie that stems socially much like a social club for the camaraderie felt between professional combatants. That which ties us to our nature, the nature of the animal kingdom. We are animals, higher order animals but animals just the same. We as higher order animals have the ability to be either predator or prey, it is up to us as individuals.