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VICTORY not SURVIVAL: Warrior Flow Combatives, Becoming GOOD and DANGEROUS
In the contemporary United States (and the Western world generally), misconceptions concerning manliness abound. These misconceptions derive from a variety of sources that I identified in a previous article. There the focus was specifically upon the confusion that prevails over the nature of a violent engagement of the type that occurs in a true self-defense situation. Yet this is not unrelated to the broader topic of manliness.
Over the last few years, an industry of YouTube podcasts hosted by former mobsters and former criminals of every conceivable sort has emerged to advance the campaign to glorify scumbags that Hollywood launched decades ago.