Posturing
Posturing is the all but lost art of beating people by means of
psyche, winning with guile as opposed to force. It is the art
of fighting without fighting. In layman's terms it means
scaring the shit out of the opponent with 'blag', so that they
don't want to enter a physical arena with you.
Firstly let me explain why posturing works and where the
premise for the 95% rule was formed. There have been
numerous surveys carried out on soldiers in wartime, which
reveal that in most conflicts, bar the Vietnam War (I'll
discuss that later) -at the point of actually killing another
human being, even at the threat of being killed themselves -
95% of the soldiers became conscientious objectors. That is,
at the point of actually killing another person of the same
species 95% of the people couldn't do it. They shot their
bullets into the ground, high into the air or they didn't shoot
at all. Hence the need for a sergeant kicking the soldiers up
the arse and making them kill. So 5% of the soldiers did
approximately 95% of the killings. These soldiers are
generally classed by society as sociopaths, people that have
no problem killing others of the same species. This is similar
to the way the immune system sends out killer T -cells to kill
cancerous or viral cells entering the body. The other 95% of
cells in the body are not designed to kill, instead they are
designed to help sustain life.
What the 95% Rule tells us, is that in violent conflicts of a
self-defence nature (eg. street fights), 95% of the people are
going to react in exactly the same way. As in warfare
between nations, the same rules apply to a small conflict
between two people, or any situation that the brain sees as
contentious. This is a war in microcosm -a small war. So
95% of us, when faced with conflict, are not going to want to
be there, we too are going to become conscientious
objectors. What this fact allows us to comprehend, is that the
majority of people don't want to fight and if we can give
them any way out they, and we, will take it. The instinct to
run as opposed to fight, as stated earlier, is deeply imbedded
in our genes
and goes back to mammalian ancestry. Our Instinct In that
dangerous age was sharply honed for survival at any cost,
this usually meant fleeing from wild animals that wanted to
eat us and were to big/dangerous to fight against.
Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending upon your views),
these instincts are still with us, though we have lost our
understanding of them somewhat. If we flee from potential
danger in this age, especially the male of the species, we feel
-or we are made to feel -like cowards.
Posturing is the art of fighting without
fighting. This is what animals do in nature, generally with
animals of their own species. Rather than fight and kill each
other and thus threaten the survival of their own species, they
posture by making themselves as big and as aggressive as
possible, thus triggering the flight response in their opponent,
defeating them without injury. Watch the cat when he faces
the dog, his back rises, his eyes glare, he hisses aggressively.
He looks ferocious. The cat makes himself as big and
aggressive as possible to try and frighten the dog away.
Posturing is the all but lost art of beating people by means of
psyche, winning with guile as opposed to force. It is the art
of fighting without fighting. In layman's terms it means
scaring the shit out of the opponent with 'blag', so that they
don't want to enter a physical arena with you.
Firstly let me explain why posturing works and where the
premise for the 95% rule was formed. There have been
numerous surveys carried out on soldiers in wartime, which
reveal that in most conflicts, bar the Vietnam War (I'll
discuss that later) -at the point of actually killing another
human being, even at the threat of being killed themselves -
95% of the soldiers became conscientious objectors. That is,
at the point of actually killing another person of the same
species 95% of the people couldn't do it. They shot their
bullets into the ground, high into the air or they didn't shoot
at all. Hence the need for a sergeant kicking the soldiers up
the arse and making them kill. So 5% of the soldiers did
approximately 95% of the killings. These soldiers are
generally classed by society as sociopaths, people that have
no problem killing others of the same species. This is similar
to the way the immune system sends out killer T -cells to kill
cancerous or viral cells entering the body. The other 95% of
cells in the body are not designed to kill, instead they are
designed to help sustain life.
What the 95% Rule tells us, is that in violent conflicts of a
self-defence nature (eg. street fights), 95% of the people are
going to react in exactly the same way. As in warfare
between nations, the same rules apply to a small conflict
between two people, or any situation that the brain sees as
contentious. This is a war in microcosm -a small war. So
95% of us, when faced with conflict, are not going to want to
be there, we too are going to become conscientious
objectors. What this fact allows us to comprehend, is that the
majority of people don't want to fight and if we can give
them any way out they, and we, will take it. The instinct to
run as opposed to fight, as stated earlier, is deeply imbedded
in our genes
and goes back to mammalian ancestry. Our Instinct In that
dangerous age was sharply honed for survival at any cost,
this usually meant fleeing from wild animals that wanted to
eat us and were to big/dangerous to fight against.
Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending upon your views),
these instincts are still with us, though we have lost our
understanding of them somewhat. If we flee from potential
danger in this age, especially the male of the species, we feel
-or we are made to feel -like cowards.
Posturing is the art of fighting without
fighting. This is what animals do in nature, generally with
animals of their own species. Rather than fight and kill each
other and thus threaten the survival of their own species, they
posture by making themselves as big and as aggressive as
possible, thus triggering the flight response in their opponent,
defeating them without injury. Watch the cat when he faces
the dog, his back rises, his eyes glare, he hisses aggressively.
He looks ferocious. The cat makes himself as big and
aggressive as possible to try and frighten the dog away.
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