Steven Pressfield
But Resistance doesn’t stop there (see last week’s post). It attacks us with distractions like the web and social media. It seduces us with sex and drugs and rock ‘n roll. It diverts us into vices like abuse of ourselves or others, addiction, self-dramatization.
Read MoreAll prior reports in this series have been about battles with internal Resistance. This one’s about the real world.
Read MoreThe hero in American Westerns (and Samurai tales and post-apocalyptic movies like “Mad Max”) is the Warrior Archetype personified, at least in its latter-day configuration of the solitary man of violence, who lives by his own code and operates as a law unto himself.
Read MoreThe yogis of Alexander’s India sat in silence, naked in the sun.
Read More“I have conquered the need to conquer the world” means “I have defeated the dark side of the Warrior Archetype within me.”
Read MoreAre warriors the same in all centuries, in all nations?
Read MoreMy girlfriend Diana and I were shooting a video for the “Warrior Archetype” series when we came upon this charming country cottage.
Read MoreToday’s episode borrows heavily from Victor Davis Hanson’s book, The Western Way of War, whose thesis is that the way Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, and all great Western generals down to today chose to wage war was to seek a pitched, decisive infantry battle that, at one blow, would decide everything.
Read MoreThe Greeks gave us democracy, courts of law, philosophy, drama, much more.
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