Indigenous Ability

[Originally offered as "Can You Afford the Time to Read This? Can You Afford Not To ." By request, I offer these two pieces as a whole. Those who find this approach to life soul-resonating may find Part 3, " Lifetime Asymmetry " of like value--all available in our book The Frontier Stoic: Life Lessons from Those Who Lived a Life . Available at some fly-by-night store called Amazon .] How old are you? Me? I’m 58, be 59 in 3 weeks. Convert your age into months. Me? 696 months and 3 weeks. The average lifespan of the adult male in the US is 74.8 years, for women it is 76.3. That’s 897 months and 912 months respectively. The average human lifespan is less than 1,000 months. [And that’s assuming we make it that long. There Are NO Guarantees.] If you are a male and are 38 years old or older, you have already used up over half of your average lifespan reserve. 39 or older if you are female. Subtract your current lived months from your average lifespan mon...

  “ In such colonial warfare all were soldiers because all lived on the battlefield .”-Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian and author of the Bancroft Prize winning trilogy The Americans. The early American mind, the rough hewn frontier rough n tumble mindset was one diametrically opposed to open field, fair play “warfare” tactics, a culture less steeped in the sportive affections of Mother England and the Continent. The orderly rules of warfare described by men such as Grotius in his De jure belli ac pacis [ On the Law of War and Peace ] or even in the combat games that followed an early “sense of fair play” such as the boxing rules laid down by Broughton and later the Marquis of Queensberry, well, these did not hold in the New World. This passion for orderliness in sport and war was practically non-existent in the new realties of the New World. War in Early America simply did not follow the “ rules .” Combat sport in the New World was equally as “ free and wild .” Indigen...

  A few stats. ·         93% of UFC matches utilize the cage for striking, control, or takedown assistance. ·         Well over 90%. What’s that? The percentage according to a Law Enforcement survey of scuffles from control-to-cuffing that also place obstacles [from curbs to cars to walls, etc.] as being part of the combat environment. ·         An analysis of over 250 firsthand accounts of Eastern Frontier Early American Warfare [settlers vs. Indigenous population] that took place inside cabins or garrisons shows that 202 of these accounts mention the construct of the cabin/garrison itself as being part of the melee. From the true Frontier rough n tumble realties of garrison survival, to modern law enforcement interactions, to the current incarnation of combat sports—the “ Pressed Upright ” environment is not only a large part of the combat picture, it is a statistical ...