Very well written and very appropriate.
In Christianity/Catholic (i.e. the OG of christianity), to achieve knight status was the pinnacle of man. In Japanese … being the wise samurai and teacher of those to fight the same …
What we need to figure out is how to do that fighting not with the fists or the cocks, or the liver … but those of the mind.
It isn’t easy, because I don’t know where it comes from (maybe the explosion of sexuality on a young mind) but the long, rejection and anger cycles starts very young when the power of sex kills the inner boy in all of us.
The reality is women are really attracted to the inner boy and mindful man protecting the boy in a man. The hard part is how do we all resurrect what is or has been dead in us for many years …
Addiction is done because the raw sexual energy in men is so potent it is like crack cocaine. We use drugs to deal and numb us to prevent the acceptance that we need to temper the flame that burns us out from the inside.