June 19, 2025

Bodhidharma Yoshitoshi (達磨)
1887

Thursday:
My views on the modern soldier archetype – June 19, 2025

The warrior archetype of the man that has sought the light and achieved transcendence in his own right – the nobleman has nothing to do with the inscrutable, formless, and soulless being that is the modern soldier – the man of indiscriminate acceptance and blind love for his illegitimate superiors, in true egalitarian fashion and the belief in great quantities. The modern soldier is the beast in his most advanced and obedient form, the man of the mass, rendered void of any true manly qualities and made into a loyal servant, but only loyal to the powers that be at the moment, and expected to adhere to that loyalty, even in the event that he should find himself in serious moral contention with that power. This is the state, and has been the state for some time, of the modern so-called warrior—the soldier of the mass in defense of the material circumstances at the moment, without regard for the celestial order and the moral boundaries therein—all in order to secure the power of the revolutionary elite in the name of the nation.

    In the past, prior to the inception of the nation-state and the outright rejection of the celestial authority in the name of the "enlightenment", men who sought to uphold righteousness did that in the name of the moral order and for the just cause of morality itself, without regard for the lust and the sin inherent to the beastly nature of the human condition, but in modern times this dynamic has been completely and utterly turned upside down and the warrior has been rendered a criminal among otherwise good men seeking their righteous claims on the material domain. What is the modern warrior, but a creature approaching the human limit of singularity – the robot? Modern man can only conceive of the material domain, and his fight is for the victory of the long game of the Darwinian concept of the survival of the fittest, as measured by his material quantities tied to his purse – the complete degeneration of the warrior spirit and the warrior archetype.

Interpreting Buddhist Protector
Begtse Chen (中文)

    In the modern day, most men worthy of the noble rank have transformed into the beast and in turn left out the possibility to attain true ascendance, thus leaving the only possibility of gaining true skillful means in battle to the material domain, creating wars of ever more destructive outcomes, yet with ever less certain outcomes. The individual and the man of the mass, the populist horde, is swung into battles for the sole purpose of achieving more favorable material circumstances for the revolutionary elite, that have captured the mind of men and conditioned them into the beast. Where warriors of the glorious past made beasts into men and transformed the landscape and allowed the moral order to ascend down to the Earth and crush the infidel horde at the heart of the serpents nest, the modern soldier instead defends and uplifts the moral order of the day, the laws of the animal nature, the whims of the moment, steered in the singular direction of more materialistic and hedonistic purists, in the name of the total liberation of man from his material circumstances, so that he may be enabled to live in ecstasy for the short term pleasures he may amount in what he otherwise regards to be a meaningless existence – such is the treachery and the idolatry of the modern soldier of the mass that is the people conscripted to serve the revolutionary elite.

    Modern warfare is nothing but the game of the man who has transformed and regressed the most into the animal, the beast of the material man and the liberal mind, for his victories are the destruction of all decency on Earth and the rejection of the celestial order. This is why any far seeing man should reject the call by the revolutionary elite and their intelligentsia to arm themselves in the defense of the rotten system upholding the decay of man himself as its highest motif, all for the gain of short term quantities and hedonism. Depart the material world and do away with the arms of the tyranny on Earth controlled by that nest of serpents – embrace the pacific outlook when the beast rears his ugly face!

Reginald Drax – June 19, 2025.