Violence

Buddhist (卐) depiction of
Kurukullā (རིག་བྱེད་མ་)

Violence |
Thursday – November 5, 2026

Sincerely, we must admit to ourselves that violence is sometimes necessary, but violence is also more than just necessary sometimes quite justified and good, under the right circumstances, and here I am by no means referring to vapid notions of humanism; I am referring to sacred notions of rank and duty, read "Qualification". Now, we must also admit to ourselves that not every man is made to uphold this duty, not every man is a warrior and not every warrior is justified or righteous. Indeed, in modern times we have seen that in fact most men are not warriors, and the men that we may recognize as true warriors are often not justified in their violence, and more often than not this has been the case because their violence has been perpetrated in the name of materialism and ideological indoctrination, rather than in the name of something quite righteous and good, such as in the case of the crusades. Really, what must be said about modern armies and their structure, is that they are quite monstrous, artifacts of the modern world and its many confusions, and this is surely the reason why modern people are seemingly affected by a very ugly and rude brutality, brutalism and stupidity, and of course these things do tend to go hand in hand, read "Directing Films".

    Now, often we may be presented with a dilemma in the case of violence, or we may be forced to engage in violence due to the acute situation that we are facing, and yes these are valid considerations, and when it comes to the dilemma of violence in particular we may be faced with the awful sensation of anxiety, but in regards to this last point I ask this: are we not better off suffering from anxiety, rather than engaging in violence where violence was not justified, or at any rate not yet justified? Besides, are you a man capable of engaging in violence, are you truly capable of wielding the sword? Is this not the primordial dilemma? Yes of course, and in the course of differentiation, some men are more capable and more well suited for violence, while some men are not, and the egalitarianism of assuming on some vague and miss applied evolutionary basis that most people are equally capable of violence, and here we are not merely referring to the denseness of a violent struggle, we also have to consider the mentality of the warrior, and not of the soldier, the aimless slave. Then we have the modern confusion that is the abstraction of violence, that is to say the attempt to further and further remove violence, or the violence felt in the world, from the man committing the violence, which is a natural course in the progression of the material order; really, today we can expect the maximal amount of violence to be committed not by the warrior wielding the sword, but rather by the formless man, the bureaucrat that Dr. Hannah Arendt pointed out, and so yes we are left with the uncomfortable realization that indeed, violence today is rather banal, and even anticlimactic, almost virtual – a video game. A man that is divorced from consequences is not a true man, and he is certainly not a warrior – that man is a coward and a slave, and such a man is truly dangerous, not because of intent, but rather because he lacks knowledge and nuance, he lacks grounding in the world, even if we are only considering the material world. See, violence today is quite beyond the material domain; violence today belongs much more to the subtle infra material domain.

    Now, beyond merely reducing and degrading violence into the infrahuman realm, most modern people believe themselves to be quite capable of judging instances where violence is justified, based too on some ideological framework, though this framework is always fleeting and ever transient, based of course on personal preference, and not on some stable principle based in deep history, and perhaps above all based on the great tradition, and on God, the Creator. Too we should perhaps also ask ourselves whether or not this abstraction of violence is justified if indeed violence can turn out the demons within men to such an extent? Again, are we perhaps dealing with two problems: the first problem being the fact that most men simply are not cut out to be warriors, and so we expect them to function instead as these rather worthless compartmentalized tools, skin bags, cannon fodder – soldiers; and are we perhaps overcome with the need to seek destruction, to destroy, to pillage and to plunder, to murder in the name of one ideological narrative over another in the name of some material end, are we (the moderns) perhaps more violent and more monstrous? One thing remains clear: there is no honour in war, there is no honour in modern warfare, for modern warfare has been completely secularized and degenerated into something completely different, truly a monster, a mutant, a lie, a counterfeit. You see, without proper grounding, read "Hierarchy", these things tend to happen; this is the "human animal", in true form, the goal seemingly of liberalism: to stip away every quality true to man, everything that used to characterize humanity; and what we are left with is truly hideous, and yes a monstrosity.

    Now, I can promise no cure, read "The Eschatology of the Kali Yuga", to the present condition, for no such cure exists. Instead, you must learn to exist in some kind of adjacent or approximate distance to violence in the modern context without engaging in it yourself, and indeed for most men this is quite the hurdle, and if you wish to read more about that, I can recommend two of my posts from the "Answering Readers series" that deal with this, you find them here and here. This does not mean complete pacifism, indeed radical peace, nor does it mean disarmament in the face of evil, instead this is about being intelligent, nuanced, and thoughtful, not stupid, not dense, and not sentimental. Do not allow them to lead you into violence, for this is what they need you to do, what they wish you to do. Instead, always remain calm and clear in your objection to their ways and to their kind, the monster (the beast). Now, these above-mentioned principles apply to all aspects of life in the modern world, but in particular they apply to the usage of violence.

Reginald Drax (AKA, M. C. Dutt) – November 5, 2026.