Hey there, people who've followed me recently! I only know a handful of you (and then mostly from your blogs). If I don't know you, tell me something about yourself! How did you find me? What sorts of things do you care about? *cough* uhh, watcha following me for?
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You might like this then! I feel like it's getting at metarationalist ideas via systems of martial arts.https://blackbeltmag.com/arts/jeet-kune-do/liberate-yourself-from-classical-karate/ …
This is a classic, and really highlights why I love MMA as an example of what happens when closed systems collide in a more-open meta-arena, of sorts. MMA is still a closed system, but one born from the interface of a bunch of very rigid systems.
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The cultural architecture is much less rigid, and the cohesive tensions are based on principles more aligned with practicality rather than ideology and/or historical authority.
@Sciamanoinglese wrote about similar ideas here: https://posttraditionalbuddhism.com/2016/05/01/what-does-buddhism-have-to-learn-from-the-evolution-of-martial-arts/ …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Right! You know the Rickson Gracie documentary covering his Vale Tudo (precursor to MMA) tournaments in Japan? It’s called ‘Choke.’ Although it’s a personal portrait, it’s also about systems forming people (& RG being, in some sense meta, or product of a mélange).
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Yes! I love Choke. And yes you're right, it's a good portrait of the reflexive relationship between individuals and systems. One face of this is that RG is shaped by BJJ & yoga (and so on), which in turn has had a massive influence on the psycho-physical culture of MMA & BJJ.
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