One indication of the post-traumatic
stress disorder which afflicts the Warrior’s Quester
is his/her inability to discover Belovedness.
Instead of sighting the Other and
sensing preciousness, the Warrior’s Quester sees
an Intimate Enemy.
Instead of being peacefully and comfortably
at-home with an Other, the Warrior’s Quester attacks—rapes
and pillages, seeks to annihilate and obliterate.
Instead of questing for a nurturing
embrace with the body of an Other, the Warrior’s Quester denies
that intimacy offers more than just pleasure, and often
values it only as a breeding inevitability.
The Warrior’s Quester’s sense of individuality
is, upon close review, truly weak. The Warrior
does not seek a robust, creative individuality, rather, he/she seeks
to become a cog in the war machine, to surrender
and lose personal identity as part of say, “The Corps.”
Warrior’s Questers are ferocious
as an army but cowardly as individuals. They are, as
noted before, afraid of their own shadow—both
psychically and as cast by the Mushroom Cloud.
The Warrior's Quester avoids
personal moral responsibility. He/she claims that as a fighting soldier
they are not morally responsible for battlefield murders.
They claim that as part of, say, “The Corps,”
they can commit any atrocity imaginable and avoid
being held personally responsible. The few cases in military
history where individual soldiers have been tried, only underscores
the exceptionality and irregularity of individuals accepting such responsibilities
for their heartfelt murderous acts.
