Anti-Warrior's Quest movements. Within
the Warrior’s Quest vision there have been those who reject or
dissent from its four themes. They often do so at a
risk to their own life through being executed as heretics
or sent to prison for refusing to fight in wars. There
is a long list of those who would claim that they live
an anti-Warrior’s Quest life. Within the Abrahamic Big Story there
is the over-arching theme of the Jewish people, themselves,
resisting illegitimate authority. Christianity’s Jesus
is held up as a nonviolent Jew, and for many his life is evidence of
a pacifistic faith. In Islam there is Badshah (Abdul
Ghaffar Khan). The list goes on.
These dissenters participate within a diverse range
of “anti-movements” that have arisen down
through the millennia and which have professed seemingly
non-Warrior’s Quest visions and values. The movement of
nonviolence is the most obvious anti-movement. Its proponents
can cite the life and work of someone from just about every major
religious tradition and Big Story as opposing
the Warrior’s Quest vision.
Yet, Earthfolk note that the
“nonviolent warrior” also suffers from
these
PTSD symptoms.
Sad to say, as a sojourning
alien observes, “somehow” these
anti-movements have not caused the Warrior’s
Quest believers to pause for a nanosecond or to blink.
Gandhi’s movement chased the British out of India
but it did not fundamentally change Hindus into pacifists. Likewise,
Martin Luther King opposed the American military juggernaut
…was murdered…Did Christians or the black community convert
to pacifism? Popes and America’s Catholic
bishops have issued numerous encyclicals condemning total warfare,
but is Roman Catholicism preaching nonviolence from its pulpits?
The “somehow”
is evident to Earthfolk.
Even the pacifistic faiths and anti-movements are
equally reliving the trauma at the
heart of the Warrior’s Quest vision, namely, the
traumatic acts that express the four common
themes.
They fail at transforming the Warrior’s
Quest vision because they do not thoroughly
understand that vision and how all its themes
weave together. They fail to grasp and gain
insight into the ritual character of the Manhattan
Project as it imagined and produced the atomic bomb—and
so fail to realize the need to counter by ritual
living.
Continue—anti-movements
