Death of the earth, death of the warrior...

What do I mean by death of the warrior class? Well, I want to step outside of the “survival of the fittest” box in my answer. In the short term one could argue that since we now dominate the planet we obviously must be the fittest. Can we yet control the weather? Can we stop an earthquake, a hurricane, a tornado? How about make the clouds go away so the sun could shine through? Well, I guess we have not dominated everything yet. The type of survival we now enjoy is out of sync with nature. The comforts are mostly artificial, a good flood could take them away in the blink of an eye. If you woke up tomorrow with nothing sitting in the middle of a jungle, would you have what it took to ensure you could mate, continue the family, or even survive for more than a week? Look at the couple who got stranded up in the mountains because they took a wrong turn. The environment they were in would of been nothing special to our ancestors in northern Europe a few thousand years ago. Yet one of them couldn’t make it a week. Mastering the art of driving was a skill that would not be of any use for survival in such an instance. Now say it was a plane on an island with no hope of rescue. The ones who would survive and mate would be the warriors, ones who could face the challenge and live to tell about it.

So what we have now in society is not survival at all. Sure you could say to survive on the streets, or in the board room takes survival skills, but not the kind that would mean anything in a natural setting. Man no longer has the right to challenge a person who they feel is a threat, or who has wronged them in some matter, without getting the courts involved. Some would say this is civilized, but is it really? It counters the laws of nature, perverts it even. In modern society weak traits and genes are allowed to advance through the human race unfettered by natural selection. We are no longer allowed to be warriors, we are no long allowed to coexist with nature which is built on a warrior base. Look at the world around you, are we better off? Maybe for the moment but we are eating up what is left of the earth at an alarming rate. Nobody seems to care. So when the crap hits the fan and our race finds itself stuck back in nature we will be weak, unable to survive. Trust be, it will happen. Nature has a way of righting itself. Would we be in this situation if we had not been corrupted with others values? They called the Vikings barbarians, the American Indians savages, the highlanders an uneducated lawless people. What they were striking out against was a people and a system based on a warrior society which by it’s very nature stayed in tune with the environment. It closely followed the laws of nature, something that has been removed from us in modern society. If everyone lived as these people once did, the population would be in check, the water would be clear, the ice caps would be whole, the sky would be blue, our kids would have a place to live in centuries to come. As it is now, modern civilized man may not have a place to call home in the near future. This will be due to the death of the warrior.

Man will not survive in his current state, he is sliding down hill. If you are a person of faith, I hope you see that this is just one of the benefits of following a teaching that still respects nature and the warrior ways. I fear the damage is done though and when Ragnarök comes, I want to make sure I’m fighting the good fight for a cause I believe in. My faith tells me I will be well prepared for adversity in times yet to come. I feel comfort knowing that I am preparing for life, real life not the kind sold to you on a billboard. Do what you will here on earth, you will be lucky to last 80 years here. Are you willing to sell yourself into a common boring life after death? For what? MTV, a Hummer? Was the death of a planet, your children's future, worth it? When Odin ask why you turned away from the teachings, when he ask why you showed such disrespect for nature, your children, your ancestors. You just go ahead and tell him how nice that Hummer was.