The Circle of Life if it only applied to boys.

“We’ve seen it. The Lion King. The callow youth loses mom or dad, or his comfortable place in the tribe, and he has to fight his way back to save the kingdom from its corrupt old leader, before claiming The Captive Princess and becoming The New King and… ad infinitum. 

The Circle of Life if it only applied to boys.”

GM.

On May 31, 2014, in Waukesha, Wisconsin, two 12-year-old girls, Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier, lured their Best Friend Payton Leutner (known as Bella) into The Woods and stabbed her 19 times in an attempt to become proxies of Slender Man.

"The more I looked into it, the more I began to see that we have these Mutants living among us, right now. 

The People from The 21st Century; from The END of The 21st Century are Here. 

But there is no CONTEXT for them.

[ Context is For Kings. ] 

In The Same Way That – y’know, if you lived in… Tunguska two hundred years ago, and you were an Epileptic, you would be A Shaman. 

There was A Context for you. 

In This Society, You’re an Epileptic. 

It’s Quite Simple : "It’s a Disease, and Nothing You Say is of ANY Worth, because it’s considered Pathology."

If, on the other hand, you look at these people, who are The Mutants… and what do They call it?

Multiple Personality Disorder.

This is what lies Beyond The Personality; The “I”; The Bullshit.

Because if you take “I” to The Limit – and like I said, I’m sure a lot of us here have done this – it becomes… 

All that happens is that Self Questions Self. 

Endlessly; repetitively. 

“Am I doing This Right?" 

"Is this The Right Way?" 

"Should I think about These People like This?"

"Should I approach Them This Way; Should I involve Them This Way?” 

Self Questions Self, endlessly, and it reaches a peak… 

It Goes NOWHERE.

On The National Scale, that same thing – Self Questions Self; Self encounters Not-Self -- Equals Borders, War, Destruction.. 

That’s Where it Goes. That’s Where it Ends. 

That Thing ends in Disaster.

It ends in Neurosis on a Personal Level. 

And it ends in War on The National Level.

So I began to think: “What Could We Replace That With?” 

And I was looking at these poor MPD fuckers. 

And I realised, 

They Just Don’t Have a Context.

Krav Maga (/krɑːv məˈɡɑː/; Hebrew: קְרַב מַגָּע‎ [ˈkʁav maˈɡa(ʔ)], lit. “contact combat”) is a military self-defence and fighting system developed for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Israeli security forces derived from a combination of techniques sourced from aikido, boxing, wrestling, judo, and karate.

Krav Maga has a philosophy emphasizing aggression, and simultaneous defensive and offensive maneuvers. Krav Maga has been used by the Israel Defense Forces’ special forces units, security forces and by regular infantry units. Closely related variations have been developed and adopted by Israeli law enforcement and intelligence organizations. There are several organizations teaching variations of Krav Maga internationally.

In addition, there are two types of this martial art; one type is used in the Israeli security forces and one type is in civilian use.

Q : What advice do you have for the magicians out there who have a story to tell and want to storm the reality studio?

GM: Tell a Different Story. Tell a fresh story that speaks to its times and the people around you. A story that offers possibilities, exit strategies, rather than apocalypse and ruin. I can’t see that there’s anything else…

In the Wonder Woman book I’m doing, for instance, I’ve actively avoided writing the boy hero story that’s so ubiquitous as to seem inescapable —  the familiar story of the One, the champion, the Joseph Campbell monomyth thing that drives so many Hollywood movies and YA stories. 

We’ve seen it. The Lion King. The callow youth loses mom or dad, or his comfortable place in the tribe, and he has to fight his way back to save the kingdom from its corrupt old leader, before claiming the captive princess and becoming the new king and… ad infinitum. The Circle of Life if it only applied to boys. 

I thought, where is the mythic heroine’s story? In Ishtar Rising, Wilson talks about the myth of Inanna, and how she goes down into Hell and has to give up everything of herself to gain the wisdom and experience she can bring back to her tribe. Privileging the network rather than the sovereign individual.

And so, as I thought about the differences between the hero’s and the heroine’s journey, it gave me a bunch of different modes to work in. Finding ways to avoid telling the boy hero story again was quite liberating. It just gave me a bunch of new ideas, an interesting new way of telling stories that didn’t rely on the framework of the hero’s journey that Campbell talks about.