Warrior

“You are in Great Pain, 

aren't you?

You KNOW 

What Evil lurks in The Hearts of Men, 

for you have •seen• 

That Evil in Your OWN Heart. 

Every Man pays A Price for Redemption 

— This is Yours.”

“I’m not lookin' for Redemption!”

“You Have 

NO CHOICE --

You WILL be redeemed, 

Because •I• will Teach you to 

USE Your Black Shadow 

to FIGHT Evil.”

“So, you know, I have felt that 

The Men have suffered a great deal 

in losing The Wild Man, 

which is a certain form of 

spontaneity connected with 

The Wilderness itself. 

And they’ve suffered a great deal 

since the Second World War 

in losing The Warrior. 

It’s very strange how this works.

We gave up the The King, that is, 

we founded our country 

with getting rid of The King. 

And you know, 

The King is weak in American Men also 

How can it be otherwise?

MOYERS: 

The King being–

BLY: 

The King [being] The Part of The Man 

that determines What He is Going to Do Now. 

What My Course is Going to Be.

“ On December 16, 1961, The World turned upside down and inside out, and I was born, screaming, in America.

It was the end of 

The American Dream, 

just before we lost our innocence irrevocably, 

and the TV Eye brought 

The Horror of Our Lives 

into our homes for all to see.

I was told when I grew up, 

I could be anything I wanted – 

A Fireman, 

A Policeman, 

A Doctor. 

Even President, 

it seemed. 

And for the first time in The History of Mankind, 

something new called 

An 'Astronaut.'

But like many kids growing up 

on a steady diet of Westerns, 

I always wanted to be 

The Cowboy Hero :– 

That Lone Voice in The Wilderness 

fighting Corruption and Evil, wherever I found it, 

and standing for 

Freedom, Truth and Justice.

And in my 

Heart of Hearts, 

I still track the remnants 

of That Dream, wherever I go, 

on my never-ending ride 

into The Setting Sun.

“.....Unbelievable. 

And you know what’s wild, people’s, er, 

attitudes in the States about it. 

Talking about Kennedy, people come up to me :

“Bill, quit talking about Kennedy, man. 

Let it •go•. It was a long •time• ago – 

just •forget• about it.”

And I’m like 

“Alright, then don’t bring up Jesus to me.”

Why….?

And Why 

The Hell Not….?

“Because you’re PISSING PEOPLE OFF, that’s •WHY• !!”

You bring up Kennedy, 

you alienate registered Republicans;

You bring up Jesus, 

you alienate atheists, liberals,

Movement Skeptics,

The Ron Paul People,

and 

ALL non-Christians —

•Nobody• has a problem with 

King Arthur....

The man didn’t even instigate A Crusade, for crying out loud....

“Bill, you know Jesus died for your si -”

Yeah, well it was 

a long time ago. 

Forget about it!

How about this —

Get Pilate to release the fuckin’ files..!!

Quit washing your hands Pilate – Release The Goddam Files. 

Who else was on that grassy Golgotha that day?

“Bill, it was just, you know, hur, 

The Taking-over of Democracy

by a Totalitarian Government, 

let it go—”

" There is A Way of Bringing up The Child of a Samurai. 

From the time of infancy one should 

encourage bravery and avoid trivially frightening or teasing the child. 

If a person is affected by cowardice 

as A Child, it remains a lifetime scar. 

It is a mistake for parents to thoughtlessly make their children dread lightening, or to have them not go into dark places, or to tell them frightening things in order to stop them from crying.

Furthermore, A Child will become timid 

if he is scolded severely. 

One should not allow bad habits to form. 

After a bad habit is ingrained, 

although you admonish the child, 

he will not improve. 

As for such things as proper speaking and good manners, 

gradually make the child aware of them. 

Let him not know avarice. 

Other than that, if he is of a normal nature, 

he should develop well by the way he is brought up. 

Moreover, the child of parents who 

have a bad relationship will be unfilial. 

This is natural. Even the birds and beasts are affected 

by what they are used to seeing and hearing 

from the time they are born. 

Also, the relationship between Father and Child 

may deteriorate because of A Mother's Foolishness. 

A Mother loves Her Child above all things, 

and will be partial to The Child 

that is corrected by His Father. 

If she becomes The Child's Ally, 

there will be discord between Father and Son. 

Because of the shallowness of her mind, 

A Woman sees The Child as her support in old age. "

“So therefore, with My Father, I do not want or need to be shamed by him any longer. 

Well, that means that there has been some movement to get the doorknob on the inside of the door. 

That’s called A Warrior. A 

Warrior is NOT someone that goes off and kills. That’s the negative Warrior. 

That’s the one that’s without The King. 

But each of us needs our Warrior desperately.

Women have a very fierce Warrior in them, you know. They have a very fierce Warrior. And I would say that the women, in the last 20 years, have a much greater sense of their own boundaries than The Men do.

So, you know, I have felt that the men have suffered a great deal in losing THE WILD MAN, which is a certain form of spontaneity connected with The Wilderness ITSELF. 

And they’ve suffered a great deal since the Second World War in losing The Warrior. 

It’s very strange how this works.

We gave up The King, that is, we founded Our Country with getting rid of The King. And you know, The King is WEAK in American Men also; how can it be otherwise?”

MOYERS: 

The King being–

BLY: 

The King [being] the part of The Man that determines what he is going to do now. What my course is going to be.

MOYERS: 

The King can decide that for himself. That’s the whole image.

BLY: 

This is the inner King, the one who’s down there, who decides. And when he comes in “Follow your bliss,” is what Joe Campbell said. That means that the king decides that. You don’t join IBM and then do what your boss wants you to do. That means there’s only one king in the whole thing, and that’s the boss, and everybody else is a non-king.

MOYERS: 

It’s the way the world works.

BLY: 

Yeah, it’s the way it works. That’s the way it destroys inner kings in all of the men and in most of the women. So the king, then, is that part of you that can decide. And I mean it’s very private, too, because there are various kinds of kings.