Where have the warriors gone today?

They have been destoryed by the society.



Somewhere between you and me, I got lost

I'm not sure what the question is.

If you are asking why aren't there anymore knights or samurai, or in other words, skilled warriors who practice it as a trade. It's because of guns.

Weapons like the sword and the bow required skilled warriors who trained all their lives, to use them. They are not easy weapons to wield. However the gun changed armies from skilled warriors to conscripted peasants. This is because the gun is a weapon easy to use, you can learn how to use it in a matter of hours or even minutes. A peasant with a gun can defeat a skilled samurai with a sword. The peasant with the gun was more effective AND he was cheaper.

Today, soldiers in America aren't conscripted but they mostly come from poor families still.

Where have the warriors gone? They are obsolete.

Guns killed them all.

You have to understand much of this "warrior" stuff is overly romanticized. The so called "Knights" of ye olden times were'nt the noble chivalrous sort that legend has them made out to be. Same goes with warriors of old, no matter where they might have come from. You just need to research this stuff more, and then you'll find what you thought these men/women were, they never were.

You put people up on a pedestal you're going to find that they can't help but fall. As far as the old time, spirit and ethics, and code, think of it like for instance the "old west" in the US. These things pass off into antiquity, and are past. That's the way of the world. You may trying to look ahead, instead of looking back, you may fare better that way.

Read something by David Grossman and you'll see that the real definition of a warrior is someone who embraces combat as a lifestyle, who conquers others by defeating them in battle and ultimately killing them, not for money or fame or anything else, but because it's what he does. I'm a soldier but I'd never call myself a warrior because I'm a "professional killer", I get paid to do my job. If the government stopped paying me I'd probably just go home and do something that does pay. A warrior would fight regardless of pay or lack thereof, maybe partly because there really is no one else who will fight and if he doesn't do it then his people will all die. This forces him to accept that fighting is his lifestyle, not just his job. That's a true warrior.

What made the warriors go extinct? Modern society. Stuff like automobile assembly lines, beer breweries, and electronics manufacturers are all examples of highly efficient methods of producing stuff. Building cars used to be an art until robots started doing it for us. The same goes for warfare. People used to have to fight for the lives of their families and in the names of their ancestors, but now professional armies can train you to fight in a war in less than a year, give you the tools and weapons you need to survive, and on top of that they can pay you and support your family. And on top of that, you can quit just about any time you want, if you know how to work the system. Us modern soldiers are just uniformed labourers, not unlike your average factory worker. Warfare is no longer an art, it's more akin to a manufacturing process. Why are there still artists in other trades? Building cars by hand is still an art because you can do that in your garage. Brewing beer at home is still an art because you don't interfere with other people's lives by doing it. You cannot practice the art of warfare without hurting a lot of people, nor does the modern battlefield have any place for the "art of war", so war as an art form is dead because it can't be practiced.

Well, lets see.

All of the major "warriors" are in some kind of gang these days, heck most people if they are capable of that kind of power intrinsically, they will abuse it.

Second, there are a whole bunch of serious bad ass dudes that work for black water (this mercenary group).

Third, have you watched K1 fights? That's where some are (I saw this big ass black dude squish two apples into apple sauce, one in each hand on howard stern).

Then, look at our NAVY Seals. Look at them


Next, we have others like every single bad ass fool that works for the taiwan thunder squad.... damn those dudes are nasty too...

But, it's like that old school prophecy that said "The world will be cursed from one end to the other by the beast which holds a grip until the end" aka money will replace religion and well, people love money. Money causes people to not be warriors. Money also buys things to stop them.

But hey, look at our old school freedom fighters like John Dillinger. He was the greatest.

And Morihei Ushiba. Craziest martial artist to ever live. Saposidly killed more people in the military then all other folk lore heros combined.

People also still practice Bak Mei Kung Fu (that's what people also know as Pak Mei or Pei Mei as in White Eyebrow from Kill Bill 2) Not like people just invented these hero's to scare you or to show off or anything.



So if you think about it, and realize Bak Fu Pai or Pak Mei Pai/Bak Mei Pai are real, anchient systems and this stuff called "Wu Shu" was just sort of made up and passed down like some forms of traditional tai chi imagine what the real stuff was and is capable of.

From what I heard, the five original styles of Kung Fu are all perfectly completely intact but owned entirely by the triad.

Plus, how do you know these people don't hang out near your home?

I am sure, that's the point Stan Lee was making with his comics about the X-Men before onslaught. How people can have power but in todays society it's not exactly welcomed too warmly.

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No you are really asking "where have the heroes gone"

The warriors are all here, the fighting is just on such a large scale now that heroics are expected as the norm, its much harder for valor to be recognized and rewarded as hundreds of thousands are fighting in forces now.

True enough the standard is so high for soldiers now that gaining honor on the battlefield is ridiculously hard, it just shows the quality of the fighting force we have. As corny as it may sound, they are all heroes to me, the amount of brass on the chest is not how I make my decison, just serving and doing your part of the whole is.

Likewise for those of us not serving, the many make up the whole. Every American who gets up in the morning or night, puts on their uniform, be it a mc donalds shirt or a power suit is a part of the greater whole. I appreciate every quality worker out there who does their job with pride and does it well. I appreciate the ever rarer teenager who takes my fast food order and gets me on my way so I can get back to being productive. I appreciate the patrol officer who is looking to keep his area as safe as possible just by being in his squad car and being nosey. I appreciate the person who stocks the local Wal-Mart over night so that I can run in and get what I need to provide food and entertainment to my family. I appreciate them just as much as the doctor who transplanted my father's kidney because they are all parts of the system and each failure in part causes failure on the whole.

I know people in the system feel they are not important, and many ignorant people on many levels may perpetuate that, but the truth is every ant is important to the hive.

Just be the best ant you can be, that is what the little guy can do.