CHALLANGE TO THE FUTURE

CHALLENGE TO THE FUTURE
Strategy, method and project explained by Gabriele Adinolfi:

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THE DROP ERODES THE STONE

Yes, but what can be done?
I haven't heard this question for years, a question that had coexisted with a significant portion of my
life at a time when the urge to confront reality was ever-present.
How so? To be honest, only a select few ever posed this question. It was the life talking, the longing
to commit oneself, as in Marco Piazzesi's Diario di uno Squadrista Toscano: …”let’s create the
Republic or the Monarchy, the Revolution or the Reaction, but let's create something!

WE ARE THE MISSING LINK

There is a lack of something, there is a empty space to fill.
Which one? In a time of total transformation, when Globalization and various forms of Mondialism (and protest against one and the other) dominate the scene, when nothing more is replicable than the politics we knew, when democracy as ritual is dead and is. - instead - tyrannical as a corrupted soul, one must change by remaining oneself.
This is rarely done because daily stresses attract too many people and push them to mutate dna (dissolution) or erect psychorigid barricades (fossilization).
Over everything the two temptations are equivalent and cancel each other out without a winning synthesis.
Then one thinks, writes, debates, theorizes (intellectual suggestion) or one pretends to ride the electoral myth because, one says, it is with those tools that one changes everything (party suggestion).

THE WAY OF THE SWORD

Introduction to the spirit of kendo

Federico Goglio

The Cowboy: “Good evening.” Adam Kesher: “Good evening to you.” The Cowboy: “Lovely night. I’d like to thank you for leaving your hotel and coming all this way to meet me.” Adam Kesher: “My pleasure. What’s on your mind?” The Cowboy: “Well, well… Here’s a man in a hurry to get down to business. You’re eager to know, aren’t you?” Adam Kesher: “What do you think?” The Cowboy: “A man’s attitude. A man’s attitude goes hand in hand with the life he’ll lead. Do you agree with that?” Adam Kesher: “Yes…” The Cowboy: “Did you answer that way because you thought it was what I wanted to hear… or did you actually think about what I said and answer because you truly believe it?” Adam Kesher: “I agree with what you said.” The Cowboy: “What did I say?” Adam Kesher: “That a man’s attitude determines his life.” The Cowboy: “Then, since you agree… you must be a man who doesn’t care much for a comfortable life…”

(Mulholland Drive, David Lynch)

The B.J.J.

Self-mastery is an arduous and essential
journey, a masterpiece for the lansquenet
spirit
Luigi Mazzetti di Pietralata

“Where there is discomfort, there is fear. In these very difficult positions,
you find yourself in a small corner of hell. And through this daily suffering,
you learn how to survive in those situations. You must become comfortable
in uncomfortable situations. You must be able to live your worst nightmare.
Jitsu puts you in situations where you must be fully focused to find a
solution to the problem. This trains the mind to build concentration,
increase awareness, and enhance your problem-solving ability. Sometimes,
you won’t win. You can’t always win. But this has nothing to do with defeat”.
Rickson Gracie

Martial Arts and Combat
Sports: from power to action

Luca Tinti

Castor: A contest between two men using fists.
Pollux: With fists as well as with feet.
Castor: With all the strength you have.
(Theocritus)
Nunc, si cui virtus animusque in pectore praesens, adsit et evinctis atollat brachia
palmis. Now, if someone possesses skill and ready courage, let him come forward and
raise his arms with bandaged fists.
(Virgil Canto V Aeneid)
French boxing is the product of great patience and long study. When you know
everything there is to know you invent more. And when you have invented more, you
still have to learn.
Georges Carpentier (boxer and actor)

Operative Tao and the Landsknechts

Reinterpreting the myth of the cave by Plato in the "Republic",chapter VII * A discipline of body and spirit

by Christian René Robin

The practice of Tai Chi Quan allows the practitioner to balance
and direct the mind. It is a full awareness of one's own
corporeality through understanding and the will to act on
oneself. This technique offers everyone the possibility to realign
and free themselves from the contingencies of the world,
achieving a salutary mental detachment. No longer subject
exclusively to discursive reason Tai Chi Quan allows the
individual to efficiently understand the natural and independent
power of the physical body on the mind. The mind is left
unaffected by all else and comes to believe it has full
dominance over the subject before it. The practice then
develops fundamental abilities: the power of sustained mental
concentration and internal control of the body, both muscular
and organic. It is a strengthening exercise of both body and
mind.

E u r o p e

by Gabriele Adinolfi

ONCE UPON A TIME THE VANGUARD

As a boy the watchword that stood out among us was “Europe Nation”.
Behind that magic formula hided something very much different from an intelectual’s theory,
expressed by a double awareness attributed to: identity and destiny.
At the time the political commitment was not superficial, neurasthenic and sterile as nowadays is.
The militant was neither a consumer nor a tele voter, neither trained to the binary language nor
imagining the revolution either as a flash on the window of a social network or as a gust of tweet or
sms.

Imperium/Empire

by Gabriele Adinolfi

Imperium was not only the source and the attribute of the military command in Rome, but an axial
prerogative, like the sword, the fasces and the sceptre, which, as such, represented the Axis of the
world.
It was originally connected to Lictorian fasces in ancient Roman monarchy, when, to take the
kingship meant especially to be Rex et Pontifex, and so to act as a bridge between the visible and the
invisible, and especially as a landmark.