Comments on: Extreme Wing Chun http://www.w1ng.com/extreme-wing-chun/ Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:28:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Terence Niehoff http://www.w1ng.com/extreme-wing-chun/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Terence Niehoff Sat, 22 Dec 2007 14:55:56 +0000 http://www.w1ng.com/extreme-wing-chun/#comment-13 I don't think WCK itself is necessarily one of Dawkin's "viruses of the mind" but I do think that it encompasses many of the "viruses" from traditional chinese (martial) culture. And those "viruses" act to make TCMAs/WCK psychologically unhealthy and martially unviable. In my view, the challenge is to identify these "viruses", eliminate them, and practice and/or teach "virus free" WCK. That can only be done by ruthlessly and objectively examining what we do in the cold light of application/results and critically analyzing that evidence using critical thinking. But many people don't want to eliminate those "viruses": it is precisely those "viruses" that attract many to the TCMAs in the first place. Those people are more interested in the "viruses" than the WCK. WCK is just a means -- or a host -- to practice those "viruses". The extreme "group think" that the article I cite discusses describes one of the psychological processes that both indoctrinates and reinforces those "viruses". I don’t think WCK itself is necessarily one of Dawkin’s “viruses of the mind” but I do think that it encompasses many of the “viruses” from traditional chinese (martial) culture. And those “viruses” act to make TCMAs/WCK psychologically unhealthy and martially unviable. In my view, the challenge is to identify these “viruses”, eliminate them, and practice and/or teach “virus free” WCK. That can only be done by ruthlessly and objectively examining what we do in the cold light of application/results and critically analyzing that evidence using critical thinking.

But many people don’t want to eliminate those “viruses”: it is precisely those “viruses” that attract many to the TCMAs in the first place. Those people are more interested in the “viruses” than the WCK. WCK is just a means — or a host — to practice those “viruses”. The extreme “group think” that the article I cite discusses describes one of the psychological processes that both indoctrinates and reinforces those “viruses”.

]]> By: Rene Ritchie http://www.w1ng.com/extreme-wing-chun/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Rene Ritchie Sat, 22 Dec 2007 03:07:12 +0000 http://www.w1ng.com/extreme-wing-chun/#comment-12 To misquote another meme: Like the typings of 1000 angry chimps... minus 999 chimps... :) To misquote another meme:

Like the typings of 1000 angry chimps… minus 999 chimps… :)

]]> By: Robert Chu http://www.w1ng.com/extreme-wing-chun/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Robert Chu Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:22:28 +0000 http://www.w1ng.com/extreme-wing-chun/#comment-11 WCK a meme - a virus of the mind. http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/Dawkins/viruses-of-the-mind.html The story of the monkeys cracked me up! WCK a meme – a virus of the mind.

http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/Dawkins/viruses-of-the-mind.html

The story of the monkeys cracked me up!

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