Jeet Kune Do and the Art of Health Defense
Chapter 1 - Know What You Don't Know
Here
we are in the future. Let's ask where was Jeet Kune Do going? I
learned JKD in the Army 40 years ago. I was interested in the
psychology and the philosophy right from the start. It took me decades
to get really deep into it. I think when you read The Tao of Jeet Kune
Do you can get a sense of his philosophy and psychology as opening a
door.
Dan Inosanto said Bruce was always changing and adapting. The JKD of
1968 was not the JKD of 1970. Ted Wong said the Jeet Kune Do today is not the one he was taught. Right before he passed Bruce closed his
Schools and handed everything over to Dan Inosanto. He wanted to espouse his concepts, philosophies, and psychology through movies. We
tend to think he would have kept everything under the JKD umbrella.
I'm not so sure. What is for certain is that the JKD we know today
would be vastly different than JKD 2040.
How can you know what you don't know?
You don't have to. As long as you do all you possibly can to the
utmost of your ability then then whatever happens is meant to be. This
is easier said than done because how do you know? Bruce Lee said it is
very difficult to express one's self honestly. For him there was no
separation between life and Jeet Kune Do, he lived it. But he said it
was just a tool. He was always evolving.
Jeet
Kune Do is just a name used, a boat to get one across, and once across
it is to be discarded and not to be carried on one's back.
- Bruce Lee
I recently saw a article asking if
Martial Arts "need to evolve" lest they become obsolete. All of them.
When the military chooses a handgun they have to be ready to evolve.
What if each Pistol is a different Martial Arts style? The Army used
the Colt M1911 pistol for 70 years until 1986 it got replaced by the
less powerful Beretta M9 because it could hold twice the rounds. After
30 years the M9 got replaced with the more powerful Sig Sauer because
it's more modular and adaptable. At the end of the day it's just one
of the soldiers Tools, an excellent Handgun. Today the war is Cyber.
Information is the battlefield. Adam Aleksic said algorithms are the culprits, influencers are the accomplices, language is the weapon, and we are the victim. Algorithms could be the weapons, influencers can be enemies, language is a tool, and we can avoid being the victim.
Jeet Kune was developed in a analog world. Today all the rules have
changed. In the analog world you are innocent until proven guilty. In
the new electronic world it is somewhat the opposite everyone is suspect
until verified. The government, the police, the Food Chain,
Healthcare, the school system, none of it can keep up with the
algorithms of Facebook, Google, Amazon. The bartender at the Legion
told me he feels he can't do anything anymore. I said I feel your pain
I don't like living my life through the phone. I'm old school I
actually use the computer and a Mouse. Nobody uses a Mouse anymore. I
love Mouse Pads. They'll be all gone someday soon as everything
becomes an App on the phone. He was complaining about passwords. I
complain about having too many he was complaining about have any at
all. Our whole way of life can't seem to keep up.
Jeet Kune Do translates to "Intercepting Fist." If you had to pick one
-Power or Predictability, which would you choose? The Hollywood
narrative would have you picking Power. Fighting Fighting Fighting.
That's what everybody wants. Power sounds good but it's not
predictable. With predictability you get power, for free, it's like
two for one. Predictability is about the path you're on. Power is
about Obstacles. Power leads to always wanting (needing) more. If you
seek predictability then life is no longer about obstacles, it's all
about which "paths" to take. Life is about paths. Predictability is a
form of interception.
Young people want to manipulate control, rather than investigate the
source of instigation. To pursue control is a like a dog chasing his
tail. The closer you get just pushes you farther away. Stop running.
When you're stuck on a Escalator just get off. Alan Watts told me once
you get the message hang up the phone. It's power vs predictability.
Modern cognitive science is hardly 40 years old. We still been stumbling
around in the dark ages just making stuff up. Today we can begin to
see why we couldn't see why. This opens up previously unknown aspects
of our health, security and finance.
Those
who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never see the
light.
- Bruce Lee
How do we stop tripping over
everything and constantly bumping into stuff? You can't take your
blinders off if you don't know they are on. Come out of the darkness.
The dark side is to falsely believe, "If I don't know - it won't hurt
me." That's click bait for your soul. When you live like that is when
knowledge, truth, and science becomes your hindrance. Know that your
mind puts on blinders. It's ok, it's very natural. It's the default,
just take them off. Right now.
Health
Is The New Wealth
We're on a rocky road right now, with the young people having a
mental health crisis. If you have anxiety don't negate it navigate it. If you
have confusion and uncertainty don't fear it steer it.
Change is here. Humans suddenly doubled and tripled their life
expectancy in little over 100 years. This is too
sudden. Too soon. To be thrust into the verification
of authentication of our narration. For 231,573 eons humans
believed whatever anyone said. We are now in the age
of authentication of verification of information. Society can appear to be closing in on us or collapsing. It's not. It's just adapting to the change in our "cognitive information diet" or cogno info diet, as one does.
What you have in your cogno info diet is now important. It wasn't before, but it is now. Brain food you could call it. We didn't know you could "feed" the brain like your dog in the kitchen. Pour a bowel of Purina Brain Food Complete Essentials or Purina Vital Systems, Pro Plan of course. The urgent matter is that the human cognitive architecture has holes in it that must be plugged before AI gets hold of their geospatial location information. If these holes are breached human "history" can be permanently deleted. At that point you don't know that you don't know, and you go, into a spiral the wrong direction, eventually spreading to all humans. This is time sensitive we have to clean this up before its too late. Its an AI arms race.
AI is racing humans to figure out the magic algorithm that can harness all humans. AI can't do it by itself, it needs help. It needs corporate health. "AI represents for corporate leaders productivity without, the "tax" of human labor." WHAT!?! Did he jus call human existence a Tax? He said AI considers humans as a tax on business. Trisdan Harris said that. That doesn't sound good. Humans need to get it together before AI figures out what's going on.
Humans have way too much cognitive dissonance and have to level the disparity and catch up. Human cognitive agility is over-valued, that according to the "Buffett Indicator." If not adjusted a correction will take place.
In the meantime
at St. Alphonso's Pancake breakfast some clever cyber stooges using abusing artificial intelligence could steer us the wrong way, feed us a bullshit version of our
past and take control of our future. Are we ducks in a barrel? Maybe this threat is exaggerated and we're okay. Our economy is at record levels thriving and we live long what else could go wrong? We live wrong but we live long are we wrong?
The guest on the Andrew Huberman Lab show was Dr. Shanna Swan, Ph.D., professor of environmental medicine and reproductive health at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. She is the world's leading expert on the harmful impact of chemicals in our food, water, cosmetics, and various household and consumer products in our homes and hormones. The question is not where are we getting poisoned from, the question is what can we do about it, because they are everywhere in everything.
She explains how exposure to phthalates and other endocrine disruptors adversely impacts our brain, body, fetal development and puberty. Her study is the first to replicate, in humans, the changes in hormones and fertility due to disruptive environmental toxins, such as pesticides, and certain foods and beverages we consume. We have to be careful because now with AI in medicine there will be a never ending discovery of toxins. As we connect the genes in the gnome there will be endless harmful reactions discovered under every rock.
The human genome in 2022 topped out at 3.1 billion pairs of DNA, oh my the combinations of mutations is off the charts. It took twenty years just to map it, the 3.1 billion pairs. Now the work is to connect the dots. The number of genetic DNA combinations in humans is virtually infinite due to the vast number of genes and the diversity of DNA sequences. Each human has around 25,000 genes. The total possible combinations of alleles for genes in humans is approximately 70,368,744,177,664. These figures illustrate the complexity and diversity of human genetics.
Diseases have changed over time because now more chronic diseases have presented themselves. According to the current definition of health almost no one is ‘completely healthy’ because there is always some new test or some new threat coming. The goal post is always moving you can always find some thing.
At what point do we stop and look at the value, in time, in our life expectancy, are these choices worth it? Time is what life is made of. Especially in the second half of life memories gain in value over time. Material things, money, go the opposite direction.
It's a bit overwhelming when you hear we are swimming in harmful endocrine disruptors, chemicals such as phthalates, endless plastics, bisphenol A (BPA), BPS, and PFAS. You could say then how come in only the last 100 years our life expectancy doubled and tripled? Therein lies the rub. This chemical stew took 50 years to build up and only just recently became a toxic soup we all are swimming in. Twenty five years from now I'll be 90 I'm not having babies. It seems like the young folk out there should really be paying attention to this. They are a human science experiment. Youngfolk don't read webpages like Fangboy Village and they don't watch hour+ interviews with professors using medical jargon that is hard to follow.
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In my opinion everything in life boils down to bio-feedback of some sort or another. That means we need a reference. Very scientific. A "Personal Baseline" of sorts.
A solid Self Health Reference (Health Defense architecture) that is there
for you anytime you need to use it. It's like a friend who has your
back. One of its most important jobs is to jar you out of complacency.
Complacency is a form of cognitive blindness. The bio-feedback breaks down.
Bruce Lee talked about this quite
a bit in his own cryptic way. You have to read between his lines. When
he said, "Your greatest enemy is the element of surprise. To defeat
that enemy don't be surprised". He meant that you can overcome most
problems if you know it's coming or you are ready to not know. I think he meant if you practice getting surprised enough, when it really does happen, you will be used to not be used to it. It sort of normalizes the abnormal.
The other day I saw a sign in front of a Shoe Store it said we're,
"Like a Health Food Store for your feet." I thought that's great but
where is the Health Food Store for my Food!? When I was knee high to a
grasshopper in the 1960's my Mum worked at the, "Health House" and it
was a health food store. It was part GNC part Grocery part old school
drugstore. That never really caught on. When the 1970's hit everything
was about live fast die young. That worked for awhile, seemingly. But
soon everyone was living longer as medical advances exploded in the
90's and today the problem is wreck your health and -you don't die.
You linger in poor quality of life.
DEFEND YOUR HEALTH
The Australian health care system generally gets pretty good marks!
You can see that in the most recent Commonwealth Fund rankings of
international health care systems. Australia came in second out of the
11 countries included. The United States, came in last. In the USA we
too often vote against our own SHI (self health interest).
Some people abuse themselves and live to be 80, others do everything
correct and drop dead at 60. You don't really know. Why tempt fate?
Nobody is perfect, everybody picks their poisons, and that being the
case when you do have chances to do the correct thing take advantage
and do it. Score some points to defend your health. Look for ways to
gain a little here and there. Formulae One Teams shave off a bolt or a
plate just to get a tiny gain of less weight. It's like saving for a
rainy day.
The benefits of Transcendental Meditation are well documented. I
personally don't use meditation but I use it's concept every day. One
of the main benefits of Meditation and "Mindfulness" is that it gives
you a beneficial "reference" that is outside of your current bubble.
Sometimes we all get stuck in that mode where everything is a huge
trauma drama and we need some outside perspective. I need to see that
the world does not revolve around my latest illusion or doubt or fear
or whatever it is. It doesn't have to be anything. When your mind is
free it is not owned by anything. The good news is we live in the
Information age. The bad news is we live in the Information age.
And like martial arts the trick it is to get the whole thing into
"Muscle Memory" so it works on auto-pilot. Bruce Lee said when you get
in a situation if you have to THINK its gonna be too little too late.
He trained relentlessly. Very few of us can afford to train all day
every day. Think of the 10,000 hour Rule. Who has time? You can makeup
for physical limitations because psychological training is more
important than physical training and its available to everyone, for
free. Just by living it.
In the physical sense I think Bruce Lee was a victim of his own
success. His training routine was intense yet he always said Jeet Kune
Do was not supposed to be limiting. I would point out that training
with the intensity he was doing, 1,000 push-ups a day and 2,000 kicks a day is very limiting for the vast majority of us. Having a physique like he had is
very limiting. Not for him, for us. Because we can't do that. On the
other hand his psychological instruction is something we can all get
much closer to achieving.
He closed his studios and he gave Jeet Kune Do over to Dan Inosanto.
His goal was to make movies that could incorporate his philosophies
and ideas. Sometimes you hear famous people say we can all make
Hitchcock films if we try harder than everyone else, or we can all be
like Tiger Woods if we try real hard, we can all be Cindy Crawford if
we try blah blah ah yeah yeh sure we can. Trying harder and putting in
more hours is important. What's more important is finding out what
works for you. That's the hardest thing of all. Because once you do
that then its Game On as you are in your element. Is that what Bruce
meant when he said it's very hard to express your self honestly?
I take it to mean once I figure out what I can do that fits what I can
do, then everything I do is in it's right place. What can be more
natural than defending your health?
Humans spent 10,000 years trying to gather up as much data as
possible. Then here comes the internet with as much information as
possible. Now we know that's not what we want. We want to manage
information. We hit the point where management can't keep up with
collection. Hoarding information seemed like a good idea. We're
flooded with shiny objects and bullshit. What you do not learn is
becoming more important than what you do learn. We need to block out
most of the information flows. Most of it is counterproductive. Like a
dog chasing his tail. Do you think young people want to investigate
the source of instigation? No, they usually do not. Are young people
the same in every generation? No, they are not.
