Chuck Norris created the World Combat League, which fits with the February 2 Socio Times’ post on the rise of mixed martial arts. In this one column, Norris goes from Martin Luther King to the creation of World Combat League. This celebration of violence in the name of MLK, is one of the more bizarre things I have ever read, a real socionomic collision of rationality.
The WCL is designed to, and I quote, encourage a "full throttle" style of fighting, each fighter will only fight a total of two rounds. This is intended to encourage each fighter to answer the bell with the spirit, desire and determination to earn their team as many points as possible by fighting aggressively every second of each round. The judge's scoring system and the referee's penalty point system is designed to reward this "full throttle" style of fighting and penalize any attempt to stall or be passive. Read "beat the ever lovin’ you know what out of each other" -- violence is in full swing.
-- Dennis Elam
As the recent highs in the Dow indicate, wave c is not yet underway, but Norris and his new league offer some big clues to what lies ahead. One relevant fact is that Chuck Norris first rose to fame as a karate champion in 1968. In 1969, he won Karate's triple crown for the most tournament wins of the year, and was named fighter of the year by Black Belt Magazine. As EWFF, EWT and Socio Times have explained over the course of the latest peaking process, the unfolding top is a larger version of the change in social mood that took place in the late 1960s.
So, it’s appropriate to find Norris, who has become a “cult icon” on the Internet in recent years, astride the colliding forces of a peaking bull market and an emerging bear. In fact, he starts his column by racing back to 1968, which may not follow logically, but it makes sense socionomically: King, a celebrated advocate of non-violence through the 1950s and 1960s, was gunned down that year. Just as MLK's assassination reflected two clashing tides in the late 1960s, Norris’ charity through “full throttle” blood sport bears witness to another big mood swing. As we noted here on September 20, 2006 and June 19, 2006, philanthropic extremities tend to accompany bull market peaks. Norris’s “all-out” combat league for “at risk” teens is probably about as far out as charity is likely to get. |
I was driving near the border of Nevada about a week ago, when I saw a sign, Martin Luther King Jr. Highway. My mind instantly raced back 40 years. 