February 8th, 2009
Originally published at perigee's WordPress Blog. Please leave any comments there.
We’re heaving into the final stretch here. I hope you’ve gotten as much out of this exercise as I have!
It needs to be said: Honor is very tricky. Everyone knows that it’s operative in the best warriors. Lack of honor sticks out like a sore thumb! But the problem is that honorableness requires humility. I made mistakes when I was younger in using honor directly as a rhetorical concept and it did not go well for me. Folks found it intimidating and insulting and tended to focus on it over all else (even when I clearly had other problems). So while I recommend having honor and practicing your warrior life honorably, I don’t recommend talking about it much. It’s an internal device to make sure we stay on the just and righteous path. It is not for talking about with anyone, or lording over anyone. Feel free to discuss it with other like-minded warriors and to use it in private warriors’ codes and whatnot, but talking about it as if everyone should have is only a great tool for completely alienating your audience.
Honor, in my mapping, equates to the sun or to fire. Another great tool that is not useful for all purposes.
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