I met Boris. A former fighter of the UFC. A young man from Russia who lived in Vilnius.
Boris's smile surprised me for his simplicity. For the the joy he had within himself. He started giving me Muay Thai lessons.
I liked Tai Chi but I felt there were mistakes. It was not a combat art. The way to kick, the way to punch, I found them improper, inappropriate in case of a real fight.
- It's full of fake martial artists. Be careful - he told me – it’s a cult, you know. Old martial arts schools are very culty. Have you seen Dojo martial arts in Instagram? Dojo is an awesome collection of the fakest martial arts you have ever seen in your life. They know that this shit won’t work but they pretend that will work. And you know why? Because it’s a cult. This is exactly the shit that freaks me out! You know…too many fake martial artists. Too many.
He paused. He started watching outside, beyond the big windows of the gym. He saw nothing. It was 3:30pm and was dark. The darkness was shot with swirling whitness. Snow swirled and danced. Snow everywhere beyond the large windows that stood like a limes facing an unknown territory.
Then he said.
- You know that in China traditional Martial Arts are very popular. They think that only these Martial Arts, like Tai Chi, for example, work. It is not true. They don’t work. At all. In China there is a guy, a former MMA fighter who dared to challenge a famous Tai Chi Master, called Lei Lei. Lei Lei had appeared in a TV program, where he was facing a Kung Fu foreign. Lei Lei defeated the foreign using Tai Chi. But Tai Chi, you know, is an aerobic exercise for the elderly. Tai Chi is not to combact (in fact later it was found that the foreign was an actor). Lei Lei also said on Weibo that he looked down on MMA and MMA is useless. Above all he despised MMA saying that he could break a rear naked chocke with a single hand. It was very easy for him to do that. But, as far as I know, a rear naked choke is unbreakable. At this point it was clear that the Master was lying. Thus the fighter decided to challenge the Master Lei Lei and he won, even though he didn’t take seriously the fight. But since that his life has completely changed. After the fight the mainstream media outlets slandered and insulted him. They said he had attacked traditional Chinese culture. They said he had used foreign forces to invade China. His Weibo account was closed along with his other social media account. His online video programme was also closed…maybe you now understand what I mean when I say that all this stuff is “culty”.
Yes, I understood.
To establish a supremacy you must proceeded to establish supremacy as a cult. To establish this cult you need a narrative whose purpose is to acquaint the populace to the basic tenets regarding that cult, which is today mostly done via mainstream outlets. In the ancient time was instead done using The Epic, Which became an useful and powerful vehicle for indoctrination
After leaving the Gym, I took the bus 41. In front of the gym there was a stotelė, a bus top. I got off at Aguonų stotelė and walked along Kauno gatve until the intersection with Šopeno gatve. There was a shop called Medus, where they sold a very concentrated liquid propolis that helped me to reactivate energy after training.
While walking towards the shop my attention was caught by a nepastbimas plakatas, an unnoticeable playbill, badly glued on the wall of a shabby house.
PROFESSOR ZECHARIA NAJAFI
WILL GIVE A GUEST LECTURE ENTITLED
"HOW THE ANUNNAKI HAVE INFLUENCED
THE DEVELOPMENT OF MANKIND AND HOW DO THEY STILL DRIVE IT"
DATE: 19TH NOVEMBER (THURSDAY) 17.30P.M. VENUE:
KNYGYNAS MINT VINETU
ŠV. IGNOTO G. 16, VILNIUS
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