Storm Troopers.

100 years ago this summer Mark's the anniversary of The first World War. I have been studying wwi for some time now and have been fascinated with the massive power systems and how they interact. Part of the way I learn is seeing moral lessons in the processes of history. One particular lesson I learned was interestingly the strategy of German generals in wwi applied to overcoming lifes obstacles.

World War One was largely a war of attrition where both sides lobbed men and shells from trenches across no man's land in order to gain more yards of ground.
One prominent feature marking the battlefields of the Western front was the fortress. Most generals from the Central and Entente power used a similar strategy when approaching these features. They would just throw wave after wave of infantry at the fortresses, sending the body count through the roof.

It was the Germans starting in 1915, who began to change the game and gained significant ground in their offensive into Europe. The German Storm Trooper was trained to assault the enemy line. When they came to these impenetrable steel and concrete fortresses. They just went around them, overcame the parts of the line they could handle and then went back and mopped up the fortresses.
Now, the Germans didn't win( thanks God) but they got really freaking close to their goal which I believe was to take Paris in 40 days. I think they were like a week of and only a few miles outside the city! The point is though they fuckin wrecked up to that point, and it was all because they thought outside the box(or fort.)

No metaphor is perfect when scrutinized too closely, but I think the front line is life and all its chaos. Porn is the fortresses, and trying NOT to look at porn or masturbate or orgasm is repeatedly flinging waves of men at it to no avail.

I have noticed that when I take life by storm, wrap around the immovable rock as the flowing river and start chipping away at other parts of the front line, I do better with the forts.

This could work for PMO too. If I O turns out to be the fort. Take the M and P machine gun nests and come back to rout O.
I have found that being too introspective is attacking the fort for me. Going out and embracing others lives helps a lot!

Anyway, this is a day one post and I'm going back to the front line!