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THE "SUPER-HUMAN" BODY, BRUCE LEE, Screen Shot 2021-03-28 at 7…

- - - - Techniques of the Body, Marcel Mauss : "In all of these elements of the art of using the human boys, the facts of education are dominant. the notion of education could be superimposed on that of imitation... the action is imposed from without, from above, even if it is an exclusively biological action, involving his body. The individual borrows the series the movements of which he is compsoed from the action executed in front of him, or with him, by others." (459)
        
        https://youtu.be/u7tL8fK6tjA?t=174 ** Start at 2:52
        
        "Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Now that seems to me that that is the prevalent thing happening in Hong Kong. They always copy mannerism, btu they never start from the very root of his being and that is how can I be me?" Would Bruce Lee agree with Marcel Mauss? Perhaps he would agree that the urge/mechanism of mimicry and imitation is inevitable and evolutionary. He may agree that the individual in relation to his environment is hard to pinpoint and isolate, and is thus to some extent always affected. But this may fuel Bruce's argument to then put more emphasis in finding honest expressions of emotions in the body. To look inward.
  - - - relates to Michel Foucault's differentiation of "a useful body and an intelligible body". Useful to whom? An intelligible body may be the most useful body of them all, rather than any body imposed with strict regulations and modes of alignment. (ex. the education of throwing out the chest in the army// ultimately interferes with depth of breath and capability
- - - - "The reaction and speed of the famous martial arts master and film actor were pheonomenal, for example Lee managed to replace a 10 cent coin in a man's hand, before he could squeeze his fingers. He tossed a couple grains of rice and caught them with chopsticks in the air."
        
        "unsticky" awareness, what allows man to fight various opponents on one time.... The mind as a mirror reflecting what is right in front of it, then letting go when taken out of mirror.
    - - Neural Destiny, Benjamin Libet.... raising the question in the connection between mental mind and physical body. When does conscious INTENTION occur?
        How long after our brain's "READINESS POTENTIAL" can our body act?