There's NOTHING >Cave-Manish< about the Ancient Greeks valuing Boxing as a Discipline , but Hand-to-Hand Combat DOES have origin in Pre-History . We can assume that there were roving bands of cave-dwellers that sought food and other "stuffs" and were inclined to "gather" these stuffs from cave-dwelling Others who sought to Protect what they had "worked" to accumulate . Here it is where violence ensued, and "to the victor went the spoils". It's Ugly, always is, always will be , but eventually Civilization made its way to the Human Psyche bringing LANGUAGE with it and Language was then used as a Weapon AND a "Defense Mechanism" . Human's Evolved .
I must argue that Boxing is a Discipline of WAR AND that "Self-Protection" is INSTINCTUAL {{{as it MUST BE}}} . Now did Civilization and all its "Refinements" remove HTH Combat from its Collective Psyche ? I don't know how it could, and By Definition, because Self-Protection is INSTINCTUAL, there was NO WAY to rid itself of this Instinct .
Enter Rome and the Roman Empire . Enter the Word >>>SPECTACLE<<< . As CIVILIZED HUMAN BEINGS we know all about the 'Colosseum' . Here it is where every Roman Citizen could experience the SENSATION of Life, could witness the SAVAGERY of "The Law of the Jungle", could FEEL the LIFE AND DEATH STRUGGLE of Man versus Beast and MAN VERSUS MAN, WITHOUT ANY THREAT OF PERSONAL CONTACT NOR INJURY . "IT" was PURE EXHILERATION --- a SUPER-HIGH that was clearly addictive ---- just look at how long "IT" has lasted .
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