
This does not mean that there are no other aspects of masculinity, or that masculinity is absent in the absence of conflict. Masculinity reaches its most perfect form in life-or-death conflict - in a battle between the individual man and the natural world, which includes other men. In the opening chapter of Becoming a Barbarian, I made the point (as I have in several other essays and speeches) that masculinity is action-oriented. Several readers have asked about the meaning of the Conflict Bindrune that appears on the back cover of B ecoming a Barbarian. Paganism, Reader Favorites The Conflict Bindrune
