[Is it not popular?] Discussing the serious decline in the Aikido population KarambitKnives.com
qcreek11
Feb 13
The video has English subtitles. Please use the subtitle function of YouTube. Ryuji Shirakawa ◇X(Twitter) …
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Maybe this decrease in popularity has something to do with people moving toward collectivist thought and action and away from the idea of individualism. Collectivists argue that only groups have agency and that anyone acting alone is acting against that ideal. So the warrior mentality os lost to the idea of participation in a group.