‘The Martial Arts Delusion’ is a provocative phrase which refers to the effect of various socially-derived factors which contribute to a false view of the Martial Arts. These factors include, but are not limited to:

• Propaganda (to persuade by evoking emotions rather than reason).
• Tradition, conservativism and conformance.
• Anatopism and Anachronism.
• Pre-scientific data about combat portrayed as ‘fact’.
• Authoritarianism
• Anti-intellectualism.
• Sectarianism.

Each of these aspects has a substantial impact upon modern world-views surrounding fighting, particularly within martial arts fraternities. Such world-views effectively compound an individual’s ability to see the truth; that combat is based upon logic, and that such a logic may be studied scientifically. Scholars such as Bruce Lee have been quite vocal in their opposition to such obscurities, suggesting that such delusions are ‘causes of ignorance’ forcing one to become a ‘second-hand artist’ rather than achieving one’s fullest capacity, in a sense they are a ‘hindrance to progress’.

There is a solution available to overcome such socially-derived ‘delusions’ and that is to study martial arts from a scientific perspective, such as that proposed by Eskirmology, and the deconstruction of martial arts as ‘Combat Systems’ using ‘Combat Systemics’.

Much more information on this topic may be found in the supporting work by this title: ‘The Martial Arts Delusion’ by James Wallhausen.