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“The contemplation of ruins is a masculine specialty.”
That was psychologist Erik Erikson’s conclusion of an experiment where he noted the tendency of male children to build block towers as high as possible until they inexorably crashed to the ground, whereupon they would begin building again. There’s a metaphor somewhere in there for former Team Alpha Male member T.J. Dillashaw to suss out on his plane ride from Sacramento, California, to Broomfield, Colorado, where he will now train exclusively with Duane Ludwig.