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Warriors, Monks, and the Canary in the Coal Mine
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Alan reaches for Lois Lowry's The Giver as a metaphor: in that world, one person receives all of society's memories and pain, becoming the vessel for what the community can't hold. Some people, Alan argues, are meant to be the giver. He got a canary tattoo after this conversation with his middle son about deeply feeling people who are the first to sense danger — the canary in the coal mine [1] — Alan Ritchson "Not everyone is built to be a warrior — and not everyone should be a monk. Alan and Dax agree the tribe of 100 needs people who will meet t…" 34:50 . Society needs archetypes: fighters, healers, feeders, empaths. Not everyone is a warrior. Not everyone is a monk. The tribe of 100 needs someone who will meet the enemy, and that means tolerating some volatility in that person. Dax shares the most honest corrective he ever received from Kristen: he thought he was protecting her, she told him she felt the most unsafe with him because anything could happen at any moment. It didn't make him stop being a protector — but it recalibrated where and how he deploys it.
