The fantasy of power is easier to hold than the weight of reality
A hundred men stand in a circle, quiet, watching a creature that does not flinch. It is not fear they feel, not exactly. It is something older. Something waiting.
THE WEIGHT OF IMAGINATION Why do we keep picturing the impossible fight?
What started as a joke has grown roots in the collective mind. Could one hundred unarmed men defeat a single gorilla A thought experiment, ridiculous at first glance, has become cultural shorthand for something deeper. In the image of the gorilla we find not a challenge, but a reflection. It is not the animal we are fighting, but what it forces us to see in ourselves.
The internet has carried this meme across platforms, voices, timelines. Podcasts rehearse the scenario with tactical seriousness. Comment sections read like modern mythology. Everyone imagines a strategy, a stance, a role to play.
It is not about victory. It is about being seen.
We do not ask if we could win. We ask if we would be useful. If we would matter when the moment demands something primal. That is the real question hidden beneath the spectacle. When fear becomes real, who do we become
THE SHAPE OF THE BEAST
What are we really afraid of?
A silverback gorilla can lift more than a car. Its bite force surpasses that of a lion. It moves with the fluid certainty of something that does not question itself. This is not fantasy. This is nature reminding us that dominance is not always human.
Yet we continue to run simulations in our heads. We imagine coordinated attacks, human sacrifice, last-man-standing endings. But what we are truly imagining is control. Our need to believe that courage scales. That enough voices, enough bodies, enough shared effort can bring down anything.
But nature does not bend to our myths. It does not care how many of us there are.
Sometimes the fear is not that we would lose. It is that we would disappear into the crowd without ever touching the fight.
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For those who feel that tension in their chest, who carry both the question and the silence, Inner Excellence by Jim Murphy becomes more than a book. It becomes a way to face that instinct without shame. It shows how to meet pressure not with panic, but presence. Inner Excellence on Amazon.THE CIRCLE WE IMAGINE OURSELVES IN
What does this tell us about who we are becoming?
Every myth needs a beast. But not every beast is real. Sometimes it is a symbol. Sometimes it is a mirror. The gorilla is not just an animal. It is rage. It is control. It is the part of the masculine psyche that has not yet learned how to weep.
In every version of this story we place ourselves in the circle. We measure our distance. We rank our odds. We wait. And somewhere behind the performance is the truth we do not want to speak. That we are not planning to win. We are just hoping not to be the first to fall.
Modern life leaves many men looking for a moment that demands something physical, something raw. Not to destroy. But to prove there is still a fight left in them. Even if the enemy is symbolic. Even if the battle never happens.
What we are rehearsing is not combat. It is memory. It is belonging. It is a plea for meaning inside a life that feels too controlled, too digital, too quiet.
THE ECHO THAT REMAINS We do not talk about these things because they sound ridiculous. But the silence does not mean the thoughts are not there. In the quiet, the myth grows. And in the myth, we find ourselves.
If this story leaves something stirring inside you, something you have not yet named, perhaps the beginning is not with the fight at all. Perhaps it begins with the stillness before it.
And if that stillness ever turns to unrest, Inner Excellence offers not answers, but tools. A way to step closer to the tension without collapsing under it. Read Inner Excellence
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