Code Man who lives in a world of hazards is compelled to seek for security. He has sought to attain it in two ways. One of them 'began with an attempt to propitiate the powers which environ him & determine his destiny. It expressed itself in supplication, sacrifice, ceremonial rite & magical cult. In time these crude methods were largely displaced. The sacrifice of a contrite heart was esteemed more pleasing than that of bulls & oxen; the inner attitude of reverence & devotion more desirable than external ceremonies. If Code Man could not conquer destiny he could willingly ally himself with it, putting his will, even in sore affliction, on the side of the powers which dispense fortune, he could escape defeat & might triumph in the midst of destruction. The other course is to invent arts & by their means turn the powers of nature to account; Code Man constructs a fortress out of the very conditions & forces which threaten him. He builds shelters, makes flame his friend instead of his enemy, & grows into the complicated arts of associated living. This is the method of changing the world through action, as the other is the method of changing himself in emotion & idea. It is a commentary on the slight control Code Man has obtained over himself by means of control over nature.
The powers that be wavered between thinking arts to be the gift of the gods & to be an invasion of their prerogatives. Both versions testify to the sense of something extraordinary in the arts, something either super-human or unnatural. The souls who have predicted that by means of the arts, Code Man might establish a kingdom of order,
justice & beauty through mastery of nature's energies & laws have been few & little heeded.
justice & beauty through mastery of nature's energies & laws have been few & little heeded.
by 3rdglasseye August 16, 2023
Get the Code Manmug. by penusholeboogieman January 21, 2021
Get the Booga Booga coochie manmug. 
by IM JORDENDERPY December 6, 2016
Get the Man-itmug. A statement made to someone especially a man, either to conform him into making a horrible decision, downplay his masculinity or to offer insincere praise.
This usually ends in immense shame.
This usually ends in immense shame.
Go downstairs and confront him, na man you be
See as you dey shine na man you be
Na man you be ooo, you no fit buy car for your babe
See as you dey shine na man you be
Na man you be ooo, you no fit buy car for your babe
by D_Pryme September 10, 2020
Get the na man you bemug. Small man syndrome is the devastatingly disabling inferiority complex invariably associated with the completely and utterly debilitating death sentence disability of manletism (the catastrophically crippling condition of being a manlet, a diminutively dwarfed male shorter than 5ft10). Relentlessly driven to ever-greater extremes of manlet cope, manlet mathematics and guy height by the well-deserved bullying that the microscopic midget manlet constantly endures at the courtesy of disgusted women and laughing manmores for being a small man syndrome-infected Little Napoleon, the severely stunted small man syndrome sissy manlet can often be detected in public while loudly yelling at his mother on the phone because she wore his favorite pair of high heels again, dancing a merry jig atop of a bar stool in front of microbiology labs while dressed like a tiny, little leprechaun, begging for spare change to buy his fix of height boosting insoles in the parking lot of your local Foot Locker and crying tiny tears of manlet rage while furiously dry humping the pole of low clearance signs. Manlets, when will they learn?
Gemma: Lol, why is Kevin "Horrid Homunculus" Hart sobbingly driving around in a toy car while girlishly throwing his massive collection of high heels at that group of, by comparison towering, children over there? Anais: Classic small man syndrome. Short people got no reason. Gemma: Silly manlet boys...
by ManletDepreciator September 29, 2024
Get the small man syndromemug. by Laralaraonthewall November 23, 2021
Get the What the manmug.