Son, you’re old enough now that you see the obvious connection between our battering rams and penises. And yes, in a certain sense, when we’re ramming that large tree trunk into the closed drawbridge of an enemy castle we are ritualizing the act of coitus, albeit through frenzied violence, our weapon a giant phallus, etc., etc.
But I also want you to understand that battering rams provide us with something else: synergy.
Yes, this is a bit of a buzz word, but when all 40 of us hoist that giant trunk and rush–our feet in perfect time–toward a seemingly impenetrable wall and over the course of an hour or so we cause that wall to breach, well, there’s no other word that captures what we’re all feeling. It’s synergy. I won’t apologize for that.
You and your friends can mock all you want, but until you bust through your first drawbridge, you’ll still just be a kid.
