Addiction to Violence. Action is evidence of the energy of life force but so often men mistake violence for the life force itself. Especially the energy of revenge. Violence, that adrenalized shortcut, like any stimulant drug once so revelatory, addicts the heart to a jolting high glucose spurt. And the MaleNarrative uses this addiction's most dramatic forms of extreme conflict to distract us through its well-muscled spectaculars while it feeds. return