The speaker emphasizes the need to embrace both positive and negative forces, and not just focus on positivity. He believes that both polarities are essential for power to flow effectively and that our community is too reactive, cultivating destructive forces instead of being proactive.
The mindset of a warfighter is driven by fear and destruction while a warrior is driven by love and harnesses both destructive and creative power, becoming infinitely more powerful. Ironically, societies that we model ourselves after inherently knew this to be true.