Vice List

So, I was watching this video ... and I had a couple of thoughts. First off, GMS Videos are a bit of a mixed bag for me. But this is one of those ... yea, let me subscribe type of videos. And while I have some thoughts about what's said - It would also just suffice to watch it. I for once just want to write about that topic of Vice Lists (the second (technically the first) interview in the video brings them up) - because ... uhm ... I, from time to time, feel an urge of sorts to write one myself. I mean, it's not just: "So, these are the bad things - do not do! Thanks and bye!" - it is ... a very specific feeling. Maybe at times I get to append some kind of a vice list - as it may be an relevant context filler - but for the most part I want to be more thorough. So it'd rather be text that I write. Like, one per vice on the list.
I'm also glad that when the topic of Paul was brought up first in this video ... yea, good stuff!

But so ... I find it interesting; Because ... whatever makes me not lean into the "Vice Listing" - is something extra; Ontop of an urge to do so. And so I have to imagine not having that ... and the implications over time.
I mean ... I guess we can do ... for a thought experiment ... imagine that the bad guys won and yet my words somehow came to fame - but, the baddies managed to somehow scrap everything from them that would indicate that they were the bad guys actually. Or whatever the circumstances, what matters is that people had a rough understanding of history, what these days were all about.

And so I might write about things I see are wrong with the world. Issues that bug me - that I feel needed to be addressed. Yet I only had a few sheets of paper, some ink - and thus not a lot of opportunity to refine my words. So is there something to be said about people who accept and embrace vile teachings that aren't of God ... and I suppose it's already difficult enough, as it is, to hammer home what I mean by that if I have the luxury of infinite paper and ink - plus "the blessings of the quick feather" (keyboard) - like so would it seem to be obvious that I was referring to the LGBTQ+Atheisms - Gay Antifa Supersoldiers ... . And yea, overall I don't even feel like my vice list would be so different from what Paul wrote. I mean, I have my Anti-SJW moments - and ontop of that one might find me condemning elderly men that lay with boys as one lays with a woman ... and find that as a condemnation of homosexuality. And yea, it's weird.
I mean, it's brought up in the video too - like, the matter with Sodom and Gomorrah - to which I might add Matt Walsh going like: It's not the pedophilia that's the problem, it's the gays! Like ... if the angels had been women, or catholic priests fucked girls instead of boys ... it'd be fine?

But yea - with that I think we also have the big two ... upon which all the rest may be built. I mean, I tried to think of some fair and balanced take on this to also throw some shade the other way, but ... I'm not feeling it. What I'm feeling now is how Vaush or Hasan feel about their audience sometimes. I mean, I now know someone who's "on the spectrum" - and what being 'unfiltered' means in that context. And imagining that online activity is like a focal point for many many people like that to collectively be unhinged - there ... is no way for there not to be chaos.
I mean, the thing is that from what I gather, these people consume knowledge but don't necessarily have the time to fully process it - and get some leveled understanding of things. To an extent that's normal - but if you slap the hyper onto it, it can get ... somewhat exhausting.
That however isn't really worth any condemnation. At worse it's unfortunate happenstance.

But, to be fair and balanced, there's a lot to be said about modern entertainment; And how I'm fed up with a bunch of things. That one may read in a squarely anti-liberal way too - but, when I think 'vice list' - and matters to mention there - it's yet again ... the other way around.
I mean - I enjoyed watching John Whick - which may be as close to a dumb himbo badass pew pew explosions type of anti-hero protagonist as one could get without sucking the good out of it. I mean, it is for once that the movie has no explicit story of morale to tell. It's just "well, you just pissed off the wrong guy!". The movie TM. But there still is ... enough ... for some degree of positive catharsis to emanate from it - as the protagonist also isn't ... like ... a bad guy. The whole story of him trying to escape this world of crime is like contrast to the remaining themes of these movies. I don't know about 4 ... haven't seen it yet. But it is also incredibly easy to just ... look past these nuances and see a guy who's really just upset about his dead dog and goes onto a killing spree in consequence. And at that point the proverbial badass is merely a prism for violent power fantasies to play out. And that's a dynamic between those that make the stuff and those that consume it. It's a back and forth where those who make it are responsible for selecting what to nourish - which in turn empowers people with the corresponding demands.
As for the vice list then, that's a matter of artists feeding into the degenerate demands of the populace. Though perhaps it's more accurately described around there being degenerate demands that are so out of touch with reality that any word of sanity probably does cause actual and severe cognitive dissonance to a degree that they cannot bear exposure to it. Whatever the case, you'd still be free to read it the wrong way. And yea, sure, the one or the other "woke" movie might also fit that description. I would mostly just be aware of those anyway.

I might tip that off with an overall ... lamentation over the lack of good role models - and while that might be an 'especially for boys/men' - it's not exclusive to them. But sure, the most affected. And while there are some - ... "they aren't who you might think they are". As the one I'm aware of aren't really 'branded' as such - which ... has to say that if there's someone whose brand is 'good role model for boys and men' - well, nope!

But yea. I thereby come back to this "badass culture" - which seems to revolve around baking protagonists that could as well exist with negative IQ - thus producing role models that merely exist on the assumption of badassery based on nothing but plot convenience, rather than on a matter of virtues and values that give as much of a reason to the badassery. And yea, virtues and values ... . I mean, this has somehow become something that movies have mostly just for ... appearances ... it would seem. You could just remove all notion of them and the movie wouldn't really make any more or less sense. Well, some might even make more sense that way. And yea, maybe that's what sells - or maybe it's the only stuff that gets written because the writers cannot handle the stress of writing anything true to reality. In a way that's also entertaining. Maybe.
And sure - anyone who might pull it off would eventually be cancelled probably. And not necessarily due to being woke; Though ... that'd probably be the go to. Except it's done really well ... perhaps even too woke for broke.

But yea, to beat down on this a bit more ... it's really really important. I wouldn't make it up to movies and videogames and series alone - as perhaps more important these days ... there are influencers. The thing though is that outside of making predominantly political content - there isn't like ... much in terms of 'normal people with sane views' - that people could take hints from. I mean, I think it's becoming more popular, to add to the discourse by trying to ... reasonably cope ... I guess ... but for anyone with barely enough IQ to laugh about things because someone called it gay ... we're still just stuck with the collective degeneracy of the internet.


Anyhow ... I might have to revisit this point some other time.

As for this topic, I more over need to focus on this particular feeling. I mean - the sense that some things wrong happen ... doesn't really qualify for being an item on these kinds of vice lists. It's more about people that do wrong while believing they are right - or so, a particular sense of rightness that leads to a lot of that wrongdoing. And so ... I guess we're arguing over what is normal or natural and all that ... until we figure it out.
And hereby I find something about Paul rather interesting. I mean, he basically jumped head first into this "conversation" on the premise that faith in God instills a sense of normalcy or naturality that is at odds with certain ... well ... types of behavior that people would engage in under some premise of normalcy or naturality - or let's say: "coolness".

And yea, it's ... weird. I mean ... there's that new term that has been coined: "Based" - and for some weird reason the degenerates/sodomites have co-opted it; Calling their degenerate nonsense "based". Which to me here speaks to this idea, that to some group of people "cool" is really just another way of saying "in tune with what's normal and natural". Rather than how the 'actual' cool kids use it - who'd rather refer to things that are novel and interesting on a broad spectrum of engagements. Be it just intellectual (one end of the spectrum) or super emotional (another end of the spectrum). But that kind of cool is ... not necessarily 'based' ... a.k.a. nailing political relevancy; Especially in regards to challenging subjects. Or highly contested ones. It's like "BAMF"/Superhero Landing ... talking (AoE=Area of Effect) sense into insanity. So yea, it does go a bit beyond what the flesh monster that is the unenlightened human body might take delight in. And yea, that applies to Sex and Gender in as far as Hormonal Activity is a part of it. Whether one might regard it as "sensitivities of the soul" or not.

I mean - when it comes to the degenerate sense of what's cool ... there's a lot of pride mixed into it. Like so this idea that the man ought to dominate the woman. While as it stands ... there's a strong correlation between emancipation and the wealth of a nation/culture/society.
And also one between sexism and a nation being like stuck in the dirt.


Now, as it stands - on the two sides of coolness ... the respective other cool is more like ... lame. And yea, it's ... mabye part of this whole culture war that's going on. I mean ... it certainly checks out. And pride, I think, is one of the deciding factors thereby. I mean, the kind of pride that is associated with a striving for attention and validation - like toxic masculinity or so the urge to show dominance, to avoid being ridiculed ... that kind of stuff. Which is like ... the thing Peter might - or ever so often: does - yield criticism for. The whole matter of denying being one of Christ's disciples. So, maintaining face and image.

And yea - I mean, maybe this would be funnier if I left out any of the ... explicit declarations of what's meant; While what's implied is certainly that within certain margins there's ambiguity to these vices. And with that ... I don't have a lot left to say.


Except maybe - to rephrase something I took away from the video: If I shat into a glass of water ... and gave it to you, telling you that it is water ... would you feel inclined to accept it as such? - Food for thought.