Virtue Signalling is the Enemy of Virtue [Requested Video]
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Summary
Max Landis calls non-SJW's assholes, and deletes it on his YouTube channel, and Jake Starr has it up on his channel, down below. The term virtue signaling is a term that has been around for a while now, and it s been used to describe the tactics that liberal elites use to get their point across.
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So, this requested video comes from Kim Christian, and it's on the topic of virtue signaling.
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Now, we're going to dig into this, because I think it's an important topic, that we really
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should explore what the term means, because virtue signaling, it destroys information,
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it destroys character, it destroys virtue itself.
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But to start from a fun place, let's address where it's coming from.
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So, Kim Christian stumbled across a video, screenwriter Max Landis posts YouTube video
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And Jake Starr has it up on his channel, I'll link to that down below.
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And, now here's the thing, Max Landis, you guys probably know him, he's a friend of the
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Red Letter Media Fellows, and quite frankly, I'm a fan of his.
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Not necessarily the movies he's written, I don't think they were directed very well,
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Okay, he's just one of those honest geeks, you know, not like the fake geeks they have
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on that stupid Big Bang Theory, but just an honest, geeky guy.
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I would love to sit down with him for a beer, and hey, Max, if you're ever in the same place
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as any sort of meetup, you are more than welcome.
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But that said, Max, you're a bit of a pussy.
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What you see as Donald Trump being a big bully, or alpha males, you know, being mean to their
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Max, women are over-emotional, and they kind of need a guy to calm them down, to be that
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And that's not the man or the husband being abusive.
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So what you're viewing as abusive is anything but.
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And, you know, the same thing goes for the whole race issue that SJWs bring up.
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Like, Max, I know you're in Hollywood, and you're just inundated with this, oh, we need
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to do something to help the Africans, to help the poor people, to, they don't need that
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Blacks don't want to be pandered to, okay?
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They would like some economic opportunities.
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They would like fair and straight dealing, okay?
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They certainly don't want to be called names or anything like that.
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But being frank about the situation in the ghetto, being frank about crime rates, interracial
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crime rates, calling a spade a spade, and no, that's just a saying, that's not a dog
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All right, and it's when you get caught up in all of this, this SJW, nicey-nice liberalism
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from Hollywood sort of thing, you know, you wind up being really condescending to women
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If a woman's with a guy, it's because she wants to be with that guy, all right?
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If he's threatening her, she can go to the police.
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There's plenty of domestic violence shelters, okay?
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Like, they don't need you to go and talk about their issues for them.
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And that's why we call it virtue signaling, because they don't need you talking.
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But if they're being over-emotional, they don't need you pandering into their fantasies.
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And like I said, Max, I'd love to have a beer with you sometime, but you've got to stop being such a pussy, okay?
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Most people are not emotionally fragile little snowflakes that melt at the first blush of heated conversation.
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Now, all that said, virtue signaling, it's more than just what the SJWs get up to.
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In fact, I'd say it's a very endemic thing in our culture right now, in all walks of life, not just amongst the effet liberal elites.
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And I think it's worth considering the etymology of the term.
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Well, I was looking it up on Google Ngram Viewer.
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It's a search algorithm that you use to look through books that have been published.
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Now, I searched virtue as well, and that's getting mentioned less and less often in books.
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Where and how is virtue signaling being mentioned online?
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And it really started peaking around 2014 or so, with no mentions before that.
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So I think it's safe to say that the term virtue signaling derives from the work of Robin Hanson, a professor of economics at George Mason University, who talks a lot about social signaling.
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Okay, about how a great deal of communication can be understood as meaning to signal something about yourself.
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And he gives the example of how there were some upper class people wearing shirts that said FAKUK on them.
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You know, to signal that, look, I'm so much above these people that have to wear suits that I can wear an almost swear word on my shirt.
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But also, I'm above the people that would wear an actual swear word on their shirt.
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Quite frankly, I think this whole thing is a very destructive process.
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And think about what you're wearing for a moment.
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Now, it used to be that certain styles of dress, they communicated accomplishments.
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This communicates some sort of accomplishment, some sort of objective, real-world status in your life.
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You know, wearing clean clothing, wearing good-fitting clothing, this communicates status.
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That you, not just status, but that you have self-respect.
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That even if you're not rich, you keep an ordered house.
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But with the amount of hypocrisy we have in civilization and society these days, many of these signals are getting mixed.
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And eventually, they're turning into nothing but signals for the sake of signaling.
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So any inherent meaning that started this all is lost.
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You know, a rich entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, instead of wearing a comfortable Oxford shirt and jeans and some nice shoes,
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is going to wear something trashy and ugly to signal that he can get away with it.
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And you just wind up with this spiral of meaninglessness.
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You know, as Matt Forney said, in this post-virtue society, the only remaining sin is hypocrisy.
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And so people desperately signal that they aren't hypocrites while being complete and utter hypocrites.
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And I think it's important to consider the post-Christian world that we're living in.
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Now, if we were a post-Shintoist world, for example, we would have something else entirely.
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Okay, and in fact, if you watch anime, and if you watch anime looking to detect the sickness in Japanese society,
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you're going to find a subtly different form of sickness over there.
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You know, neats, dropping birth rate, masculinized women, feminized men.
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The same effects, but a different root sickness, because theirs is a shame-based culture,
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And so without the actual Christianity, without the higher purpose of refining your soul,
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of becoming a person worthy of human company that's present in Christianity,
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when we remove that mystical element, it becomes a guilt-based culture,
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Being an obedient little office worker who doesn't upset other people,
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and so you're supposed to feel guilty all the time.
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And the forms of virtue that we signal about tend to be about being guilty and about being charitable.
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The irony, of course, being that you shouldn't be doing charity in public.
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Okay, in the Christian culture, charity that's done in public is not highly regarded.
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Okay, because it's not really about the charity, it's about signaling the charity.
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You're doing the charity for the sake of God, because you know that God cares about those other people,
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and so you're trying to make their lives better for the sake of God.
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Because, I mean, he's got a bleeding heart, and he's done so much for us.
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In the post-Christian society, there is no God.
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The only God is the corporation, is the culture.
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And so, when you go and be charitable, you do it in a public manner.
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Public perception is all that exists at this point.
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but really you're just saying, you're just making appropriate noises.
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It's no different than a corporate meet-up that they have for the whole company,
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and you're supposed to wear a blue shirt with a logo on it saying,
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and you're supposed to do a cheer, and they're going to have games,
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Any purpose or meaning, anything inherent, is lost.
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Suddenly you're not at the corporation to earn money so you can live your life.
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Okay, because the person that's doing it for the corporation,
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their locus of valuation, their locus of meaning,
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So if right now environmental causes are popular,
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they will tether their definition of virtue to environmentalism.
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and by the way, you should look at the documentary Pink Ribbons Incorporated
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to see what a scam the breast cancer industry is.
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They'll tether their sense of meaning to breast cancer.
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And it's all about wearing a pink shirt and doing the fun run and etc., etc.,
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even though that money is completely mismanaged.
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It's about appearing to care about curing cancer.
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And virtue signaling, it happens on the right as well.
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so many terms that people will throw out to signal allegiance to a group.
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And this allegiance signaling can get out of control.
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Soon you have entire groups that are signaling allegiance to something
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and they're not actually doing anything to accomplish the goals
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So I'm not calling out any individuals or particular organizations,
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we forget what we were doing in the first place.
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This virtue signaling becomes very, very destructive.
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And how can we actually focus on doing the right thing,
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as opposed to a statement that tells other people
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And again, this goes back to reclaiming our Christian culture.
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you know, I believe it was Paul that talked about this.
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Talk about why the behavior itself is a problem.
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or if your mates are going down a dark path,
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