The Moral Combat trailer and Jumbled Jack

It's a trailer, and I'm absolutely not going to comment on someone's work without having seen the entirety of it. Suffice to say that I'm looking forward to watching it and seeing how he's pieced together this hot button topic.

No, this post is to address a specific quote from the trailer: Godverdomme, but I’m tired of hearing Thompson’s pearls of wisdom. We don’t recognise violence as a virtue? Really? Quick someone tell the military where the “will to kill” is a prime learned virtue, or sports fans who egg on boxers.

It is precisely because society is filled with violence-is-a-virtue memes that we find so much entertainment in fulfilling that self image. We want to be badass action heroes because we grew up being told that badass action heroes were bad as. And we’ve done that ever since David badassed Goliath.

I’m all for changing that culture, but it’s not going to happen overnight, and it’s certainly not going to happen through censorship, soft, self imposed, morally outraged, outright stamped, enforced or otherwise. Censorship doesn't challenge anything, it's just plain head-in-sandery.

If you really want to change our culture of violence, you need to create media that presents a different world view. You have to tell a different story, and a more compelling one at that. But no, Jack. Being against something is a whole lot easier than being for something, isn’t it? Being a destructive force rather than a creative one comes naturally doesn't it? Can’t charge if there are no windmills, eh?

Meanwhile, the least damage I can think of anyone causing while trying to live up these pervasive violent memes is acting them out in a video game.