I’m watching it almost every day.
It’s an addiction, cultivated within our Post-Modern Western society. It’s the result of cascading errors. First, they deny that there are higher planes of existence. This totally abnegates hope and aspiration, a reason to live. Substituted in its place is a very shallow drive for pleasure, though defined in many ways. The use of logic itself becomes little more than a form of pleasure. Indeed, the summum bonum is entertainment, somewhat more than pure physical appetites. Even casual sex is more about the art form than it is indulging hormonal drives.
But the result is a false dichotomy. There are three human lusts in Scripture: flesh, eyes and pride. In our Western society, the proper order is keeping the third in service to the second. There is a faux denigration of primacy for mere fleshly appetites or the primacy of pride. Letting either flesh or pride dominate your interests is considered pretty much the same basic sin, while moral goodness if elevating the lust for various flavors of intellectual entertainment. Thus, the lower reasoning power becomes king, and everything else is somehow déclassé.
Yet this leaves a broad highway for mere entertainment to dominate. There may well be endless debate over which types and flavors of entertainment are superior, but the basic assumption remains that humanity has no higher aspiration.
Among the many things our society does to pervert femininity, it’s the elevation of drama that destroys real romance. Women are given naturally to some higher interest in drama than men, but in our inevitable Western drift to feminism, taming males means making them more interested in their own brand of drama. The most common expression of male drama is various expressions of heroism and virtuosity in hobbies. In our current social context, a primary form is gaming. Women carp about men gaming, particularly computer gaming, but this is the best you can get when Western feminism rises to rule social convention.
This elevates to demigod status those who are adept at making role-playing-games happen. Both the designers and developers become quasi-priests, while the most adept players are the quasi-warlords. The man who plays exceeding well, invests resources in organizing gaming activities and runs his own RPG server is king. This is entirely the only reasonable expectation from feminist political dominance. Feminist carping about the resulting Western masculinity expressed in gaming is simply the natural result.
Never forget: The signature impulse of fallen femininity is to dominate men (Genesis 3:16). Political feminism was never about equality, but dominance. The consummate feminist is a dominatrix of one kind or another. That they have largely succeeded is evident in the vast horde or feminized men who serve them in political activism. The “real men” call these servants “rabbits.” What no one wants to admit is that both “real men” and “rabbits” are creatures of feminism. That some men will never be dominated is natural, but the entire field of social instinct is limited to this false dichotomy: If you aren’t a rabbit, you are left with a very narrow range of masculine expression.
This suffocating environment makes no allowance for the moral shepherd and shepherdess of Scripture. We will be continually misidentified as something else, depending on the context. I don’t play RPGs because that’s wholly inconsistent with what God has made of me. In the first place, the entire range of fantasy is alien to Scripture. In the second place, there simply is precious little appetite for entertainment in the shepherd’s soul. The drive to guard and shape moral consciousness in self and others makes virtually all available entertainment painful.
I’m left watching as women struggle to suppress the natural results of their dominance in this fallen world while the men struggle to escape in the only routes visible. If it’s not gaming, it’s a broad range of other Western male hobbies, to include very real wars, wars that are inescapably pointless because their objective is always materialist, particularly in the perverted nest-building of Western feminists.
Romance struggles to survive in such an environment.
Gamergate interests me, since gamers aren’t known for their assertiveness. I guess possessiveness of culture comes into it, but that has a negative slant to it.
It’s also very telling how upset the SJW folks are getting so upset that some/most gamers aren’t playing along. They expect compliance when they enter into something and start with the commands and expect change, for no reason other than to add to their numbers. Gamers just want to play.
Maybe, but I always thought the SJWs used that frantic tone all the time. I made a promise not to link to Vox Day’s blog, but he and his Dread Ilk are making a lot of interesting points from the conservative (anti-leftist) side of things. It’s entertaining to be standing outside of all this, affected only by the fact I am sometimes attacked by both sides in their own brand of political correctness. The SJWs give me more noise, but the activist right is a bigger threat in the long run. What matters to me most is the Internet Freedom aspect. I’d rather the gamers be able to do whatever it is they do, because they overlap hugely the culture that supplies Linux.