VRILL INSIGHTS
BE A FORCE FOR GOOD
To all the new subscribers, I'm MJ.
I'm a 27 y/o Swede who spent a decade in the health-optimization loop, only to come out on the other side of it as a retardmaxxing, God-fearing skitzo.
I hope my writing will push you toward what you could be. If my words affect you in a positive way to any degree, we're good.
Today I want to explore why power tends to accumulate with the morally corrupt in today's world.
Humans are complex. Strangely, or maybe not, we have outsourced much of our sanity to the collective. A lot of what feels normal to us is not self-generated. It is socially maintained.
Think about how many tiny interactions make up an ordinary day. A nod, a greeting, a glance, a shift in tone, a shared joke, a common assumption. None of it seems important on its own, but together it forms a constant background process of mutual psychological calibration.
We reassure each other, subtly and continuously, that reality is still intact and that we are still in it together.
That is part of why solitary confinement is such a brutal punishment.
Remove a human being from that web of subtle social reinforcement and the mind begins to fray. Sanity is not just an individual possession. It is a collective achievement.
Morality works much the same way.
We do not maintain morality on the individual level alone. We do not consult some perfectly formed inner compass in isolation and then act accordingly.
We inherit moral intuitions, test them against other people, reinforce them through social feedback, and negotiate them constantly through speech, posture, expression, tone, and judgment.
Anything a human can do to signal approval or disapproval becomes part of that process, because morality is one of the things that holds civil order together.
God is undefinable because the maximally good is too complex to be fully grasped. If we had to consciously calculate the highest possible good in every decision we made, we would spend our whole lives stuck on the first serious choice.
But even if we cannot perfectly define the maximally good, we still know that better and worse exist. There is such a thing as a more aligned action and a less aligned one. Our task is to orient ourselves toward what is directionally good.
That orientation has never been purely private. Like sanity, morality has always depended on collective maintenance.
The problem is that morality has increasingly been framed as an individual pursuit. More and more, we have moved away from the idea that society should collectively orient itself toward God, toward the good, toward some higher order, and toward the idea that morality is personal, subjective, and not to be imposed on others.
Every man for himself, so to speak.
We have gone so far in that direction that moral judgment itself is often treated as a greater sin than moral failure.
To tell someone they are living badly is considered rude, oppressive, or intolerant. To watch them decay in peace is considered compassion.
Take obesity. It is bad for the individual and bad for society. It creates suffering, dependency, cost, passivity, and decline. It is not a morally neutral condition just because it has become common.
Yet we let our friends, siblings, parents, partners, and ourselves drift into it, and we tell ourselves that saying anything would be cruel.
Or take social media addiction. Same pattern. It hollows people out, shortens attention, distorts desire, fragments the mind, and eats time that could have gone toward something good. But because it is everywhere, it becomes easy to excuse.
Everyone else is doing it, right?
That is how moral collapse works in practice. Not usually through dramatic declarations, but through normalization. Through mass participation. Through repeated exposure. Through the slow conversion of vice into background noise.
Once enough people participate in something degrading, the social cost shifts. It is no longer costly to do the bad thing. It becomes costly to name it as bad.
And once a society loses the confidence to name evil, it becomes blind to it.
When that happens, incentive structures stop organizing around what is morally good and start organizing around whatever the society now mistakes for good: money, status, power, image, scale, appetite, influence.
In other words, we replace God, the maximally good, with material symbols of success.
A system built on humans who are willfully blind to moral reality will not reward the moral. It will reward the people most willing to violate moral constraints in pursuit of those symbols.
That is why power accumulates with the corrupt.
The more status-driven, money-driven, or power-driven an industry or institution becomes, the more it will tend to attract and elevate the people least bound by conscience.
If the culture beneath the system no longer takes responsibility for maintaining moral order, then the system itself will drift toward corruption almost automatically.
Political forms matter, yes. But they do not matter as much as people think.
If the population has relinquished its responsibility to maintain and shape the moral superstructure, then changing the political machinery will only change the style of the decay. It will not cure it.
That is why I do not believe politics alone will save us.
We need to stare degeneracy, moral corruption, and evil straight in the face and say no.
Not privately. Not abstractly. Not only in theory.
Publicly, internally, spiritually.
The fight is not merely material. It is spiritual first, because the material order is always downstream from what a people worship, what they excuse, what they honor, what they are willing to condemn, and what they are willing to become.
We need a fundamental reframing of responsibility.
Our responsibility to ourselves.
To our loved ones.
To our nation.
To our culture.
To God.
All of your ancestors fought to give you life. Do not let a degenerate system gobble you up.
Be a force for good.
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