Maybe I am speaking to empty air - who knows? But the purpose of this forum, as far as I can tell, is to discuss things regarding our Faith that we can’t discuss with the general public. And one of the central facts we discover in the Church is that, while we ought to be of one heart and one mind regarding what we ought to believe, what a growing experiential knowledge of God ought to be pointing us toward, we are not in fact of one heart and mind, we do not agree on a great many things. The wiser among us are, I suppose, for the most part silent; it seems like the best attitude one can hold when we see someone kicking against established teaching or practice, one of “You’ll understand when you are older”. If a man gets carried away with beards, big crosses, in a word, hyperdoxy, or a woman, conversely, rejects headcovering or that there is nothing wrong with “LGBTXYZ”, or whatever, to wait, pray, and hope they grow out of whatever they are rebelling against or trying to prove.
Unsubscribing is an understandable reaction to a sense of frustration that others do not agree with us, that we feel ourselves in some way to be in a minority. But it also means a final failure of disagreement in an attempted spirit of love in order to bring us to a common understanding, of one heart and mind. It’s a pity. Maybe we could, with patience, come to understand each other better. It’s something Chesterton has taught me more than anyone - to try to see where the people who we think wrong are actually right about something, and to make distinctions, not cast the views of others in excessively simple terms, and refuse to demonize them. We are all reactionary - some in a “conservative” direction as a reaction to the madness of modern anarchy in the name of “freedom”, especially sexual anarchy, while others, as we see, react to an excess of conservatism and hyperdoxy, and are turned off by what they see as zealotry, zeal gone bad.
I do think that we are all hypocritical about something or other, the very word means “insufficiently self-critical”, and we believe Church teachings until they step on something that we like, or hold dear, or just think nothing wrong with. We all come into the Church bearing baggage of this world, ideas and attitudes in need of correction, although, sadly, we think some of those ideas and attitudes to BE Church teaching. It seems that the right response to these conflicts between us should be patience - one of the harder virtues to cultivate; we want the kingdom of heaven and an end to the tragedies of the Fallen world NOW.
I could try to thoughtfully respond to what people have said, and could even attempt to point out that people who liked this particular video don’t even necessarily agree on all of the particulars, but if all who disliked it “jump ship”, so to speak, there doesn’t seem to be much point in discussing anything. Above all, we need to try to communicate, not naked moral precepts which sound angry and harsh (even if we do not intend to sound so) but the love we ought to have that ought to be the motivating factor behind why we speak.