Leo D.M.J. Aurini - Why Monarchy？

00:00:00.000 Monarchist. It's an odd thing to call oneself these days, isn't it? After all, we fought three

00:00:10.620 world wars for the sake of democracy. Today we're all about freedom, the free market,

00:00:15.880 the supremacy of the individual. And yet, here I am advocating for monarchy. It's a

00:00:23.760 weird sort of stance to take, isn't it? To a certain extent, the reason I call myself a

00:00:31.200 monarchist, like the term neo-reactionary, it's simply a way of cutting the Gordian knot

00:00:36.880 of left-right politics. A lot of the argumentation going on today, it's this manufactured left-right

00:00:45.500 argument, the left-right divide. People get all wrapped up in the puppet show of the left versus

00:00:52.760 the right, liberals versus conservatives, and they never notice what's actually going on

00:00:57.720 behind the scenes. You want a perfect example. We have had 40 years of conservative government

00:01:03.900 here in Alberta, and yet they're passing all sorts of left-wing legislation. Partly it's

00:01:11.280 just a way of cutting the Gordian knot, of stepping outside of politics and not giving your allegiance

00:01:17.380 to one party or the other. But unlike the term neo-reactionary, which is a pure stepping outside

00:01:26.700 of the mainstream, there's also some positive affirmations with monarchy, with monarchist,

00:01:33.800 that we should have a divinely chosen monarch to run the country. Now it's important not to let this

00:01:43.160 become just another hat. See, there's far too many political hats that people are wearing these days.

00:01:49.700 Somebody reads a little bit of Atlas Shrugged, and they become an objectivist. They read some Mises,

00:01:55.240 and they become an anarcho-capitalist. You know, so on and so forth. There's people looking for an

00:02:00.780 identity, and they find a label, and they make that their identity, as opposed to just thinking about

00:02:07.160 the system and asking valid questions and trying to come up with good conclusions, good theories based

00:02:13.180 upon history, based upon political philosophy. So keeping that in mind, I try not to let monarchy

00:02:21.740 become a hat that I wear. It's mainly a way of stepping outside the system, along with a few different

00:02:30.360 positive prescriptions about what should be done, about how we should govern ourselves.

00:02:37.400 And they're very hard to explain, simply because our vocabulary is so broken nowadays. The way we

00:02:46.340 talk about things, the values that are instilled upon us are very modern values, and they are values

00:02:52.860 that have happened before in the past, and in the past they did not lead to the survival of the

00:02:57.300 civilization. But to actually talk about this, well, I think the best method would be to approach it

00:03:05.360 with that false divide, with the left versus right mentality. Because although left versus right,

00:03:13.440 it's not good politics, it does describe a very real condition in the human psyche, that psychologically

00:03:22.280 some people are liberal and some people are conservative. And it's been the liberals controlling

00:03:29.500 this dialogue for the past 60 years in the West, if not longer. So to get the, let's start to define

00:03:39.580 this divide. Let's start with one of our enemies, a truth-hating Marxist, Eric Fromm.

00:03:47.220 Eric Fromm was one of the intellectuals in the open conspiracy to take over the West known as the

00:03:56.380 Frankfurt School of Cultural Marxism. And if you haven't heard of them before, do your research on

00:04:01.540 these guys. The Frankfurt School, so yeah, the original school of Marxism was that it was going to be an

00:04:07.920 economic war between the exploited proletariat and the exploiting capitalists or landowners. And that

00:04:15.840 never came to fruition. What Marx was looking at was a short-term imbalance in the economy, where all

00:04:22.580 of a sudden, a huge amount of power went towards the capitalists, thanks to the industrialization of

00:04:28.380 Britain. And this disenfranchised a lot of people. It hurt a lot of people economically, turned them

00:04:34.220 into a step above slaves. But that corrected itself. Eventually, you did get the union movement,

00:04:41.160 and you did get forward-thinking capitalists. Allegedly, Henry Ford was one of these guys who

00:04:46.860 paid his workers well enough that they could buy his cars. It fixed itself. The hardcore Marxists,

00:04:53.220 however, they weren't satisfied with simply greater equity in society. They needed to push the message

00:05:00.520 forward. And so the Frankfurt School, full of intellectuals that got chased out of Germany by

00:05:06.020 Hitler, because he absolutely despised Marxists, they came up with the idea that what we need to do 0.85

00:05:12.160 is to destroy all the institutions in society, all the institutions that make people unequal. For

00:05:19.840 instance, religion, marriage, the economy, the social order to things. We need to destroy all of this.

00:05:28.700 And we're going to hurt a lot of people in the process. But once we have everybody down to an

00:05:33.700 individual atom that is interchangeable with every other cog in society, at that point, we can build

00:05:40.700 the new Marxist man. So the way they did it was by trying to undermine institutions by getting into

00:05:50.560 them. The slow march through institutions is what they did. And one of the first steps was pathologizing

00:06:00.480 conservatism. So this is a quote from Eric Fromm's book, Man for Himself. And a hat tip to Radish for

00:06:11.880 finding this quote, by the way. It does a perfect job summing up the difference between liberals and

00:06:17.420 conservatives, between rabbits and wolves, in languages very hostile to conservatives, but I think

00:06:25.220 that most of you out there will identify with quite strongly. So the quote begins,

00:06:31.720 In authoritarian ethics, an authority states what is good for man and lays down the laws and norms of

00:06:41.080 conduct. In humanistic ethics, man himself is both the norm giver and the subject of their norms,

00:06:48.620 their formal source or regulative agency, and their subject matter.

00:06:56.960 Those right there are the two different perspectives. And both of them, at present,

00:07:02.880 reject the concept of monarchy. But let's start with the second one. The humanistic ethic,

00:07:11.340 man himself is born the norm giver and the subject of the norms. This is,

00:07:18.620 modern liberalism. What happens when you appeal to the individual as the giver of all ethical norms?

00:07:31.860 Let's think about ourselves as individuals. Let's think about ourselves as young men and women.

00:07:37.660 When we were 15 or 20, we didn't know anything about the world. And we were desperate for guidance.

00:07:47.440 And yet the guidance given to us was this, do what you want, do what makes you happy. Any type of

00:07:54.680 lifestyle is okay, just as long as you're not hurting anybody else. And yet the guidance we need

00:08:01.260 is, how do I not hurt myself? How do I make wise decisions to make sure I end up where I want to be?

00:08:09.540 The whole Manosphere phenomenon is basically a group of Gen X men who have looked at all the 0.99

00:08:19.040 mistakes that we've made in our lives and wish that we'd had somebody to guide us through those

00:08:24.960 without making those mistakes. You know, it starts with the sex that nice guys finish last and we all

00:08:30.440 got raised to be nice guys. But it starts rapidly growing into the fact that a lot of us got useless 0.97

00:08:37.440 university degrees. A lot of us associated with people or kind of believed in things that wound up

00:08:45.120 being detrimental to us. And there was nobody in our lives to give us a smack on the head and say,

00:08:51.740 don't do that. We were looking for that mentorship, for that authority, and nobody ever gave it to us.

00:09:02.160 Furthermore, when you focus just on the individual, when you raise up the individual as the arbiter of

00:09:09.680 all that is good or true, you have no way of distinguishing one ethos from another. If everybody's

00:09:17.380 equal, then the rapist is on par with the saint. The child molester is equal to the married man.

00:09:27.120 If all ethics are purely arbitrary, then there are no ethics. There is just feelings. There is just

00:09:33.780 the relative truth. And you get absolute social chaos. Now, in the case of Fromm, he advocated this

00:09:42.100 stuff quite intentionally. All of these Frankfurt School cultural Marxists knew precisely what

00:09:47.360 they were doing. If you tell an entire generation to go out there and do whatever feels good,

00:09:53.480 you're going to wind up with young people going out and getting drug addictions. You're going to

00:09:59.900 wind up with girls going out and dating bad boy after bad boy until they're a single mom,

00:10:04.900 and then regretting the decisions in their lives. You're going to wind up with a generation of broken

00:10:10.920 people who need the state to survive. In Fromm's case, it was completely intentional. These Frankfurt

00:10:18.940 School Marxists are incredibly Machiavellian and quite, quite evil. But as for the rabbit person,

00:10:27.360 the rabbit person reads this humanistic ethos, the humanistic ethics, and they see an opportunity.

00:10:35.800 The thing about rabbit people is that they are scared of outright competition. They are scared

00:10:43.660 of outright authority. This modern practice of giving everybody a trophy in a sports game, this

00:10:49.980 is liberalism 101. This is because liberals are afraid to compete openly. They want everybody to get a

00:10:57.300 trophy. And they're going to find a way to manipulate things to make it so that the best player on the

00:11:02.780 sports team is somehow morally questionable. You're only the best player because you were born that

00:11:09.320 way. Check your privilege. The rabbits seek out a hierarchy as well, but they seek out a covert

00:11:17.440 hierarchy. Something as explicit as monarchy frightens them the same way the military frightens them

00:11:24.220 because they know that they can't compete in an honest game. So they try and manipulate the rules.

00:11:29.320 They try and work behind the scenes. They, on the outside, say that everybody's equal, while behind the

00:11:35.780 scenes manipulating things so that they're on top. It's a competitive reproductive strategy. It's a rather 0.99

00:11:42.720 vile one since we are a case-selected species overall, but that's why they are so intimidated by monarchy.

00:11:51.340 It's the desire for freedom, but it's a sort of freedom that you use to subvert the rules.

00:11:57.820 They don't like explicit rules. They like to manipulate them.

00:12:03.280 The second big challenge to monarchy is the conservative side of things. So let's revisit

00:12:11.420 what Fromm says about conservatives, which he calls authoritarians, because he is, of course,

00:12:18.260 trying to associate conservatism with Nazism to discredit it. And what he says, the authoritarian

00:12:26.120 ethics, an authoritarian states what is good for man and lays down the laws and norms of conduct.

00:12:35.700 Now, even us wolves, us wolves like explicit hierarchy. We like knowing what the rules are.

00:12:40.900 We play by the rules, and there's no victory if you don't play by the rules. That's the whole point

00:12:46.900 of the game, is we want to hone our skills and get better. We want to know who the boss is and who we

00:12:52.740 take orders from. We don't want to always be minding our P's and Q's because some overweight 40-year-old 0.97

00:13:00.240 single mother is going to make a sexual harassment complaint about us when we weren't even speaking 1.00

00:13:05.100 to her. That bothers us. We like the explicit rules. But notice the way that Fromm states it.

00:13:10.680 The authoritarian, one man dictates what all the rules are. One man gets to tell you what the good

00:13:19.240 life is. And so here you get the other half of the coin, that the conservative mind does not like

00:13:28.200 the idea of people being born into wealth. When the conservative wolf person mind, when that psychology

00:13:38.740 sees monarchy, they see that, that unjustified privilege, that being pushed around by somebody

00:13:45.200 who didn't earn their position. What we like, what we admire, is somebody that earns their position,

00:13:52.760 somebody that justifies being leader of the tribe, and then we are perfectly happy to follow them.

00:13:57.940 The liberal will make snarky comments behind their back and try and undermine their authority.

00:14:02.200 The conservative mind respects somebody that earns their wealth. This is why we love the free market.

00:14:10.120 It's a fair and open competition, in theory. And monarchy seems like it isn't that thing, right?

00:14:20.200 But again, that's a fake divide. This is the manipulation that people like Fromm have introduced

00:14:26.040 into our language. That we think that monarchy is unjustified totalitarianism. When what monarchy

00:14:35.880 actually is, it's the acknowledgement of explicit power structures, of explicit rules. In a monarchy,

00:14:45.080 there are rules to play by. The monarch has limits put upon them, and you as an individual have

00:14:51.960 opportunity to rise throughout this system. It's not the Indian caste system where you're born into it,

00:14:59.280 you have to be this for the rest of your life. It's simply a system of explicit rules.

00:15:06.440 And so with this manipulative language, which makes conservatives constantly apologize for being

00:15:13.560 leaders, for being authorities, because you don't want to be authoritarian, it's this manipulated

00:15:19.760 language that drives the conservative-minded individual to reject the system of monarchy.

00:15:27.200 Basically, we've mistaken monarchy for communist tyranny. The leftists, with their occult hierarchy,

00:15:38.880 create the authoritarianism, except the language has been manipulated, so you conflate authoritarianism

00:15:48.240 with the right. Now, one final justification for monarchy is the fact that any system that you

00:16:00.960 have is eventually going to have people in power. So let's take a really brief and somewhat unfair

00:16:09.120 analysis of anarcho-capitalism. In an anarcho-capitalist society, eventually you are going to get a 1% of elite,

00:16:16.000 wealthy individuals. What is the guiding ethos of this society, however? In anarcho-capitalism,

00:16:23.600 the guiding ethos is all about the individual and free will. That so long as an individual in an

00:16:30.480 anarcho-capitalist state is choosing something, you have no right to criticize it. And so, the 1% elites

00:16:38.160 at that point start selling fake catharsis, fake independence, fake freedom, which is where we are

00:16:46.080 right now. You buy the video game, and you're the hero. You buy the Nikes, and you're an NBA player.

00:16:52.640 And they become absolute slaves to the system, being progressively brainwashed and manipulated to be

00:16:58.640 cogs in the machine. You get an irresponsible elite when you have anarcho-capitalism, because the

00:17:04.720 foundational myth is the primacy of the individual. With monarchy, on the other hand, with monarchy,

00:17:13.440 it's an upward pull. Rather than the downward pull of the individual as sacrosanct, you have an

00:17:19.120 upward pull to create the best possible society ever. What is the monarch supposed to do? If the monarch's

00:17:26.720 chosen by god, the monarch needs to be godly. So even if, in a monarchy, you have a bad monarch,

00:17:35.360 you have a sociopath, well, on a purely economic scale, they have everything they want. So there's

00:17:43.920 really no need to exploit everybody, because you can only sleep with so many concubines in a day, 1.00

00:17:48.320 you can only play so many video games. But more to the point is that the underlying ethos of this society

00:17:56.880 is that the nobility sets an example for the peasants. And even if the nobility is actually

00:18:07.040 a bunch of psychopaths, they are going to pretend not to be. 0.70

00:18:12.000 Somebody once said, comment on my blog, that monarchy is a very primitive form of government. 0.96

00:18:21.440 I agree. And we are a very primitive people. Trying to design a system that only works for

00:18:28.160 saints is going to result in absolute monstrosity. Whereas something like monarchy, it accepts the

00:18:35.680 broken nature of man. How the vast majority of people are selfish, are cruel, are short-sighted,

00:18:45.200 and it creates a system that pulls them into being something better than themselves. And rather than

00:18:52.000 being worried about their material well-being, which leads to slavish consumerism, it worries about their

00:18:59.120 spiritual well-being. The foundation of the government is trying to be godly. Whether or not

00:19:06.000 you believe in God, it's a good thing to try and pursue. And so that trickles down from the very top.

00:19:13.920 Right now, we have trickle-down economic prosperity, which is why everybody in the ghetto probably makes 1.00

00:19:20.720 more money than I do. But we don't have trickle-down spirituality, value in the self, and an explicit

00:19:31.440 hierarchy that allows one to climb the ladder without finding the ladder secretly leads to a pit.

00:19:39.920 Why monarchy? Because it's good for the human soul. Irini out, folks.

00:19:50.720 So that I can't think that's not the hardest part of it I have to make you segue

00:19:54.400 since I have avert in time.

00:19:56.320 And I'm a person I teach the captain who at the Soziala if you come to your place.

00:20:03.680 Well, I call it the timidly, who I call it, but there is one of science differences am SCOTT strip

Leo D.M.J. Aurini - February 03, 2014

Why Monarchy？

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