Leo D.M.J. Aurini - February 13, 2014


Why Monarchy？ Part II

Topics
monarchy vs. democracy
Hosted by
Leo D.M.J. Aurini
Mentioned
Heinlein Starship Troopers Plato
Why Monarchy？ The White Knight

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In this episode, I discuss why monarchy is a dirty word in the modern culture, why democracy is not, and what the real difference between the two is between monarchy and democracy, and why the two are so different from each other.

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00:00:00.000 Why Monarchy? Part 2. For Part 1, click the button right over there.
00:00:08.000 Monarchy is a dirty word in the modern vernacular.
00:00:12.000 Saying that you're pro-monarchy makes you sound like you're pro-authoritarian rule,
00:00:18.000 you're pro-abuses from the elites, that you're against freedoms for the average person.
00:00:25.000 It's sort of like saying you're anti-environmentalist.
00:00:29.000 After all, everybody likes the environment.
00:00:32.000 What sort of crazy person would be against the environment?
00:00:37.000 And it's really just a question of how we're using the modern language
00:00:41.000 and our ignorance of the etymology of all of these words.
00:00:46.000 But to discuss monarchy, we first need to start by discussing what a myth is.
00:00:53.000 In modern parlance, when we call something a myth,
00:00:56.000 what we're saying is that it's untrue, that it's a fable,
00:01:00.000 a fictional way that we want reality to be that is in contradiction with how reality actually is.
00:01:08.000 But that's not what a myth is.
00:01:11.000 The myth of a society, the myths of people, of religion, are absolute truths.
00:01:20.000 They are universal truths that apply to all people and all situations on a meta level.
00:01:27.000 They're not simple, made-up stories.
00:01:31.000 They are universal truths.
00:01:33.000 They are things that dictate our perception of reality and our responses to it.
00:01:38.000 Myths are absolutely foundational.
00:01:41.000 And the idea that we're all materialists, we're all objectivists,
00:01:46.000 we all finally have an accurate perception of reality,
00:01:49.000 unlike all those crazy people from all of history, that is the modern myth.
00:01:54.000 We have a myth that rejects myths.
00:01:58.000 And so to talk about monarchy and democracy, what we're really talking about is the mythology of it.
00:02:06.000 We are not discussing the practical day-to-day aspects.
00:02:10.000 Voting, for instance.
00:02:12.000 Voting is no more part of monarchy than it's a part of every single other system.
00:02:17.000 Any system on the planet is going to have voting.
00:02:22.000 Quite frankly, take something as extreme as a military unit.
00:02:26.000 A military unit is probably the most autocratic organization you can imagine,
00:02:31.000 and yet even it has some remnant aspects of voting.
00:02:35.000 The troop commanders are going to see how their troops are doing.
00:02:40.000 They're going to talk to their troops and understand what's going on for them.
00:02:43.000 And then the troop commanders are going to talk to the sergeant,
00:02:46.000 who's going to talk to the sergeant major, who's going to talk to the captain.
00:02:49.000 Every way, from the bottom up to the top,
00:02:51.000 there's this trickle of information coming to the CO,
00:02:54.000 and he's asking people questions to figure out what he should do next.
00:02:59.000 Was this training exercise effective?
00:03:01.000 What could I have done to make it a better training exercise?
00:03:05.000 Any sane system is going to have these democratic elements.
00:03:09.000 If you take something like the American Republic,
00:03:12.000 the vast majority of people get to vote.
00:03:15.000 Everybody except for children and criminals, essentially.
00:03:18.000 If you take something like the British monarchy,
00:03:22.000 only certain people got to vote.
00:03:24.000 Only the nobility, the property holders got to vote.
00:03:27.000 But in both systems, you are going to have a vote.
00:03:31.000 Nobody has the exclusive truth,
00:03:34.000 and nobody except for the insane thinks that they do.
00:03:37.000 Anybody in any leadership position is going to be constantly asking for information from their subordinates.
00:03:44.000 And that right there is the vote.
00:03:47.000 Every system is going to have it.
00:03:49.000 When we're talking about monarchy and democracy,
00:03:53.000 we're not discussing voting.
00:03:56.000 We're not discussing the legalities of how the system operates in particular.
00:04:00.000 We're talking about the foundational myth that creates the whole system in the first place.
00:04:05.000 So monarchy and democracy.
00:04:09.000 What are the etymologies on these words?
00:04:12.000 Well, they're both Greek, as I'm sure you already know.
00:04:17.000 And the aocracy part simply means to rule. 0.81
00:04:22.000 It's the words that go into the beginning that are the critical difference,
00:04:28.000 the foundational revolutionary difference between these two systems.
00:04:33.000 Demos means the people, the majority, the mob.
00:04:40.000 Democracy is Greek for mob rule.
00:04:45.000 It's when the mob, the mob mentality, gets to define what reality is.
00:04:53.000 Monarchy, on the other hand.
00:04:56.000 Monarch comes from mono, the one.
00:05:00.000 The one ruler, but also the individual as the primacy in society.
00:05:06.000 That the individual is ultimately what matters.
00:05:10.000 Not the mass opinion of the mob voting for breads and circuses,
00:05:15.000 but that the individual matters.
00:05:18.000 In fact, this is the irony that people now think democracy is connected
00:05:23.000 with all these rights and freedoms granted to the individual.
00:05:26.000 But democracy does not care about that.
00:05:29.000 The foundational myth of democracy is whatever the majority thinks.
00:05:33.000 The masked man. The degenerate man. 0.67
00:05:35.000 And if you look at modern culture, this is a democratic culture.
00:05:39.000 Lowest common denominator is what democracy means.
00:05:43.000 Monarchy means that the individual matters. 0.57
00:05:47.000 That the individual should be given an opportunity for growth,
00:05:50.000 an opportunity for development and advancement.
00:05:56.000 That the mob should never be able to silence and destroy the individual.
00:06:02.000 Plato wrote about this in The Republic.
00:06:06.000 And he summed it up thusly.
00:06:08.000 I am paraphrasing, but it is thusly.
00:06:12.000 Monarchy is when the greats in society elect one of their number to protect them from the mob.
00:06:22.000 The greats know that the mob is full of uncivilized cannibals. 1.00
00:06:30.000 They are a bunch of wild animals who have absolutely no grammar, no logic, 0.93
00:06:38.000 but are extremely prone to falling for rhetoric.
00:06:42.000 And so the greats, to protect themselves from the degenerates,
00:06:46.000 who are more than happy to rip apart everything that the greats have in society,
00:06:52.000 they elect a monarch who sets an example and tries to encourage the masses to imitate the greats.
00:07:00.000 Democracy, on the other hand, is when the demos, the mob, the majority,
00:07:08.000 seize the greats who have built themselves a peaceful, civilized society.
00:07:14.000 Who build themselves wealth.
00:07:16.000 Who build up beautiful homes.
00:07:18.000 Who enjoy high culture.
00:07:21.000 And out of their venal jealousy of these people,
00:07:25.000 who they think somehow stole this wealth from them
00:07:28.000 when they refuse to create their own wealth and destroy their neighbor's wealth,
00:07:32.000 they vote for a tyrant.
00:07:35.000 And the tyrant then confiscates the wealth of the greats
00:07:39.000 and hands it over to the demos,
00:07:42.000 who consume it and produce nothing and destroy civilization.
00:07:51.000 See, at the heart, it's the individual,
00:07:54.000 the primacy of the individual is what creates civilization.
00:07:59.000 Civilization, that thing that we're all willing to self-sacrifice for,
00:08:03.000 does not come from the majority.
00:08:05.000 It comes from the individual.
00:08:07.000 The majority only ever cares about the short term.
00:08:11.000 The mob wants the degenerate, easy culture.
00:08:15.000 They want hamburgers, and they want candy, 0.98
00:08:18.000 and they want free sex without consequences. 0.55
00:08:21.000 And they will vote their way into getting this
00:08:25.000 until there's no more wealth left to redistribute to them.
00:08:29.000 They have no long-term thinking,
00:08:31.000 and they're not willing to self-sacrifice for the sake of their neighbor.
00:08:36.000 They are cannibals that want to rip their neighbor apart. 0.99
00:08:41.000 The individual, on the other hand, 0.89
00:08:44.000 the individual who celebrates their own existence,
00:08:48.000 who uses their short life on this planet to better themselves,
00:08:52.000 that's somebody that understands the value of existence.
00:08:57.000 That's the person that is willing to sacrifice themselves,
00:09:01.000 not for the state, but for the civilization.
00:09:06.000 When you see mothers who are willing to tell their sons, 1.00
00:09:12.000 come back carrying your shield or on it or not at all,
00:09:17.000 those are women living in a society that celebrates the individual. 1.00
00:09:24.000 And because they are individuals,
00:09:26.000 they are willing to sacrifice themselves or their progeny
00:09:30.000 for the sake of the civilization.
00:09:33.000 The democratic mother, the mass mother, the single mother, 0.89
00:09:40.000 is not willing to sacrifice anything.
00:09:43.000 Her children are number one to the detriment of everybody else.
00:09:52.000 Now, as I said, monarchy is a dirty word nowadays.
00:09:57.000 And democracy is a friendly, happy word.
00:10:02.000 Even though the American Republic is not supposed to be a democracy.
00:10:08.000 Even though that's nowhere in the foundational documents of it.
00:10:11.000 So if we're going to talk about monarchy for an American citizen,
00:10:18.000 it's best to avoid the word monarchy, isn't it?
00:10:23.000 Let's consider for a moment Heinlein and his book Starship Troopers.
00:10:29.000 In Starship Troopers, the right to vote, the franchise,
00:10:36.000 is earned by displaying pro-social values
00:10:41.000 that you're willing to sacrifice not to be obedient to the state,
00:10:45.000 but for the sake of the civilization.
00:10:48.000 And only those who have that inner nobility are allowed to have the voting franchise.
00:10:57.000 This doesn't encompass all forms of greatness.
00:11:00.000 As he clearly lays out in the book, even a retard will be given a dangerous job 1.00
00:11:04.000 if the retard wants to be part of civilization and vote. 0.99
00:11:08.000 Because, as Heinlein said, 0.99
00:11:10.000 better to have a retard voting who loves his country than a sociopath who doesn't. 0.99
00:11:16.000 But at the end of the day, what you get, you get this elite, 0.99
00:11:22.000 these people that hold sway over civilization,
00:11:27.000 who are willing to sacrifice themselves and who jealously guard their vote,
00:11:32.000 they're not going to throw it away.
00:11:34.000 They're not going to give it to just anybody.
00:11:36.000 They don't view the masked opinion as the intelligence of the civilization.
00:11:42.000 These are all people that served in the army,
00:11:44.000 and these are all people that experienced being a private,
00:11:47.000 not knowing what to do, and looking to your leadership to guide you.
00:11:52.000 And then they themselves become the leadership for civilization.
00:11:56.000 That is monarchy.
00:12:00.000 The original system set up in the United States
00:12:04.000 was monarchy at its deepest mythological level.
00:12:09.000 It was not democracy.
00:12:11.000 There was no mass franchise.
00:12:13.000 It was property holders alone who were supposed to be voting.
00:12:17.000 The sort of people that volunteered for the military.
00:12:21.000 And it's only over the past couple of centuries,
00:12:25.000 thanks to that filthy revolution in France, 0.96
00:12:27.000 that now people think it's a democracy mob rule
00:12:33.000 versus the importance of individuals
00:12:38.000 being allowed to think for themselves and speak their mind.
00:12:43.000 Why monarchy?
00:12:45.000 Because our individual freedoms matter.
00:12:47.000 Irene out, folks.
00:12:50.000 Ones are three countries.
00:12:55.000 For many countries.
00:13:08.000 Ones are three countries.
00:13:09.000 Ones are four countries.
00:13:11.000 AIME's regain With dancing.