The Auron MacIntyre Show - July 12, 2024


Making Sense of the Global Managerial Revolution ｜ 7⧸12⧸24

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Auron MacIntyre
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Samuel Francis James Burnham George W. Bush Bertrand DeJuvenal Andrew Gustafsson Ralph Halza Sam Francis Luke Hill Leviathan McIntyre Rocky
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Always and everywhere, power attempts to centralize. In his book On Power, the political theorist Bertrand De Jouvenel explained that power is always seeking to erode barriers to the process of centralization. In the 1940s, James Burnham introduced the idea of the managerial revolution, which had radically altered the modern state.

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00:00:30.000 Always and everywhere, power attempts to centralize.
00:00:40.420 In his book On Power, the political theorist Bertrand DeJuvenel explained that power is
00:00:44.820 always seeking to erode barriers to the process of centralization.
00:00:49.140 In its most organic construction, civilization is formed out of overlapping spheres of social
00:00:53.780 sovereignty.
00:00:54.280 Man is a political animal, after all, and none of us exist in complete isolation.
00:00:58.900 But instead find ourselves bound into a web of social dependencies and obligation.
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00:01:11.040 of their members.
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00:01:18.000 us with a community within which we can practice virtue.
00:01:20.940 Our dependency on and duty to these spheres sustains and defines us, but they also serve
00:01:27.320 as barriers to the centralization of power.
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00:01:36.260 less likely to follow the dictates of centralized authority.
00:01:40.020 Power must collapse these opposing spheres of authority if it's to achieve its goals.
00:01:44.660 Regional authorities, organic identities, and natural hierarchies are all barriers to the
00:01:49.940 centralization of power.
00:01:51.160 In the 1940s, James Burnham introduced the idea of the managerial revolution, which had
00:01:57.200 radically altered the modern state.
00:01:59.500 The Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, and liberal democracies like the United States may have significant
00:02:04.700 differences, but ultimately each of these states rested on a managerial structure.
00:02:09.120 After the Industrial Revolution, the paradigm of mass production and mass consumption required
00:02:14.260 a shift in social organization.
00:02:16.740 Large bureaucratic structures were required to meet the logistical, technical, and social
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00:02:44.100 a standardized set of managerial techniques.
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00:02:51.960 the mass managerial bureaucracy requires universalization to scale the massification of human organization.
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00:04:19.060 In his book, Leviathan and its Enemies, the paleo-conservative political theorist Samuel
00:04:23.360 Francis continued Burnham's critical work by outlining the process by which the managerial
00:04:28.340 revolution dissolved the competing structures of bourgeois capitalism.
00:04:32.140 While capital had already revolutionized many competing social spheres, managerialism required
00:04:38.020 their complete abolition.
00:04:40.020 Always and everywhere, power seeks to centralize, and managerialism gains strength through centralization
00:04:46.240 via mass bureaucratic social organization.
00:04:49.840 Cultural and moral particularity from competing spheres of social sovereignty hinder the uniform
00:04:54.940 application of managerial techniques.
00:04:57.500 The individual worker who has a large family with many children may be unwilling to devote his
00:05:01.960 entire life to the corporation.
00:05:04.120 The devout Christian may oppose commerce on the Sabbath of the practice of usury. 1.00
00:05:08.600 The devout Muslim may require the observance of certain dietary restrictions.
00:05:12.900 An individual whose family has lived in a region for generations may be unwilling to sacrifice
00:05:18.020 the well-being of that particular community in the name of economic efficiency.
00:05:22.840 Particular peoples with particular identities and ways of being are the enemy of universalized 1.00
00:05:27.980 bureaucratic management.
00:05:29.120 Francis observed that the managerial elite attempt to break down barriers to universal application
00:05:34.120 by homogenizing culture.
00:05:36.040 Hedonistic and cosmopolitan identities are highly malleable, so the managerial elite desire
00:05:41.120 a deracinated population that can be easily manipulated.
00:05:45.000 By replacing dependency on morally and culturally particular structures like the family or church
00:05:50.360 with a dependency on mass managerial structures like public education or the welfare state,
00:05:55.120 the managerial class can gain power over individuals and separate them from other social spheres.
00:06:01.120 Progressive secular humanism, or wokeness if you prefer, allies with the managerial revolution
00:06:06.340 by disincentivizing the creation of opposing spheres of sovereignty.
00:06:10.840 It stigmatizes family formation and traditional religion, labeling them as low status.
00:06:15.580 Organic identities are replaced with more general and commodifiable identities, which can be consumed
00:06:20.640 and discarded.
00:06:21.640 In the name of liberation, individuals are stripped of every duty and dependency, making them entirely
00:06:27.460 reliant on the managerial regime.
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00:07:05.140 against the state and corporations that demand total allegiance.
00:07:09.100 In addition to outlining the cultural assimilation required by managerialism, Sam Francis predicted
00:07:14.500 that its internal logic would compel it to pursue globalization.
00:07:18.440 Managerial structures produce their abundance through large-scale organization, necessitating
00:07:23.040 the continuous expansion of logistical networks.
00:07:25.540 National boundaries are arbitrary barriers to the mass bureaucratic mindset, and once the
00:07:30.700 managerial elite complete their revolution within their own borders, they naturally turn
00:07:35.740 outward.
00:07:36.840 New markets mean access to new customers, natural resources, and laborers.
00:07:40.680 But the revolution is never purely economic.
00:07:43.580 Managerial regimes find it easier to coordinate with other managerial regimes of the same order,
00:07:48.260 which is why the United States and the wider West have been obsessed with the spread of liberal
00:07:51.900 democracy.
00:07:52.520 George W. Bush and other conservatives have often been mocked for the idea that at the
00:07:56.880 heart of every nation lies a liberal democracy yearning to be free.
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00:08:06.140 But this is simply an extension of the universalism that the managerial revolution demands.
00:08:11.000 Massified national organizations naturally seek to expand their power by becoming international
00:08:16.200 organizations.
00:08:17.500 The World Health Organization, International Monetary Fund, World Economic Health Forum,
00:08:22.440 NATO, and several other international entities are all constantly seeking to add new nodes
00:08:27.440 to the managerial network, creating a loose, globalized managerial order without any formal
00:08:32.160 name.
00:08:32.880 These organizations always emphasize the problem on an international scale.
00:08:37.500 Global warming, pandemic response, and world overpopulation are all issues that are
00:08:42.040 too large for any one nation to address on its own.
00:08:45.280 By focusing on large and abstract issues, the managerial elite can locate their decision-making
00:08:50.380 centers well outside the nation itself.
00:08:53.400 This makes it almost impossible for the citizens of that nation to hold real power accountable,
00:08:58.680 even as they continue to participate in the democratic process.
00:09:02.480 For the ever-expanding network of managerial bureaucracy to spread profitably into new regions,
00:09:07.780 it must successfully homogenize culture.
00:09:09.980 It's not enough for a culture to become uniform inside a nation, it must become uniform across
00:09:14.960 the entire international network.
00:09:17.400 The conversion of nations into liberal democracies assists in this process.
00:09:21.440 Democratic elites must introduce mass media, bureaucratic organization, and therapeutic amelioration
00:09:27.020 if they're to achieve the kind of social engineering that's required to maintain power under a system
00:09:32.100 of popular sovereignty.
00:09:33.800 New democratic leaders in foreign countries thus benefit greatly from connecting their subjects
00:09:38.460 to the global network of managers already established in the West.
00:09:42.500 Mass media begins its work, and McDonald's, Starbucks, and Apple stores soon follow.
00:09:47.800 The traditions and history of the nation are slowly worn away as a tide of foreign culture 1.00
00:09:51.740 flows in.
00:09:52.940 International organizations become major employers as well as cultural staples that grow in importance
00:09:58.100 until they're so integral to the operation of the country that no one can imagine how they
00:10:02.840 ever got along without them.
00:10:04.400 Managers and personnel flow over borders as naturally as the goods that those organizations
00:10:09.080 produce.
00:10:10.100 The very idea that the people differ in any significant way from those of any other country
00:10:14.380 slowly disappears.
00:10:16.020 No group has claim to any given nation because all nations are now part of the mass managerial
00:10:20.740 network.
00:10:21.440 The managerial elite develop international class interests because their interdependent networks
00:10:25.720 make the nation itself an interchangeable unit.
00:10:28.860 Managing a government is seen as no different from running an international corporation or
00:10:32.960 a non-government organization.
00:10:34.900 All of these entities feature similar bureaucratic structures, and the managers have an easy time
00:10:39.680 moving between them.
00:10:40.980 Just as it sought to homogenize culture inside its original borders, the global managerial order
00:10:45.580 must break down the particularities of the nations to which it seeks to expand.
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00:10:54.860 in countries like England or Ireland, where no history of racialized conflict exists.
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00:11:03.740 to do with coffee consumption if you understand it properly.
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00:11:11.440 in military aid to both Ukraine and Israel.
00:11:14.580 Progressive secular humanism is the universal asset meant to dissolve all cultural particularities
00:11:19.600 and turn the people of each nation into blank slates onto which managerial techniques can
00:11:24.680 be freely pressed.
00:11:26.460 The good news for those of us who see the nation as the best social organization for human flourishing
00:11:31.220 is that the current managerial order cannot last.
00:11:34.620 Humans are not interchangeable widgets.
00:11:36.840 We're not meant to lose our heritage, traditions, religions, and languages for a bureaucratic
00:11:41.820 tower of Babel.
00:11:43.300 Like Soviet communism, managerial liberalism has made faulty assumptions about human nature that
00:11:48.780 will doom it.
00:11:49.780 Late stage managerialism will eventually fall apart.
00:11:53.340 The only question is whether Western nations will have leaders ready to guide their people
00:11:58.180 to a brighter future.
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