The Auron MacIntyre Show - Multiculturalism Enables Totalitarianism ｜ 1⧸9⧸25

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00:00:30.000 Conservatives and Libertarians regularly name reducing the size of the state as their top priority,

00:00:35.940 but rarely consider the factors that actually drive the growth of government.

00:00:40.460 For most champions of small government,

00:00:42.960 institutional neutrality and the minimal exercise of state power are seen as metrics of success,

00:00:48.580 but they rarely realize that those factors can actually make the expansion of the state inevitable.

00:00:54.280 While there are different views among Libertarians,

00:00:57.500 many believe that borders are themselves an artificial imposition of the state and that individuals should be allowed to move freely at will.

00:01:06.900 The belief that the government shouldn't favor any particular culture or people leads to multiculturalism and,

00:01:13.540 ironically,

00:01:14.140 when the founding fathers of the United States demanded liberty in their break from Great Britain,

00:01:27.580 they didn't view their declaration as an abolition of all governance or the freedom of the individual to do whatever they wanted.

00:01:35.180 The founders realized that government was indeed necessary,

00:01:39.120 but it could be limited in scope if the people shared a moral vision and maintained personal virtue.

00:01:46.560 Early America was a land of state churches, 0.98

00:01:49.180 blasphemy laws,

00:01:50.280 and strict expectations when it came to public conduct.

00:01:54.020 Liberty was not the absence of authority,

00:01:56.660 but governance in accordance with the shared values and beliefs of the people.

00:02:02.740 The men responsible for creating the government of the United States knew that it would only work for a moral and religious people

00:02:11.340 and were explicit about that fact.

00:02:14.300 The government that governs best can govern least when the people are virtuous

00:02:18.840 and pursue the common good without state coercion.

00:02:22.420 Every man who seeks the good does so by pursuing that which feels natural in the context of his culture and religion.

00:02:31.440 Laws and restrictions that require the individual to do that which already feels natural and in accordance with their beliefs

00:02:38.660 don't feel like burdens.

00:02:40.640 In many cases,

00:02:41.680 those laws don't need to exist at all.

00:02:44.240 The shared communal expectation is enough to keep things in check.

00:02:48.220 In this way,

00:02:49.720 liberty and a shared moral vision are inextricably tied together.

00:02:55.000 When the social forces of religion and culture are strong,

00:02:59.260 order can be maintained with little interference by the state.

00:03:02.940 Robust families and communities that share a moral foundation

00:03:06.500 create structures that mediate conflict and discourage antisocial behavior

00:03:11.420 before it rises to a level that requires government action.

00:03:15.100 But when those forces are weak or fractured,

00:03:19.060 the state must step in to prevent a breakdown in order.

00:03:22.840 This is why a government which does not prefer a particular culture and its virtues

00:03:27.700 will inevitably grow in both size and power.

00:03:32.080 Not a great incentive structure to be sure,

00:03:34.280 but one that is real.

00:03:35.580 And because it exists,

00:03:36.880 we must take notice of it.

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00:03:54.540 Did she pay full price?

00:03:55.780 Or those suede sneakers?

00:03:57.340 Or that luggage?

00:03:58.440 Or that trench?

00:03:59.580 Those jeans?

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00:04:09.960 Multiculturalism by its very nature implies the fracturing of a shared moral vision. 1.00

00:04:16.260 Culture is what shapes the human being,

00:04:18.700 informing us from our earliest days about how to understand the world and our place in it.

00:04:24.520 Culture and religion forge our understanding of right and wrong, 0.97

00:04:28.620 creating the social customs we take to be natural,

00:04:31.820 and helping us to understand what the good life looks like,

00:04:35.420 not just for ourselves,

00:04:36.880 but for our communities.

00:04:38.720 There may be some degree of overlap from one culture to the next,

00:04:43.660 but this minimal shared morality is simply not enough to create harmony.

00:04:48.620 A multicultural country has, by definition,

00:04:51.720 multiple conflicting visions of the good and how that good should be pursued.

00:04:56.640 When the people shared a strong majority culture and moral vision,

00:05:02.340 the government could remain small.

00:05:04.800 The state could confine itself to making only laws that were in accordance with that culture

00:05:10.400 so that they didn't feel like an imposition.

00:05:13.480 In fact,

00:05:14.200 a government which takes steps to favor and protect that culture may be labeled as illiberal,

00:05:20.420 but it is far more likely to allow its citizens to live in accordance with their own conscience.

00:05:27.940 If, however,

00:05:29.280 the country is allowed to become multicultural,

00:05:31.780 and the state wishes to facilitate that transformation,

00:05:35.580 it must radically change its role.

00:05:38.140 In a multicultural society,

00:05:41.620 organic forms of dispute resolution and communal expectations can't be relied upon to maintain order.

00:05:49.340 Individuals have very different expectations for public conduct,

00:05:54.020 values taught in public institutions,

00:05:56.500 and the form of the good which should be collectively pursued.

00:05:59.860 These disagreements are not minor,

00:06:03.740 but fundamental due to the axiomatic assumptions baked into their competing cultures.

00:06:10.420 Due to the lack of common tradition,

00:06:12.680 there is no organic communal structure which can mediate these conflicts,

00:06:17.720 and so the state must step in.

00:06:21.120 In a multicultural country,

00:06:23.420 the government must claim the role of neutral arbiter between communities with different moral visions.

00:06:29.860 The institutions that these communities share,

00:06:32.840 like public schools,

00:06:34.200 hospitals,

00:06:35.220 libraries,

00:06:36.140 and armed forces,

00:06:37.340 can never remain morally neutral because moral neutrality doesn't exist,

00:06:42.760 and so every institution becomes a cultural battleground.

00:06:46.780 Every clash of culture creates a new opportunity for the state to expand into different arenas of public life

00:06:53.760 and impose its ideology on the fractured and atomized masses.

00:06:57.960 In every instance where the public can't agree and resolve its own disputes,

00:07:03.580 the government expands to take on those responsibilities and generate additional authority.

00:07:10.160 It doesn't matter if an arbitrary law is issued by a despotic monarch or a technocracy or a democracy.

00:07:18.700 It will still feel oppressive.

00:07:21.340 In a multicultural society where no unified tradition exists, 0.90

00:07:27.180 all laws feel like arbitrary and artificial impositions by a state which has no connection to any particular people or culture.

00:07:36.820 While it may feel counterintuitive to modern proponents of small government,

00:07:43.340 vigorous state action in favor of defending a unified culture is far more likely to protect liberty than policies like open borders and neutral institutions.

00:07:55.900 It's only through a unified moral vision founded on our nation's historic belief in the truth of Christ

00:08:04.380 that we can prevent the expansion of tyranny and pursue the liberty that our forefathers envisioned.

00:08:11.820 As the psalmist said,

00:08:13.300 quote,

00:08:13.520 "...unless the Lord builds the house, its builders labor in vain.

00:08:18.560 Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchmen stand guard in vain." 0.79

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The Auron MacIntyre Show - January 09, 2025

Multiculturalism Enables Totalitarianism ｜ 1⧸9⧸25

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