The Auron MacIntyre Show - December 11, 2025


Netflix and the End of Deconstruction ｜ 12⧸11⧸25


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Postmodernism has been around since the early 20th century, and its influence is still felt across every facet of society. But is it a symptom of the end of postmodernism, or is it the beginning of something new?

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00:00:00.000 Netflix just announced its next animated children's film, Steps, a Cinderella inversion in which the Stepsisters are the real heroes.
00:00:08.720 Shocking, I know.
00:00:10.000 The platform is also releasing Queen of Coal, a film about a transgender woman overcoming the patriarchy in his small Argentinian town.
00:00:20.500 Reports of the demise of wokeness were greatly exaggerated.
00:00:24.560 Its adherents remain committed to pushing it across every domain of society.
00:00:28.960 What's notable, however, is how boring it's all becoming.
00:00:33.380 Deconstruction has been the default mode of modern culture, but it's running out of things to deconstruct.
00:00:39.940 The transgression has lost its power as the taboo fades, and in that exhaustion, something new, perhaps something true, stirs.
00:00:50.080 Some call Friedrich Nietzsche the first postmodernist for announcing that God is dead.
00:00:54.940 Whether he is a precursor or ground zero, the genealogy of the movement clearly flows from his work.
00:01:01.740 You can argue about whether he unleashed several horrors into the world or merely acknowledged their arrival,
00:01:07.760 but Nietzsche at least understood the seriousness of his claim.
00:01:11.380 He understood that having the blood of a god on your hands wasn't a clever academic parlor trick.
00:01:16.880 It was monstrous.
00:01:17.880 With the creator of the universe declared dead, modern man felt free to dismantle the order that once bound him.
00:01:25.260 The sacred bonds of hierarchy were shattered.
00:01:28.060 Postmodernism launched its assault on the good, the beautiful, and the true.
00:01:32.440 The breaking of sacred bonds releases immense energy.
00:01:36.160 The leftist revolution that consumed the West drank deeply from that well.
00:01:40.360 The church, the community, the family, marriage, gender roles, gender itself.
00:01:47.280 Each time the left destroyed one of these natural structures, it seized the power trapped inside and wielded it against its enemies.
00:01:55.540 But deconstruction has a natural endpoint.
00:01:58.280 Transgression requires something sacred to violate.
00:02:01.700 As I've written before, you eventually reach the point where there's nothing left to transgress.
00:02:06.020 When every movie, show, novel, game, and song subverts the traditional Christian norm, 0.90
00:02:13.240 the subversion becomes the norm.
00:02:15.680 That's why these Netflix offerings feel so lifeless.
00:02:18.960 They follow the same trajectory towards the same boring inversion.
00:02:24.100 Fifty years ago, critics would complain that stories were predictable because the squeaky clean hero always triumphed.
00:02:31.020 Today, they're predictable because the villain is always some poor, misunderstood victim of bigotry
00:02:37.340 who deserves to overcome and win the day.
00:02:40.460 The inversion isn't clever or subversive.
00:02:43.780 It's just the predictable status quo.
00:02:47.240 So what happens when postmodernism has inverted every hierarchy,
00:02:51.860 mocked every sacred symbol,
00:02:53.640 and squeezed the last drop of power out of attacking Christianity?
00:02:57.440 The philosopher Alexander Dugan offers a compelling answer.
00:03:02.080 If modernity was the death of God,
00:03:04.400 the end of postmodernism is the exhaustion of subversive secular culture.
00:03:09.660 At that point, new possibilities appear.
00:03:13.060 Instead of proclaiming that God is dead, people start asking,
00:03:16.560 the death of who?
00:03:18.060 The old order fades so completely from their minds
00:03:21.560 that secular man forgets what he was rebelling against in the first place.
00:03:26.240 Postmodern man has lived his entire life in a world re-engineered from the top down by
00:03:33.380 quote-unquote experts.
00:03:35.860 When he cast God from his throne,
00:03:38.060 man imagined that he would shape the world through his own individual will.
00:03:42.600 But the modern secular man discovers instead a moral wasteland.
00:03:47.480 He finds that he is captive not to his own liberated self,
00:03:51.020 but to the darker forces that were once held at bay by the divine order he dismantled.
00:03:57.560 He no longer remembers what that order looked like,
00:04:01.220 or why he rebelled against it in the first place.
00:04:04.260 And in that moment, the opportunity to rediscover the spiritual returns.
00:04:09.820 The revolution brought destruction,
00:04:12.160 but its exhaustion brings new possibilities.
00:04:15.080 People have forgotten the object of their rebellion,
00:04:18.760 and now they look at the miserable world secular man has made.
00:04:22.740 They crave something more.
00:04:25.620 Order.
00:04:26.680 Duty.
00:04:27.760 Faith.
00:04:28.760 Meaning.
00:04:29.640 These things begin to look far more promising than the ugly,
00:04:33.380 pointless chaos modern man has created for himself.
00:04:36.700 People once again thirst for a world where the good guy wins,
00:04:39.900 and God reigns.
00:04:41.340 The truth is that God never died.
00:04:45.360 Christ died and rose again.
00:04:47.860 Modern man tried to replace the divine with science and reason.
00:04:51.640 But the Lord is the source of reason itself.
00:04:54.720 He can't be dethroned by his own creation.
00:04:57.820 As deconstruction loses its revolutionary energy and becomes stale,
00:05:02.960 the desire to re-embrace the sacred order returns.
00:05:06.700 J.R.R. Tolkien captured this when he wrote,
00:05:09.420 "...evil cannot create anything new.
00:05:12.580 It can only spoil and destroy what good forces invented or created." 0.64
00:05:17.520 Eventually evil runs out of things to spoil.
00:05:21.400 A barren, thirsty culture begins searching for the living water
00:05:24.680 only divine truth can provide.
00:05:27.780 Modern culture is bankrupt and everyone feels it.
00:05:31.400 The attempts at transgression now read as hollow conformity to a corrupted system.
00:05:36.340 We're not the masters of our own world or our own truth.
00:05:40.700 And thank God for that.
00:05:42.920 We don't have to live in the nihilistic abyss we created.
00:05:46.980 The natural order waits just beneath the surface,
00:05:49.940 ready to re-emerge in a cultural revival.
00:05:53.120 The creative future won't come from a relativistic Hollywood
00:05:56.580 clinging to the corpse of deconstruction.
00:05:59.440 It'll come from those willing to embrace the transcendent,
00:06:02.680 from those who understand the world is held together,
00:06:05.420 not by our will or power,
00:06:07.900 but by the truth and beauty of our Creator.
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