The Auron MacIntyre Show - No Common Tradition, No Common Sense ｜ 8⧸22⧸24

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00:00:30.000 How can anyone believe that Kamala Harris is popular,

00:00:33.600 that price controls would solve inflation,

00:00:35.920 or that open borders are ultimately good for the economy?

00:00:39.380 How could an entire country founded on liberty

00:00:42.120 allow their churches, schools, and businesses to be shuttered for years

00:00:46.300 because of a nasty flu?

00:00:48.840 Even on the most fundamental truths of human existence,

00:00:52.300 like the difference between men and women,

00:00:54.260 our society seems to be incapable of recognizing obvious fact.

00:00:58.980 The cry heard most often from conservatives is one demanding a return to common sense.

00:01:04.660 But what many fail to understand is that common sense requires a common tradition.

00:01:10.340 Without a shared moral framework through which to understand our world,

00:01:15.020 self-evident truths quickly dissolve into a quagmire of relativism and propaganda.

00:01:21.460 Any society that grows beyond a certain size inevitably relies on the authority of institutions.

00:01:28.220 When a civilization is small, the authority of families and tribes provides a natural scaffolding 0.99

00:01:35.100 for social coordination through the perpetuation of religion, folkways, and traditions.

00:01:41.500 But as a society expands to encompass new territory and peoples,

00:01:46.700 it must shift some of that burden of authority into specialized institutions which allow coordination to scale.

00:01:55.360 These institutions often emerge out of the organic needs of society

00:01:59.760 and carry generations of hard-won knowledge,

00:02:03.060 making them critical pillars to the success of the nation.

00:02:06.200 This nexus of religious truth, cultural folkways, tradition, and institutional authority

00:02:13.520 combines to create what most people think of as common sense.

00:02:18.760 This thick web of culture allows the average person access to untold generations' worth of knowledge and wisdom,

00:02:25.900 effortlessly shaping the way they see the world.

00:02:28.580 Novel ideas about gender, history, or ethics are checked against the collective experience of society,

00:02:36.900 and only the most resilient new ideas are woven into the fabric of the tradition.

00:02:43.460 Like a fish in water that doesn't know it's wet,

00:02:46.420 an individual who's submerged in a proper culture 0.89

00:02:49.460 is guarded against the most poisonous extremes of ideology without even realizing it.

00:02:54.760 In 2024, the average American has lost all contact with the social forces that would create common sense.

00:03:03.180 The foundation of truth, a real and vibrant belief in Christianity, has been fractured.

00:03:09.840 Due to culturally indiscriminate legal immigration

00:03:12.920 and an open border that regularly allows millions of unvetted illegals to enter the country every year,

00:03:19.240 large foreign populations of different faiths

00:03:21.860 have radically altered the religious makeup of the nation.

00:03:26.220 Far more destructive is the modern obsession with secular neutrality,

00:03:31.240 which has sought to purge religious influence from both public institutions and private life.

00:03:37.720 Without a shared moral vision,

00:03:39.620 there can be no basis on which the average person arrives at a common sense conclusion.

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00:04:01.400 The modern obsession with individual freedom has also broken down institutions of family and community

00:04:07.420 which are critical to grounding the culture.

00:04:10.220 Young people are encouraged to leave their community in search of education and employment opportunities,

00:04:16.300 abandoning the social networks which perpetuate their way of life.

00:04:19.900 Marriage and parenthood are coded as low status and individuals are instead encouraged to engage in a series of disposable relationships that allow them to focus on their empty careers as corporate widgets.

00:04:33.240 Young couples are priced out of the housing market and, separated from the assistance of extended family,

00:04:39.120 rely on expensive childcare while both parents work to make ends meet.

00:04:44.320 For most, the professional and personal cost of family make it a goal that is increasingly both unfashionable and out of reach.

00:04:52.460 Fraternities, church groups, bowling leagues, civic associations, and other voluntary social organizations that used to define American life have fallen away as families shrink

00:05:04.800 and irreligious, rootless cosmopolitans retreat to their apartments. 0.80

00:05:09.120 Online dating, Netflix, and grocery delivery make it possible to live a thoroughly modern life without any organic social contact.

00:05:19.660 Becoming middle class no longer means the independence of property and the posterity of family,

00:05:25.860 but access to a wider range of subscription services to be enjoyed in isolation.

00:05:30.300 The fact that this lifestyle helped to facilitate lockdowns across the population during the pandemic isn't an accident.

00:05:40.200 When the individual is separated from religious truth, cultural folkways, family, and even the most basic daily social interactions,

00:05:50.100 reality can quickly become distorted.

00:05:52.180 Common sense is not some inborn grasp of truth, but an inherited store of knowledge and wisdom that makes the navigation of complex scenarios seem obvious.

00:06:05.020 Without these organic social connections, the individual becomes untethered and highly susceptible to propaganda and suggestion.

00:06:13.960 The relentless tide of information flowing through television and digital media

00:06:18.860 combined with the curated algorithmic delivery of social media can rapidly and radically alter how an isolated actor sees the world.

00:06:28.700 With the continuity of tradition and the organic ground of community stripped away,

00:06:34.240 the individual becomes reliant on the authority of institutions as the basis for truth.

00:06:39.820 This can work for a time, but if those institutions themselves become separated from their founding duties

00:06:45.760 and the people that they were meant to serve, organizations that were meant to stand as pillars of truth

00:06:51.180 can quickly become conduits for lies.

00:06:55.140 Public health experts, scientists, journalists, academics, and even military leaders have proven

00:07:01.020 that they're willing to sacrifice credibility to conform to political power.

00:07:05.600 With this shattered epistemology, truth loses all ground and media manipulation becomes the engine through which the elites maintain power.

00:07:15.760 If conservatives wish to see the end of rule by media and the return to common sense,

00:07:21.920 they must first recreate the social fabric which enables it.

00:07:26.460 Individuals can only become resistant to media narratives if they have regular contact with reality

00:07:33.460 and a higher tradition against which to measure new information.

00:07:37.320 A man locked in his home, watching streaming entertainment, and having food delivered to his door

00:07:43.580 can be fooled into thinking a pandemic is ravaging the world outside.

00:07:48.140 A man who is regularly attending church, meeting with friends, and bringing his wife and children to the park

00:07:53.360 can easily observe that the media is spouting nonsense.

00:07:57.320 The solutions being offered by progressive politicians like Kamala Harris are absurd.

00:08:03.580 They stand in opposition to the moral truth, economic reality, and social custom that once seemed obvious to us all.

00:08:12.740 But as the shared social fabric which once bound our communities together has worn away,

00:08:18.560 common sense has lost its foundation, and isolated individuals have become highly susceptible to manipulative media and corrupt institutions.

00:08:29.480 If conservatives would like to see a return to common sense,

00:08:33.200 they must first revive the traditions and communities that once informed all that we held in common.

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The Auron MacIntyre Show - August 22, 2024

No Common Tradition, No Common Sense ｜ 8⧸22⧸24

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