The Auron MacIntyre Show - Permanent Revolution and the Total State ｜ 4⧸14⧸23

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00:00:30.720 Always and everywhere, power seeks to expand its reach and centralize control.

00:00:36.460 In order to consolidate control, the state must erode the influence of all competing power centers

00:00:42.220 and leave itself as the only authority on which its subjects can rely.

00:00:47.480 Dependence is the foundation of sovereignty,

00:00:50.160 and any state that seeks to gain total control over its population

00:00:53.620 must make the population completely dependent

00:00:56.500 by removing any form of stability provided by an alternative social institution

00:01:01.980 that could allow the subject to ignore the will of the government.

00:01:05.980 The naked destruction of these competing centers of power by the state

00:01:10.220 will be correctly identified as tyranny,

00:01:12.280 So any government undertaking that task must have a justifying narrative

00:01:16.820 to obfuscate the fact that it's seizing authority from its rivals.

00:01:20.480 The revolution has proven to be the most powerful justifying narrative of the modern era,

00:01:26.960 allowing one power center to destroy its rivals in the name of the people.

00:01:30.900 If a state seeks total control of its population,

00:01:34.620 the creation of a permanent revolution provides a never-ending justification

00:01:38.960 for the expansion and centralization of authority.

00:01:41.960 In the early stages of development,

00:01:45.560 nations tend to see a wider distribution of political power.

00:01:48.840 When governments are young,

00:01:51.040 they don't have the authority, wealth, or bureaucratic structure

00:01:54.240 necessary to wield control over every part of their domain.

00:01:58.700 New governments tend to be very dependent on regional authorities

00:02:02.640 and organic social institutions

00:02:04.700 because they couldn't hope to replace the function of those centers of power.

00:02:08.680 Community members are dependent on their families,

00:02:12.400 local churches, and civic organizations

00:02:14.480 for their material and spiritual needs.

00:02:17.720 Capable leaders form a natural aristocracy,

00:02:20.800 be it in the classic sense of landed nobles

00:02:23.540 or in the more modern figures of the mayor, sheriff, and county commissioner.

00:02:28.960 The local populations count on these regional institutions and leaders,

00:02:33.420 not the central state, for their direct safety and security.

00:02:37.100 This dependence generates power for these local aristocrats and institutions,

00:02:41.980 and the fact that the younger central government must rely on them

00:02:45.500 also means its own power is limited.

00:02:48.980 It's not a constitution or a bill of rights

00:02:51.420 that restricts the power or growth of government.

00:02:54.540 It's the existence of competing centers of power

00:02:57.420 and political interests that holds a central government in check.

00:03:01.700 When the government relies on other social authorities

00:03:04.920 to keep the nation functioning,

00:03:06.880 it's required to negotiate with those competing centers of power.

00:03:11.020 Because those competing power centers are local or regional,

00:03:14.940 their political interests are far more likely to be tied

00:03:17.920 to the particular needs of their communities.

00:03:21.000 This means that as long as those competing power centers

00:03:24.020 hold significant sway,

00:03:25.640 the central government will always face natural limitations on its power,

00:03:29.400 because it can't ignore the competing regional interests

00:03:32.660 of its constituent communities.

00:03:35.080 If a state seeks to expand and centralize control,

00:03:38.380 it must eliminate or capture the power wielded

00:03:41.220 by other political forces inside the nation.

00:03:44.740 The authority of competing spheres of power must be collapsed

00:03:48.640 so they are no longer forcing compromise

00:03:51.320 and their concerns can be ignored.

00:03:53.880 This is easier said than done,

00:03:55.480 as those competing regional powers have earned the loyalty

00:03:59.320 of the communities that have long depended on them.

00:04:02.820 That loyalty grants the regional powers independence,

00:04:06.100 something that is unacceptable to a state seeking total control.

00:04:10.220 If the state is to remove these rival power centers,

00:04:13.460 then the loyal base that grants them independence

00:04:15.780 must be undermined.

00:04:17.860 In his book On Power,

00:04:20.060 the political theorist Bertrand de Juvenal explains

00:04:22.820 that the most effective way to undermine established regional powers

00:04:27.200 that are competing for authority with the state

00:04:29.340 is to offer their wealth and power to the disenfranchised.

00:04:33.640 Communities that have benefited from their long-standing relationship

00:04:37.280 to regional leaders and institutions

00:04:39.540 are unlikely to abandon them

00:04:41.460 and pledge their allegiance to the central government.

00:04:44.300 But newly arrived communities,

00:04:46.140 or those that have traditionally been denied the benefit

00:04:48.660 of those competing spheres of power,

00:04:50.980 have no such loyalty.

00:04:53.380 Emperors and kings who wish to increase their power

00:04:56.340 while reducing the influence of the nobility

00:04:58.920 would often use new populations acquired through conquests

00:05:02.500 or disenfranchised social groups

00:05:04.520 inside their realm to dislodge their rivals.

00:05:08.380 The titles might have changed in the modern world,

00:05:11.080 but the dynamics of power have not.

00:05:13.700 This juvenilian model of high-low versus middle 0.60

00:05:17.160 continues today in the eternal revolution of the total state.

00:05:20.820 The eternal revolution in explicitly communist countries

00:05:25.540 is very easy to observe.

00:05:27.920 Revolutionaries use the disenfranchised masses 0.99

00:05:30.540 to wipe out all traditional governing institutions

00:05:33.500 and redistribute some of the spoils seized from the ruling class

00:05:37.380 while taking the corresponding authority for themselves.

00:05:40.920 Neither the power nor the material wealth that is seized is enough,

00:05:45.240 and so revolutionaries target the Kulaks,

00:05:47.900 those who were capable of assembling some level of personal wealth

00:05:51.180 and independence under the old system.

00:05:54.080 Wiping out the Kulaks is never sufficient 1.00

00:05:56.420 because the power of the ruling party was built

00:05:59.040 on their ability to punish a public enemy,

00:06:01.760 and a new one must be regularly presented

00:06:04.420 if their narrative justification for control is to be maintained.

00:06:08.160 Even if the Communist Party has been in total control for decades,

00:06:13.320 the state must continue to find new anti-revolutionary forces

00:06:17.740 to punish in the name of the people.

00:06:20.380 With the fall of the Soviet Union,

00:06:22.580 Western nations believed that they had escaped the ravenous hunger

00:06:25.980 of the eternal revolution and emerged victorious.

00:06:29.540 But instead, the centralization of power simply took a different form.

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00:06:51.360 Instead of forming a revolution around the collective nation,

00:06:54.720 the governments of Western nations built their justifying narrative

00:06:58.620 around individual liberation.

00:07:00.520 Civil rights and human rights became the new civic religion of Western nations,

00:07:06.680 and the pursuit of these rights could justify any expansion in government authority.

00:07:11.940 The autonomy of states and local governments could be abolished

00:07:15.240 in the name of the Civil Rights Revolution,

00:07:17.780 as could the property rights of both businesses and individuals.

00:07:22.260 Confiscatory tax rates could be justified by redistributive practices,

00:07:26.360 and the need to deliver standardized government services in the areas of education,

00:07:31.320 child care, and housing in order to level the playing field.

00:07:35.220 Open borders ensured a steady flow of new arrivals,

00:07:38.600 who would always be, by definition, less enfranchised,

00:07:42.180 and would require the regular intervention of an ever-expanding state

00:07:46.080 in order to level the playing field.

00:07:48.700 American revolutionaries used these policies to target their own kulaks, 0.98

00:07:52.980 the middle class, who were the backbone of regional autonomy and independence.

00:07:58.120 The middle class and the institutions that they built

00:08:00.820 served as an alternative power center that enabled local communities

00:08:04.580 to flourish without dependence on the central state,

00:08:07.960 and the middle must always be destroyed by the revolution in the name of the people.

00:08:13.700 With individual liberty as its justifying narrative,

00:08:16.680 the eternal revolution in western nations had to find increasingly obscure minorities

00:08:22.320 in whose name it could demand additional power.

00:08:25.800 One of the reasons our media and government seem so bent on manufacturing

00:08:29.900 as many transgenderists as possible

00:08:32.140 is the incredible amount of revolutionary energy that they generate.

00:08:36.740 If the very truth of biology itself must be altered in the quest for individual liberation,

00:08:42.120 the state will need virtually unlimited power to engineer a society

00:08:46.320 in which this wholly artificially constructed identity can exist and thrive.

00:08:52.540 The justifying narrative may be collective or individualistic,

00:08:56.800 but the dynamic of high and low versus middle remains the same.

00:09:01.460 Bertrand de Juvenal explains,

00:09:03.280 Where will it end in the destruction of all other command

00:09:07.740 for the benefit of one alone, that of the state?

00:09:11.520 In each man's absolute freedom from every family and social authority,

00:09:16.260 a freedom the price of which is complete submission to the state.

00:09:20.780 In the complete equality as between themselves of all citizens,

00:09:25.460 paid for by their equal abasement before the power of their absolute master,

00:09:30.400 the state.

00:09:30.960 In the disappearance of every constraint which does not emanate from the state,

00:09:36.340 and in the denial of every preeminence which is not approved by the state.

00:09:40.980 In a word, it ends in the atomization of society,

00:09:44.560 and in the rupture of every private tie linking man and man,

00:09:48.740 whose only bond is now their common bondage to the state.

00:09:53.280 The extremes of individualism and socialism meet.

00:09:57.480 That was their predestined course.

00:09:59.880 End quote.

00:10:00.960 The state in America has already destroyed the majority of its competing power centers.

00:10:06.080 Regional governments have lost most of the independence granted by the constitution,

00:10:11.360 and while some brave governors, mayors, and sheriffs continue to resist the dictates of the central government,

00:10:17.580 their actions are the exception, not the rule.

00:10:20.880 The church, once a powerful bulwark against state power,

00:10:24.180 has lost much of its cultural influence,

00:10:26.700 and many denominations have now shamefully devoted themselves to worshiping the new gods of the total state.

00:10:32.680 Each of these competing power centers has been eroded in the name of individual liberty,

00:10:37.800 and as each one has fallen, the authority of the state has grown.

00:10:42.080 The family is always the final barrier to the total state.

00:10:46.080 It's the most organic bond of dependence human beings form,

00:10:50.240 and one of the few remaining institutions exercising authority beyond the reach of the government.

00:10:55.200 This is why every totalitarian government seeks to turn the child against his parents.

00:11:01.100 If it can break the most fundamental of all bonds,

00:11:04.640 then there are truly no limits to the state's power.

00:11:07.920 The family stands battered.

00:11:09.680 The institution has been redefined and undermined in almost every conceivable way,

00:11:14.860 all in the name of individual rights for the disenfranchised.

00:11:18.080 The revolution has now taken aim at the children themselves,

00:11:22.560 pushing artificial sexual identities onto them at an increasingly younger age

00:11:27.240 and promising to liberate them from the authority of parents who would deny them that identity.

00:11:33.120 Of course, no child is ever liberated by this process.

00:11:36.720 They're only taken from the protective authority of their parents

00:11:40.020 and made complete wards of a state that seeks to use them in a never-ending quest for power.

00:11:45.460 The good news is that many are starting to understand

00:11:49.700 that the relentless quest for individual liberation has failed us,

00:11:54.320 and that bonds of community, not unfettered liberty,

00:11:57.380 are what protect us from a totalitarian state.

00:12:01.180 In order to break the cycle of revolution and the growth of the state that accompanies it,

00:12:05.780 we must once again bind ourselves together in institutions capable of providing what the state cannot.

00:12:12.040 Community, meaning, purpose, and a culture that nourishes the spirit

00:12:17.020 can only come from the organic bonds formed by those who share folkways and traditions,

00:12:22.920 who become dependent on each other instead of the state.

00:12:26.440 It's these bonds, and these bonds alone,

00:12:29.500 that can resist the modern state and its eternal revolution.

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The Auron MacIntyre Show - April 14, 2023

Permanent Revolution and the Total State ｜ 4⧸14⧸23

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