The Auron MacIntyre Show - Political Formulas and the Managerial Elite ｜ 11⧸21⧸23

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00:00:30.000 Every nation is run by an organized minority of its population, a ruling class.

00:00:42.740 And that class always tells a story about why they should be in charge.

00:00:46.940 Be it the divine right of kings, the mandate of heaven, or popular election,

00:00:51.380 every ruling class invests in a narrative that grants them legitimacy.

00:00:55.120 The Italian political theorist Gaetano Mosca called this narrative of sovereignty a political formula.

00:01:03.860 It can be easy to assume that these narratives are lies of pure ambition,

00:01:08.680 convenient fictions concocted by the ruling class for their own advantage,

00:01:12.600 but Mosca warns that this is not the case.

00:01:15.400 Rulers never like to see themselves as the villain,

00:01:18.160 and the exercise of pure power wears on the people of a nation, breeding unrest.

00:01:23.520 Any ruling class seeking to achieve longevity and stability

00:01:27.400 must establish a narrative that rings true for both themselves and their subjects,

00:01:32.300 establishing legitimacy through a shared set of beliefs.

00:01:35.040 For our current managerial elite, that narrative is one of efficiency and progress,

00:01:40.580 and that narrative now sits on a razor's edge.

00:01:44.040 While the political formula of our own liberal democracy tells us that the people of the nation

00:01:49.420 are sovereign over themselves, this can never be the case.

00:01:52.740 The political formula's role is to elevate one group above all others

00:01:58.200 and grant that group exceptional powers and privileges.

00:02:01.740 This narrative works best when it's drawn from shared elements of culture and tradition

00:02:07.160 that allow the ruling class to confidently wield their power

00:02:10.220 and the subject class to freely accept its legitimacy.

00:02:14.080 This means that the story told must be particular to the character of the nation it sustains.

00:02:20.420 Early religions were the natural source of this narrative as they tended to be tribal.

00:02:26.800 The gods of the city were particular to those people

00:02:29.360 and grounded the power of the ruling class in something that was deeply personal to the in-group.

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00:03:05.560 While this was very effective, it made large-scale cooperation impossible

00:03:10.580 as there was no basis for shared values between tribes.

00:03:14.280 The rise of great religions, like Christianity and Islam,

00:03:19.460 allowed for large-scale, civilizational coordination among many different peoples

00:03:24.420 who now shared a common point of reference.

00:03:27.840 While these great religions solved the problem of scaling coordination,

00:03:32.160 they generated a new problem by creating supranational organizations

00:03:37.000 that competed for sovereignty with the rulers of particular peoples.

00:03:42.220 This resulted in the classic Western tension between the authority of the Pope

00:03:47.080 and the power of individual principalities.

00:03:50.860 This tension was largely resolved in favor of the ruling classes

00:03:54.520 by the Treaty of Westphalia and the creation of the nation-state.

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00:05:24.140 In the United States and other Western liberal democracies,

00:05:28.820 the political formula became one of elections and popular sovereignty.

00:05:34.100 The people were theoretically sovereign,

00:05:36.680 but they immediately transferred that power

00:05:38.760 to a small class of elected officials who ruled in their name.

00:05:43.500 While this is still the official narrative,

00:05:45.920 the actual framework of these nations has moved to a managerial system

00:05:50.540 and the political formula has slowly shifted to align with this reality over time.

00:05:56.720 The powers of legislative bodies like Congress have been increasingly delegated

00:06:02.000 to bureaucratic agencies on the basis of their managerial expertise.

00:06:06.380 Decision-making has been transferred out of the hands of elected officials

00:06:11.460 who now hold ceremonial debates over political action

00:06:14.740 while the real policies are crafted and enacted by experts

00:06:17.980 who are shielded from public scrutiny.

00:06:20.440 The public is assured that while elections are essential and democracy is sacred,

00:06:25.800 politicians are only valuable insofar as they

00:06:28.400 trust the science and ultimately place the real decisions

00:06:31.880 in the hands of our new priestly class.

00:06:35.280 Nothing brought the reality of this political formula into focus

00:06:39.420 as clearly as the events surrounding the COVID pandemic.

00:06:43.400 While elected officials held power in theory,

00:06:46.840 the response of most nations was driven by international organizations

00:06:50.720 touting a medical consensus.

00:06:52.380 The World Health Organization and Gates Foundation

00:06:56.140 had a far larger impact on the global pandemic response

00:06:59.940 than any specific elected government.

00:07:03.540 No constitutions were altered, no elections were held,

00:07:06.960 but sovereignty was most certainly transferred

00:07:09.160 via the already established political formula of the managerial elite.

00:07:14.900 Donald Trump, a president who in all other respects

00:07:18.020 seemed to clash with the Washington, D.C. establishment,

00:07:20.960 was largely sidelined after ceding power to Anthony Fauci,

00:07:25.540 an expert that most voters had never heard of prior to the pandemic.

00:07:30.680 While the managerial class based its new political formula

00:07:33.980 on the notion of science and expertise,

00:07:36.900 that narrative is itself under attack.

00:07:40.160 The miracle of progress promised by managerialism

00:07:44.060 held sway for many decades,

00:07:46.180 but it was always a bloodless and spiritually dead ideology

00:07:50.020 that was doomed to be replaced

00:07:51.820 as soon as it stopped reliably dispensing material benefits.

00:07:56.600 The intersectional progressive faith known as wokeness

00:08:00.020 has begun to directly challenge the ideological pillars

00:08:03.320 on which managerialism rests.

00:08:05.680 Just as the managerial elite retained the forms of democracy

00:08:10.480 while shifting power into the hands of bureaucratic expertise,

00:08:15.340 so wokeness retains the appearance of managerial expertise

00:08:18.660 but shifts power into intersectional client groups.

00:08:23.260 While managerialism promised efficiency and productivity

00:08:27.080 through meritocracy,

00:08:29.140 wokeness insists that diversity is the key to reaching those goals.

00:08:32.860 While managerialism claimed science as the only legitimate source of knowledge,

00:08:38.980 wokeness insists that science is a deeply racist endeavor.

00:08:43.280 Math, punctuality, accurate timekeeping,

00:08:46.820 and valuing productivity itself are all declared white supremacy.

00:08:51.100 This deconstruction of the managerial political formula

00:08:56.360 issues mainly from academia,

00:08:59.200 the media,

00:09:00.400 corporate human resource departments,

00:09:02.400 and other institutions which were largely founded

00:09:04.980 by the managerial elite themselves.

00:09:08.800 This circulation of elites

00:09:10.500 and the attempt to shift America's political formula

00:09:13.400 has created great upheaval inside the ruling class.

00:09:17.040 While the left has secured near-hegemonic control

00:09:28.800 of America's most powerful institutions,

00:09:31.920 the instability created by their internal power struggle

00:09:35.320 opens space for right-wing counter-elites to maneuver

00:09:38.920 and possibly capture ground.

00:09:40.980 But to do so,

00:09:42.780 the right must forge its own political formula

00:09:45.620 which will communicate a compelling vision of the future

00:09:49.120 and prove themselves capable of executing on that vision.

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The Auron MacIntyre Show - November 21, 2023

Political Formulas and the Managerial Elite ｜ 11⧸21⧸23

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