The Auron MacIntyre Show - February 13, 2023


Progressing Toward Decay ｜ 2⧸13⧸23


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Length

10 minutes

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Word count

1,693

Sentence count

85

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Misogyny

5

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Toxicity

4

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7

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The New York Times generated a bit of controversy this week by writing an article about a Yale economics professor by the name of Yusaki Narita, who has become infamous in his home country of Japan by suggesting that the best way that country can avoid its looming demographic crisis is to have its older generation commit ritual suicide.

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00:00:30.460 The New York Times generated a bit of controversy this week
00:00:33.200 by writing an article about a Yale economics professor
00:00:36.400 by the name of Yusaki Narita.
00:00:38.620 The economics professor has now become infamous
00:00:41.000 in his home country of Japan
00:00:43.380 by suggesting that the best way that country can avoid
00:00:46.640 its looming demographic crisis 0.99
00:00:48.620 is to have its older generation commit ritual suicide.
00:00:52.660 And you can understand why this would be incredibly controversial.
00:00:55.660 He's suggesting that a couple generations of people
00:00:58.720 in Japan should undergo seppuku,
00:01:01.000 the grisly disembowelment ritual of the samurai.
00:01:04.560 But the New York Times is more than happy to embrace this language
00:01:07.460 because it lets them address an issue that they really want to address,
00:01:11.120 which again is Japan's demographic crisis.
00:01:14.500 Young people are just not getting married and are not having children. 1.00
00:01:18.700 Japan has a very, very low birth rate,
00:01:22.440 and this is having a devastating impact on their civilization.
00:01:25.900 And Japan is far from alone.
00:01:27.900 Most modern affluent countries are watching their birth rates crater as time goes on.
00:01:33.760 But the effect does seem more pronounced in Japan.
00:01:37.540 And of course, Japan is also famous for not embracing one of the solutions
00:01:41.780 that so many Western countries have embraced.
00:01:44.240 They refuse to increase immigration.
00:01:46.520 And this is why Japan is so often the target of these progressive articles.
00:01:50.740 They desperately want to force the solution onto Japan 1.00
00:01:53.880 as the only way to keep its population up.
00:01:56.900 So many of these modern welfare states were built on the idea of continuous growth,
00:02:03.120 on the idea that you would always have a larger, younger generation
00:02:07.140 that would pay for the benefits of the old.
00:02:09.420 But these cratering birth rates are causing a serious problem with that math equation.
00:02:14.900 And because Japan would rather protect its culture and its way of life,
00:02:18.580 it hasn't embraced the Western solution of simply importing more people
00:02:22.320 in the hopes that this will buoy those welfare systems. 1.00
00:02:25.900 Which means the only way that they can make the math work
00:02:28.820 is to suggest the elimination of the elderly,
00:02:31.480 removing a group that they see as a total liability on this state.
00:02:36.760 But sadly, Japan is far from the only nation embracing euthanasia
00:02:40.780 as a solution to its problems.
00:02:43.800 Canada is now becoming famous for its very aggressive policy
00:02:48.280 of eliminating undesirables inside its own nation.
00:02:52.620 The country has killed thousands of its own citizens
00:02:55.800 and has pushed aggressively at every opportunity to expand the program.
00:03:00.360 Canada is now pushing euthanasia onto the mentally ill
00:03:04.900 and onto the poor who are too embarrassed
00:03:07.880 because they can't do things like pay rent or afford food.
00:03:11.700 The notoriously polite country is now pushing this onto people like military veterans,
00:03:17.060 in one case suggesting that a veteran who the state could no longer afford to care for
00:03:21.840 should end their own life.
00:03:23.780 You can even find passages on Canadian healthcare sites 0.59
00:03:27.620 where the country laments that it cannot properly explain to indigenous people
00:03:32.760 why their elders should embrace euthanasia.
00:03:36.680 Apparently, there's a real problem that in some of these indigenous cultures,
00:03:40.540 the language doesn't have the proper words to explain
00:03:43.220 that the state must murder the elderly in order to stay fiscally solvent. 0.96
00:03:48.040 Canada is a country that reads land acknowledgments at the opening of every public event
00:03:53.060 to show that they honor the indigenous people from whom they took the land they're standing on, 0.99
00:03:58.160 but also does a lot of complaining that it can't properly articulate to these indigenous people
00:04:02.900 why they have to wipe out generations of their elders.
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00:04:36.540 Obviously Japan and Canada are two very different cultures,
00:04:40.360 but for some reason the modern solutions are always the same.
00:04:43.560 Either open your doors to unrestricted mass migration,
00:04:47.420 or start wiping out your elderly and others that are deemed a burden to the state.
00:04:51.740 And let's be honest, it's always going to be both of these at the end of the day.
00:04:55.960 Democrats in the media laughed long and hard at Sarah Palin
00:04:59.600 and her suggestion that government healthcare would end in death panels. 1.00
00:05:04.160 But surprise, surprise, just a little over a decade later,
00:05:07.620 this seems to be the only solution that any of these progressives can come up with.
00:05:11.960 In a similar vein of modern dehumanization,
00:05:15.260 just a few weeks ago a Norwegian professor caused some outrage
00:05:19.280 for suggesting that brain-dead women should be used as surrogates
00:05:22.520 for couples who can't biologically have children
00:05:25.260 in a journal of theoretical, medical, and bioethics.
00:05:29.380 By the way, almost anyone who describes themselves as an ethicist
00:05:32.840 is a complete sociopath, and you should avoid them at all costs. 0.96
00:05:36.200 They should be discarded, probably locked away in some kind of prison. 0.98
00:05:39.300 Obviously the suggestion is horrific and deeply dehumanizing.
00:05:43.540 It conjures horrific sci-fi imagery like The Matrix,
00:05:47.640 where humans are artificially grown and harvested by uncaring robots,
00:05:51.660 or something like the later novels in the Dune series,
00:05:55.680 where grotesque aliens use drugged-up females of their species
00:06:00.300 to artificially grow other living beings.
00:06:03.480 Now plenty of people are going to have a valid objection,
00:06:06.140 and they're going to say,
00:06:06.920 well, these are just two academics,
00:06:09.220 and this isn't the whole story.
00:06:10.740 Just nutpicking these two people
00:06:12.520 doesn't really paint a picture of what's going on.
00:06:15.920 But I'll remind you that these people are in prestigious positions.
00:06:18.960 One is a Yale professor, the other is being published in a medical journal,
00:06:24.480 and with the horrific stuff that is actually being put into practice
00:06:27.800 in countries like Canada right now,
00:06:30.180 it's hard to pretend that these are just wild theories
00:06:32.520 that we're never going to see manifest themselves in the real world.
00:06:36.200 It's happening as we speak.
00:06:37.920 The other objection people might raise is,
00:06:40.020 well, this is far from the first time that life has ever been cheap.
00:06:43.340 Many ancient empires and even relatively modern states
00:06:46.900 did horrific stuff and treated humans as if they really didn't matter.
00:06:50.520 They were more than happy to sacrifice large groups of people
00:06:54.500 for their own ends, and that's a fair point.
00:06:57.040 I think the reason that these more recent examples are so shocking
00:07:00.620 is that they exist in the context of a modern promise of infinite progress,
00:07:06.060 and they threaten to kind of burst that bubble.
00:07:08.220 They stand as the final acknowledgement
00:07:10.400 that these massive modern state leviathans
00:07:13.480 can't continue to innovate their way out of our current problems.
00:07:18.100 Modern civilizations abandoned the divine and the mysterious
00:07:21.760 with the promise that reason, quantification, and efficiency
00:07:25.780 would bring an earthly utopia,
00:07:28.240 but now the ugly truth is coming into full view.
00:07:31.380 The loss of an animating, metaphysical spirit
00:07:34.140 has robbed modern people of that which drove their ancestors to greatness.
00:07:38.140 The loss of meaning and identity
00:07:40.720 that accompanies the massification and homogenization
00:07:43.740 demanded by modern bureaucratic leviathans
00:07:46.500 causes societies to decay, not advance.
00:07:49.740 The miracle of efficiency that massive modern organizations promised
00:07:53.220 paid an impressive dividend for a time,
00:07:55.740 but few people understood the true cost of this process
00:07:59.140 or that it would have a brutal and abrupt end.
00:08:02.360 Now that these modern monoliths of state and capital
00:08:05.320 have reached the limit of their carrying capacity,
00:08:07.140 capacity, dehumanization becomes the only way
00:08:10.000 to keep their ship afloat.
00:08:12.240 Something like motherhood loses any aspect of the sacred
00:08:15.580 and women simply become walking wombs 1.00
00:08:18.080 for commodified birthing.
00:08:19.560 A useful widget that will allow regime-favored groups
00:08:22.700 a chance to produce the simulacrum of a family.
00:08:25.820 A group like the elderly lose their status 1.00
00:08:28.160 as a wise council honored for their prior sacrifices
00:08:32.340 for the civilization and heeded due to their collective experience.
00:08:36.680 Instead, they become a burden to be jettisoned
00:08:39.860 so the state can balance its ledger for one more cycle,
00:08:43.400 stave off the inevitable decay for just a little longer,
00:08:46.900 destroy a little bit of what it means to be human
00:08:49.600 with every turn of the wheel,
00:08:51.600 all in the name of some abstract humanity.
00:08:54.860 And this is why these faceless, soulless forces
00:08:58.400 of modern bureaucracy must lose in the end.
00:09:01.880 They're doomed because they have no ability
00:09:04.200 to turn to the good, the beautiful, and the true.
00:09:07.500 They only have the ability to crush the final ounce
00:09:10.540 of efficiency out of a civilization
00:09:12.480 that once pursued greatness.
00:09:15.220 Those that emerge from the other side of this 0.99
00:09:17.480 will be those that were able to turn their backs
00:09:19.780 on the promise of slow, comfortable decay
00:09:22.400 for something that was truly human.
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