The Auron MacIntyre Show - Rebuilding American Aristocracy ｜ 6⧸14⧸24

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00:00:30.260 Every society has a ruling class, and the ruling class of the United States hates its country.

00:00:36.220 Its members hate the history, the heritage, the religion, and the people that define this nation.

00:00:42.180 Barack Obama announced his intention to fundamentally transform the United States,

00:00:47.260 and the Democrats have joined forces with a large percentage of Republicans to do exactly that.

00:00:53.500 Both parties either actively encourage or fail to prevent mass immigration,

00:00:57.960 the tearing down of our public monuments, and the destruction of traditional families.

00:01:03.720 The future of the United States depends on the creation and installation of a ruling class 0.99

00:01:08.500 that respects and loves the nation it oversees,

00:01:11.720 and is deeply invested in the welfare of her people.

00:01:15.220 The American project began as a rejection of the stiff class distinctions rooted in European nobility

00:01:22.140 and an embrace of Republican government.

00:01:24.280 It is, perhaps, this inherent distaste for a formalized ruling class that caused modern Americans

00:01:30.960 to become apathetic about the character of those who held office.

00:01:35.400 Without a distinctive marker to identify the unified interests of those that held power,

00:01:40.780 many voters came to believe that the democratic process itself would be sufficient to limit the avarice of politicians.

00:01:49.580 Elected officials who felt no duty to, or connection with, those they represented

00:01:54.880 quickly discovered how to conspire with other politicians to enrich themselves and avoid accountability.

00:02:01.540 Although America's founders rejected the formalization of a ruling class,

00:02:05.740 they understood that natural aristocracy was an inevitable and desirable aspect of human organization.

00:02:13.060 Great families became pillars of colonial life and helped to build the churches,

00:02:17.760 schools, community associations, and fraternal orders that were central to the functioning of early states.

00:02:24.880 In his classic work, Democracy in America,

00:02:27.940 Alexis de Tocqueville identified vigorous participation in voluntary associations

00:02:33.500 as a uniquely American trait that allowed the young nation to flourish.

00:02:39.580 American citizens couldn't rely on the inherited architecture of the old world, 0.92

00:02:44.740 so leadership arose through organizations that built a robust social fabric

00:02:49.160 outside the direct influence of the state.

00:02:52.360 This natural aristocracy emerged across every discipline.

00:02:56.320 Politics, military command, economic production,

00:02:59.520 and religious leadership were guided by great families,

00:03:02.860 passing their knowledge, training, and station from father to son.

00:03:07.400 While this continuity was often familial,

00:03:10.280 it was not titles of nobility conferred by birth that granted authority.

00:03:15.080 The natural aristocracy had to justify itself through action,

00:03:19.040 each generation proving itself worthy of leadership or stepping aside to make room

00:03:23.600 for those with the vision necessary to guide the community.

00:03:26.520 The modern ruling elite has forgotten these obligations to the common man over which it presides.

00:03:34.020 The American billionaire class thinks nothing of buying a company,

00:03:37.720 dismantling its assets, devastating the community it once employed,

00:03:41.600 and shipping the jobs and profit off to another country.

00:03:45.360 Leaders no longer ascend the ranks by improving their communities,

00:03:49.080 but instead gain wealth or power without any obligation to those that help them.

00:03:53.540 Even the titans of industry during the Gilded Age still felt a duty to build libraries,

00:04:00.100 churches, universities, monuments, and other public works

00:04:03.680 that enriched the life of the average citizen.

00:04:06.980 Most philanthropy practiced by modern tycoons operates on a global scale,

00:04:12.460 often with the intention of undermining the well-being of those currently residing in the United States.

00:04:18.320 While the ruling elite has largely abandoned the people its members were meant to serve,

00:04:24.000 the average American has facilitated this alienation in his own way.

00:04:28.920 The organic aristocracy of the United States felt a duty to the community

00:04:33.460 because its members hailed from the institutions that define that particular people.

00:04:39.480 Political, religious, and economic leadership were primarily a local phenomenon

00:04:44.680 and had to appeal to a specific region and the needs of its residents.

00:04:49.840 Scale is the enemy of particularity,

00:04:52.400 and as the organizations that manage social functions consolidated across multiple regions,

00:04:57.900 the leadership of those organizations became less grounded in community

00:05:02.000 and more invested in the interests of their shared ruling class.

00:05:06.620 Americans have been willing to hand over many responsibilities

00:05:09.980 that once defined these local and regional organizations

00:05:13.380 to larger, central bureaucracies in the name of efficiency and expertise.

00:05:18.680 Educating children, caring for the elderly, feeding the hungry,

00:05:22.600 and providing mutual aid in times of need

00:05:24.780 were all duties that once fell to the family, church, or local civic organization.

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00:06:00.440 Local leadership earned authority by organizing essential community functions,

00:06:05.680 and the power of these organic aristocrats was tied directly to the people they served.

00:06:10.720 By handing these duties over to the central government or national organizations,

00:06:15.840 a large amount of personal freedom was temporarily created as the average person no longer felt the constant need to participate in local organizations to maintain his well-being.

00:06:26.580 But this freedom was only a temporary illusion, as elites operating distant organizations demanded increasing ideological conformity while treating their charges as interchangeable cogs.

00:06:38.340 This process created a learned helplessness, teaching people that they could no longer manage basic social functions without the mass of bureaucracies operated by credentialed experts.

00:06:49.260 Today, most people can't imagine educating their own children or pooling together to fund the medical treatment of their friends,

00:06:56.900 if they even have children or friends to speak of.

00:07:00.060 This also deprives citizens of the local and regional structures necessary to develop leadership skills and prove themselves to their communities.

00:07:08.160 Organic opportunities for social elevation are stripped away and the only opportunity for advancement is centralized in massive and distant institutions like elite universities.

00:07:20.360 Members of the ruling elite cultivated there have no loyalty to the far-flung regions that they manage and develop a unified class culture and interests that deviates radically from the good of their subjects.

00:07:33.100 To rebuild a natural aristocracy that bases its power on community well-being, we must create alternative institutions outside the centralized state apparatus.

00:07:44.260 As an example, in Florida, the state legislature has decoupled educational funding from public schools,

00:07:50.900 allowing parents to more easily homeschool their children or send them to religious schools that share their beliefs.

00:07:56.380 This empowers parents and encourages them to once again embrace their responsibility as the primary educator in their child's life.

00:08:05.340 As federal programs become less reliable and more hostile to the people they ostensibly serve,

00:08:12.440 fraternal orders, churches, and other civic organizations must fill the gap.

00:08:17.660 This transfer of responsibility won't just help those in need,

00:08:21.420 but will also create opportunities for young leaders invested in their community to secure real influence.

00:08:28.380 The process of reweaving America's social fabric will be slow,

00:08:33.440 but with diligent and committed leadership, a new class of aristocrats can arise,

00:08:38.740 one which is dedicated not to the interests of a global neoliberal project,

00:08:43.420 but instead to the well-being of a particular people and way of life.

00:08:47.320 There will always be a ruling class, 0.98

00:08:50.760 but the United States deserves to be led by elites who have earned their position through right action

00:08:56.920 and loyalty to their community.

00:09:00.380 The American form of self-government has always required the vigorous participation in local institutions,

00:09:08.000 and the time to build those institutions is now.

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The Auron MacIntyre Show - June 14, 2024

Rebuilding American Aristocracy ｜ 6⧸14⧸24

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