The Auron MacIntyre Show - June 14, 2024


Rebuilding American Aristocracy ｜ 6⧸14⧸24


Episode Stats

Length

10 minutes

Words per Minute

152.38095

Word Count

1,632

Sentence Count

76

Misogynist Sentences

2

Hate Speech Sentences

3


Summary

Every society has a ruling class, and the ruling class of the United States hates its country. Its members hate the history, the heritage, the religion and the people that define this nation. It is, perhaps, this inherent distaste for a formalized ruling class that caused modern Americans to become apathetic about the character of those who held office.


Transcript

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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
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,
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,
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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