The Auron MacIntyre Show - Sam Smith Reveals the Death of Transgression ｜ 2⧸7⧸23

Sam Smith s performance at the Grammy Awards was a desperate attempt to get attention and generate controversy. But the only remarkable thing about his antics was how lazy, safe, and banal they really were. The left is a coalition of those who stand to gain from the deconstruction of Western civilization, and Christianity is one of their favorite targets. Progressives generate political power by deconstructing the nation s heritage, its families, and its values. But they seem most gleeful when they get the opportunity to attack its dominant religion.

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00:00:30.840 Over the weekend, an incredibly mediocre British musician by the name of Sam Smith

00:00:35.120 attempted to generate controversy by dancing in satanic garb while performing at the Grammy Awards.

00:00:41.000 Smith, who's declared himself non-binary, sang a song named Unholy along with trans performer Kim Petrus

00:00:47.520 while dancers in satanic horns, leather lingerie, and whips surrounded the duo on stage. 0.99

00:00:53.280 If you were unaware that the Grammys were broadcast, or even that they still existed, you're in good company.

00:00:58.560 No one cares about these self-congratulatory media spectacles anymore, and Smith's performance was obviously designed as a desperate bid for relevance.

00:01:07.700 In the past, transgression had been an easy way to generate outrage and gain attention for America's degenerate cultural elites,

00:01:14.680 but the only remarkable thing about Smith's antics were how lazy, safe, and banal they really were.

00:01:20.720 The left is a coalition of those who stand to gain from the deconstruction of Western civilization,

00:01:27.120 and Christianity is one of their favorite targets.

00:01:29.620 Progressives generate political power by deconstructing the nation's heritage, its families, and its values,

00:01:36.280 but they seem most gleeful when they get the opportunity to attack its dominant religion.

00:01:41.220 Rather than build something of substance by venerating the good, beautiful, and true,

00:01:46.260 the vast majority of leftist art and culture for many decades has been built entirely on subversion.

00:01:51.840 At first, these television shows, movies, and songs had something interesting to say.

00:01:56.920 There were, of course, many instances of hypocrisy and different contradictions that early works of this type could examine.

00:02:03.600 But when a cultural movement's only trick is the deconstruction of the culture that came before it,

00:02:08.620 that movement is living on borrowed time.

00:02:11.320 Smith's performance would love to recreate the shocked indignation of old,

00:02:15.640 the kind of scandal that used to cause outraged parents to rail against the sexually charged performances of Madonna,

00:02:22.040 or the type that inspired Tipper Gore to lead a campaign of censorship targeting bands like Motley Crue or Twisted Sister.

00:02:28.780 But those days are far in the rearview mirror.

00:02:31.920 Hollywood, the music industry, academia, and every other major cultural force in America

00:02:37.380 have done nothing but challenge, deconstruct, and transgress these boundaries,

00:02:42.060 while building nothing of their own.

00:02:43.900 And frankly, it's become a bloodless and depressing affair.

00:02:47.840 Madonna herself may have been the poster child for how sad and empty the revolution has become.

00:02:53.900 The aging pop star, who made a name for herself with highly sexualized videos that mocked religion, 1.00

00:02:59.780 made a presentation of the award show honoring those who had picked up her torch of rebellion.

00:03:04.740 The real question is, rebellion against what?

00:03:07.660 Every single cause Madonna has championed has now been accepted by corporate America.

00:03:12.960 Every attitude about sexuality or religion has been adopted by the public school system.

00:03:18.540 Madonna's face is almost unrecognizable.

00:03:21.460 A weird collection of plastic surgery procedures, undergone an attempt to stay young and relevant,

00:03:27.160 have left her face looking like a character.

00:03:29.700 A musician who once relied on youth, beauty, and subversion,

00:03:33.620 now desperately tries to stay relevant and edgy by pushing a revolution that became mainstream and boring many decades ago.

00:03:40.680 A perfect reflection of the pop culture complex in its entirety.

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00:04:15.360 Far from challenging power or the established cultural norms,

00:04:19.540 Smith's cartoonish Satanism and LGBTQ politics embrace the mainstream narrative 1.00

00:04:24.660 pushed by every major institution in the United States.

00:04:28.400 The singer has the exact same politics and cultural beliefs espoused by Citibank,

00:04:33.660 Google, Goldman Sachs, and Walmart.

00:04:35.740 There was never any real danger or consequences, any chance of cancellation.

00:04:41.280 It was the safest performance imaginable.

00:04:43.800 If Smith were really interested in causing controversy, he would have mocked Islam, Judaism,

00:04:49.000 Hinduism, or any of the other religions.

00:04:51.320 But he chose Christianity because he understood that's the one target for which he was going to 0.92

00:04:55.220 receive zero real pushback.

00:04:57.780 It would have been equally tasteless, but at least it would have shown willingness to challenge

00:05:02.180 the popular narrative.

00:05:03.960 If Smith were really interested in challenging established power, he could have questioned

00:05:08.420 the trans movement, abortion, or the corporate leviathan that seems so obsessed with destroying 0.94

00:05:13.820 the American family. 0.99

00:05:15.420 But he's a coward masquerading as a rebel, so he simply parrots the positions of the powerful. 0.97

00:05:21.000 After the pop star's performance, an advertisement aired proudly proclaiming that 0.96

00:05:25.520 this celebration of satanic imagery has been brought to the viewer by Pfizer, the same pharmaceutical

00:05:31.280 giant responsible for the dubious COVID-19 vaccine.

00:05:35.340 Good to know that the Lord still has a sense of humor.

00:05:38.440 Progressivism is a cultural vampire feeding on the bones of a once great Christian civilization, 0.93

00:05:44.000 but as it cleans the last bit of marrow out of those bones, it becomes desperate.

00:05:48.680 How do you keep a coalition together that was organized around the deconstruction of a

00:05:53.340 traditional American culture once you've consumed that culture in its entirety?

00:05:58.020 The hedonism and social atomization the left offers do little to create a new and dynamic

00:06:03.460 cultural force.

00:06:05.160 There is no substance on which progressives can create a foundation.

00:06:09.320 If your cultural movement is built entirely on deconstruction, once you've exhausted the

00:06:14.000 energy generated by outrage, the only thing left to do is make the deconstruction of the

00:06:18.980 ritual a ritual unto itself.

00:06:21.100 Progressives have created sacraments for themselves like transition, abortion, and coming out, but

00:06:26.540 these rituals lose all their animating energy when the forces they were aimed at no longer

00:06:31.240 hold cultural sway.

00:06:33.280 The left can parade around the Handmaid's Tale or any of the other delusional boogeymen of

00:06:37.600 Christianity it would like, but it's becoming increasingly difficult for anyone to pretend 1.00

00:06:41.880 these straw men pose any real threat to progressive hegemony.

00:06:45.480 While the left is committed to all kinds of horrible atrocities, it may be that the response

00:06:50.300 progressives fear the most to their tired and stale brand of corporate rebellion is a

00:06:55.140 board yawn.

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The Auron MacIntyre Show - February 07, 2023

Sam Smith Reveals the Death of Transgression ｜ 2⧸7⧸23

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