The End of the Show ｜ 9⧸15⧸23
Episode Stats
Words per Minute
157.84402
Summary
On Tuesday, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced that the legislative body is opening a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. The response from the left and its media lickspittles was immediate and predictable. They demanded that the White House widen the scope of the investigation, and the media obliged.
Transcript
00:00:00.000
We hope you're enjoying your Air Canada flight.
00:00:10.720
Fast-free Wi-Fi means I can make dinner reservations before we land.
00:00:25.260
Wi-Fi available to Airplane members on Equipped Flight.
00:00:30.000
On Tuesday, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced that the legislative body is opening a formal
00:00:45.840
The inquiry is comically late, as evidence of Biden's rampant corruption has been readily
00:00:50.640
available for years, but it's nice when Republicans at least pretend to fight the left.
00:00:56.160
The inquiry is very unlikely to go anywhere despite Biden's obvious guilt, and if the
00:01:01.360
GOP were any form of serious political opposition, they would be using their formal power of the
00:01:06.520
purse to defund the administration's partisan and malicious abuse of agencies like the FBI.
00:01:12.080
While impotent half-measures from Republican leadership are unsurprising, the far more interesting
00:01:19.040
aspect of this news cycle was the response from the left and its media lickspittles.
00:01:23.480
Not long after McCarthy announced the impeachment inquiry, the White House rushed out a memo to
00:01:29.720
the press instructing them to increase the scrutiny that they were applying to the charges.
00:01:34.600
The amazing thing was watching how quickly and blatantly the press complied with the order in real time.
00:01:40.920
After the memo's release, media outlets reported on these instructions from the Biden administration
00:01:47.400
as if they were breaking news. Outlets like CNN, NBC, and Axios dutifully echoed the sentiments of the
00:01:54.520
letter from the White House while reporting on it. Politico's Heidi Prisbala followed her announcement
00:02:01.000
of the memo's existence with a Twitter thread that fact-checked the claims of the inquiry,
00:02:06.360
just as the president of the United States had ordered her to do. Neoconservative and
00:02:11.400
Trump derangement syndrome patient David Frump eagerly retweeted the thread.
00:02:16.760
Not to be outdone, CNN, despite having just revealed that the White House had ordered them
00:02:22.040
to attack the impeachment inquiry, produced their own fact-check to comply with the demands of the
00:02:27.480
regime. There's a good argument to be had over whether a free press ever really held government
00:02:34.280
power in check, but today that assertion is beyond laughable. In 2019 I learned about the
00:02:41.000
political theorist Curtis Yarvin and his concept of the cathedral, which is a way to model the
00:02:46.600
decentralized network of prestige, influence, and information that drives the political will
00:02:52.120
of our current regime. Since then I've dedicated a large amount of time to explaining how that system
00:02:58.440
works and how the right can use that model to understand the manner in which power is wielded.
00:03:04.680
In Yarvin's model, power does not reside primarily in the formal organs of government,
00:03:10.600
but instead in the story that informs the values of our ruling class.
00:03:16.200
University is the core formative experience that all of our ruling elites share, and those
00:03:22.120
prestigious schools shape the morality and worldview of every person who enters the halls of power.
00:03:29.480
Journalists don't see themselves as neutral arbiters of truth, but instead as zealous crusaders against
00:03:36.280
injustice that reinforce the narrative they learned in university with every stroke of the pen.
00:03:42.440
The functionaries that fill government bureaucracies don't see themselves as servants
00:03:47.000
of the average voter, but instead as transformative agents whose purpose is to engineer the deplorables of
00:03:53.480
red America into compliant progressive cultists. The university grads that populate the management
00:04:00.200
of every fortune 500 company don't see themselves as businessmen, but as representatives for racial
00:04:06.200
justice and equity. This shared value system means that while there is no formal government propaganda
00:04:13.240
apparatus in the United States, all of the country's major institutions, both public and private,
00:04:19.880
end up pursuing the same goals and spouting the same platitudes. While this distributed network of
00:04:26.120
influence was less efficient than an explicit organ of state propaganda, it had some distinct advantages.
00:04:34.040
Change was slower, but it also felt more organic. People were more likely to feel that social
00:04:40.280
attitudes, which were being pushed from on high, were actually emergent from the shifting tastes of the
00:04:45.720
popular will. Hey guys, like most of you, I have fond memories of waking up at the crack of dawn,
00:04:51.320
excited to watch all the Saturday morning cartoons. Mom didn't want to wake up that early on Saturday,
00:04:56.520
so that meant that we got to pour a bowl of our favorite cereal for breakfast. They tasted great,
00:05:01.000
but of course they're full of sugar and they're not that healthy, which is why it was a treat.
00:05:05.400
But now Magic Spoon has an alternative to that cereal you love that has zero sugar but still tastes great.
00:05:11.000
There's a bunch of different flavors, but they have a nice variety pack to get you started with cocoa,
00:05:15.480
fruity, frosted, and peanut butter. The variety pack has zero grams of sugar,
00:05:20.360
13 to 14 grams of protein, and four to five grams of net carbs per serving, and each serving is only
00:05:26.200
140 calories. The cereal checks a lot of boxes for people because it's high protein, has zero sugar,
00:05:32.600
it's keto friendly, gluten free, grain free, and soy free. You might be skeptical about sugarless
00:05:38.920
high protein cereal, but I can tell you it actually tastes great. Peanut butter was my personal favorite,
00:05:44.120
but my wife and the little guy were big fans of the fruity flavor. And they both really like cereal,
00:05:48.760
so it's nice to have a no sugar, high protein option. So go to magicspoon.com slash Oren to grab
00:05:55.000
your variety pack and try it today. And be sure to use the promo code Oren at checkout to save $5 off
00:06:01.880
your first order. Magic Spoon is so confident in their product that it's backed with 100% happiness
00:06:06.840
guarantee. So if you don't like it for any reason, they'll refund your money, no questions asked. Remember,
00:06:12.600
get your next delicious bowl of high protein cereal at magicspoon.com slash Oren and use the code Oren to
00:06:19.720
save $5. Maintaining this kind of soft power is very difficult, requiring a high degree of skill
00:06:27.080
and subtlety. But it's also proven far more resilient than more direct methods of propaganda.
00:06:33.960
In a system where popular sovereignty is the only acceptable legitimating mechanism of government power,
00:06:39.800
control of public opinion is key. The left's hegemony over mass media and education provided
00:06:46.600
all of the tools necessary to insert ideas into the popular consciousness and wait patiently,
00:06:53.080
nudging and prodding when necessary, until people believe that this was what they really wanted all
00:06:59.000
along. Manufacturing consent without setting off the alarm bells of the populace can be a delicate
00:07:06.200
balancing act. But if the ruling class can pull it off, they have one of the most stable power
00:07:11.400
structures ever conceived. What's better than a well-marbled ribeye sizzling on the barbecue?
00:07:17.400
A well-marbled ribeye sizzling on the barbecue that was carefully selected by an Instacart shopper
00:07:22.520
and delivered to your door. A well-marbled ribeye you ordered without even leaving the kiddie pool.
00:07:28.520
Whatever groceries your summer calls for, Instacart has you covered. Download the Instacart app and enjoy
00:07:34.520
zero-dollar delivery fees on your first three orders. Service fees, exclusions, and terms apply.
00:07:44.520
While detailing this system has been a major focus of my work, it also seems to have been a bit of a
00:07:49.560
waste because the regime has decided to throw it in the trash bin. There is nothing subtle or delicate
00:07:56.040
about the White House handing out explicit marching orders in public and the press falling over each other
00:08:02.200
to see who could comply first. No one needs a complicated theory of decentralized coordination
00:08:09.240
when the elites are just announcing their collusion in public. Now, to be clear, there's still some value
00:08:16.280
in understanding how the old system worked. There are still many ideas and attitudes that the elite
00:08:23.400
attempt to pass through their soft power network which the right should be on guard against.
00:08:29.400
Also, the flow of power is not as obvious as it may seem. The press gives the Biden administration
00:08:36.200
orders just as if not more often than the White House gives orders to journalists. What has become
00:08:43.160
blindingly obvious, however, is that the ability of our elites to wield soft power is failing and that
00:08:50.040
they have in many cases stopped going through the motions entirely. There are a number of different
00:08:57.320
factors contributing to the collapse of total narrative control by our ruling elite. The internet,
00:09:03.720
while granting our evil overlords all kinds of terrible tools, is fundamentally an agent of
00:09:09.160
decentralization. It breaks the monopoly of mass media that was once held by a tightly controlled
00:09:15.320
network of television stations, news broadcasts, movie studios, and newspapers. While opposing voices are
00:09:23.000
regularly banned from major platforms, new dissident voices and outlets seem to emerge twice as quickly
00:09:29.240
as they can be silenced. Despite the ludicrous amount of censorship that is regularly applied in
00:09:34.840
venues like Twitter, the truth has a nasty habit of getting out. Another issue is simply the rapidly
00:09:41.880
declining quality of our ruling elite. Subtlety, nuance, and patience are key factors necessary to the
00:09:49.400
maintenance of soft power. The legitimacy of institutions, experts, and narratives must be
00:09:56.520
accumulated slowly and guarded carefully. Soft power is wielded by the sophisticated elite with a high
00:10:04.120
degree of self-control, not the irate toddler who wishes to crush their enemies tomorrow. But our system
00:10:11.480
has selected for conformity and compliance, not for intellect or discipline. Progressives have always been
00:10:18.360
deconstructionists, but at least they used to produce thought-provoking works of art. Now all they are
00:10:24.040
capable of is endless social justice sermons masquerading as comic book movie sequels. Our elites
00:10:30.600
have managed to degenerate to unthinkable depths while simultaneously becoming more confident about their
00:10:36.680
right to rule than any group in history. It's no wonder that they've gotten sloppy and obvious.
00:10:42.680
We are in a very interesting moment when a ruling elite that used to rely on the subtlety and finesse of
00:10:50.440
soft power becomes entirely incapable of operating the system their more talented predecessors created.
00:10:58.280
We have lived our lives watching a show, a pantomime of a political process put on by those who sought to
00:11:05.960
hide the real exercise of power. This is a scary thing to realize, but it also creates opportunities
00:11:13.160
that didn't previously exist. The comforting fictions of a free press that holds politicians accountable
00:11:20.360
or a public private distinction that limits government power simply cannot survive what has become blindingly
00:11:27.640
obvious due to the incompetence of our leaders. While our elites will continue to put on the show for a
00:11:34.200
while longer, their narrative control is slipping, and that creates new opportunities both great and terrible
00:11:43.480
Thanks for watching guys if you enjoyed this video go ahead and click like and if you haven't subscribed to the channel yet now is a great time to do so.
00:11:55.800
If you'd like to get these broadcasts as podcasts make sure that you go ahead and subscribe to the
00:12:00.040
Oren McIntyre show on your favorite podcast platform and when you do please leave a rating or review that really helps with all the algorithm magic.
00:12:07.960
And of course if you'd like to follow me on twitter or gab or sub stack if you'd like to watch these videos
00:12:13.400
on rumble or odyssey the links to do all of that are down below in the description and of course you can
00:12:19.000
watch all of my stuff and read all of my columns over at the blaze. Thanks for watching guys and as always