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00:00:30.000 On Tuesday, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced that the legislative body is opening a formal

00:00:42.600 impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.

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 0.78

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. 0.62

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

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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

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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

00:11:42.680 for the future.

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