The Auron MacIntyre Show - June 14, 2023


The Gulag Comes to You ｜ 6⧸14⧸23

Topics
digital gulag
Hosted by
Auron MacIntyre
Mentioned
Hillary Clinton Douglas Mackey Russell Kirk Nate Hockman Donald Trump Joe Biden Rocky
Pride： A Flag of Conquest ｜ 6⧸12⧸23 The Devouring Mother and the Total State ｜ Guest： Mary Harrington ｜ 6⧸15⧸23

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Length

11 minutes

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146.95

Word count

1,725

Sentence count

103

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Misogyny

2

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Toxicity

13

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2

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In the totalitarian states of old, the government had to put its enemies on a train to the gulag. But in the modern total state, the Gulag comes to you. The overwhelming use of violence is undoubtedly effective at silencing political dissidents, but it also comes with serious drawbacks.

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00:00:59.980 But our modern total state is not ruled by leaders who are either capable of, or competent in, the wide-scale use of force.
00:01:16.340 Unfortunately for the modern dissident, they don't need to be.
00:01:20.140 Technology has proven a far more effective tool of control.
00:01:24.420 In the totalitarian states of old, the government had to put its enemies on a train to the gulag.
00:01:30.560 But in the modern total state, the gulag comes to you.
00:01:34.280 The overwhelming use of violence is undoubtedly effective at silencing political dissidents, but it also comes with serious drawbacks.
00:01:44.160 First, a regime needs a group of men willing and able to unleash brutal acts upon their neighbors.
00:01:49.540 And even if they can compel men to commit such horrific acts, a regime has to worry about the cost.
00:01:56.860 People tend to notice violent action and register it as an immediate existential threat.
00:02:02.200 A population is far more likely to take action and defend itself against horrific violence than the slow and steady technological suppression wielded by our current elites.
00:02:13.000 A ruling class also has to be concerned about the optics of widespread violence.
00:02:19.860 It can be difficult to sell particularly heinous acts to the more moderate segments of your population.
00:02:26.180 Soft power does a much better job of suppressing opposition without triggering the fight-or-flight reflex in your average citizen.
00:02:34.520 The ability of the regime to punish conservatives begins with the education of their children.
00:02:39.980 The children of conservatives must report to government-operated learning facilities unless their parents have the affluence and awareness necessary to provide alternative education.
00:02:51.660 In those facilities, the children of conservatives are taught that their parents are backwards and evil and likely seeking to oppress them.
00:02:59.920 If the students are Christian, they're taught that their faith is ignorant and responsible for unspeakable atrocities. 0.95
00:03:06.300 If they're white, they're taught that their skin color makes them irredeemably racist, automatically guilty of a grave sin for which they can never atone. 0.98
00:03:15.860 Most children are taught that the morals of their parents are silly or hateful, especially the ones about restricting sexuality, 0.98
00:03:23.040 and that they may need to use the state to shield their newfound sexual identity from the ignorant bigotry of their family. 0.95
00:03:29.060 All children are taught that the historical American nation is basically one extended war crime which moves from atrocity to atrocity 0.59
00:03:37.780 and must be fundamentally transformed if it's to be cleansed of its iniquity.
00:03:43.420 The next stage of political oppression occurs as those students consider moving on to university.
00:03:49.900 The college system has become the de facto credentialing mechanism that almost all high- and mid-status jobs use to sort their applicants.
00:03:59.060 These progressive seminaries actively discriminate against conservatives by forcing applicants to write admissions essays
00:04:05.840 that essentially serve as statements of faith, requiring students to find creative ways of expressing their total devotion to woke ideology.
00:04:14.620 Even if a conservative student does make it past this process,
00:04:18.880 all they've won is the honor of going deeply into debt to pay professors who hate them
00:04:23.780 to preach fiery sermons denouncing every value they've ever held dear.
00:04:28.980 Any attempt to stand up and offer an alternative viewpoint puts that student's $100,000-plus investment at risk,
00:04:36.140 possibly destroying their career before they've even obtained the degree in question.
00:04:39.920 Are you a college student who feels isolated as Cthulhu swims ever leftward?
00:04:44.800 The Intercollegiate Studies Institute is here to help.
00:04:47.740 ISI offers programs and opportunities for conservative students across the country.
00:04:52.480 ISI understands that conservatives and right-of-center students feel isolated on campus
00:04:56.840 and that you're often fighting for your own reputation, dignity, and future.
00:05:01.440 Through ISI, you can learn about what Russell Kirk called permanent things,
00:05:04.900 the philosophical and political teachings that shaped and made Western civilization great.
00:05:09.920 ISI also offers many opportunities to jumpstart your career.
00:05:13.840 For example, Nate Hockman, who's been a guest on this show multiple times,
00:05:17.380 got his start at National Review through ISI,
00:05:20.060 and he's just one of many journalists that ISI has helped start their career.
00:05:24.040 If you're a graduate student, ISI offers funding opportunities
00:05:27.460 to sponsor the next generation of college professors.
00:05:30.420 But most importantly, ISI offers college students a community of people that will help them grow.
00:05:36.300 If you're a college student, ISI can help you start a student organization
00:05:40.220 or a student newspaper, or meet other like-minded students at various conferences and events.
00:05:46.480 ISI is here to educate the next generation of great Americans.
00:05:50.280 To learn more, check out ISI.org.
00:05:53.280 That's ISI.org.
00:05:55.340 You can click the link down in the description to learn more.
00:05:58.140 If a graduate manages to escape with their conservatism intact,
00:06:03.460 they must then face the gauntlet of woke capital.
00:06:06.700 Corporations often screen applicants by combing their social media for offensive conservative views,
00:06:12.980 so if a graduate has ever shared or liked the wrong meme, they can be immediately disqualified.
00:06:18.020 Publicly announcing support for the wrong political candidate or opposition to the current LGBTQ plus
00:06:24.540 cultural jihad is essentially a career death sentence.
00:06:28.900 If a conservative does get hired by a large corporation,
00:06:32.400 they will endure endless hours of political indoctrination.
00:06:36.480 Companies now spend tens of millions of dollars on programs designed to attack those who are straight, 0.99
00:06:42.800 white, Christian, or male.
00:06:44.340 The conservative will also need to be on constant guard because any expression of their values
00:06:49.940 or norms will be construed as a hostile work environment.
00:06:54.000 Corporations are required by law to staff their human resource department with woke political 0.53
00:06:59.060 commissars who vigilantly observe their charges ready to purge any individual suspected of wrongthink.
00:07:06.620 The beauty of the system is that constant indoctrination and well-crafted incentives are just as,
00:07:13.360 if not more, effective than direct violence on behalf of the regime.
00:07:18.500 The careful nudge of technocratic management constantly pushes the population left
00:07:23.760 and punishes those that stubbornly hold to conservative values,
00:07:28.080 but no one is exactly sure who to blame.
00:07:31.680 The distributed organization of our ruling elite makes it difficult to hold any specific person accountable,
00:07:37.940 and the gradual nature of their social engineering makes it difficult for popular resistance to coalesce.
00:07:45.300 No one gets loaded onto a train.
00:07:47.760 No one is held at gunpoint.
00:07:49.680 But the population still understands that resistance will cause them to be labeled low class
00:07:54.960 and make access to the good life incredibly difficult.
00:07:58.080 Even if conservatives manage to escape the confines of the system,
00:08:03.000 the modern total state has more aggressive means of delivering punishment.
00:08:07.840 Conservatives can be demonetized or banned from social media platforms for having the wrong opinions.
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00:08:24.420 When the in-laws decide that, actually, they will stay for dinner.
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00:08:43.900 Companies or individuals with the wrong opinions can be denied by payment processors,
00:08:49.160 making it impossible to do business.
00:08:51.160 Increasingly, banks are actively purging conservative figures from their institutions,
00:08:57.480 making it impossible for dissidents to buy or sell anything
00:09:00.700 in our increasingly connected, technologically-driven economy.
00:09:05.120 Our ruling elite are practically salivating at the prospect of a central bank digital currency,
00:09:10.980 which would give them total control over the economic transactions 0.85
00:09:14.620 of anyone foolish enough to oppose the regime ideology. 0.98
00:09:19.600 Gulags are messy business. 0.98
00:09:21.860 It's much easier to simply leave your enemy homeless, jobless, and broke
00:09:26.360 with no hope of ever supporting a family.
00:09:29.360 While the tools of soft power available to the total state are vast,
00:09:34.240 should they prove insufficient,
00:09:35.980 the regime has formal law enforcement solutions on hand.
00:09:39.460 The FBI now regularly persecutes pro-life protesters,
00:09:44.680 surveils traditional Catholic masses,
00:09:47.080 and threatens parents who don't want their children to be groomed by the school system.
00:09:52.600 Family courts are now being weaponized against parents who disagree with transitionist ideology,
00:09:57.960 stripping the dissidents of their custody rights should they refuse to mutilate their children.
00:10:03.280 Self-defense has become functionally illegal in cities like New York,
00:10:07.260 where stopping a crazed homeless man who is threatening your subway train
00:10:11.820 could end in your own incarceration.
00:10:14.720 Free speech has become a punchline, as men like Douglas Mackey have learned.
00:10:19.240 He now faces 10 years in jail for making a meme that insulted Hillary Clinton.
00:10:24.480 The general criminalization of political opposition
00:10:27.320 seems to be accelerating at a breakneck pace.
00:10:30.700 Donald Trump, former president and likely electoral opponent of the sitting executive Joe Biden,
00:10:35.880 has been charged with any and everything the banana republic can throw at him. 1.00
00:10:40.800 This is why terms like political correctness or cancel culture were always stupid. 0.99
00:10:46.280 These actions were always the political persecution of conservatives, 1.00
00:10:50.600 and denying that in the face of our current situation is exceptionally foolish. 0.93
00:10:55.060 If you're waiting for the gulags to appear before you start to worry, 0.97
00:10:58.940 I have bad news.
00:11:00.480 The digital gulag is already here.
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