The Auron MacIntyre Show - March 07, 2024


The Right Was WRONG About Virtue-Signaling ｜ 3⧸7⧸24


Episode Stats


Length

8 minutes

Words per minute

142.13574

Word count

1,276

Sentence count

67

Harmful content

Misogyny

7

sentences flagged

Hate speech

5

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Summary

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A video of a family with four "trans" kids went viral across social media this week. Many conservatives were justifiably appalled and pointed out that the chances of randomly having four children with severe body dysmorphia in the same family are incredibly low. Commenters suggested the mother must be mentally ill and acting out Munchausen syndrome by proxy. But this demonstrates a serious failure of the right to understand human nature.

Transcript

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00:00:30.380 A video of a family with four quote-unquote trans kids went viral across social media this week.
00:00:37.440 Many conservatives were justifiably appalled and pointed out that the chances of
00:00:41.840 randomly having four children with severe body dysmorphic disorder in the same family are incredibly low.
00:00:49.180 Commenters on the video suggested that the mother must be mentally ill and acting out 0.98
00:00:53.500 Munchausen syndrome by proxy.
00:00:56.040 But this demonstrates a serious failure of the right to understand human nature.
00:01:00.680 The mother of those four children was not demonstrating mental illness, but her desire
00:01:05.460 to achieve social status by adopting the behaviors endorsed by the dominant moral system of the
00:01:10.980 day.
00:01:11.940 She was using her children as a signal of conversion to the new state religion. 0.96
00:01:16.920 And this war of belief can't be won without understanding the spiritual nature of the conflict.
00:01:23.700 One of the dumbest ideas ever to be embraced by the opponents of wokeness was the demonization
00:01:29.020 of virtue signaling.
00:01:31.480 The latest incarnation of the progressive social revolution began on college campuses where
00:01:36.680 social justice warriors would dye their hair, shout down conservative speakers, and engage in
00:01:41.660 other performative histrionics to signal their devotion to leftist causes.
00:01:46.980 While many professors and administrators participated in this revolutionary activity,
00:01:52.160 some liberal intellectuals correctly identified this more radical wave of progressive belief
00:01:57.380 as dangerous to the status quo that kept them in power.
00:02:01.640 These progressive castoffs entered an awkward alliance with the very same conservatives that
00:02:06.560 they had been mocking most of their lives, and so the intellectual dark web was born.
00:02:10.880 The basic strategy of this alliance was to treat wokeness as a new faith and deploy the same 0.96
00:02:16.660 tools that had proven so adept at dismantling Christianity as America's public religion in 0.80
00:02:21.280 previous generations.
00:02:23.700 Endless YouTube videos, comedy sketches, and internet posts were created to mock the new progressive
00:02:29.580 vanguard for their dedication to this more radical leftist morality.
00:02:34.920 Intellectuals held debates, wrote books, and recorded endless hours of podcasts that dissected and
00:02:40.600 debunked the ideological basis of wokeness.
00:02:43.940 The woke were derided as intolerant, moralistic, and close-minded clowns, but instead of shrinking
00:02:49.460 from the mockery and intellectual deconstruction, the progressive revolutionaries simply doubled
00:02:54.540 down their efforts, winning more converts and capturing more institutions.
00:02:59.240 The IDW and its conservative allies lost, and wokeness became the primary religion of America's
00:03:05.420 ruling class.
00:03:07.340 Humans are religious and social beings.
00:03:10.260 This is so deeply woven into our nature that all efforts to expel it have failed spectacularly.
00:03:16.380 Liberal modernity has trained us to see ourselves as free-thinking individuals who make rational
00:03:21.760 and objective decisions, but in truth, we're very conscious of our status.
00:03:26.900 People want, simultaneously, to fit into the group and to stand out as high-status individuals
00:03:32.980 within that group, so we tend to observe what other high-status people do and mimic their
00:03:38.460 behavior.
00:03:39.860 Our decisions are more often guided by religious assumptions elevated by our peers than by our
00:03:46.360 own independent rationality.
00:03:49.300 Working out, dressing well, attending church, obtaining a master's degree, attending a Black
00:03:54.560 Lives Matter protest, or transitioning your kids are all attempts to signal status depending
00:04:00.200 on the values that dominate a society at any given time.
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00:04:34.460 People will always virtue signal.
00:04:36.860 It's a key aspect of human nature that will never go away.
00:04:40.560 The question is never, will we virtue signal, but whose virtues will be elevated?
00:04:47.020 The disillusioned leftists of the IDW were elites displaced by the woke revolution that
00:04:52.320 threatened their ruling status.
00:04:53.720 Their alliance with conservatives was forged in an attempt to return to a moral framework
00:04:59.540 that held 2000s-era liberalism as the natural default of American culture.
00:05:05.380 Now, Christian conservatives should have known better than to side with the very people who 0.99
00:05:09.340 had been deconstructing their own faith for decades, but the temptation to join with
00:05:13.780 previously high-status elites and deploy the same tactics that had been so successfully
00:05:18.720 used against them proved too alluring.
00:05:22.060 Simply put, conservatives have internalized their status as beautiful losers.
00:05:27.360 Christians have abdicated their responsibility to lead and have bought into the myth of secular 1.00
00:05:32.360 liberalism as the moral default of the United States.
00:05:36.280 Conservatives are, after all, natural defenders of the status quo.
00:05:40.920 Once secular liberalism proved victorious, Republicans simply adopted the language and norms of that
00:05:47.000 movement and began to defend them instead.
00:05:50.320 Christians maintain some of the private aspects of their faith, but in the cultural and political
00:05:55.720 realm, they fully embrace the framework of secular liberalism as the default order of their society.
00:06:03.060 Couching core moral disagreements in the clinical language of mental illness only serves to
00:06:08.880 demonstrate how thoroughly conservatives have internalized secular liberal rhetoric.
00:06:14.260 It's not just that Christian conservatives have made themselves irrelevant, it's that they've 0.53
00:06:20.100 made themselves the enthusiastic slaves of the ideology that conquered them.
00:06:25.640 The right is easily defeated because it only understands the political as the opportunity to restore
00:06:32.600 neutrality, while the left understands the political as the opportunity to define neutrality.
00:06:38.900 There is no universal and objective standard that will mediate conflicting truth claims in society.
00:06:48.640 A metaphysical framework that defines value, meaning, and the common good will always exist.
00:06:56.860 You can dress this framework up in scientific jargon or intellectual pretensions, but it will still be
00:07:03.740 fundamentally religious in nature.
00:07:06.420 Secular liberalism was never truly secular, and wokeness is not a religious assault on secular neutrality.
00:07:15.640 Wokeness is simply a more overtly spiritual continuation of the progressive revolution that toppled the
00:07:23.200 Protestant-Christian consensus that ruled the United States for most of its history.
00:07:29.000 Secular liberalism won't defeat wokeness, and conservatives can't achieve victory by defending a neutral status quo
00:07:38.100 that never existed.
00:07:40.900 Christians didn't lose to secular liberalism because of rational argumentation or the power of scientific truth.
00:07:48.220 We lost because our faith was weak.
00:07:51.100 Wokeness may be a gutter religion, but if it's venerated by our ruling elites and rewarded by our institutions,
00:08:00.340 it will be emulated by the average person.
00:08:03.620 The only thing that will defeat wokeness is a more vital, beautiful, and true faith.
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