The Auron MacIntyre Show - True Identity Is the Key to Resisting Propaganda ｜ 5⧸23⧸24

With the relentless demand for reparations, land acknowledgments, and genderfluid pronouns, it can be easy to understand why conservatives are burned out on the concept of identity. The left has used identity politics as a weapon to mercilessly bludgeon their foes and extract political capital, which is then used to bribe the client classes of the Democratic Party. This progressive obsession with an artificial and hollow collectivism can easily drive the right to assume that radical individualism is the only answer. But that would be a mistake. The lack of a true, organic, meaningful identity lies at the heart of our nation sills, and to fight back, we must understand the role identity plays in creating healthy and prosperous social order.

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00:00:30.000 With the relentless demand for reparations, land acknowledgments, and gender-fluid pronouns,

00:00:36.140 it can be easy to understand why conservatives are burned out on the concept of identity.

00:00:42.260 The left has used identity politics as a weapon to mercilessly bludgeon their foes

00:00:47.660 and extract material and political capital,

00:00:50.340 which are then used to bribe the client classes of the Democrat Party.

00:00:54.820 This progressive obsession with an artificial and hollow collectivism

00:00:59.280 can easily drive the right to assume that radical individualism is the only answer.

00:01:04.980 But that would be a mistake.

00:01:06.660 The lack of a true, organic, meaningful identity lies at the heart of our nation's ills.

00:01:12.500 And to fight back, we must understand the role identity plays in creating healthy and prosperous social order.

00:01:18.700 While modern Western culture is obsessed with the notion of individuals choosing their own identity,

00:01:26.320 it's important to recognize that none of us construct ourselves from the ground up.

00:01:32.080 All of us are born into families and communities which serve as the substrate from which our individual person arises.

00:01:39.660 Identity is never formed in a vacuum.

00:01:43.500 We define ourselves by our relationship to others and our place in a broader society.

00:01:48.760 Father, son, mother, daughter, elder, child.

00:01:53.640 These are the most fundamental identities and the ones that will inform all the other relationships we encounter.

00:02:00.320 These organic familial structures also introduce us to key formative concepts that shape our world like language, religion, tradition, and custom.

00:02:12.940 These concepts give us sure footing and help us to understand how we should order our lives,

00:02:19.200 how we should treat others, and what common moral vision guides our community.

00:02:23.940 Most people don't deeply interrogate these beliefs because they form the bedrock of the social order.

00:02:32.800 These unquestioned axioms serve as pillars of identity which hold the broader civilization aloft

00:02:39.920 and help to maintain its particular character.

00:02:44.000 To be a member of one culture is to be defined by the pillars of identity which set your way of being

00:02:51.620 apart from the many other societies across the world.

00:02:55.840 Human beings are more clearly defined by their limitations than by their freedoms,

00:03:01.120 and it is in the limitations of our identities that we find true meaning.

00:03:06.960 The spirit of the strong, independent individual is burned deep into the American psyche.

00:03:13.220 The courageous pioneer carving out a new piece of civilization on the western frontier remains the ultimate American archetype,

00:03:23.980 even after all of those lands have long been settled.

00:03:27.940 But what we often forget about those brave frontiersmen is that their ultimate goal was to bring civilization,

00:03:36.740 to create a community where none existed before.

00:03:39.560 The first structures built to mark the transition from trading post to frontier town were the church, courthouse, and schoolhouse.

00:03:50.180 Even the most rugged individuals knew from their own cultural upbringing that religion, education, and law

00:03:58.220 were fundamental to the continuation of the way of life that they held dear.

00:04:03.580 Conservatives are often blown away by the speed at which culture now shifts.

00:04:10.520 New ideological trends seem to burst forth from nowhere,

00:04:14.620 dominate our society, and then recede as quickly as they emerge.

00:04:19.520 Mass media is the main delivery system for those memetic contagions,

00:04:24.920 blasting them like endless propaganda across every platform of communication

00:04:30.200 until they are superimposed on the public consciousness.

00:04:35.200 Parents watch their children adopt alien forms of speech and dress,

00:04:39.360 chanting strange slogans and spouting ideological pronouncements with no connection to reality.

00:04:45.940 The constant drip of social media, state education, and algorithmically curated entertainment

00:04:51.960 have the capacity to create entire social movements seemingly out of thin air.

00:04:56.980 These social movements often present themselves as forms of identity.

00:05:03.020 Transgenderism, arcane sexualities, and protest movements all become costumes that young people try on 0.97

00:05:09.360 and wear for a time before discarding them and consuming the next round of memetic contagion.

00:05:15.100 While it's easy to feel like any one of these particular identities is the problem,

00:05:20.180 it's actually the lack of authentic identity that makes modern society susceptible to these relentless waves of ideological possession.

00:05:29.180 Like a tree with deep and old roots,

00:05:32.560 an individual who is woven into an organic network of rights, responsibilities, and traditions

00:05:38.780 is far less likely to be pulled away with the tide.

00:05:42.320 Propaganda can only be countered by a firm grounding in who we are and what we are loyal to.

00:06:01.500 The man whose life is full of meaningful relationships and tied to the shared moral vision of his community

00:06:08.480 has no need to look for the cheap and artificial identities that modern leftism offers.

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00:06:45.400 In the preamble to the Constitution,

00:06:48.140 the founders remind us that the United States is not just a vision for the current generation,

00:06:54.520 but a heritage to be handed down to our posterity.

00:06:58.500 If conservatives want to fight back against the putrid identity politics of the left,

00:07:03.260 they must instill the organic identity that the founders relied on to make America great.

00:07:09.440 The Christian faith, the regional traditions that came predominantly from Europe before taking on a distinctly American flavor,

00:07:18.500 and the voluntary communal associations that define so much of day-to-day life.

00:07:24.480 This also means taking back the responsibility to educate our children and carefully select the media we consume.

00:07:33.220 We can't hand the minds of the next generation over to those who wish to destroy us and expect them to be returned intact. 0.99

00:07:41.620 In a sea of ideological propaganda and social conditioning,

00:07:48.000 only the organic network of faith, family, tradition, and duty combined against the raging tides.

00:07:56.600 In the battle against identity politics and social programming,

00:08:02.420 the answer isn't radical atomization of the individual,

00:08:06.920 but the healthy and powerful identity that our founding fathers promised as the birthright of this great nation.

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The Auron MacIntyre Show - May 24, 2024

True Identity Is the Key to Resisting Propaganda ｜ 5⧸23⧸24

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