The Auron MacIntyre Show - March 21, 2024


Why the Left FEARS Beauty ｜ 3⧸21⧸24


Episode Stats


Length

8 minutes

Words per minute

144.23831

Word count

1,288

Sentence count

74

Harmful content

Misogyny

3

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Hate speech

1

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Summary

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The notion of beauty as an elevation of the human spirit was always treated as a backward and outdated notion held by self-important aristocratic aristocrats in less enlightened times. But there s a deeper method to this vile iconoclastic madness: the key to cultural revolution is to sever the continuity between the past and present.

Transcript

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00:00:30.000 A British museum owned by Cambridge University
00:00:33.120 recently overhauled its art exhibits and introduced new signage
00:00:36.940 warning that paintings of the British countryside
00:00:39.240 could trigger dark nationalist feelings.
00:00:42.780 Another sign in the exhibit explains, quote,
00:00:45.320 landscape paintings were also always entangled with national identity.
00:00:50.100 The countryside was seen as a direct link to the past
00:00:53.240 and therefore a true reflection of the essence of a nation.
00:00:57.860 Now that part is true.
00:00:59.000 Particular peoples live in a specific place and beautiful depictions of that place
00:01:04.080 can speak powerfully to their sense of identity and belonging.
00:01:08.480 What's interesting is how often the left now feels compelled to warn us about the dangers
00:01:14.180 of beauty.
00:01:15.420 Our progressive ruling elites have created a small, ugly, and artificial world
00:01:20.120 and their right to fear the power that natural beauty holds to shatter that illusion.
00:01:26.060 Like many people, I've lived most of my life as a thoroughly modern Philistine.
00:01:31.140 As an advanced and sophisticated person, I dismissed beauty as a value
00:01:36.080 and often saw unnecessary adornment as an ostentatious waste that hindered efficiency.
00:01:42.260 I've been a Christian since I was young, but even in my interactions with the divine,
00:01:46.860 I had a very Protestant understanding of sacred spaces.
00:01:50.180 Why would anyone build a giant cathedral when the people of God could gather in a strip mall
00:01:55.560 or a warehouse and give the rest of the money to the poor?
00:01:59.120 The notion of beauty as an elevation of the human spirit was always treated as a backward
00:02:04.560 and outdated notion held by self-important aristocrats in less enlightened times.
00:02:09.740 We like to think of ourselves as highly rational, so it can be very difficult to recognize
00:02:15.060 how critical aesthetics are to our way of being.
00:02:18.440 If the things we see every day are beautiful, if they stir our souls and connect us to the divine,
00:02:24.060 that keeps us grounded in a way that's hard to describe.
00:02:28.440 Beauty confronts us and convicts us in an uncomfortable manner. 0.96
00:02:32.460 That which is undeniably beautiful holds an intrinsic value that reminds us that natural hierarchies
00:02:39.400 are real, good, and inescapable.
00:02:43.300 Beauty reminds us that there's a right way for things to be,
00:02:46.840 and while we may not have yet achieved that right way of being,
00:02:50.260 we must remain oriented towards the good and the true.
00:02:55.320 In short, beauty cuts through our nonsense excuses and demands that we become worthy of it.
00:03:03.740 The world that the left has created is entirely artificial
00:03:08.160 and requires an incredible amount of abstract nonsense to maintain its illusions.
00:03:14.000 Progressives hate the idea of hierarchy, human nature, and unchosen bonds.
00:03:19.940 Everyone must be equal.
00:03:22.280 Everything must be interchangeable.
00:03:24.720 And everything must be disposable.
00:03:28.020 Gender, marriage, family, community, and every other aspect of human identity
00:03:33.740 can be redefined at a moment's notice.
00:03:36.460 The compulsion to flatten every aspect of existence drives the left to sever the natural connections
00:03:44.660 that define every person so they can be utterly remade.
00:03:49.280 The individual must be isolated from his natural systems of support
00:03:54.200 and made entirely dependent on the state if everyone is to be made truly equal.
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00:04:31.380 The best way to keep people trapped in an artificial environment
00:04:34.980 is to deny them the knowledge that any alternative exists.
00:04:39.940 Leftists in Western countries are tearing down statues,
00:04:43.300 destroying priceless paintings,
00:04:45.080 and burning down magnificent cathedrals for a reason.
00:04:48.140 In one sense, this rabid cultural vandalism
00:04:52.780 is like the defensive thrashings of a wild animal.
00:04:56.520 Progressives reflexively strike out and mar that which is beautiful
00:05:00.540 so it doesn't convict them in their own squalid existence.
00:05:05.560 But there's a deeper method to this vile iconoclastic madness.
00:05:11.220 The key to cultural revolution is to sever the continuity
00:05:15.260 between the past and the present.
00:05:18.140 If the left can successfully bury the beauty of the past,
00:05:21.780 then the people will have no memory of what made them great,
00:05:25.160 and they can instead be sculpted into whatever dismal monument to mediocrity
00:05:30.040 our progressive elites have planned.
00:05:33.300 Brutalist and depressing modern architecture,
00:05:36.980 abstract and absurd modern art,
00:05:39.800 formulaic and soulless modern movies
00:05:42.400 are all engineered to ensure that we never glimpse
00:05:46.160 that which makes us fully human.
00:05:50.060 As hilarious as a trigger warning on a landscape painting may seem,
00:05:55.800 the museum staff recognize the very real power
00:05:59.180 that such works of art hold
00:06:01.140 and the threat that they pose to the current progressive order.
00:06:04.780 Leftists have worked very hard to eliminate the works of architectural,
00:06:10.420 artistic, and musical beauty that might stir the soul to greatness,
00:06:15.600 but the beauty of nature still remains.
00:06:19.300 Even if our entire culture is stripped of the truth of beauty,
00:06:23.700 the very rocks around us still cry out.
00:06:26.380 One reason progressives feel so compelled to drive the population into squalid cities
00:06:33.720 is their contempt for the natural beauty that keeps rural populations firmly connected to reality.
00:06:41.240 Whether in the Soviet Union or the United States,
00:06:45.440 leftists always revile the independent farmer.
00:06:49.020 The independent farmer is self-sufficient,
00:06:51.280 can't be controlled through the manipulation of a system on which he does not rely,
00:06:56.460 and is too deeply rooted in the reality of nature
00:06:59.580 to be taken in by absurd and artificial abstraction.
00:07:05.040 Above all, progressives fear beauty because it threatens their way of life.
00:07:10.680 The more artificial and abstract a system progressives construct
00:07:14.680 to support their culture of lies,
00:07:16.680 the more dangerous truth becomes.
00:07:18.780 Cultural revolutionaries instinctively attack the true and beautiful 0.99
00:07:25.080 because they see it as an assault on the small, ugly, and plastic world
00:07:30.440 that they have constructed.
00:07:32.540 While those in power work diligently to snuff out any instance of beauty left in our culture,
00:07:39.840 they'll ultimately fail.
00:07:42.300 As long as one rolling countryside,
00:07:45.480 one soaring mountain range,
00:07:47.760 one gleaming seacoast remains,
00:07:50.940 the power and truth of beauty
00:07:53.020 will still convict us.
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