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With this tactic, the philosophical elite is able to secure a safe space for free thought in the midst of uncomprehending masses who would otherwise persecute them. According to Strauss, great thinkers must disguise their beliefs, appearing outwardly to endorse the mores of their age, while secretly communicating esoteric dangerous truths to initiates trained to understand then. The central preoccupation of Strauss’s thought is the protection of a self-selected intellectual elite within a political order. To his credit, Smith acknowledges this in his piece, calling Bronze Age Mindset “fascistic” and comparing “its program of eugenics” to “the biopolitics of the Third Reich.”įor Smith, BAP’s book is the product of a sophisticated rhetorical strategy, drawn from Almariu’s study of the political philosopher Leo Strauss. It is not even particularly coy or evasive on this account. Its combination of biological racism, antisemitism, misogyny, celebration of male vitality, embrace of the aesthetics of the brotherhood of combat, conquest and war, demand for "living space,” as well its fusion of bombastic elitism and vulgar populism are unmistakable. And perhaps not even fascism, but Nazism. Suffice it to say, “BAPism” is simply fascism, repackaged and re-marketed.
One of the hosts of the Red Scare podcast declared her adoration of the book, labeling BAP a “genius.” For a time, Bronze Age Mindset was even the third-ranked book in the “Ancient Greek History” category on Amazon. “In the spiritual war for the disaffected youth on the right, conservatism is losing. Nate Hochman, National Review writer and self-appointed spokesman for the “New Right”, told the New York Times that “every junior staffer in the Trump administration read Bronze Age Mindset.” Michael Anton, a former member of the Trump administration and associate of the Claremont Institute think tank, wrote a friendly critique of Bronze Age Mindset for The Claremont Review of Books. This would seem to easy enough to dismiss as the ravings of a crank, just as likely as the product of actual madness, if it had not made real inroads into the power centers of the American right.
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I want to prepare you to receive this old spirit-old spirits are moving, from behind the reeds… the silhouette shimmers against a river in late summer, and I see already men who know how to honor such uncanny old friends.
The enemies of Western man and the enemies of beauty are to learn just what was meant by a piratical race, a nest of pirates like the Chinese thought of the Dutch on first meeting them. Piratical bands and brotherhoods will take to the seas, and not just to the seas. The star of Nemesis is sure to return, and it must already be burning inside some of you.In the Bronze Age men had life and force, and I already see, far on the horizon of our world, but the glimmer is surely there-may it not be a mirage!-I see this spirit returning surely in our time. Modeling himself on Nietzsche, the book is part manifesto, part rant, part prophecy: a hallucinatory, paranoid, campy, self-parodic jeremiad denouncing the rule of inferior “bug men” that make up the vast run of humanity and an urging the hidden master race to reassert its natural will-to-power to topple this reign of stultifying, decadent mediocrity. As “BAP,” Alamariu is the author of Bronze Age Mindset, his self-published “exhortation” of 2018. If you are not familiar, Bronze Age Pervert is the online moniker and alter ego of Costin Alamariu, a former Yale PhD student of Romanian extraction.
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