A Bronze Age Exegesis

BAP as Educator

Introduction

"Now if thinkers of this sort are dangerous, it is obvious why our academic thinkers are harmless; their thoughts grow as tranquilly in the soil of tradition as ever a tree bore apples. They inspire no terror, they throw open no doors; and to all their hustle and bustle we might raise the same objection Diogenes made when he heard a philosopher praised: "What great deed has he ever done? All his life he practiced philosophy and never yet disturbed a soul." And surely this should be the epitaph of a university philosophy: "It never disturbed a soul." But this is the sort of praise we might give an old woman, not the goddess of truth. So it is hardly surprising that those who know the goddess only as an old woman are hardly men themselves and are rightly ignored by men of power." - Nietzsche, Schopenhauer as Educator

“I was roused from my slumber by my frog friends and I declare to you, with great boldness, that I am here to save you from a great ugliness.” - Bronze Age Mindset

Lend me, dear reader, your faith, though I have yet to show myself worthy of it, and allow me to indulge myself with a small story. A few months ago, I went out for drinks with some friends of mine. One thing led to another, and in the early hours of the morning I found myself waiting for the last train home, alone besides a couple others and the homeless who rule the subway nights. I had earlier stopped at an acquaintance’s to retrieve a book I’d lent him, Mishima: Aesthetic Terrorist, and was thumbing through it as I waited. While I was standing there, half-drunk at 2 AM on a Wednesday, a guy walked up to me and asked what book I was holding. We fell into conversation and it turned out he was a big fan of Mishima himself. Suddenly he started saying that there’s this modern writer who’s very much influenced by Mishima and Nietzsche, but for some reason he just couldn’t remember his name. We exchanged a glance and in an instant I picked up on his signal, smiled, and just said “BAP?”.

It’s easy to forget, amid all the drama and the daily spectacle of changing events, just how greatly our influence has expanded over the last 5 years. This random late night encounter is hardly the first I’ve had. I’ve managed to meet many individuals who knew of these parts purely through chance over the years, and I reckon that every major city in North America has hundreds of us by now. In every university gym there’s at least one guy by the squat rack with BAPcast quietly playing in his ears, looking over his shoulder in between reps. Every time I find a fellow traveler, another #SensitiveYoungMan, who has not only broken with the prevailing malaise of our times, but avoided falling into the clutches of the lurking ghouls among “dissidents” whose sole function is to fleece the energy that has awoken in the past decade, I feel an eternal hope for the future. The flourishing of our ideals in spite of all the propaganda, censorship, and gay ops is a reminder of the everlasting power of youth and genius which they will never squash.

It is this joy in witnessing the spread of our ideas which has moved me to begin contributing myself to this space I’ve long personally benefited from. With the official intellectual corridors of the west everywhere dominated by profiteers and poisoners, it falls upon those of us who gather in secret behind masks to maintain the spirit of the humanities; to spread and take heart in the great riches of our cultural inheritance, which they can never despoil us of. What I would like to do in this essay is clearly elucidate what BAP represents; the meaning I have derived from his output and the value his views have for the online right. There is a powerful vision of the world here, and it is unfortunate that many otherwise earnest and intelligent individuals who share all the same overarching goals of BAP fail to see it, usually because they mistakenly think there is nothing more to it than lifting weights and a humorous lexicon. If you’ve read this far, I greatly appreciate your faith, dear reader, and shall waste your time with facile introductions no longer. This is a Bronze Age exegesis.

A Necessary Disclaimer and Apologia

“One does well to separate the artist from his work, which should be taken more seriously than he is.” Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality

“Perversions— lame ones— are born by the thousands and haunt, like myriad cripplette midgets in halls of mirrors, they haunt the world, books, the internet.” - Bronze Age Mindset

Who is the Bronze Age Pervert? This essay is uninterested in the question. Its question is; what is the Bronze Age Pervert about, what does he represent, what does he advocate, what does he offer? Too many on the right have gotten lazy and forgotten the proper role of genealogy. One’s identity, personal history, family, and etcetera are certainly relevant to their beliefs, but genealogy is auxiliary to real dialectical engagement; saying someone is a bad-thing in a disagreement over their stated views is meaningless unless you’ve addressed the views themselves, and how being a bad-thing relates to them. You ought to always be wary of individuals’ motives for saying something, but nevertheless understand that the idea itself ought to be judged on its own merits; its truth or falsity is above all sophistries. But many are too stupid for this, and twitter lends itself to rhetoric rather than productive engagement, and so our eyes feast upon endless shit flinging ape battles over who is the real Neoliberal Gnostic Nominalist Hegelian Demon, and who are the real poor of spirit.

Too many of you idiots buy into the ultimately leftist way of looking at all ideas, creations, and actions as just the consequence of their author’s milieu; it is the lazy habit of those who live with their snout to the ground. “Schopenhauer was just mad he couldn’t get pussy.” These kinds of low level attacks are based upon the implicit premise that man is incapable of anything genuinely great, that all behavior and ideology is reducible to petty, individual proclivities and economic concerns. It’s the mindset of Marx and Freud re-purposed for Internet beefs and theological apologia.

So before I proceed allow me to make this disclaimer: I don’t care whether the Bronze Age Pervert wipes his ass standing or sitting, or if his mother’s third cousin’s son is a tranny, or if he went to school with Jim from the Office. What I wish to extol is the value of what BAP has for years consistently advocated and revealed, and the manner in which he has done so. And so I will leave speculation about whether he was sent back in time by Mossad to get banned from Roosh forums or is an immortal secret agent of Carpocratian Straussian Neo-Nazis to the prodigious intellects of Filipino internet theologians and 4chan trannies.

The Philosophy of BAP

“I have cited some of the conditions required if the philosophical genius, harmful factors notwithstanding, is to make an appearance in our times. They are; freedom and vitality of character; early knowledge of human nature; a non-scholarly education; exemption from the constraints of patriotism, from the necessity of earning a living, from any connection with the state. In short, freedom; always freedom.” - Nietzsche, Schopenhauer as Educator

“Many are domestic animals and happy that way. I speak instead to the men who feel stifled by this bug world.” - Bronze Age Mindset

What is the Bronze Age Mindset? It is the rediscovery of nature. It is the rediscovery of the body. It is the rediscovery of life and its true value. It is knowledge of the conditions of human excellence. This is all quite vague, and often have I seen individuals reject BAP specifically, but really Nietzsche generally, as lacking substance. This is in part due to the cadre of retards who inevitably latch onto any burgeoning movement and usually become the loudest part of it (I’m sure many of you have also been subjected to Uberboyo’s constipated potato ape face on the timeline), as well as the humorous and relaxed style of BAP, who has no real interest in the architectonic masturbation of systemic philosophers and doctrine pile drivers.

The philosophy of BAP starts from a simple beginning; it is here that you are either won or you are lost, and it is this single point which rallies the #SensitiveYoungMen together. This is the love of excellence, or put differently, the love of genius. Prior to any philosophical investigation or system, it is this which drives us; the ideal of the free genius is our guiding star. There is no greater joy for us than to witness life in its highest flourishing, to join in friendship with worthy peers and achieve the freedom to exhibit our potential, to transform our selves and our worlds. We are meritocrats at heart.

If it is from this starting point that we depart, the focus of all philosophy becomes clear; what is genius and what are its conditions? BAP turns to the Bronze Age world of the Aryans generally, and to the Hellenic world in particular, to understand this question and its answer because the conditions of human excellence can only be properly known once the question of human nature has been raised. I will explain BAP’s world view through a set of ancient Greek concepts which BAP himself has explicitly referenced, and which I believe are helpful to grasping his understanding of life. These four are nomos, phusis, aion, and aner.

Nomos

“Nomos is the king of all.” - Pindar

“If all the nomoi were repealed, we will live just as we do now.” - Aristippus of Cyrene on the advantage enjoyed by philosophers

“Who can give any guarantee that modern democracy, the even more modern anarchism, and indeed that predilection for the ‘commune’, the most primitive form of social structure now common to all Europe’s socialists, are not in essence a huge throw-back” - Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality

“People at all times try to domesticate each other. Language is used to clobber and deceive others into submission and domestication. Ideas and arguments and stories are manufactured for the same. The modern world is no different in this regard from any wretched tribal society. I’m sure that Europe prior to the Bronze Age, before the coming of the Aryans, was similar to modern Europe. People lived in communal longhouses and were likely browbeaten and ruled by obese mammies who instilled in them socialism and feminism.” - Bronze Age Mindset

Phusis and nomos are generally translated as “nature” and “custom” or “law” respectively, but as is often the case these ancient terms encompass a much wider meaning than their modern corollaries. Greek philosophy begins with the idea of phusis, of a nature behind all phenomena which is independent from the dictates of human nomos. To understand what is meant by phusis, it best that we first understand nomos. “Law” fails to grasp just how powerful and all-encompassing nomos is, for it is prior to all laws. Nomos is the guiding ethos of a people, their entire tradition about what constitutes the world and proper behavior. Put crudely, it is ancestral custom. Generally it was traced back to a founding act, either by a religious prophet, semi-divine ancestor, or mythical lawgiver. Lykurgus gave their nomoi to the Spartans, Moses that of the Jews, Numa Pompilius that of the Romans, and so on. Nomos is local, it is the peculiar contingent feature of a particular society. A good example of nomos and how it differs between populations is the one Herodotus offers in The Histories; the Persian emperor Darius asked Greeks, whose practice was to burn their parents, how much he would have to pay them to eat them, and a group of Indians, whose practice was to eat their parents, how much he would have to pay them to burn them, and both reacted with equivalent revulsion.

In most ancient societies nomos was monolithic; myth, custom, and law ruled absolutely. Every ancient society had its own cosmologies, its own codes, its own idea of what makes the world turn and why we are morally obligated to act in a particular manner. Most lived, labored, and died comfortable in the conviction that life was really as their nomoi represented it, and hence had no interest in inquiry into the the world which presented itself to them in experience. The average peasant caught up in the rituals of life and death might never have even encountered something truly foreign; the horizon of their world only extended to the village border and the myths priests recited. BAP’s idea of the longhouse is taken from Nietzsche and refers to this pre-Aryan state, to the totalitarian rule of nomos, and the suppression of any individual freedom which could threaten the tribe. Most of human history is simply tribes operating at a subsistence level and clouding their existence with the structure of ancestrally inherited nomoi; a sort of primitive tyrannical democracy in which the tribe as a whole, its nomos, rules absolutely, usually through some organization of elders, over the minds of all its individuals and especially its youth.

Phusis

“And Heracles stretched his invincible hands up to heaven and said: Father Zeus, if you have ever heard my prayers with a willing heart, now, now with divine prayers I entreat you to grant this man a brave son from Eriboea, a son fated to be my guest-friend. May he have a body [phue] as invulnerable as this skin that is now wrapped around me, from the beast whom I killed that day in Nemea as the very first of my labors.” - Pindar, Isthmian 6

“Phusis loves to hide.” - Heraclitus of Ephesus, Fragment B10

“When I poast physiques of beautiful and handsome youths I do so because in contemplating them I am filled with a deep calm and joy — I see in them the persistent rejuvenation of this same eternal force, that is inside all things. I see in this force the hidden design and intention of nature, its reaching beyond itself” - Bronze Age Mindset

Phusis is better translated than nomos, but “nature” is still somewhat insufficient; the word can have a meaning similar to “growth”, and was used as well to refer to the physical body as in the Pindar passage above. Phusis in contrast to nomos is universal and eternal, it is indifferent to human convention. In one land one law rules, in another a different law, but fire burns everywhere the same. Where nomos is the iron scepter of Agamemnon, who is best only by custom, phusis is the sprouting branch of Achilles, who is best by nature. To understand how important and rare the formation of an idea of “nature” is (no other ancient language except Greek, and as a result Latin, had a word for nature) requires stepping out of our modern perspective, where such an idea is readily available, and entering into the mind of an inhabitant of pre-history, of humanity prior to philosophy. You are born, live, and die in the longhouse; your day to day activity is concerned almost entirely with survival, and when it is not your time is often spent in the bosom of nomos, in rituals. Ask yourself; would you ever witness a natural phenomenon, such as fire rising, and be able to step outside ancestral custom to consider the phenomenon-in-itself and its possible explanation, independent of prescribed tradition? It is no wonder that so few peoples have ever produced real philosophers, and it is easy to imagine a human history where this state continued indefinitely.

The Greeks more than any other people broke with this state. Greek civilization is the result of piratical military brotherhoods of Aryan youths who came across the Aegean and conquered the sedentary original inhabitants of Hellas. The tradition of sending bands of young men on military adventures in search of new land and more space is ancient and characteristic of most Aryan cultures; this is the männerbund, or kóryos. As a rite of passage the youths are forced to endure trials and are expelled from the adult society, from nomos, and forced to subsist as a unit far from home, as raiders and hunters. This youth ritual drove Aryan expansion further and further as bands of young men ventured forward into foreign lands. This practice inspired the grander projects of ambitious established men, who would have themselves once been part of a kóryos, and who on hearing of the success of other Aryan groups in achieving immense power and wealth by conquering lands such as Egypt, the Levant, and India, assembled great warbands to achieve their own conquests. To fall to one of these conquests was the fate of Greece, and the origin of the Greeks as we know them.

It was their old intimacy, as a pastoral Aryan people, with nature’s laws and the importance of breeding, in conjunction with their rule over an alien people and cosmopolitan curiosity for everything foreign and exotic, which made the Greeks the first people to consider the world as something that could be known in itself, and consequently the first people to consider the possible natural conditions of excellence. The conquest and subjugation of foreign peoples through the expansion of Aryan groups lead to the possibility of consciousness of nomos as nomos; wide communication networks and colonial rule meant that Aryan elites became intimately aware of the wide diversity of religions, traditions, and laws. The early Greeks would have doubtless observed the wide differences between their own nomadic pastoral warrior culture, and the culture of the sedentary agrarian peoples of Hellas which they now ruled over as elites.

But this growing awareness of the contradictions of nomos, and of the idea of a phusis beyond all such opinions, reaches its full explicit formulation with the pre-Socratics at the end of the Archaic period. It was only with the rise of the polis and the demos, and the relative decline of the Aryan aristocracies, that aristocrats began to consider a way of living and of justifying their own positions in society which was independent of all nomoi. Greek philosophy is a rearguard action of aristocrats in the face of their social decline which formalizes a view that goes back to at least Homer, as a means of justifying their individual superiority before the mob. To understand this you must grasp just how radical to the ancient mind something like Aristippus’ claim that the philosopher would act the same regardless of if nomoi existed or not is; within such statements lurks a truly tyrannical impulse, present in philosophy from the beginning.

In Homer we see phusis revealed in its everlasting glory with every simile. There is no better example of this idea of nature that I have been speaking of than in Book two of the Iliad, lines 455 to 484. What would later be explicitly philosophically articulated by the pre-Socratics is there, hundreds of years earlier, lurking in dactylic hexameter. Homer is constantly comparing the actions and being of men to natural phenomena because he understands that it is the same force making itself known in both cases.

Aion

“Aion is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child.” - Heraclitus of Ephesus, Fragment B52

“[The Will] appears in every blindly acting force of nature, but also in the deliberate conduct of man, and the great difference between the two concerns only the degree of the manifestation, not the inner nature of what is manifested.” - Schopenhauer, World as Will and Representation Volume I

“These people saw the vigor of youth as the true driving force behind life and behind all things, forever renewing itself, reincarnating itself anew in each generation in full force, though the memories of men and of societies disappear.”

“If you want to understand the true power of aion, of the eternal youthful energy that is the universe, you must study what remains from Heraclitus when he uses the word, and how he connects it to the idea of fire that is the essence of all things and action.” - Bronze Age Mindset

Phusis must be understood not as some abstract Darwinian mechanism or mere concept, but as the force beneath all life. It is what lurks behind natural phenomena, the true cause of their being and becoming. In Schopenhauer it is the will, and in Heraclitus it is fire; it is the monistic principle which is the source of all thought, being, and life, and which provides order to the natural world. The most common error of all philosophers is to anthropomorphize this force into a rational being in approximation to our own reason, who pronounces on high in a nasally Jordan Peterson voice, “Don’t jerk off!” In doing so they make it into an imago homo, a reflection of our own cognition and needs, when it is rather our own intelligence which is a crude imago dei. The Aryans generally, and Greeks specifically, came to understand this force better than any other people. BAP himself identifies this force with the Greek term aion; the Greek equivalent of an Aryan word which is the root of both youth and eternity. Insofar as you can talk about a metaphysics of BAP it is this; the vigor of youth is the source of everything, the eternal fire driving this ephemeral shifting world. He is best understood metaphysically as a disciple of Heraclitus and Schopenhauer.

Aner

“There is only nobility of birth, only nobility of blood. (…) For spirit alone does not make one noble, there must be something to ennoble spirit.— what then is required? Blood.” - Nietzsche

“The best desire one thing above all, ever-flowing fame among mortals; but the many glut themselves like cattle.” - Heraclitus of Ephesus, Fragment B29

“Among the Greeks the man of power was called aner, who was different from the other word used, anthropos, which referred just to some shadow-being, indistinct, some kind of humanoid shape. The real man was rare, and most males were not and are not real men! (…) The real man was a man filled by courage and daring that all came from an excess of being.” - Bronze Age Mindset

How does any of this relate to individual excellence and genius? The greatest insight of the Greeks is that man is not a dominion within a dominion, but a part of nature itself, another expression of the same force behind all natural phenomena. It is from this knowledge that a true estimation of human life, and of its optimal state, can be finally properly considered. The Greeks had separate words for the noble man, the aner, and merely for man as such, the anthropos. The etymological root of aner refers to a kind of vital life force, and the same idea is reflected in other Aryan languages such as the Roman vir or Sanskrit nar. Genius is quite literally the abundance of being, the greater life-force within an individual. It is a biological expression of the metaphysical. Most humans are the walking dead, shadow-things who have been optimized for a life of service and subsistence, the misbegotten. The BAP view is that they are quite literally less real than the individual of excellence; this is the hidden meaning of calling someone a man of substance. This is not some modern invention; it is as ancient an idea as the West possesses.

This Greek wisdom is what makes Homer so distinctive and great. Behind the characters, poetry, and storytelling of the Iliad and Odyssey is this eternal truth about excellence as an abundance of being. His characteristically Greek fascination with nature is intimately connected by this idea of the aner with the central question of the Iliad: Who is best among the Achaians? The Iliad and Odyssey present us with real individuals, mortals with personalities, homes, and families, and then shows them being granted the opportunity to prove their excellence, to exhibit their abundance of being. The Iliad is not primarily a story about the horrors of war, as it usually interpreted by moderns, but of the excellence of Achilles, without whom the Greeks were brought low and only through whom they defeated mighty Hector. It begins nine years into the war and ends before Troy falls because it is not about Troy or the war, but of the specific episode which granted the best of the Greeks the opportunity to demonstrate his excellence through the contest, through struggle with another aner.

The Odyssey shows how another distinct specimen is able to exhibit his power in overcoming great challenges and navigating many foreign lands and cultures to return home. Odysseus is the Greek ideal, neither physically infirm nor mentally incapable, but excellent in both; for mind and body spring from one and the same source. Achilles’ own intelligence is often overlooked, he is consistently presented as a man wise in counsel and capable in argument, not the stupid might is right caricature of a brute which sophists pawn off as Nietzsche’s ideal. Even when Poseidon leaves him stripped naked on the beach as a stranger in a foreign land or Athene hides him in the guise of a beggar, Odysseus remains a true king because titles and crowns are not what make a king; what marks him as a king in Homeric eyes is his nature, his very being. The aner is the true man, whose physical and cognitive excellence springs from his greater reality, the greater intensity and definiteness with which the force behind all life appears within him and drives him to reach beyond himself.

A Greek Ethics

“I believe in the right of nature. I’m bored by ideology and wordchopping. The images I post speak for themselves and point to a primal order that is felt by all, in a physical sense.” - Bronze Age Mindset

The alignment of phusis and nomos in the political supremacy of the best, of the aner, is a rare and glorious thing, the spring from which all high culture and achievement flows. The omnipresent natural state of the human animal, present in almost all the globe today, is of the totalitarian rule of nomos; of the lies and needs of the mere anthropos. The conditions of excellence are everywhere thwarted by the brutish nature of human beings, of their propensity for tribal tyranny. This is not some abstract idea, but something I’m sure many of you know intimately. To experience our world like an illness is a sign of good health, because it is a den of vampires and leeches. Justice is the destruction of this order, the freedom of the best to triumph over the worst.

I must now be careful to distinguish this view of ethics from the crude relativism it is often erroneously conflated with. Nietzsche’s, and by extension BAP’s, claim is not that there is no real system of ethical values, and that consequently all is relative and determined by the individual’s idiosyncratic desires, or merely a function of whichever party manages at a particular time to achieve the upper hand. This is the leftist perversion of Nietzsche which many elements of the right decide to conveniently buy into. Rather the claim is that there is a hierarchy of values latent to nature itself. There is such a thing as natural justice, whose form is the contest, but that this is everywhere covered up and defaced by the anxious needs of those who could never meet nature’s standard. Natural justice is the triumph of Odysseus over the suitors, it is Diomedes in the full raging fire of his arete being capable of wounding even a God.

Those who cannot meet the iron standard of phusis instead pervert justice into a bludgeon with which to win their bread, and through their collective petty tyranny impose the lie that the worst is the best, the lowest is the highest, the false is the true. This is the true meaning of the longhouse; it is the rule of nomos over phusis, of human folly over natural wisdom. “You WILL act for the stomachs of the many, you WILL treat the unequal as equal, you WILL bow to the the tribe.” So resounds their cry, not as an appeal, but always as the claim that there is some set of maxims generated by reason which are universally binding; “If you don’t act for our purposes, you are evil, because dats da rules mang.” You’ve all experienced this first hand, supposedly atheist progressives who think we are all just ‘star stuff’, who nonetheless consider arbitrary moral commandments like “shelter the homeless” as intrinsic laws of the universe. It is this conflation of nomos with phusis, of human wants with natural law, that is the spirit which animates the left to this very day. It has always been Thersites against Odysseus.

How refreshing in comparison to this self-serving hand-wringing drudgery are the immortal words of Homer! Who are the good? The excellent. What does excellence consists in? To be strong with your spear, thoughtful with your words, and steadfast in your heart. It has nothing to do with duty, pity, denial, or any of the other sapping lies of the anthropos. This does not however mean that perversion, cruelty, or the whims of the powerful are beyond praise or blame. Rather nature itself supplies its judgment; think on how many degenerate activities you felt an immediate repulsion towards long before you came to any rationalization for it. Explicit moral condemnations are almost always post hoc justifications, first the conclusion is made, either due to correct instinct or out of petty personal reasons, and a rule is afterwards sought. How many right wing people have you seen identify degenerate behavior as unacceptable, and then as a result convert to a religion because it granted them a language with which to condemn such behavior; if the rule had been necessary, surely it would have come first for them! Healthy men react to images of sexual perversion the same way they do to images of maggots, because life in ascent has no need of an autistic code to immediately recognize what is retrograde. It is for this reason that an unmistakable nobility and virtue shines from the Homeric heroes though they frequently act in ways the laws of insects would tell you automatically make them evil scoundrels; they are pirates and conquerors, but for this all the more redeemed in our eyes! Our moral outlook may be summarized by the combination of two ancient phrases; you will know them by their fruits, for never has a bad man been made good!

Tl;dr

“This will is almighty. Its forms are endless. It is no different from the fire of Heraclitus, a pervasive energy at play, inside all things, that seeks to order and reorder itself into ascending, uncanny objects. Its intent is mischievous, and beyond our ability to understand in words. In the life of organisms, this seeks to order itself into higher and more differentiated forms, that is, concretely, seeks the production of one supreme specimen.” - Bronze Age Mindset

This is the Bronze Age Mindset: life is an empty vessel, something to be filled, worthless in and of itself. The reaching-beyond-itself of life is the goal towards which nature, the will coursing through all reality, is directed. The highest end of this natural striving is individual genius, and it is to this end that all others ought to be subordinated. Justice is the freedom of genius to exhibit its phusis, its natural power which springs from the same youthful energy behind all phenomena. All of BAP’s principal ideas about politics, history, ethics, art, and health spring from this root.

BAP and Reactionary Politics

“The expression 'aristocratic radicalism,' which you employ, is very good. It is, permit me to say, the cleverest thing I have yet read about myself." - Nietzsche

“I hardly have anything to say to most who aren’t like me, still less do I care about convincing.”

“In most Greek cities there were the aristocratic clubs and fraternities, which were always places of great plans, great ideas and spiritual ferment. Here were made great political plans, plans of colonization and exploration of new lands and new cities, plans of conquests, actions against the designs of tyrants and plebs. Where is your bulwark today against Babylon, when all this has been made illegal for you?”

- Bronze Age Mindset

It goes without saying that the political doctrine which surrounds this philosophical core is one for the few. If the greatest end is genius, then the particular beliefs and activity of the majority is of little concern when it does not relate to this point. As long as nomos does not smother phusis and the aner can live freely within a state and exhibit his abundance of being, he does not particularly care if the state and its populace completely share his precise vision of the world. BAP is not trying to convince every schmuck and their mother to become vitalists; populism is a means to secure the conditions of higher life, not to spread the gospel.

BAP’s greatest political virtue, his pragmatism, follows from this point. It is this quality which has inculcated BAP against some of the worse sectarianism which has conveniently sprung up on the online right over the past few years. There are many groups among us who seem to believe a victory of the right generally is inconsequential unless it is a complete victory of their particular dogma specifically. Hence the endless e-feuds between Christians, Pagans, secularists, monarchists, fascists, and etcetera. In this respect I believe BAP has set the model for success for the right; he has consistently engaged with and accepted members of radically different factions, from Thomas777 to the Golden One to Bishop Williamson, because they all met the base requirements to be valuable allies. So long as individuals get the key political points correctly, it is a matter of indifference what their particular world view is and what their ideal state would look like. The truth is that the moderate success of right wing Pagans, Christians, or secularists in spreading pro-Western politics would be a victory for all of them. While I may certainly disagree with many of these factions, it is undeniable that the basic conditions of civilization and social order are under immediate existential threat and that opposition to the evils of our age is what is important, regardless of the particular world-view through which an individual conceptualizes their opposition. An alliance between groups, even if they ultimately desire different ends for the west, is advisable insofar as our immediate priority should just be getting back to ‘normal’. If a political faction encourages a return to a status where the state is not dominated by an ideology explicitly hostile to individual flourishing and freedom, it is infinitely preferable to the current situation.

Many have disparaged BAP as either insincere or ineffective for his continued conviction that public organizations are a liability, and those who advocate public organization suspect. BAP’s political plan does indeed renounce the alt right style “form a organization with a political wonkery sounding name like the National Policy Institute, get young people in front of camera, and do political stunts for media attention that will at best bar everyone involved from ever attaining any real power or even just holding real employment, or at worse get them thrown in jail on puffed up charges by the left’s lackeys.” To those that believe this is the non plus ultra of political action I have little to say. It should be unsurprising that people who have permanently barred themselves from even just the possibility of normal lives would encourage their followers to destroy their own individual prospects in order to prop up their political influencer lifestyle. The false dichotomy many have maintained between ineffectual online discourse and life ruining political stunts is stupid and fails to recognize the wide range of options available to us. It is further just simply not true that BAP’s political advice reduces to “lift weights and post online”; rather he has a concrete political vision which fits the philosophical outlook thus far outlined. If this is a movement for the few, and not the many, then while we will of course extend our hand diplomatically to other factions in the coming trials, the #SensitiveYoungMen’s primary political action will not be the formation of public organizations for the sake of political protest, but of private brotherhoods.

Our political praxis, to borrow that word online leftists love so much, is this simple; seek friends, seek power. The political stunts of Charlottesville are off the table at this point in time because they are detrimental to your individual attainment of power. Rather than blowing your load in your early 20s for headlines, what is needed are intelligent, capable men who in their public life achieve personal success and use it to infiltrate halls of power. I know many who are doing this themselves, and am myself attempting to do this in my own way. It will place a greater portion of us in positions which will be of the utmost importance in the coming years, with the added benefit of individually being able to enjoy life instead of being forced to become Internet pariahs. Parallel to this personal attainment of practical skills, wealth, and influence, will be the formation of private societies. Our political ideal is the kóryos, the autonomous brotherhood of young men outside the reach of the established order. Initially these will just be pacts among friends, but the end should be their development into parallel societies, like the Yakuza or Mafia; civitas intra civitas. It has always confused me why people who love reducing the entire movement of world history to the secret efforts of private groups like the Jesuits, Masons, Templars, and etc. never have the idea of doing it themselves.

There is nothing more useful to us than other individuals who have also sought power. Power by the way doesn’t necessarily need to mean explicit political power; it can be as simple as having a well ordered life, healthy body, and a set of useful skills and connections you have developed. Everyone needs lawyers, doctors, mechanics, employers, employees, etc. and etc., and in the future will especially need people who will stick their neck out for them. Think to yourself if you got doxed tomorrow, fired, and had the regimes biotrash goons actively seeking to inflict violence on you and your family, how many trusted friends would you have who would immediately and unconditionally offer you aid? Who are your rooftop Koreans if a Floyd riot comes rolling through? Your immediate political action should be finding as many of these people as possible, and forming an unofficial organization through which you exchange favors, assistance, and enjoy the kind of honest comradery that is only possible between those who ‘get it’. This is not disconnected from actual political change; rather, wherever such change becomes possible organizations like this will be essential.

Conclusion

“In the beginning was the word?? NO! In the beginning was the demonic fire that bursts out in men like Alcibiades and lays low the cities of men and exposes all their nonsense! Such men are sent by nature to chastises us and be our Nemesis. They are the great cleansing.”

“I have nothing to say to the frivolous people who have found themselves, maybe bewildered, in positions of influence in media or government, or to the many superfluous who follow them. In the next hundred years and even before, barbaric piratical brotherhoods will wipe away this corrupt civilization, as they did at the end of the Bronze Age.” -Bronze Age Mindset

I hope I have been able to do justice to these ideas which have been a great source of insight for me into the predicament of modern life for the man of substance. There is much more I would add, but I have taken up enough of your time already, dear reader. I believe this doctrine, more than any other articulated online, grasps the true nature of life. It does not lead you blindfolded down a winding path till you find yourself advocating against your own interests, a victim of moral badgering self-sacrificing at the altar of invented duties. It is a doctrine of liberation, of the unshackling of what is best in the human spirit, unconditionally. I hope that it may be kindling for the many fires I see, burning distant on the horizon. May such ideas continue to spread.