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I think of one of the founding fathers of this in the new right is this guy Bronze Age Pervert. I want to play a clip of this interview he did with Michael Malice in 2024, talking about the problems of modernity. \u201cIn the pandemic, in my view, it was a mass sacrifice of the world\u2019s youth to the desires of disgusting old people who sacrificed the youth, and also to women, frankly, especially the middle-aged, sterile women who made the pandemic procedures their whole life. It gave meaning to her life. I saw it in action.\u201d So the reason I think that clip is useful. And this book, \u201cBronze Age Mindset.\u201d There are reports that most young staff in the Trump administration had read it. It had become a piece of code passed back and forth, samizdat. Well, this is the idea that women, because of their lack of thymus and testosterone, are weak and empathetic and essentially the whole world has one kind of giant H.R. department telling you that you\u2019re not allowed to do the things you wanted to do anymore, particularly the kind of things that young men want to do. And, I mean, I can understand why people feel like that. Again, I just, I find a huge amount of complacency I think has driven it. I don\u2019t think people would be talking like that in a time when they had lost three of their eight children to a preventable disease before the age of 2. I don\u2019t think they would have been talking about that when immediately after the First World War, right, when you could quite easily have lost four of your sons in a completely pointless advance two miles across France. This is an ideology that is born out of fat modernity itself, right? The luxury that they have to play with these ever so spicy ideas are because they\u2019ve never lived these lives. I don\u2019t think if you went over to somewhere that is currently in the middle of a conflict and you said to them, \u201cAre you all enjoying this incredibly dangerous masculine experience that you\u2019re having?\u201d I think no, I think actually they\u2019d like a stable food supply and peace. So it\u2019s ironic that they talk about Fukuyama because this is what he predicted in \u201cThe End of History.\u201d He said that you\u2019re going to end up with people who are just bored, full of ennui, and they\u2019re going to have to find things now to entertain themselves, because they don\u2019t have the material deprivations and challenges that previous generations have. And that\u2019s what I hear when I hear that. I hear, Oh, we\u2019re all having a go at Karens on a podcast. Isn\u2019t it so spicy? And you think, how is, what has this got to do with the Spartans? This is just a fake cosplay version of masculinity that everybody is kind of indulging in. These people could sign up to the army, they could go and serve in a war. And they\u2019ve not chosen to do that. They\u2019ve chosen to become podcasters. It\u2019s interesting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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