{"id":9040,"date":"2019-11-20T21:00:06","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T02:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=9040"},"modified":"2019-11-19T21:55:37","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T02:55:37","slug":"bronze-age-mindset-a-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/20\/bronze-age-mindset-a-book-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Bronze Age Mindset \u2013 A Book Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Bronze Age Mindset (BAM) came out last year I heard a little bit about it at various sites.\u00a0 When Michael Anton <a href=\"https:\/\/www.claremont.org\/crb\/article\/are-the-kids-altright\/\">reviewed the book<\/a> back in August I became interested and decided to read it.\u00a0 When the author (Bronze Age Pervert or BAP for short) \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/americanmind.org\/essays\/americas-delusional-elite-is-done\/\">published a response<\/a> to Anton in October I reminded myself to buy it.\u00a0 Now I\u2019ve read it and I am trying to get my opinion into some kind of an orderly form.\u00a0 But unfortunately, BAM isn\u2019t that kind of a work.\u00a0 It\u2019s a mixture of philosophical treatise, civilizational diatribe, atavistic lament and fraternal advice.\u00a0 One thing is for sure.\u00a0 BAP wants this world to melt down hard enough so that he can securely raise the black flag and start slitting throats.<\/p>\n<p>As has been noted previously by Anton, BAP is in at least part agreement with Nietzsche.\u00a0 BAP reviles our age for its complete lack of heroic opportunities.\u00a0 He believes that for at least a portion of modern men life in a modern democratic state is a death sentence.\u00a0 A large part of the first part of the book describes his comparison of modern life to the life of the warriors of Bronze Age Greece as embodied in the Homeric works and the military dictatorship in Sparta.\u00a0 Along the way he expends enormous vitriol decrying the modern world and its feminists, neutered males (bugmen), endless bureaucracy, politically correct institutions, slave-driving lifestyles and the generic ugliness of modern life.\u00a0 He despises democracy as a false equivalency.\u00a0 He believes in the superiority of the alpha male and his right to rule over the rest of society.<\/p>\n<p>BAP writes this diatribe in a clipped version of English that uses internet abbreviations and leaves out definite and indefinite articles at random.\u00a0 This doesn\u2019t make it too difficult to read along but to my ear it is affected.\u00a0 Toward the end of the book he lapses into grammatical English and is obviously very literate.<\/p>\n<p>As for the pervert in his name (BAP), he does seem to espouse at least some kind of homoerotic sensibility but he seems to describe it as not a homosexual attraction but an appreciation of male physical perfection.\u00a0 Either way for me it\u2019s off-putting.\u00a0 Also, he thinks that the seamiest parts of the underworld with its pornography and prostitution and other perversions is important and men like him are meant to delve into it and take possession of it for some redemptive purpose that involves destroying the bugmen order.<\/p>\n<p>The book is uneven and ranges from poetic to almost psychotic.\u00a0 Some of it is either humorous fantasy or the author believes in things that are obviously untrue.\u00a0 For instance, he claims that Laotian is the same language as the dialect of Spanish spoken in Chiapas Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Toward the end of the book he talks more realistically about what a non-bugman can do to exist in the nightmarish post-normal world we find ourselves in.\u00a0 Here he is addressing the non-pirate, non-superman part of the population that have jobs and families.\u00a0 Some of the advice is actually very sensible and useful.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, I found the book interesting.\u00a0 He has some insights that even a normie such as myself finds resonant.\u00a0 Undoubtedly the book is uneven and at times bizarre but it has valid points to make and it speaks to a part of every normal man who finds himself marooned in the modern Hive and wonders how we got here and how we get out.\u00a0 It\u2019s not for all tastes but if you\u2019re interested in another take on the modern world this might be interesting to you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatfinger.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7742\" src=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/picture-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"3909\" height=\"851\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/picture-4.png 3909w, https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/picture-4-300x65.png 300w, https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/picture-4-768x167.png 768w, https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/picture-4-1024x223.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, 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