Ezra Klein

Bronze Age pervert, true to the name, is known for constantly posting pictures of, you know, tanned and muscled male bodies.

Raw egg nationalist Charles Cornish Dale, weightlifter, talks a lot about that in his book.

There's this whole idea of the pursuit of beauty.

as a way of aligning yourself to higher good.

This is from the Bronze Age Perfect Mindset in its sort of weird internet grammar.

In same way, see from all this that aesthetic physique has the most cosmic significance.

And it is because of what I've said so far that aesthetic bodies are a window to the other side because they're the pinnacle of nature."

The book is full of just like hatred for the obese, he keeps calling it like yeasty, you know, physiques.

You now see Clavicular, who, you know, is like the biggest streamer of the moment, who is this looks-maxer, who has like, I think has become deranged and is clearly in a very unhealthy spiral, appearing in court, overdosing on live streaming, you know, as he has this like crazy stack of testosterone and other things that have made him infertile.

And like you're watching like a like a mass social body dysmorphia emerge very rapidly, it seems to me, among men.

And one thing I see in the stuff in the new right, like this is like the one place I want to talk about this more broadly, but the one place where they seem to have an idea of self-mastery or discipline for men.

But it's all this homosocial weightlifting competition.

You see it all over these books, too.

I mean, there's an explicit passage in Bronze Age Mindset where he talks about the problem of the Jews and their pallid, nerdy, you know, they've made everybody want to be these intellectual, conceptual, you know, not sort of connected to the real vital forces of being alive.

And I mean, this is very old-fashioned anti-Semitism.

And he tries to soften it by saying, well, when I say the Jews, I'm not saying just the Jews or all the Jews, but it's straightforward.

I mean, he uses the term directly, which is maybe to say all this is very old.

This is all very old.

And it expresses itself as old, right?

It's Bronze Age.