Ezra Klein

I mean, Bronze Age Pervert went to Yale, was it?

Yeah.

This is an elite overproduction problem.

One thing that I find interesting about the modern right is it can't seem to decide on when its nostalgia is for.

So there's a dimension of it that's for the 1950s.

I think of that as more where Donald Trump has based his remembrance of politics, and he was around for that, so fair enough.

But then you have people who seem to be looking back to earlier in the country's history, but it has stretched way beyond that now, all the way, and we'll talk about Bronze Age Burford, which is a nom de plume of one of these folks, who is trying to bring back a sort of pre-modern, much more directly pagan view.

There's a lot of primitivism in all of this, a lot of societies filled with chemicals and endocrine disruptors, right?

It connects to the Maha movement in that way.

But this question of when were human beings human, when were men men, when were women women, there actually isn't agreement on it.

The liberation of women was a false flag operation.

The true goal was the liberation of libertine men.

And in our day, this was a goal that has largely been achieved.

These were men who wanted the benefits for themselves that would come from easy divorce, widespread abortion, mainstream pornography, and a promiscuous dating culture.

The early 20th century was characterized by the Christian wife.

The early 21st century is characterized by the tattooed concubine.

And these sons of Belial have the chutzpah to call it progress for women.

But this is the grammar of a lot of this, this constant, are we joking?

Are we serious?

I mean, when you talk about almost any of these people, almost any of these books, it's all the ethos of the troll where the real argument is being smuggled in, gift wrapped in irony and imagery and jokes and, oh, I'm only kidding.