Ezra Klein

is in the channeling of that sense, which is a very old sense, that there is some form of immediate experience that industrial society alienates us from.

An icon of masculinity, if there ever was one.

Well, there's a desire for the order or the perceived order of the Catholic or Greek Orthodox Church, not, I think, for the social radicalism of Jesus Christ.

I mean, yeah, this is a practical problem.

But there's a split.

And I think Louise Perry was the first one.

I heard her talk about this, and it's actually helped me think about this.

Between the pagan side of the New Right and the Christian side of the New Right.

And Bronze Age pervert is on the pagan side.

And I want to go back to what you're saying about hierarchy and the uber mansion and Nietzsche.

This is a quote from his book.

He writes...

Nietzsche never forgot that the fundamental fact of nature is inequality.

And this is something these people, the followers of Heidegger and Heidegger himself, to a great degree, all forget.

It is madness to ask the common prefab run of man to fashion his own way, his own religion.

The many find solace in meaning, only in submission.

It is good that this is so, and they shouldn't be made to feel shamed for it.

So much of the modern idiocy is based on shaming those who would find true pleasure in submission.

The long chain of being is held together by command and obedience.

And this is really the core politics of this book and a lot of these, which is that we have ended up in this Christianized, you know, liberal democracy that believes in equality and in doing our subverting and denying politics.