The Bronze Age Mindset enables a manliness of crass decadence, irreverence, and hedonism, while true manliness involves the chivalrous notions of duty, reverence, and self-sacrifice.
Amazing piece, especially the point about the decline of traditional religions creating a vacuum of which we are seeing young men fill with depravity such as BAP.
I love that passage by Lewis. I quote it all the time. Best part of The Abolition of Man. I’ve never read Kirk, though, and perhaps I should. I was anticipating that you would mention the man who was raised to believe that “a gentleman does not cheat” before you did!
This is a great new addition to the Freemen News-Letter. It will be important for principled conservatives to begin offering young men more of substance. The reason some are drawn to BAP is that his roughness speaks to something raw inside of them (much as romanticist appeals to primal emotions speak to all of us at different times and in different ways) and some of them have never been shown a positive vision for what nature masculinity looks like. They think gentleman means “nice guy” and civilized means “weak.”
Courage is grace under pressure, as Hemingway once said. It takes courage to have a "resolute and daring character, dutiful and just." And the essential ingredient is grace.
If I were to choose one word to describe the Bronze Age Pervert -- and far too many like them, throughout our culture -- it would be graceless.
Amazing piece, especially the point about the decline of traditional religions creating a vacuum of which we are seeing young men fill with depravity such as BAP.
I love that passage by Lewis. I quote it all the time. Best part of The Abolition of Man. I’ve never read Kirk, though, and perhaps I should. I was anticipating that you would mention the man who was raised to believe that “a gentleman does not cheat” before you did!
This is a great new addition to the Freemen News-Letter. It will be important for principled conservatives to begin offering young men more of substance. The reason some are drawn to BAP is that his roughness speaks to something raw inside of them (much as romanticist appeals to primal emotions speak to all of us at different times and in different ways) and some of them have never been shown a positive vision for what nature masculinity looks like. They think gentleman means “nice guy” and civilized means “weak.”
Courage is grace under pressure, as Hemingway once said. It takes courage to have a "resolute and daring character, dutiful and just." And the essential ingredient is grace.
If I were to choose one word to describe the Bronze Age Pervert -- and far too many like them, throughout our culture -- it would be graceless.
This piece explains why. Excellent work.