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BAP's writing is always good, he cuts away a lot of the dead branches overhanging us to get back to the root of things
In this case I think the pathetic state of modernity is due to the fact the priest caste has completely overrun the warrior caste
In this case I think the pathetic state of modernity is due to the fact the priest caste has completely overrun the warrior caste
In this case the "priest caste" isn't to say real Christians, but rather that moral Christian guidance has in turn been overrun by modern priests who now manifest in a perverse way as our journalists, academics, bureaucracy, etc. All the people the left worships
Original Christian priest caste was meant as a blunting edge against the warrior caste who could be too savage, too willing to run wild. You could see peak civilization as those times when the warriors and the priests were in balance with each other: both had power
Part of the reason BAP resonates is the warrior caste no longer has any power or real respect at all. Our soldiers are largely hated southern Borderer types, their leaders are more and more not of the warriors, but rather ruled by the priests of democracy
The lack of position and status for warriors—and more importantly warrior values—is why things feel so craven, sniveling, and entrapped.
Contrast to the Greeks, who listened to their oracles, but where all landholders were also soldiers, who fought their own wars
Contrast to the Greeks, who listened to their oracles, but where all landholders were also soldiers, who fought their own wars
Compare THIS in turn to the "barbarians" who presaged the Greeks, where the warriors WERE the priests and poets. Savage yeah, thought nothing of slaughtering their neighbors, taking whatever.
But which age feels more "human"—and which age feels more like livestock?
But which age feels more "human"—and which age feels more like livestock?
Maybe we are far too removed from that age to even think of return, its values are now hideous to us, they're brutes, and so forth.
But there is a spirit and freedom to it that remains, one that's been completely overwhelmed by the post-Christian priesthood, leaving us here
But there is a spirit and freedom to it that remains, one that's been completely overwhelmed by the post-Christian priesthood, leaving us here
The goal is not to restore us to the steppes, agriculture has domesticated us too much for that
But rather to remind us why the priests emerged in the first place: to guide the warriors. Without the warriors, the priests are deformed—and this is exactly where we find ourselves
But rather to remind us why the priests emerged in the first place: to guide the warriors. Without the warriors, the priests are deformed—and this is exactly where we find ourselves
