If Hannity started ranting "Ram evolves horns not through accidents of 'selection,' only learning to use them after they exist—but because he WILLS them into being! The spirit CREATES the horns that exert themselves on the world!" his weekly ratings would rival the Super Bowl
https://twitter.com/tedfrank/status/1401254799690113024
If any figure did adopt these insights, there would be nothing to directly point to—there are no specific policies that automatically come from it, or even a clearly recognizable ideology
The only difference shown would be in a new sternness of character
The only difference shown would be in a new sternness of character
NRx thinking, for instance, is very near and dear to me, it can make sense of so many things that otherwise don't, and can easily produce insights and direct policies that would create order from disorder
But it lacks a critical, you could say a "vital," aspect to it
But it lacks a critical, you could say a "vital," aspect to it
Exactly right, NRx is very useful for seeing clearly, but it's not especially charismatic, which is what stirs the ability to become combative—which is what is required to thrive, and then to protect what results
https://twitter.com/PenitentWalrus/status/1401409651514687488
Ironically, (and I think Yarvin might likely agree with this) the populist overthrow of the oligarchs necessary to pass power to a new monarch, if that's the goal, would almost certainly have to be animated by a wild BAP-type coalescing of popular spirit
Not that this is the *purpose* of BAP, at all. But if liberal democracy is the ultimate enervating force, snapping out of it will require strong men, and a strongman, inspired by something completely foreign to it.
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