What Do You Guys Think Of This Book:
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I tried to listen to his podcast, Caribbean Rhythms with Bronze Age Pervert, like, a year ago.
But I couldn't make sense of it. It seemed like an excursion type set of material, like Kurt Vonnegut for righties? Just riffing on a feeling. Not something I felt I could set like a brick in my self-building, but rather it's just an experience.
Which, could be cool if one were conservative, high, and had time, I guess.
BAM is interesting. Wouldn't say it's life changing or anything.
My takeaway was it's a combination of self-help book, Atlas Shrugged, clown world analysis, and 4chan shitposting intentionally written mostly in chanspeak.
I don't.
Why not?
Mostly because you didn't bother to say what this is about.
I don’t know what it’s about, that’s why I’m asking you guys 😂
What the fuck is this? What book? And why is it full of fart-sniffing pseudo-intellectual bullshit language (other than the obvious, because, wikipedia)?
“Some talk about this “madness behind things.” The real world is very different from the one that appears to us in waking life, but it’s not so different as to be entirely alien or abstract or “philosophical” in the way you might think. It’s not abstract, or made of perfect and eternal forms, it’s not somewhere else: it’s immanent, here, and within things, and it’s twisted. It doesn’t have any moral significance that can be understood by us. When Heraclitus speaks of all things being one, and all things being fire, he means this: when this actually shows itself to you, there is a demoniac and violent madness underlying things. The real world is similar to the apparent, but uncanny, devilish, disordered for us.”
Long winded, rambling version of "this is clown world. honk honk." It's just like listening to little timmy. Big Ass Pussy needed to speak plainly or shut the fuck up.
I believe it is beneficial for the right to have artistic abstract pieces of written work like this to counteract the postmodernist garbage that is the tome of contemporary academia. Therein lies its value IMO.
But that is why even liberals hate them. Eliteism is cancer and it makes people, even the ones who understand, feel stupid. Common vernacular is common for a reason.
I actually get a lot out of reading this book, and a lot of it makes sense to me. It certainly makes we think about things in different ways, which I both enjoy and find meaningful.
https://americanmind.org/salvo/wat-iz-bronze-age-mindset/