Omnipotentblog never
heard of Andrew Tate until he got banned. By literally everyone apparently, all
at once. In a recent interview, he, of course, portrayed himself in the best
light, saying he promotes all good things for men and loves women, puppies, and
kittens. The truth is more complicated, as he is apparently kind of a jerk. Founder
of “Hustlers University,” he teaches young men to be Alpha Males, which means
having lots of money, beautiful women, and fast cars. Now, most young men would
probably admit those things will not truly make them happy, but they want to
test the theory first, just to make sure.
The
Jerk Sage
Some of the things Andrew
Tate has said are unquestionably cringy, especially some of his statements concerning
rape. But one of them is, despite his insensitivity, is defensible. For
instance, he stated that women who put themselves in risky situations where
they get raped, deserve some of the blame. Now, rape is clearly so
devastating and evil that to say a woman deserves it any way seems completely
cruel. However, it should also be without controversy to say that women must
understand some men are indeed prone to rape, and it might be wise not to make
one’s self vulnerable. One should not get fall-down drunk at parties with men
who enjoy parties with fall-down drunk women. In fact, women should not get
fall-down drunk at parties consisting solely of monks, gay men, eunuchs, and 12-year-old
boys. (Which might raise other concerns, but I digress.) One small,
controversial study
showed between 10 and 30% of men admitted they would rape a woman if they could
get away with it. Crude and pithy, the more controversial he sounds, the more
his bank account swells. Yet, in between saying things that make woke ears
bleed, he gives good advice about not surrounding yourself with toxic people,
working hard, and conquering depression, which he states is often a function of
self-pity, and is therefore a choice. While depression is certainly a real and
serious illness necessitating professional treatment, it is also frequently a
spiritual disease indeed caused by poor choices and self-pity. Both are true.
Tate has millions of
followers. In the space of about 5 minutes, he was banned by nearly all major
social media companies and payment processers. The speed and uniformity of these
actions should frighten you. He never actually said anything inherently evil.
Crude? Sure, but have you been on the internet lately? I would assert that his offensiveness
was merely a pretext to ban him. In an excellent piece from 2013, dissident
feminist Camille Paglia discusses
the left’s attacks on masculinity and the idea of gender itself. “What you’re
seeing is how a civilization commits suicide.” Paglia is a lesbian feminist. Tate
is not. Paglia is a serious intellectual. Tate is not. But one thing they agree
on is that masculinity is important, and there are aspects of it which deserve
to be honored. To our cultural gatekeepers, of course, THIS. MUST. BE CRUSHED.
Permit me to state in
simple terms what is happening here: Leaders of one religion point out a
suffering minority and challenge the rest of society to help and honor this
group. Because the subject of this suffering is gender confusion, the leaders
of this religion argue that to help this suffering minority, the rest of society
must radically alter (destroy) traditional beliefs about gender (and everything
else, bigot.) The use of this suffering minority is a red herring, of course,
as what they have always wanted was to bring men down to size because of their
historical dominance in the family, work place, and centers of power. In their
goal of radical egalitarianism, these leaders want to sap maleness and
femaleness of their natural distinctions. No male, no female, no hierarchy.
Voila!
(Honestly, I’m confused about the second one.)
I read two pieces
recently, which I highly recommend. “Bronze Age Pervert” is the
anonymous author of “Bronze Age Mindset”, a book that explains and extolls the
virtues of the Alt Right. While the Pepe the Frog people deserve to be shunned,
IMO, from polite society because they are unapologetically racist, there is
enough of them that should make serious people pay attention. The Alt Right may
be bad, but it is not crackpot. While BAP’s writing is the coarse, prankster
style of Alt Right’s largely young and male adherents, he is due more than the
dismissive mockery his book received. He is extremely well read, historically
literate, and logical. Michael Anton of the conservative Claremont Institute treats
the Alt Right with due seriousness. A lucid and thorough analysis that was a
joy to read, he frames the movement as springing from the wells of Nietzsche. It
is more than that, but BAP largely agrees.
BAP speaks of the “eliminationist” rhetoric towards the white male. Maybe
“eliminationist” is a bit hyperbolic, but the examples he uses are indeed
outrageous. Some on the left openly state white males, writ large, are evil. Yet,
unlike most who recognize that the outrageousness of the anti-white hatred
(real consequences aside) will not actually result in white genocide because
the rhetoric is largely coming from virtue signaling white women and beta males,
The Alt Right simply takes them at their word, saying, “Well, if “whiteness” is
bad and must be subdued, then what choice do I have but to stand with my team
and fight?”
Friederich Nietzsche
1844-1900
To oversimplify Nietzsche’s
large and complex body of thought, if there is a philosophy that celebrates
masculinity, strength, and power, it is his. Nietzsche had great influence on
the Nazis and their ideas of the ideal human. The concept of the “Ubermensche” (Superman)
has great appeal to men, boys, and nations, who feel cut down, weakened, and
humiliated. Germany felt demeaned and bullied by the Treaty of Versailles’ harsh
reparations after WWI. To fight back, they hyperinflated the money supply,
causing social chaos and radicalism to flourish in the midst of the obvious
failures of democracy. Many of today’s young men hear the message loud and
clear that the only moral thing for them to do is bend the knee, relinquish
their desire for success, and become psychological eunuchs. They must reject
their masculine energy, which calls them to build, compete, and win in life.
The left blames masculinity for war, rape, racism, and violence of all kinds, and
for a people who tend to think that reality itself is plastic, is it not a
stretch for them to believe they can simply end masculinity altogether? Men all
over the world are hearing that their very nature is the cause of all the
world’s evil. They hear that success itself is bad, that the only solution is
total equity, no one more successful or special than any other. To survive, some
men meekly submit. Others, tired of their spiritual hunger and emptiness, begin
to question everything. They listen to voices saying they can be great and
powerful, and nobody can stop them, that they can have money, and Ferraris, and
lots and lots of sex with hot women. They can be Ubermensche. Nietzsche is
back.
