Angry young men formed a market for once-discredited aristocratic ideologies.

Evidence

As angry men looked for ways to unmoor society from its liberal tenets of inclusivity, a market emerged for a range of once-discredited ideologies. While Peterson introduced young men to Jungian mysticism, the New Right found inspiration in the aristocratic, antidemocratic rhetoric of Romanian American Costin Alamariu, better known as Bronze Age Pervert (BAP). His philosophy, gilded with racism and misogyny, championed a return to classical Greek ideals of the strong dominating the weak. “The only right government,” he declared, “is military government, and every other form is both hypocritical and destructive of true freedom.” — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 803

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the manosphere/Peterson passage at 801 and the broader ‘death of the sellout’ collapse of subculture into reactionary politics that structures the whole book. — connects to: Younger generations proved more willing than older ones to convert discontent into public anger. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2127