Big Brain Book Reviews: Bronze Age Mindset

A Book For Those Who Know That Modern Society Is Broken Beyond Repair

Over the holidays, I loaded up on books and I plan to keep reading a book every couple weeks depending on the length. I’ll be writing them up when I have the time, but I think I can probably pump out a couple each month. My first one was on Turtles All The Way Down, a book on the history of vaccines. It’s not something I would have read before the COVID circus started in 2020, but I have learned a lot on the topic in the last couple years.

One of the other things I have started paying closer attention to in the last couple years is the so-called right wing. I deleted all of my social media in 2021, and started a Twitter account after three months of a social media detox. I follow a bunch of different accounts, but it’s basically a mix of shit posters, right wing and conspiracy accounts, and investment focused accounts. One of the books (and an author) that constantly constantly comes up on social media accounts I follow is Bronze Age Mindset, written by Bronze Age Pervert (BAP).

Some posts shit on it while others talk about many different topics discussed in the book. It’s only fitting that two of the most interesting books I have read recently are written by anonymous authors in the age of censorship we live in. Eventually I decided I had to read the book for myself.

Society Is Broken

I’m not going to go too far into each topic discussed, but one of the things the author is how society is broken today. “Youth and beauty are universally hated in almost all human societies in history.” The people in charge today are old, disgusting, and promote the ugly and perverse. He talks about the great men of the past, and the changes of society over time, and the problems with modern society.

One of things he talks about is how society has to break young men so women and older generations can retain their influence and control. He talks about the education system and other ways society does this, but I would trade in everything I have for the opportunity to grow up in the 50s or 60s instead of the last two decades. There are a lot of reasons for this, but America has been heading downhill at an increasing pace since then for various reasons. That is a completely different topic that I’m sure I’ll write about at some point, but modern society looks like a dystopia to me, and it looks worse the longer I look. One of the other things he talks about is the difference between men and women, something that is starting to become obvious despite feminism’s push for men and women are equal, and other ridiculous ideas.

Men & Women

He talks about great men and philosophers of the past, but his basic idea is that men desire adventure and conquest, something that society beats out of boys from a young age today. One of the things that also comes up is the role of women in society and I think it’s worth quoting the whole section because he points out what should be obvious to most people who have an understanding of history.

Giving “freedom” to women - an impossibility. With the liberation of women in the 19th century, the West has given itself an infection from which it can’t recover without the most terrible convulsions and the most thorough purgative measures. What the “freedom” of women means in practice is the domination of mankind by the demagogues who can rally the lower orders of the spirit. Because there is no world in which “the women” can act as a political unit. Liberation of women means freedom and power for financiers, lawyers, purveyors of comforts in and outside of government, employers who whore out your wife and daughters. It has been the greatest weakening and self-own a civilization has ever visited on itself. But in the end is this so different from democracy as such? Yes… because the “liberation” of women makes democracy into a terminal disease… one that doesn’t just end a particular government, but the civilization.

Democracy is always touted as the ideal form of government, but in the 21st Century, it looks like a mirage. When you take a closer look under the hood, we basically have an oligarchy run by the weakest and oldest generation in American history. I would much rather live in a monarchy where the ruler has the country’s best interests in mind instead of this joke of a government we have today. We aren’t going to repeal the 19th Amendment anytime soon, but whatever comes after the collapse will probably look a lot different, and my guess is that men will lead society again sooner or later. I just hope it’s run by younger generations instead of the weak old generation that should be rotting in a retirement home instead of making decisions that will impact future generations.

Conclusion

If you’re a man in your twenties or thirties, and you feel an equal mix of disgust and rage when you look at the sclerotic society we live in today, you will probably enjoy this book. If you think society is fine, women should keep voting, things will get better if we just vote harder, then this book isn’t for you.

The biggest takeaway I got from the book is that the current society needs to burn to the ground before we can move forward. It’s the accelerationist idea that things have to get worse before they get better, so we might as well just speed things along so we can get to fixing things up after things fall apart. Anytime I hear someone talking about politics with any level of optimism (they’re always older), I just tell them that it’s too late to vote our way out of this shitshow.

Some people I talk to think I’m too pessimistic, but I have hope for certain things. I think it’s a pragmatic approach, but we will see. One of things he talks about is that our only hope is that a great man (or several great men) with charisma will take power in coming generations to change things after society starts to break apart. I have seen more talk of an American “Caesar” on social media, and I think it’s only a matter of time. I just hope it happens before we pass the point of no return.

It’s a weird book, and a tough read at times because it bounces from topic to topic without a linear plan, but I enjoyed reading it. The politically incorrect topics from race, religion, men and women, war and other miscellaneous topics kept me hooked from start to finish. It’s not a book for everyone, but you might learn a thing or two from reading Bronze Age Mindset.