Might is Right

“this is part two uh of our two-part episode on Arthur Desmond, author of Might is Right, the book that inspired the Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting, and a bunch of other stuff.”

“Might is right was originally published under the title The Survival of the Fittest. It first existed, as I stated, as a 25-page pamphlet Desmond printed out while he lived in Sydney.”

“I'm going to read how the the book's introduction starts. In this arid wilderness of steel and stone, I raise up my voice that you may hear. To the east and to the west, I beckon.”

“Now, all all that said, like as much [ __ ] as they're in there, there are like pieces of of of stuff in here that like I find compelling, or at least that I think I in an earlier, dumber stage of my development, I would have found compelling.”

“We're tired to death of equality. Like that's a major through line in the book of just like the evils of equality. Um and yeah.”

“And he also repeats himself constantly. Every chapter he repeats every single point that he makes in the entire book. Um, which makes it a slog to read, but if you're not good at reading, um, it makes it really easy to get the point driven home to you.”

“Now, might is right is on balance extremely repetitive. Uh Desmond does attempt to site history and uh science in his arguments, but he never goes into any meaningful detail because he clearly only has a shallow understanding for anything that he references.”

“Well, he's he's super pro cannibalism. This is the most pro cannibalism book I've read. No, I didn't run into a poem recently. Not like figure of speech cannibalism like let's no literal like he talks about cannibalism for pages”

“Um, and he's clearly Do we know why he chose to publish this under a a pseudonym other than it's absolutely full of [ __ ] But it doesn't seem like he thinks that.”

“Arthur Desmond's attitude towards women is another area where Oh, good. His writing seems virtually identical to angry posts on 4chan or Reddit. Uh, yeah. So, I'm going to read a little bit of that now, Jamie.”

“You would not be wrong to see Ragnar Redbeard as the prototype of the men's rights activist or the incel movement. Absolutely. Uh yeah. Yeah. I I suspect that today he'd be at the very least a very successful grifter in that world. Yeah. For example, near the end of the book is this chapter subtitle.”

“Um generally while someone on Facebook was trying to sell me like leather goods and axes and [ __ ] Um [laughter] because manhood has been very successfully capitalized, which there's a funny bit to that here. So, I'm going to read a quote from that chapter on manhood is demonized.”

“The more you read might is right, the more convinced you become that among other things, Arthur Desmond was the founding father of all incelss. And this quote, I think, embodies that more than any other.”

“Don't you understand? I do now. Now that I've read Might as Right, and that's the last normal quote from the book we're going to read. I do have one last piece of Ma's right to read and it's a poem.”

“And no, I mean, this you could argue that might is right is kind of a shitty zen. Yeah, but it has way more impact than that. Like, it's uh it's we're we're about to get into how this spread outside of the shitty Zen community”

“Um, now most of these seem to have just been reprints of pieces of Might is Right. He published The Eagle and the Serpent in 1898, which was just a reprint of chapter 6.”

“In 1903, he published Might is Right, the newest edition of Survival of the Fittish with that title. Um, he wrote another book, Rival Caesars, which flopped.”

“Now, many scholars will claim with significant evidence that Anton Levy plagiarized huge chunks of might is right in order to write the Satanic Bible, which is his most well-known uh piece um which he published in 1969.”

“I didn't go deep enough, but uh Leave did um admit to basically plagiarizing Might is right. And he actually wrote a forward to a reprinting of Might is Right.”

“He sought to preserve the things he found so inspiring in Desmond's book without including all of the [ __ ] Quote, "It is, despite my enthusiasm for the book, inaccurate to state that might as Wright was the inspiration for the Church of Satan.”

“Um, and like that's kind of what Might is right is is it's like the worst parts of the male id published by a low rent poet and former labor organizer. That's how I would describe the book.”

“We don't know how or where he first came across Might is Right. The book is available for free online, and I ran into it numerous times over the last year in posts filled with suggested reading material on 8chan's poll board.”

“And the post included a bunch of quotes from Redbeard's work, but it also included an image macro with a picture of a Viking that said, "Dear conquered peoples, the history of humanity is one of constant conflict and competition for resources like land, food, water, and women.”

“He created an Instagram account just a few days before the shooting and posted about Ragnar Redbeard's Might is Right. It's clear to me that he hoped people would be inspired by his shooting to read the book.”

“And then he posted, "Read might is right by Ragnar Redbeard. Why overcrowd towns and pave more open space to make room for hordes of mystos and Silicon Valley white twats?"”

“So this this guy Ragnar Redbeard, who wrote this book, Might is Right. Obviously, it was a pseudonym. And we don't 100% know who wrote Might is Right, but we're about 90% sure it was Arthur Desmond.”

“One of the things that's interesting about might is right, which we're going to cover the book in a lot of detail in part two. He kind of predicted 30% of the internet. Um, and not the good 30%.”

“Might is right or survival of the fittest by Ragnar Redbeard. This is an historical and scientific reindication of the grand old Anglo-Saxon war philosophy. They can take who have the power”

“What was the um manifesto or the book that you've been reading? It was by by a guy named Ragnar Redbeard and it's one of a number of books that appears regularly in full.”