Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2023-08-19
Books mentioned on It Could Happen Here Weekly 96
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Robert Evans discussed Democracy - the God That Failed by Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Bronze Age Mindset by Bronze Pervert, and Nostromo by Joseph Conrad.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Democracy - the God That Failed
Democracy - the God That Failed by Hans-Hermann Hoppe is a controversial libertarian treatise that critiques democratic systems and argues in favor of alternative governance models, including monarchy.
Discussed“Um Curtis comes out of uh yeah, gets into the tech industry and he writes a book kind of while he's he's working and like he's a he's a founder and stuff for some company. He writes a book in 2001 titled Democracy, the God that failed.”
Where to get it
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Bronze Age Mindset
Bronze Age Mindset by Bronze Pervert is a viral 2018 text that promotes a vitalist, hyper-masculine philosophy inspired by antiquity while critiquing modern egalitarian culture.
Discussed“The prime repository of his philosophy is his 2018 book, Bronze Age Mindset, which was at one point uh in the top 150 books on Amazon. Um a former Trump White House official told Politico in 2019, "If you're a young person intelligent, adjacent in some way to the right, it's very likely you would have heard of it."”
Where to get it
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Nostromo
Discussed“So, it was Joseph Conrad's novel, Nostromo, that that this Atlantic writer and uh Bronze Age Pervet both loved. Yeah. Yeah. Here, I'll read you another [ __ ] paragraph. For many years, we corresponded.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“I found a post by a user named Siege, which is of course a reference to a book about carrying out acts of terrorism in order to bring about a white ethnostate.”