Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2019-10-08
Books mentioned on Part One: Ragnar Redbeard: The Patron Saint of Toxic Masculinity
In episode 88, Robert is joined by Jamie Loftus to discuss Ragnar Redbeard, the socialist turned Proto-Nazi who inspired a mass shooting. FOOTNOTES: 1.
Robert Evans discussed Might is Right by Ragnar Redbeard, Max Stirner: The Ego and His Own by Max Stirner, and Might Is Right Or Survival of the Fittest by Ragnar Redbeard and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Might is Right
Might is Right by Ragnar Redbeard is an infamous late-nineteenth-century text that promotes extreme social Darwinism, egoism, and the rejection of egalitarian morality.
Discussed“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?"”
Where to get it
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Max Stirner: The Ego and His Own
Max Stirner: The Ego and His Own by Max Stirner is a foundational philosophical text of egoist anarchism that explores radical individualism and the rejection of societal constructs.
Discussed“There's this guy Max Sterner who's like probably the most well-known egoist philosopher. People on there's a big chunk of people on Twitter who love his stuff. Sterner wrote a book called The Ego and His Own.”
Where to get it
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Might Is Right Or Survival of the Fittest
Discussed“During his last months in Australia, Arthur Desmond started to publish a 25-page tract, The Survival of the Fittest, which outlines some of his new ideas. In it, he wrote about man's desire to destroy”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“He settled in Chicago and almost immediately published a book, The Survival of the Fittest, in 1896. We actually have one of the newspaper ads for this tome.”
Ad read Might is Right
“So, this is actually for a later version of the book when he changed the title to might is right, but it's still a good note to end on. So, I'm going to read I want I want Sophie to show you that ad”