# Bronze Age Pervert (BAP) Pseudonymous far-right internet personality and author of *Bronze Age Mindset* (2018). The most influential voice in the "vitalist" current of [[the New Right]] — an anti-egalitarian, Nietzschean, aesthetically obsessed movement that disguises far-right ideology in bodybuilding culture, classical antiquity worship, and deliberately ironic prose. Widely reported to be Costin Alamariu, a Yale-educated political science PhD of Romanian origin. ## Role in the New Right BAP functions as the **cool-kid recruiter** — the voice that makes far-right ideology attractive to young men who would never read Curtis Yarvin or [[Patrick Deneen]]. *Bronze Age Mindset* reads like a fever dream of Nietzsche, ancient Greece, and bodybuilding advice, but its core argument is deeply political: modern liberal democracy produces weak, degenerate men, and only a return to aristocratic, warrior-like vitality can save civilization. The ironic tone provides plausible deniability for what is, at bottom, anti-democratic, anti-egalitarian, and race-inflected ideology. ## Key Positions - **Anti-egalitarianism:** Hierarchy is natural and beautiful. Equality is ugly and life-denying. - **Vitalism:** Physical beauty, strength, and vitality are moral goods. Modernity makes people ugly and weak. - **Classical aesthetics:** Ancient Greece and Rome as the model for human excellence (selectively idealized). - **Anti-democracy:** Democracy produces mediocrity. Greatness requires rule by the exceptional. - **Race:** BAP incorporates hereditarian and race-realist themes under aesthetic cover — "beautiful peoples" and "types" functioning as racial categories wrapped in Nietzsche. ## The Claremont Bridge The pivotal moment for BAP's influence was [[Michael Anton]]'s review of *Bronze Age Mindset* in the Claremont Review of Books (2019). Anton — a former Trump NSC official writing for the most important intellectual organ of the New Right — treated BAP's anonymous internet book as a serious intellectual contribution. This bridge between dissident-right meme culture and established conservative institutions legitimized BAP and brought his audience toward the Claremont orbit (and vice versa). ## Connections - [[Michael Anton]] — Reviewed BAP in CRB, bridging dissident-right internet ↔ Claremont - [[Claremont Institute]] — Institutional patron via CRB publication - [[Curtis Yarvin]] — Overlapping audience and anti-democratic conclusions, though different style - [[Peter Thiel]] — Adjacent network; Thiel-funded institutions engage with BAP-osphere ## See Also - [[Vitalism (New Right)]] - [[Michael Anton]] - [[Claremont Institute]] - [[Race Realism]] - [[Dark Enlightenment]] - [[The New Right Ecosystem]]