This past week has seen an uproar in college protests over the Israel/Gaza issue. This issue has indeed been simmering for a few weeks now, if not several months. However, something has changed. It’s an election year. Being an election year, there will be increased political tensions. The charged climate has manifested itself most clearly on campus, especially Ivy League campuses. The aesthetic of white frat boys waving the American flag in the face of obese black women is an appealing one because aesthetic victories are so few and far between against such merciless and implacable foes.
The general thinking has been thus: “If bad, why look cool?”. This physiognomic approach, whilst working most of the time, is not enough. This judgmental approach based solely on physical fitness and the “rule of cool” probably works ninety percent of the time. It does not, however, work in all cases.
The “physiognomy never lies” attitude towards things is absolutely a correct attitude to take, but as I laid out in my article for the OGC, we must beware Black Rifle Coffee Company nationalism. Frat boy nationalism possibly works in a similar manner as BRCC nationalism. Muscles, and overt masculine behavior, are a way to mask being a cuck on all the important issues of the day. It’s the same principle, really. Flying the American flag is not a true indicator of being /ourguys/. What I am trying to say is that having the physiognomy is a necessary, but insufficient condition to be on our side of things.
To make a Pokemon reference, you must think in terms of evolution of a Pokemon. What is the evolved form of the Frat Bro? A Frat Bro just wants to party, have a good time with the bros, drink, and grab some T&A. You must think of the frat bro as the unevolved form of the Grill Dad. The Grill Dad just wants to grill. He doesn’t think about complex things. He doesn’t pay attention to politics, except when Fox News is telling him it is time to be angry at the DemoKKKrats. He is a normie. The Grill Dad is the Norwooding, declining testosterone, mature version of the frat bro. Neither the Frat Bro or the Grill Dad actively seek out, and engage with, information. They both passively receive it from authority. They do what they are told. They actually are not temperamentally true rebels, or contrarians in any way.
Munchlax evolves into Snorlax through the power of friendship.
This is made all the clearer with certain Fox News interviews. The obvious normiecon adjacent politics make the current incidents on campus seem similar to 2015-2016 era college protests, with violence largely coming from the left, and equally vigorous (re)action from the right. This should tell us that while the world has irrevocably changed since the politics of almost a decade ago, the overlying structure remains the same. The problems then have not truly been solved. Whilst we do not hate patriotism, it is all too easily manipulated. The simple patriotism of the normiecon or political centrist cannot be relied upon in any meaningful way. But just as we do not hate simple patriotism or unthinking love of the flag, we do not hate the normie. The normie does what they are told. They are innocent, normal “hobbits” who don’t deserve what is happening to them. They simply are reacting to a stimulus. That stimulus is the overarching stifling nature of campus life post mid 2010’s. They might even be said to be partially rebelling against the longhouse, in a way.
So inspiring have the Frat Bros been, there have even been Gofundme’s set up for the purpose of throwing these fine young gentlemen a Rager. However, apparently, this fundraiser was set up by neocons. If confirmed, that is for the worse. We don’t want the Frat Bros of UNC Chapel Hill Pi Kappa Phi being patronized by neocons. Of course, this is hopefully not the case for all incidents across the nation. This could very well be an isolated incident being picked up by neocons among many other concurrent incidents which they are not involved in. Only time will tell. The frat bros have a second question to answer. Not only must they pass the “If bad, why look cool?” test, they must also run the “if based, why act cringe?” gauntlet.
But even if broad neocon involvement is confirmed, the fact remains that while these young gentlemen are very likely intelligent, the question is one of judgement. These young men are too grug brained, too unaware of the desperate times we face to be held up as leaders. They must undergo some kind of process to be brought to our level. They must be willing to learn. Their youthful confidence and naiveté must be broken down and rebuilt in a similar fashion to military training if they are to get anywhere in “this thing of ours”. They must understand the consequences of ill-timed, undisciplined action. They must understand that others seek to manipulate their best impulses. To paraphrase Bowden, right wing ideas are not simply about flag waving and baiting a few sheboons. These young men might be able to do a bit, but Frat Bros are born to be what they are. We should celebrate what they, and we, were born to be.
Sorry Frat Bros, you may pull pussy, but the nerds shall inherit the earth.
This is a great difference between introverted nerds and the frat bros. To me, their attitude of confidence might get them very far, but they fail in paying sufficient attention to detail, and especially structure. They ignore the terrain; the lay of land, as it were. They will be easily led into a trap due to their overconfidence. Willful grugs are not intelligent or well-educated enough! They do not want to learn; they do not wish to see. They are not Odinic, nor Tyrric either. They are Thoric. Only those of us able and willing to be “cultured thugs” have the capacity for the leadership of our people. We must believe in ourselves alone.