honestly the trajectory of alt right influencer Bronze Age Pervert made 100% sense to me after it leaked that he was a former Yale philosophy PhD cause that’s an environment like perfectly designed to make you lose your mind and develop wine bar adjacent trauma, become obsessed with beheading rivals with swords
The mistake these guys make is thinking they have to let their pendulum swing too far in the opposite direction like it’s totally fine to grit your teeth through some insufferable academia banter at the Yale wine bar and then get home and gorge yourself on raw meat you don’t need to lean all the way into becoming Hitler for Barbarians
Another classic of this genre is the exit letter Nazi attorney Sol Invictus mass emailed to his firm when he quit normie life to sacrifice goats and unsuccessfully run for senate
