I agree with you and a number of the commenters here insofar as Caesars go, Prince in many ways is lackluster. So, why is it that men on "our side" gravitate toward him?
The answer is will and competence (we are on a sliding scale here). Erik Prince is the Caesar our mom tells us we have at home. He has the guts to say that Africa does a terrible job of ruling itself, that is why the colonialism comment originally got so much traction. It was like a polite extrapolation of the 4chan thread from the aid worker in Africa. This already distinguishes him among the facelords in the discourse.
I have yet to see anyone provide a better alternative, particularly as embodied by an individual. America is spent, morally; it has continued to close off pathways for worthy men to advance in society and so we are a pathetic mess even as turbo America continues to accelerate.
It reminds me of the Randy Newman song, "Political Science." That song, which is fifty years old, was rightly seen as terrific satire. Prince is the embodiment of the imagined idiot who sings the song. Has it ever occurred to him that American blacks might object to the attempt to enslave Africans, not to mention that 90 of the rest of the American people might not only object to it morally but understand, sanely, that our adventuring - we - will - go of the last twenty years has made the national debt the insoluble problem you wrote about recently? I don't know who is more divorced from reality, Prince and his fanboys or the Catholic Integralists.
The fact that he, or Trump, could ever be taken seriously as political figures demonstrates how infantile so many "conservatives" are. We have seen it in the massive popularity of the "Let's Go, Brandon!" slogan. We are a shockingly uneducated people, and it's worse than I thought.
It's amusing, the link between Trump and the aesthetics of "professional wrestling." I had never thought of it in that way, but I think it's a perfect comparison. I'm 71, remember when politics AND show business were profuse with men of wit and some elegance, and I've lived to see this. Disgusting.
Such an assertion is insanity, and maybe just a bad distinction. The has thing we need is Prigozhin. To say such a thing is to be completely ignorant of the man.
We would benefit from a system where a chef could rise to lead a powerful PMC in this country. The environment is totally stultifying elements that have the most potential productive output, our strength is wasted on who can diversity czar the hardest. Unfortunately, since we have had a generation of weak men as fathers men today are not just weak, they are pathetic. Until men can be put through a crucible that selects for strength and order, it is gonna be weak men create hard times all the way down.
When all around are cowering and keep low a man of 5’2” seems like a giant (Napoleon and Hitler) and that is I posit the case with Prince and Trump. If a Roosevelt or Churchill were on the scene things would appear and be very different. The problem is that people like that have been marginalised in the Liberal nondescript minority embracing non-offensiveness of today. Unfortunately the minority that we require to be in control, the steadfast courageous male hero, is not the minority that is wanted but persecuted. If civil or world war starts there will be a deafening cry and roar from the helpless masses to help pull us out of the mire but heroes will have ceased to care or exist by then. As the old Chinese curse goes “beware for what you wish as you may get it.”
I agree with you and a number of the commenters here insofar as Caesars go, Prince in many ways is lackluster. So, why is it that men on "our side" gravitate toward him?
The answer is will and competence (we are on a sliding scale here). Erik Prince is the Caesar our mom tells us we have at home. He has the guts to say that Africa does a terrible job of ruling itself, that is why the colonialism comment originally got so much traction. It was like a polite extrapolation of the 4chan thread from the aid worker in Africa. This already distinguishes him among the facelords in the discourse.
I have yet to see anyone provide a better alternative, particularly as embodied by an individual. America is spent, morally; it has continued to close off pathways for worthy men to advance in society and so we are a pathetic mess even as turbo America continues to accelerate.
I want to close by linking to Will Durant's discussion of the collapse of Persia, just after its height. First paragraph of https://erenow.org/ancient/durantcivilization/91.php
That is where we are.
It reminds me of the Randy Newman song, "Political Science." That song, which is fifty years old, was rightly seen as terrific satire. Prince is the embodiment of the imagined idiot who sings the song. Has it ever occurred to him that American blacks might object to the attempt to enslave Africans, not to mention that 90 of the rest of the American people might not only object to it morally but understand, sanely, that our adventuring - we - will - go of the last twenty years has made the national debt the insoluble problem you wrote about recently? I don't know who is more divorced from reality, Prince and his fanboys or the Catholic Integralists.
The fact that he, or Trump, could ever be taken seriously as political figures demonstrates how infantile so many "conservatives" are. We have seen it in the massive popularity of the "Let's Go, Brandon!" slogan. We are a shockingly uneducated people, and it's worse than I thought.
It's amusing, the link between Trump and the aesthetics of "professional wrestling." I had never thought of it in that way, but I think it's a perfect comparison. I'm 71, remember when politics AND show business were profuse with men of wit and some elegance, and I've lived to see this. Disgusting.
Just what we need, our own Prigozhin.
I've never heard of this guy before your post, but that's my first thought.
Such an assertion is insanity, and maybe just a bad distinction. The has thing we need is Prigozhin. To say such a thing is to be completely ignorant of the man.
We would benefit from a system where a chef could rise to lead a powerful PMC in this country. The environment is totally stultifying elements that have the most potential productive output, our strength is wasted on who can diversity czar the hardest. Unfortunately, since we have had a generation of weak men as fathers men today are not just weak, they are pathetic. Until men can be put through a crucible that selects for strength and order, it is gonna be weak men create hard times all the way down.
You? A well-informed guy, never heard of Erik Prince? His name first became notorious back in the 2000s during the Iraq War.
The two battles of Fallujah were fought because Blackwater PMCs were murdered in the city.
When all around are cowering and keep low a man of 5’2” seems like a giant (Napoleon and Hitler) and that is I posit the case with Prince and Trump. If a Roosevelt or Churchill were on the scene things would appear and be very different. The problem is that people like that have been marginalised in the Liberal nondescript minority embracing non-offensiveness of today. Unfortunately the minority that we require to be in control, the steadfast courageous male hero, is not the minority that is wanted but persecuted. If civil or world war starts there will be a deafening cry and roar from the helpless masses to help pull us out of the mire but heroes will have ceased to care or exist by then. As the old Chinese curse goes “beware for what you wish as you may get it.”