Just look at them. There is a difference, but not an ideological one, not left vs. right or something like that. FDR and Schiff both count as liberals. They are on the same side. Monnet, the founder of the EU, Juncker, the leader of the EU. On the same side. This is why I paired them so.

Because yet. There is a striking difference.

FDR and Monnet were leaders. Visionary leaders. Bad vision, but vision, and more importantly, it was their own. They wanted to go somewhere and led men to go there.

Schiff and Juncker look absolutely not like leaders. More like perfect followers. Perfect bureaucrats. I don’t know what biological process manufactures bugmen – it cannot just be low T as there are low-T non-bugmen – but I think bureaucracy selects for bugmen.

Remember Orwell?

"It was curious how that beetle-like type proliferated in the Ministries: little dumpy men, growing stout very early in life, with short legs, swift scuttling movements, and fat inscrutable faces with very small eyes. It was the type that seemed to flourish best under the dominion of the Party."

Healthy men are just somehow not cut out for bureaucracy. I know a zillion female accountants and two male ones, and both were trouble. Because they were healthy men, so they tried to turn their jobs into something suitable for healthy men, which turns out to be bad accounting. Bad for bureaucracy. So they get selected out of it. And bugmen get selected in.

Yarvin is saying aesthetics is just as important in politics as politicking or violence. But he goes immediately to art. I think aesthetics begins much more up close and personal. You look at someone and you say I wanna be like that dude. Or you look at someone and you say I don’t wanna be like that guy.

The Alt-Right is IMHO primarily a such an aesthetic rebellion against processes that want to turn them into bugmen. Except that they are not calling them processes. They are calling them conspiracies, Jewish conspiracies, usually. But whatever. I think at the root it is “I don’t want to become a bugman!”

I should point out that aesthetics should not be interpreted in an oversimplified way. It is not that one dude has an attractive face and another not. Faces tell something about a person. Faces are symbols. Humans evolved a lot of facial muscles to communicate with facial expressions. Newborn babies recognize smiley faces painted on balloons. It is a vitally important source of information.

So it is not the faces, but rather what those faces mean.

Bugman is a better term than cuckface or numale because it is not merely about masculinity or testosterone. There is something else. Uniformity, lacking individuality, being a good little cog in an ant hill -like bureaucratic machine.

Remember when E. O. Wilson, the father of sociobiology and top expert on ants said socialism is a great idea, but for the wrong species: ants, not humans. Well, then let’s just turn humans into ants. This seems to be happening, although I think more by process than by conspiracy: State, NGOs, Academia, Media, and Woke Capital merging into one bureaucracy. It all boils down to education, really, why does the difference between public and private matter anymore if the education system produces the same exact bugmen, who will become the bureaucrats of the State and the bureaucrats of Woke Corporations? This is why libertarianism is dying. Because Burnham was right, there is a Managerial Revolution taking over both State and Woke Capital. Bugmanagerial Revolution.

Look when my state-owned tramway flies the rainbow flag in June and my privately owned grocery store has a rainbow flag on the wall year round, I don’t really see the difference anymore. It is just all The System.

But understand that rainbow flag correctly. It may have been a brave revolutionary act in 1970 to put it up somewhere. But in 2019, it is nothing but the expression of the deepest conformism. The perfect bureaucrat is the perfect conformist.

It is wrong to understand Wokeness as simply Libs going very Lib, very Left. That is just one half of it, bureaucracy is the other half. Let me try to explain that because it seems to me people are mostly just noticing the first half, that SJWs are going SJWing. The other half matters at least as much.

Remember that story when the Sexual Revolution has put a painting of a naked woman on the wall at some university and now a Feminist professor had it removed? She being very Woke is not the whole story, it is just half of it. If she, alone, would have had the power to decide what painting to replace it with, maybe she would have found something interesting.

But what happens instead that there is a bugman bureaucracy and the input directive “Don’t put up anything there that could possibly offend any student!” is given to the machine and you can bet your ass that they will either find the most boring thing possible, or just nothing. Cancel Culture is Cancel Culture, not Replace Culture for this reason.

So it is not just the Woke. The Woke, due to having political pull, are blowing a wind. It might not even be a very strong wind. But the other half is utterly conformist bugmen in bureaucratic machines absolutely cannot do anything else but just to go with the prevailing wind.