“Git thar fustest with the mostest.”

BAP-ists are younger than the Anton crowd. BAP in some form is the future, if we have one, and I am older than Anton.

From Michael Anton’s review of Bronze Age Mindset:

“At the upper reaches, among the higher animals (BAP is relentlessly hierarchical), what [life] wants is mastery of ‘owned space.’ ‘Owned space’ is the most important concept introduced in Part One and the key to understanding the rest of the ‘exhortation,’ if not necessarily the rest of the book. BAP argues that life, fundamentally, is a ‘struggle for space.’ All life seeks to develop its powers and master the surrounding matter and space to the maximum extent possible. For the lower species, this simply means mass reproduction and enlarging habitat. For the higher animals, it means controlling terrain, dominating other species, dominating the weaker specimens within your own species, getting first dibs on prey and choice of mates, and so on. BAP sees no fundamental distinction between living in harmony with nature and mastering nature. All animals seek to master their environments to the extent that they can, and the nature of man, or of man at his best—the highest man—is to seek to master nature itself. Not in the Aristotelian sense of understanding the whole, nor in the Baconian sense of ‘the relief of man’s estate’ via technology and plenty; more to assert and exert his own power. Indeed, BAP posits an inner kinship between the genuine scientist and the warrior; he calls the former ‘monsters of will.’”