Costin Alamariu's 'Selective Breeding' and the Birth of Peter Thiel's Vampire Elites

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It’s been a while since a book really drew me in like Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy did, and it was worth getting the new edition.

I read much of it years ago, but trying to do so with what was literally a bootlegged PDF version of the original dissertation was less than enjoyable. Still, it left an impression; I knew it was something I would have to come back to seriously at a certain point.

Before we get started, I suppose we should briefly discuss the obvious: the author’s identity. Put simply, Costin Alamariu is Bronze Age Pervert. This has been known for at least several years by most observers and even longer by others. Alamariu’s identity as Bronze Age Pervert (BAP) has been written about at length in dozens and dozens of various outlets, forums, Twitter posts, and comment sections. However, if you’ve been living under a rock for the past ten years and need some kind of explanation for all this, I’d recommend you read about it here or here.

That being said, I don’t feel the need to unpack the BAP lore or really discuss this online persona at all. It’s not particularly relevant to what we are doing here, and it’s a dead horse that’s been beaten about a thousand times at this point. Suffice to say none of it really matters; everything Costin did as BAP is relatively unimportant (even his role as a prominent Thielverse caporegime), especially compared to what he did in Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy (which, by contrast, was truly something special and unique).

‘Selective Breeding’ is the caviar to the soggy McDouble that was ‘Bronze Age Mindset.’ The latter of which, some unforgettably cutting and hilarious sections aside, can largely be understood as a kind of ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ for middle aged sexpats.

[Fwiw the best parts of ‘BAM’ are better consumed via neros77’s Ocean Drive/Golgo 13 mashup which can be viewed above and is an altogether superior work]

While it may have begun as merely another tedious PhD dissertation, at some point ‘Selective Breeding’ became something far more than that. It does not read like an ordinary dissertation, something Costin notes with pride in the new foreword he wrote for the new edition, now published in book form. He crows that fellow Straussian Harvey Mansfield told him privately that his dissertation was ‘full of sparks and fire,’ and it’s hard to disagree regardless of what you think about Costin personally or about his political project.

The quick and dirty version of ‘selective breeding’ is Costin’s contention that it is only with the discovery of the concept of ‘nature’ (that is to say, in particular, the extremely immanent and biological reality of breeding itself) by the Greeks that philosophy can be ‘discovered’ in the first place. This discovery requires as a prerequisite the usurpation of the primitive proto-communist ‘nomos’ that rules tyrannically over all primitive societies. This requires either the arrival of a separate race of conquerors (who are usually some kind of nomadic steppe warriors) who arrive and effectively enslave the more sedentary and less warlike population, in the long run turning them effectively into serfs, which they then lord over as a new nobility. A nobility, it must be added, that perpetuates and refines itself through both perfecting the art of war as well as practicing the selective breeding of its members in a ruthless pursuit of bodily excellence. It is only within such a caste of human beings that any kind of worthwhile existence (including that of the genuine philosopher) can be found (as opposed to the contemptible state of ‘mere life’ experienced by the vast majority of humanity). Furthermore, both Socrates and Nietzsche are aware of this and endorse this truth (the former esoterically and the latter exoterically).

Of course there’s much more to it than this, and it’s important that we dive a bit deeper on many of these points, as they are both interesting and extremely relevant to the topic of Gay Space Fascism (the primary, though not exclusive, focus of this substack).

The book is divided into five sections: a preface, the first chapter detailing the anthropological origins of ‘nomos’ and aristocracy via James Fraser’s Golden Bough, a chapter on Pindar’s use of ‘nature,’ a chapter discussing Plato’s Gorgias that uses a Straussian reading of the text to conclude that Socrates actually agrees with Callicles, and a final concluding chapter on Nietzsche.

I originally intended to try and tackle three of the five chapters—the first two and then the last—in depth while passing over the middle two. While interesting, both the chapter on Pindar and Gorgias are somewhat unnecessary and likely of interest only to specialists in the field of classics and/or Greek philosophy. Costin’s argument concerning Gorgias is extremely provocative, perhaps too provocative to actually convince the reader of its primary claim. It is, in my view at least, essentially a way for him to show off his erudition while also mocking the figure of Socrates (whom he transparently loathes). A figure, in Costin’s view, whose arguments in Gorgias are so bad and absurd as to force one to conclude he must have really secretly agreed with his opponent.

However, after finding myself 6000 words deep in writing this review I decided it was probably better to just stop there and perhaps come back to a more detailed review of the text itself another time. The new preface and introduction are jarring and full of detail themselves, in a way they ‘give the game away’ as Costin is super explicit about his intentions and beliefs in them. Therefore, for my purposes, aside from the short generalizations I already provided, I don’t think it’s necessary to go into detail on them just yet. Instead I will focus on the remarkable preface and introduction and explain how their claims and ideas connect to the broader project of GSF and, in fact, are foundational to them.

Preface & Introduction: Compassion and Contempt for the Men of Western Modernity

The new edition of ‘Selective Breeding’ contains both a preface and an introduction, both of which are worth reading and contain important clarifications about the author’s actual intent and motivation.

Costin is extremely clear in both the preface and the introduction on several main points. Firstly, he claims that while he has studied extensively with Straussians over the years, he himself is not a Straussian. This, I believe, is the truth. Though he then attempts to defend them against the regular accusations made against them from both the Left and the Right (Shadia Drury and Paul Gottfried, respectively) in a way that is less than convincing.

Regarding the usual accusation leveled against them (that they are scheming nihilists angling for political power), he remarks that ‘…many prominent Straussians themselves, while disputing these accusations, do not actually dispute them. They enjoy the notoriety and the implication that they must be very powerful operators or Machiavellian eminences-grises. This is much better than the thought that they are an ineffectual ladies’ reading group. They are so powerful that they’ve been almost completely eliminated from the few positions they once held at prominent universities.’

I mean…come on now. While this may be true for a few of Costin’s acquaintance in the academy, this is certainly not true in general, and he knows it. This is all the more absurd in the wake of Trump’s second term and the catbird seat the Claremont Institute (and thus many of Costin’s Straussian allies) now find themselves sitting in. Straussians haven’t had this much influence since the Bush administration (let’s hope that influence doesn’t lead, once again, to the same results).

Later, in the middle of the preface, he then proceeds to drop a bomb on his readers, seemingly out of nowhere, in many ways ‘giving away the game,’ so to speak. Reading the preface and introduction is jarring, especially if you have already read the text itself, as Costin is extremely explicit about what exactly it is he is up to. This is a major departure from the text itself, written as it was as a dissertation at a liberal university and in an explicitly Straussian format. Thus, reading the new edition chronologically is a bit like watching a magic show where the magician tells the audience beforehand, in detail, exactly how all of the tricks he’s about to show them work before proceeding with the performance itself.

In this sense, Costin truly has abandoned whatever Straussian heritage he may have had, as clearly stating one’s actual beliefs is a cardinal sin in Straussian practice. Particularly when one’s beliefs are as ‘exotic’ as Costin’s are. This is all the more interesting given that it now seems stupidly obvious that many of the beliefs, particularly those concerning human inequality, articulated by Costin in ‘Selective Breeding’ appear to have now been adopted by many if not most of the Jaffaoids at Claremont (even if only still somewhat implicitly).

Previously, the old ‘esoteric secret’ of the Straussians (of both the ‘East’ and ‘West’ coast varieties) was simply atheism. That is to say, it was known that Straussians viewed religion and, in particular, Christianity as a necessary noble lie that, while obviously not true, was still necessary for American society to function and served to stave off the ever-present threat of nihilism. A threat all the more dangerous in a vacant, consumerist society like America’s. Thus, Straussian practitioners were expected to publicly praise and defend the ‘Judeo-Christian’ religion in public, while privately, only in the presence of other ‘lovers of the truth,’ they could affirm the ‘reality’ of the matter.

However, the new ‘esoteric secret,’ at least of the West Coast set, appears to simply be that of human inequality (in no small part due to the influence of Costin himself). A ‘secret’ that is particularly problematic for them to reveal publicly, as it is a direct refutation of everything ever taught by Harry Jaffa.

Coming back to the ‘bombshell,’ though, Costin goes on to explicitly lay out exactly what his project was (and is) about in an ultimate sense:

That the Western philosophical tradition as it came down to our time, I mean in the form of the Platonic-Socratic tradition; or what Nietzsche called the Socratic-Alexandrian scientific civilization… I mean that it was born in an act of rhetorical obfuscation and conservative cowardice: this is one claim of this dissertation. I don’t explicitly lay it out; much like the Greeks themselves, because I couldn’t. Critias, Socrates’ student, was the Hitler of the ancient Greek world. He and his friends established a regime based on atheistic biologism so to speak; on “Sparta radicalized,” a eugenic antinomian dictatorship. He was maybe what Hitler’s most hysterical detractors claim of him today. Critias killed more Athenians in his short rule than died in the decades of the war with Sparta. He expelled almost everyone from the city, and burned the docks, which were the perceived source of democratic power…

…It doesn’t matter if someone like Critias represented a distortion of philosophy as it existed at the time, or a distortion of the idea of nature as biology and eugenics. The reaction against him, and the eagerness of other prominent members of his “tribe” to distance themselves from him caused an equal distortion in the opposite direction. And so Western philosophy was born in an atmosphere of hysteria and disavowal of a “Hitler,” just as much as there is hysteria and distortion around notions of biology and nature in our own time because of the events of 80 years ago.

And there we have it! Simply put, Costin’s contention is that the entire Platonic-Socratic tradition has been, from the start, a kind of conspiracy to suppress the ‘truth’ of atheistic biologism (which, for Costin, is the sole and exclusive truth of human existence). The entire metaphysical tradition of Platonism, especially the later development of Christianity, in this reading is merely an elaborate method of obscuring this reality via otherworldly mysticism in the name of preventing the abominations of Critias from occurring again.

Likewise, Costin also argues that the modern western world has taken a similar track in regards to the ‘realities’ of biology and nature in the wake of Hitler.

Both claims are provocative and audacious, but if the first is quite the bombastic reach, the second is, at least partially, true. The modern West, as we know it, was formed as a reaction to the second world war. This isn’t even a controversial point really, but what Costin is really talking about here is the complete abandonment of so-called ‘race science’ and eugenics in the wake of the end of the war. Both things that were widely accepted and hailed as progressive and futuristic before the war throughout the western world, things that only faced disfavored much later due to the Third Reich’s actions in their name in the 30’s and 40’s.

Though something notably left unsaid by Costin is any kind of real case as to why those following in the wake of Critias and Hitler were, well, wrong at all in their (alleged) diagnosis of the dangers inherent in the atheistic biologism Costin loves so much. In both cases it led, seemingly inevitably, to wanton slaughter on a mass scale as well as the implosion of both of the societies in question. I dunno man, seems bad!

The Crisis of Sexual Inequality

After ‘giving away the game,’ as it were, Costin then pivots to one of the topics that is probably the most written about cultural phenomenon of the past two decades: the implosion of sex relations in Western societies.

A sad state of affairs he believes is directly related to Western civilization’s great forgetting of ‘Nature.'

This is Costin at his most compassionate and thus, in my opinion, his most interesting. It’s undeniably true that the complete implosion of sex relations has been a disaster for all Western societies; not only has it caused extremely dangerous long-term economic conditions for these societies, but, more importantly, it has also engendered an innumerable amount of individual human tragedies (this will be especially evident to readers who are older than, say, 35 or so and have thus likely seen this happen to many people they personally know).

‘Modern regimes have nominally experimented with something called sexual liberation, or, alternatively, with the liberation of women from domination by men and by traditional institutions. This is true not just of liberal regimes in the West—the Soviet states and the Eastern Bloc were in some ways even more advanced in this regard. But what has resulted is not freedom but rather despair, loneliness, and confusion.’ Costin notes but then explains that by pointing this out, he does not seek to become yet another conservative defender of the ‘nuclear family’ or the like. Rather, he simply desires to dispense with the notion that there are any easy solutions to this problem. Certainly not any that would be palatable to a modern liberal society.

‘Freedom from socially- and legally-enforced monogamy—one boy for every girl, and vice versa—has led not to equality and happiness, but laid bare the unadorned and brutal hierarchy of nature.’

He continues later on in the introduction:

‘The most desirable males and females, who are in a minority, have lives full of sexual and romantic opportunities, adventures, the choice for excess, and numerous options should they decide to marry and have a family life. For the rest—for both men and women, the vast majority—there is lack of fulfillment, even desolation in youth, and, later on, unsuitable options and unhappy, very late marriages marred by resentments and dashed hopes. Often there are no marriages, nor any long-term pairings after a certain age.’

A crushing conclusion. And really here, where is the lie? Is his assessment not entirely true? These are undeniably the fruits of the sexual relations created by the modern liberal cultural and political system. Neither is this a pessimistic conservative speculation; it has already happened. Many millennials, the first generation to really live fully within a cultural lifeworld completely created by the ‘sexual revolution,' are now well into their forties, and things are…well…fucking grim. A situation that is only going to get worse over the next two decades (one can only imagine the suicide rate among this cohort will be in the 2030s and beyond).

He then follows up this brutally correct assessment of the situation with an attack on both traditional conservatives and their ostensible feminist and social liberal foes for making what is essentially the same mistake when dealing with this issue. That is, namely, that they assume that the ‘traditional family’ or ‘the patriarchy’ is something that is more or less naturally desired by men, instead of a convention created out of necessity in order to entice men into marriage.

As he explains,

Social liberals and feminists make the same mistake. They assume the problem is that men desire patriarchy and ownership over the wife and family, that men desire dominion over wife and children. They do not see these are, in part, methods some civilizations resorted to in order to induce men to accept the responsibilities of father and husband…

Modern societies are faced with men who either reap the fruits of sexual liberation through easy copulation, or men who for any number of reasons won’t or can’t put up with the stress of this chase and instead become apathetic, at least so far as women are concerned… The problem, as social liberals and feminists are finding out, isn’t that men seek by nature or education to dominate wives or children, but that men simply don’t care.

Here we have another 10/10 assessment. An obvious reality that anyone with two eyes who isn’t chest-deep in leftoid ideology can see easily by walking outside their front door.

Historically speaking, he is also basically correct as it happens. As he mentions in the book, the Romans eventually were forced to compel many men to marry, as extended and indefinite bachelorhood otherwise became the preferred mode of life in its absence.

The Unforgivable Sin of the Christian/Platonic Project

Of course, historically, Christianity did radically change much about this formula. On the one hand it radically equalized traditional marriage roles (men were now expected to be equally as chaste as women) in comparison to the pagan tradition while simultaneously also maintaining a pretty clear male headship of the family. This ushered in an epoch of mass monogamy in the European world, which would radically change societies and the individuals born into them in irrevocable ways.

For this, Costin will never forgive Christianity. While he sometimes likes to equivocate on the subject in an transparent attempt to maintain some semblance of peace with other factions within the online intellectual MAGA sphere of which he is a part, one thing is obvious: he absolutely loathes everything about it. At its feet, Costin lays the blame for all of the ills of modern life. As he states,

The social and political consequences of the change described in the last two paragraphs are profound. Modern liberalism and capitalism, modern universal ethics or morality, are latecomers and piggyback on the fundamental and centuries-long work done by the manorial system and Christianity in reshaping and perhaps rebreeding European man—for there is strong evidence that many of the behaviors described, such as altruism toward strangers, are by now hereditary in certain populations…

Christianity laid the groundwork for the calamity of modern liberalism, modern democracy, and modern socialism, which threatened to destroy, maybe permanently, not only the possibility of philosophy, but of life in the full sense of the word.

And here we can see it all circling back to Costin’s ‘nature’ thesis. Christianity is vile, not just because it promotes a loathsome and despicable ‘slave morality’ driven by thinly veiled resentment against greatness. No, its crime is much more fundamental than this: it has actually misbred man himself. Turning what was once a noble breed into some kind of misshapen and obese poodle (that is, into modern western man).

The solution to this massive problem, according to Costin, is, if not easy, at least straightforward: the mass application of cruelty and violence in the service of a new effort to once again properly ‘breed’ a higher type of man back into existence.

Speaking of the magnificence of the ancient Greek city, Costin states (correctly) that:

Simply put, behind this image of human flourishing lie generations of attention to citizen quality rather than quantity, which is to say, to eugenics, with all its cruelty, an orientation that never left the Greek world. Behind this innocent-sounding formula lie all manner of exclusionary, forceful measures: the removal from the city rolls of citizens who don’t live up to the moral, physical, and intellectual standards befitting a member of the polis; the ruthless subsuming of village life to city life; eugenics, infanticide, sexual apartheid, “classism,” “racism”…

…The corollary to all of this is that the Greek state or polis, which today we are likely to imagine as the origin of our democracy, was in fact nothing more or less than a breeding project for superior specimens.

But even if one signs up for this basically correct, historical understanding of Greece, what exactly are the contemporary implications?

As Costin concludes: ‘…the net effect is to deny that mere life has any worth.’

‘If one can speak of one type of life being superior and another being inferior, it’s only a few steps to this conclusion,’ he adds.

‘Mere life, a drudgery and bleak terror, is not worth the trouble. This is fundamentally where speculations about breeding, about human inferiority and superiority, ultimately lead,’ Alamariu concludes.

Thus, we now are able to view Costin’s project much more clearly (thanks in large part to his own intellectual honesty and transparency).

He seeks nothing less than the complete overthrow of the entire lifeworld created by Platonism and Christianity over two millennia in favor of a new dispensation, a society based solely on the pursuit of eugenic excellence via cruelty, mass murder, and genocide.

If Costin has a teaching at all, it is this one.

Costin’s Role Within Thiel’s Vampire Elite

While it may be tempting to try and write Costin’s project off as some kind of ‘mindless reactionary screed’ (the favored language of embittered and irrelevant leftoid adjunct professor types) or the like, this is the height of stupidity. Especially with the world standing as is, with Costin’s close allies now having ascended to full power in the United States.

Observing this is not to imply that ‘Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy’ has now become some kind of must-read or best-seller within the Trump administration or Silicon Valley; far from it. The vast majority of both sets would simply be intellectually unable to understand the real points Costin is making in it.

Rather, Costin’s work is a kind of profound intuition of the Zeitgeist, a black prophecy of the new world that Thiel and others are working ceaselessly to birth.

His work is a prefiguration of the hell world of Gay Space Fascism. A reverse John the Baptist of a new gospel that any serious-minded Christian would immediately recognize as a creed of the Antichrist. The manic and possessed Renfield to Thiel’s placid Nosferatu.

Misunderstanding this state of affairs is the primary conceptual error made by almost all of Costin’s critics. He is not a ‘man of action’ in any meaningful way and not getting this is a major conceptual error that can prevent one from fully appreciating his work. As a man in his mid-forties from an affluent background, he has had plenty of opportunities to have ‘literally’ lived out his philosophy (which he has held since at least his undergraduate days) if he had so chosen. Starting with the earliest days of the ‘Global War on Terror’ and carrying on through the current Israeli cleansing program in Gaza, there have been a number of distinct opportunities for Costin to live out his values ( i.e. the raping and/or murdering of various types of brown-skinned untermensch with nigh impunity, etc.).

As we can see though, Costin is someone who ‘sees,’ not someone who ‘does.’ This is his role, and it is a powerful one in its own way. As a genuinely dedicated and learned Nietzschean, his preferred weapon is the same as his teacher’s: a profound suspicion of human motivations. The ability to quickly ascertain the actual profane drivers behind the majority of even the most noble-seeming words and actions. Powerful because these assessments are frequently correct, leaving the target of his disdain with the crushing feeling of having been ‘found out.’

And much like Trump, the key here is to take him seriously but not necessarily literally. In reality, Costin is an incredibly lazy individual—for instance, there is a reason why there has been no follow-up to ‘Bronze Age Mindset’ in spite of the fact that it is now almost a decade old—and also an incredibly lonely one. A single man now deep into middle age who spends his time jetting between cheapish locales (Tokyo, Madrid, Rio de Janeiro, etc.) to fuck hookers and produce low-effort (but admittedly quite well-compensated) podcasts. His current mental preoccupations having now degenerated to primarily being about the various ongoing feuds he has with other right-wing influencers as well as the various conspiracies he believes have been concocted against him by his foes (usually anonymous Twitter users with less than 100 followers).

While Costin’s current, freewheeling, way of life may perhaps look enviable from the perspective of a 25-year-old libertine at 45, to crib a Trumpism, ‘it’s marginal, right?’ And the trajectory from here is bleak, with his story likely to ultimately culminate in the same manner as a Dominique Veneer (or perhaps a David Carradine).

‘Selective Breeding’ in an Age of Gay Space Fascism

But this fate, in itself, will not be the end of God’s judgement of Alamariu; the truest pain he will experience in this life will be watching his ideas be misunderstood by the nebbish dweebs of the online ‘dissident right’ who are under the mistaken impression that they comprise some kind of neo-aristocracy because they engage in performative racism online under a veil of anonymity.

Perhaps the worst part of it all is that this delusion isn’t shared only by his online ‘frens’ (whom he obviously can’t help but despise) but also, and in a much more earnest fashion, by individuals like

Curtis Yarvin

and Richard Hanania.

Two individuals with long and colorful histories who have risen to newfound prominence in the past several years, due in no small part to the influence of Thiel himself, who has vigorously endorsed and promoted them. Both figures push the idea that they (and their fans of course!) constitute some kind of special new aristocratic class that is destined to replace the current failed crop of liberal elites and finally take western civilization to the stars.

They seem to be under the impression that their status as ‘elite human capital’ (to borrow an inadvertently hilarious Hananiaism) has been bestowed upon them by standardized test scores they claim to have received on the SAT they took when they were 16 or the result of an online IQ test. This has to drive Costin absolutely insane; the only way he can possibly hide his contempt for these insufferable pretensions is likely heavy drinking.

For he can see through them; these people aren’t some kind of budding and vital new aristocracy; rather, they are precisely the opposite: a stomach-churning symptom of intense decay and spiritual necrosis. They are the collective shit that streams out of a dead civilization’s asshole right before the rigor mortis sets in, the churning and gurgling of which too many have somehow mistaken as a sign of life.

[Pictured: the face of ‘elite human capital’ in the 21st century]

Regardless, these are the individuals who, whether he likes it or not, will carry forth Costin’s vision into the future. And while they themselves may represent only disease, this does not mean that they cannot achieve a level of real success in pushing forward this vision.

While this class certainly doesn’t come anywhere near to embodying the noble cruelty, strength, and beauty of the eugenic Greek aristocracy of Costin and Nietzsche’s daydreams, nevertheless they will engage in a ‘selective breeding’ of sorts (even if it isn’t one Costin himself would necessarily find ideal).

Massive genetic power has now been unleashed in the West, a kind of which eugenic enthusiasts of the past could only have dreamt about. However, this probably won’t become any kind of issue for a good number of years, until the children born through these new genetic selection processes begin competing with ‘naturals’ and the differences (assuming these processes have indeed been successful) begin to show themselves in earnest and on a large scale. While there is a potential for a major societal disruption due to these changes, it is somewhat unlikely (barring a uniquely generous act of providence) that any kind of anti-genetic selection ‘butlerian jihad’ will triumph in the West (though Eurasia is likely another matter). The culture of the United States is simply too steeped in folk libertarianism, especially when it comes to so-called ‘reproductive technologies.’ This ironically includes almost all of the prominent left-wing groups and figures currently operating in the U.S. (who are likely to find themselves almost completely gelded by the end of the Trump/Vance epoch anyway).

Prominent Christians, especially those involved in GOP politics, will know better than to criticize this new state of affairs in anything but the most polite and precious way possible. This will particularly be the case after the ostensibly Catholic J.D. Vance throws his entire weight behind the new order, declaring it as an important weapon in the fight against low birthrates.

Over time this new reality will become ever more unremarkable, merely ‘how things are.’ Ambitious parents will have bidding wars to secure the most advanced genetic selection and editing techniques to be used on the embryos they have had specially created for them and grown inside the womb of a lower-class woman, likely hired from the third world.

The children of these processes will then go on to take their place as the new elite. But unlike their liberal predecessors, they will do so without any belief that they are equal, at least in some basic sense, to those below them in the societal hierarchy, whom they will know to be objectively genetically inferior to themselves and will thus seek to treat accordingly.

This societal shift will officially usher in the reign of a new transhumanist vampire elite in the west, the same elite currently being consciously molded by Thiel himself. Hence why he has poured so many resources into promoting the careers of influencers like Yarvin, Hanania, the Collinses, and yes, Costin himself (to name just a few).

Given enough time, perhaps in as little as a few decades, this elite will grow to also be physically distinct from the rest of the population. Taller, with fairer and more elegant features, they will then proceed to live as metaphorical (and in some cases literal) vampires on the lower classes who have not been engineered to be genetically superior.

A similar phenomenon to what was seen in the dynamic between the Tutsi and the Hutu in Rwanda. A social system Costin promotes as a kind of ideal in the first chapter of ‘Selective Breeding.’

‘They developed a genuine racist ideology, taking pride in their slender, tall stature (some 15 cm taller than the Hutu, and 30 cm taller than the Twa on average) and their distinctive facial features (such as their aquiline nose) and looking down on both the Hutu and the Twa as coarse, ugly, and inferior,’ Costin notes approvingly.

‘The Hutu till the land, tend the cattle owned by the Tuzi and are the source of the surplus production on which the Tuzi live parasitically,’ he adds.

Eugenic Theory and the Geopolitical Outlook of GSF in the 21st Century

Nor will this development be limited merely to domestic matters; indeed, geopolitical considerations are of primary concern to the Thieloids. In particular, the fate of the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, of whom Thielworld has, time and again, made explicit their intention to promote the complete liquidation of.

This cause is one of the more obvious through-lines connecting Thiel’s influencer network: their unquestioning devotion to the Zionist cause, which is praised as a kind of Nietzschean triumph and model for the west, as well as their contempt for the Palestinians, who are cast as subhuman cockroaches ripe for extermination. This is also to say nothing of Thiel’s extensive direct business contacts with the Israeli government via Palantir, which works directly in assisting the Israeli military with the direct targeting of Palestinians in heavily built-up civilian areas.

It should be noted that I say this, not as some kind of Palestinian partisan or activist, but merely as a relatively neutral (at least in this case) observer of reality.

The second and third geopolitical causes dear to the heart of Thielworld, even if they aren’t fully on the front burner just quite yet, are 1) the pursuit of conflict with China in both the civilian and military realms, a cause that increasingly unites the American Right as a whole and that Thielworld is set to profit handsomely from. A conflict which, it should be noted, is driven as much by ideology as it is by pursuit of profit. And; 2) The depopulation of the African continent.

Now I realize the latter is quite ironic, especially in light of the fact that right-wingers in the U.S. have spent years accusing figures like Bill Gates (not entirely incorrectly) of also attempting to depopulate the world (starting in Africa), in addition to their newfound concern over declining birthrates.

However, this issue is relatively straightforward if you look at it the right way. Depending on your perspective, the earth can be both overpopulated and underpopulated simultaneously. As in, being overpopulated with the wrong kind of people while also being underpopulated with the right kind of people. In fact, I think this is actually how the vast majority of the people in the Western world who go on about birthrates actually view the issue (though few have the courage to articulate this openly). The sticky part of most people involved in this discourse, of course, is determining exactly what constitutes the ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ sort of person.

For Costin the answer is simple: when it comes to disposing of the ‘wrong’ sort of people, start with the blacks.

As he explains in ‘Selective Breeding,’ it is his view (one he contends is now backed up by science) that sub-Saharan blacks are so genetically distant from the rest of humanity that they essentially comprise a separate subspecies:

The second finding came thanks to the very rapid development of human population genetics, in large part due to new DNA sequencing techniques that were not available before. Here, the titanic work of Cavalli-Sforza above all definitively killed Lewontin’s Lie: the mendacious cliché that there is more genetic variation within races than between them. We now have a very minute understanding of the considerable genetic diversity between historical population groups. Black Africans, in particular, are so divergent from the rest of humanity that they exceed the threshold commonly used in other species to draw sub-species boundaries. A revelation as shocking as it is by now indisputable.

It should be noted that this view tends to be shared widely across the Thielverse among a host of figures, including Curtis Yarvin.

While Yarvin has certainly spoken on these issues before, I have a hard time remembering him speaking as clearly as he did recently during an interview with Michael Malice (admittedly I have not read the entirety of Yarvin’s multi-million-word corpus, so I could be missing something) on the topic. Quoting him here is difficult as Yarvin never shuts up and rambles on forever; however, I will do my best to make it somewhat abbreviated and digestible here.

While discussing recently published findings in Science magazine regarding the discovery of ‘ghost DNA’ from a previously unknown hominid that, at some time in the distant past, interbred with sub-Saharan African populations in the process of contributing a significant amount of their unique genetic material, Yarvin notes:

Listen very carefully to the words I'm about to tell you. The contribution of archaic hominins to the genetic variation of present day Africans remains poorly understood. …Next sentence our analyses of site frequency Spectra indicate that these populations meaning, African populations West African populations, derive two to 19% that's some wide error bars folks 2 to 19% that means as little as two as many as 19 but we're coming in around 10 to 12 of their genetic ancestry from an archaic population that diverged before the split of Neanderthals and modern humans. More methods follow and then finally the wonderful closing sentence: our results reveal the substantial contribution of archaic ancestry in shaping the gene pool of present day West African populations.

Yarvin then goes on to note how Science magazine is now, ironically, coming to the same conclusions as ‘your racist uncle Roy.’

“It's strange because it reminds us of our racist Uncle Roy and inevitably reminds us of our racist Uncle Roy who is not a reader of Science magazine. How did he get this information? How did he know? That's the question we have to answer.”

The thing is, what Yarvin is saying here regarding newfound discoveries in genetics that have revealed the fact that there was a significant amount of inbreeding between various human populations and different groups of nonhuman hominids, a fact that is now attested to in the DNA of modern humans, is well…true.

While these discoveries have come relatively recent, much of them having come in the past decade, the information has spread rapidly online even while being at least partially suppressed by power centers of the left of center media.

Needless to say, the implications of these disquieting revelation are not compatible in any way with traditional ‘blank slate’ liberalism and will likely be viewed as a major cause of the definitive end of the liberal era in future histories, in addition to leading to society wide rebirth of explicit racism, especially toward those of West African descent.

Regardless, the conclusions Costin (and, I would argue, most of the Thielverse) has drawn from these new discoveries are extremely unsubtle. Namely an explicit call for the liquidation of the vast majority of the population of the African continent via mass starvation.

Alamariu waxes on about this at length and in detail during episode 136 of his Caribbean Rhythms podcast.

While criticizing the ‘Christian Right’ for prioritizing abortion, he notes:

When I see this, and all they focus on is this one matter. As if the bible means to them multiply Tropical West African life indiscriminately. Feed it fried food…and when I talk about such thing, as many will know, though they lie about what I say. It’s not that I promote genocide as if I had the ability or wish to do such a thing now or in the next century but to ask: what do you plan to do about the global south when it inevitably reaches point of collapse and starvation? In other words, 90 percent of you are so happy to celebrate the multiplication of ‘POC’ life in the United States, probably in Europe too for whatever reason you’re doing it. What will you do when that happens? When mass starvation in the global south? Because the pieces are already in place for such an overthrow of civilization. Many factions now talk about ‘climate migration’ and such things. And what I mean is, that at the first plausible case that can be made that mass starvation looms for the global south. There will be calls for Europe and America to open its doors to tens of millions at least, and what do you plan to do then? Because those people are also innocent, many of them can be propagandized to be ‘Oh they’re your co-religionists. Oh Christ-first, they’re fellow Christians. What are you going to look the other way Christian man and watch them die?’ This is the kind of manipulation, because I think you should let them die. And China and most of Asia will let them die, they will look the other way. Can you look the other way as possibly tens or hundreds of millions of people perish from inevitable starvation and such thing? This is my question, and I think you know the answer…

Of course, such ideas have long been a part of the far-right imaginarium since at least Lothrop Stoddard (if not before), but they are a major feature of Costin’s thought (and the broader thought of Thielworld as a whole). In the view of the Thielverse, the primary fault line in 21st-century geopolitics is one between the forces of a spiritually exhausted western world vs. the dangerous, backwards, and overpopulated hordes of the global south who threaten to invade the Western world and despoil it fully, like a mass of insatiable human locusts. This puts them, it should be noted, into direct conflict with the current Eurasian powers, who have been pursuing a long-term strategy of allying with the global south against what they view as the menace of western imperialism. In the long run, these forces (loathed and hated by all right-thinking Thieloids as ‘third worldists’ and the like.) will likely be the only force left to oppose Gay Space Fascism in any kind of meaningful way (western liberalism having already been both spiritually and literally defeated).

And on that note, it’s best we wind this post down. It’s not the exhaustive commentary I initially planned on writing, but there is simply too much to cover in one go. I’ve obviously left out some of the more interesting (but for our purposes, not really relevant) points Costin makes in the book. Still, I think I have effectively conveyed the ‘gist’ of his argument, at least the part that is relevant in the sense of being likely to have ongoing influence in the wider world.

As for the author himself, I have tried to portray his views as honestly as possible without indulging in too much moralizing or alarmism. In my view, Costin himself is not an important figure per se, a fact too often obscured by the obsessive media coverage of him. It is only due to his alliance with Thielworld that he is anything more than an eccentric and amusing online personality. At best a kind of 21st-century William S. Burroughs preaching a ‘retvrn’ to his anti-gospel of the bathhouse.

Still, like it or not, Costin has managed to become much more than just an offbeat literary figure. He has a keen understanding of the dark energies now flowing through contemporary western societies and their broader implications going forward. In addition, he has helped to lay the conceptual and moral groundwork (such as it is) for the Gay Space Fascist elite class going forward. A new caste whose intellectual dispositions, preoccupations, and perversities will have immense influence in the world they will reign over in the course of the next several decades. An era to be marked by widespread and profound cruelty, abomination, and murder. Profanities that Costin has now provided the intellectual and philosophical justification for enacting.

A crime for which he, and Peter as well, will not escape judgement for.

In this life and the next.