I'm hardly the first to note this, but I think that's why 'weird' worked so well - sure, you could trace Vance's intellectual influences, but no one who doesn't already know is sticking around for that. But "there's something off about this guy - and its bad" people can sense that clearly. 4/
If for some reason you are curious about the reactionary fascist Neo-monarchist ideology of Curtis Yarvin, who Vance has cited on podcasts *by name,* the Behind the Bastards podcast did a decent rundown of his terrible ideology: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p... /end
Podcast Episode · Behind the Bastards · 09/17/2024 · 1h 18m
Oh, exactly! And regular observers instinctively linked that feeling to Vance's relatively-more-publicized views on sex and gender. And that makes sense! But you guys, I want to tell them, there's SO much more to the "weirdness" than that!