His message, delivered in tweets, podcasts, and a self-published book, mixes ultrafar-right politics, unabashed racism, and a deep knowledge of ancient Greece.[qh]
他通过推特、播客和一本自费出版的书籍传达的信息,融合了极右翼的政治观点、毫不掩饰的种族主义和古希腊相关的广博知识
He has never shown his face or admitted his real name.[qh]
他从未露过脸,也从未承认过自己的真名
But I know Bronze Age Pervert, and have known him almost as long as B. J. Novak has. [qh]
但我认识Bronze Age Pervert(BAP),认识他的时间几乎和B·J·诺瓦克一样长
He’s an MIT graduate who grew up in Newton, Massachusetts. His name is Costin Alamariu.[qh]
他在马萨诸塞州牛顿市长大,毕业学校是麻省理工学院
It is hard to convey precisely what BAP believes, in part because his views are so outlandish that even when stated simply, they sound like incoherent ranting.[qh]
很难准确地表达BAP的观点,部分原因是他的观点过于古怪,即使是简单地陈述出来,听起来也像是语无伦次的咆哮怒斥
America’s civic religion holds that all humans have inherent and equal worth, that they should not be graded according to beauty or nobility, and that they should not aim to destroy one another. [qh]
美国的公民宗教认为,所有人都有着与生俱来的平等价值,不应以美丽或高贵来划分等级,也不应以毁灭他人为目的
BAP says this orthodoxy is exactly wrong. [qh]
BAP则表示,这种正统观念是完全错误的
He argues that the natural and desirable condition of life is the domination of the weak and ugly by the strong and noble. [qh]
他认为,自然和理想的生活状态是强者对弱者的统治,高贵者对丑陋者的统治
He considers American cities a “wasteland” run by Jews and Black people, though the words he uses to denote these groups are considerably less genteel than these.[qh]
他认为美国各座城市是犹太人和黑人管理的“荒地”,尽管他用来指代这些群体的词语远没有这些词汇文雅
The modern state, he says, has been designed to empower the feebleminded and the misshapen at the expense of their betters. [qh]
他认为现代国家已被设计为以牺牲优秀者为代价,赋予弱智和丑陋者权力
The strong and noble must humiliate and conquer their tormentors and destroy their institutions.[qh]
强者和高贵者必须羞辱和征服折磨他们的人,并将这些人的制度摧毁
On Twitter, where he has more than 100,000 followers, BAP posts images of seminude Aryan beefcakes, usually in tropical settings, to celebrate the physical perfection of the warrior element of the race that he hopes will someday be restored to dominance. [qh]
在坐拥10多万粉丝的推特上,BAP发布了几张半裸的雅利安肌肉男的照片,背景通常是热带地区,目的是为了赞美雅利安族战士的完美身体,他希望有朝一日这个族群能恢复统治地位
The world, or at least parts of it, has been more receptive to BAP than one might think. [qh]
世界,或者说,至少是世界的部分地区,对BAP的接受程度比人们想象的要高
By now he is a leading cultural figure on the fascist right—among both elites, who have cottoned to his political philosophy, and non-elites, who love his brio and aspire to his erudition.[qh]
到目前为止,无论是在接受他的政治哲学的精英中,还是在热爱他的精神、追求他的博学的非精英中,他都是这些法西斯右翼的文化领军人物
I consider myself a connoisseur of brilliant lunatics, and I have a high tolerance for their lunacy if it has compensating virtues of, say, humor or ingenuity. [qh]
我认为自己是鉴定聪明疯子的行家
But even I find BAP worrisome. [qh]
但就连我也觉得BAP引人担忧
What starts as comedy can become something more sinister— and BAP’s shtick, while sometimes hilarious, shows every sign of transforming into a new mode of far-right radicalism, with fans in positions of responsibility and power.[qh]
一开始的诙谐幽默可能会变成更邪恶的东西——BAP的妙语连珠,尽管有时很搞笑,但却透露出每个转变为极右翼激进主义新模式的迹象,粉丝们是极右翼激进主义的责任承担者和权力掌握者