BAP — Vitality Assessment

Strong or weak? Competent or declining? Excellence or mediocrity?

Bronze Age Pervert’s framework measures civilizational vitality — the presence or absence of genuine strength, beauty, and excellence versus managed decline and institutional decay.

Key Questions

• Vitality signal? Does this event demonstrate or erode genuine strength?
• Competence or decay? Are the actors capable or merely credentialed?
• Excellence or mediocrity? Is this the product of merit or of bureaucratic process?
• Masculine energy? Agency, risk-taking, sovereignty over one’s domain.

Detection Patterns

Vitality signals: sovereign action, physical excellence, institutional competence, bold moves without committee approval, civilizational ambition.

Decay signals: risk aversion, credentialism over competence, institutional bloat, process over outcome, managed decline presented as progress.