His PhD thesis, titled Migrations of the Holy: The Devotional Culture of Wimborne Minster, c.1400-1640, is on the religious history of a Dorset parish.
[2] His online avatars utilize photos of American bodybuilder Vince Gironda, with whom he shares belief in raw eggs as a "superfood", hence his pseudonym.
[2][13] The magazine Compact deemed him "one of the brighter stars in a sprawling constellation of rightwing social-media influencers who exalt nature, tradition, and physical fitness".
[16] The WEF had in 2016 predicted that in 2030 people would eat far less meat, which Great Reset opponents view as evidence of a conspiracy to control the behavior of the populace.
[6] The magazine is aimed to appeal to young white men, with its chief concern being "the decline of national manhood in America and Europe under a barrage of nefarious forces", resulting in what it calls a "clown world".
[3] Issues include archaic language, appeals to history and references to "golden age" bodybuilders, in a joking tone.
They also include both real and fake advertisements, "borderline homoerotic fashion and fitness" photography, and fantasy and historical fiction.
[21][19] Nomadic steppe warriors from Central Asia are celebrated within the magazine, declared "the most murderous people of all time" as contrasted with supposedly feminized and sedentary societies, described as the "longhouse".
[19] Scott Burnett called Man's World and REN "a paradigm case of how masculinity is being articulated at the heart of rightwing politics", with some content in the magazine being "fascist, sometimes bordering on neo-Nazi", but utilizing "an ironic gauze".
"[3] American progressive magazine Mother Jones criticized the The Eggs Benedict Option, saying it had "half-baked and incoherent solutions you’d expect from a right-wing populist—often stumbling into paranoia along the way", and said it read like "Tucker Carlson tried to write The Omnivore's Dilemma".
[25] They also said that it "could be mistaken at times for a hippie manifesto", that stitched together "legitimate gripes" about the nutrition ecosystem with "fearmongering about government meat confiscation and calls to white nationalism".
The book describes its eponymous ideology as "a physical and political ethic built around the massive consumption of raw eggs", what it calls "one of the most perfect natural foods in existence".