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born 1973 United States
Curtis Yarvin (born June 25, 1973), also known under his pen name Mencius Moldbug, is an American computer scientist and quintessential political theorist of the neoreactionary movement. He is also creator of the Urbit computing platform and, currently, authors primarily the Gray Mirror blog.
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It is much easier to delude others if at the same time you delude yourself.
No one ever achieved power by promising to enslave his followers.
The New York Times could print nothing but lies for a year, and it would still be the most powerful institution in the world.
The most powerful people in the West today, measured strictly by their ability to influence the real world, are journalists and professors.
Reaction is the reconstruction or restoration of the civilized mind, through political power, from any form of progressive or revolutionary degradation.
The problem today is that the people who think they are the most daring are in fact the most obsequious.
A good test for whether or not anything should continue to exist: if it didn't exist, would anyone invent it?
The essential idea of leftism is that the world should be governed by scholars.
The secret of power is that power and responsibility are the same thing.
Academic politics is a murky and brutal game, and a small finger on the scales can steer it quite effectively, especially over time.
Everyone who spins a myth claims to be debunking one.
Power corrupts not by repression, but by seduction.
To debauch a people, debase their currency.
The righteous ruler has nothing to hide.
Technical advances have masked, and continue to mask, the signs of decay that would otherwise be obvious.
Today's American has no idea what it feels like to live in an atmosphere of genuine public safety and order.
Stability is much underappreciated, especially by those who enjoy its benefits.
Progressives have created a vast set of puppet cultures which enable them to describe their monoculture as a multiculture.
The problem with the permanent bureaucracy is that any enterprise controlled by its own employees tends to expand without limit.
In fact, rationalism is to reason as scientism is to science.
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