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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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Economically, a fiat monetary system works exactly the same as a metallic monetary system in which the sovereign owns an infinite gold mine.
History is a branch of literature, not a field of science.
The root cause of terrorism is liberalism.
The usual pattern is that tyrannies depend on supporters whose lawlessness they have to ignore, and whose depredations they are not powerful enough to formalize.
You get rid of the system by making it fashionable, among the most fashionable people, to believe the system needs to be gotten rid of.
Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"But who is to guard the guards themselves?"
A good test for getting rid of anything is: if we didn't have this, would we need it?
Conflict is an inescapable part of life. Uncertainty is not.
People think at least as much about breeding each other as they do about breeding animals.
That's always the trouble with history. It always looks like it's over. But it never is.
The artists of today produce kitsch because they're rebelling against a fictitious power structure by supporting a real one.
The US military fails in places like Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan because it is operating under a doctrine designed to fail.
An alien perspective is useful because it is not, at least not obviously, influenced by the ideas that are loose in the world today.
The charge that universities are directly responsible for almost all the violence in the world today […] strikes me as essentially accurate.
A sovereign should never make any concessions in response to violence or the threat of violence, unless there is no alternative but surrender.
For obvious reasons of human psychology, journalists […] are likely to favor political systems in which they themselves are more important and powerful.
The difference between a monarch and a dictator is that the monarchical succession is defined by law and the dictatorial succession is defined by power.
The [British] Empire had to die not because it didn't work, but because it worked too well. The quality of imperial rule was starting to present evidence against democracy herself.
How do you anesthetize a population? When it reacts normally, convince it that it's being hysterical.
Sovereignty equals unaccountability, and our Reality Department is accountable to no one.
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