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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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Law is impartial by definition. If it's not impartial, it's not law.
Limited government is a recipe for corrupting the judiciary.
In any conflict between X and Y, there are three paths to peace. X can prevail, Y can prevail, or X and Y can agree to leave the battle lines where they are now.
This is how Rothbard so frequently reasons himself from Lockean absolutes to sheer insanity. He is a master of the reductio ad absurdum, but so stubborn that he defends the absurdum.
It is physically impossible to win a war by arresting an invading army and trying each of its soldiers.
The reason it's so difficult to oppose lawful democracy is that we have so few alternatives to compare it to.
In a society where scholars are the ruling caste, actual scholarship tends to disappear.
Journalism […] looks like an unfree market because it is tied so closely to the unfree market of higher education.
The temptation to reform, rather than abandon, the adaptive fiction is omnipresent.
Ultimately, a pacifist is just an activist whose strategy for victory is to suppress the military efforts of his enemies.
In fact, it's basically impossible to combine a system in which agreements stay agreed with one in which equality stays equal.
Replacing your own ideology is a lot like do-it-yourself brain surgery.
You think you're charging the matador, but you're charging the cape.
Every society in human history that has ever given itself over to government by intellectuals has lived to regret it. Ours will be no different.
One of the classical symptoms of decadence is that young aristocrats spend all their time on political scheming, and it'd be hard to say we don't see this now.
The history of ideas since 1789 is an endless record of mass murder in the name of the people.
Who knows more about human biology? You, or James Watson?
The entire intellectual system of the West was corrupted by its twentieth-century connection to government.
The free market isn't something that just happens. It needs to be designed and invented. The past is at best an inspiration.
Most people in the West don't think their entire system of government is fundamentally, irreparably corrupt. Nor did most people in the Soviet Union.
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