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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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Sovereignty is conserved; it is always humans who rule; and yet, it seems that no one rules.
Democratic politics is best understood as a sort of symbolic violence, like deciding who wins the battle by how many troops they brought.
The other day I was tinkering around in my garage and I decided to build a new ideology.
Democracy means that popular opinion controls the state; intellectuals guide popular opinion; ergo, intellectuals guide the state.
If we want to end the era of chaos, democracy, and revolution, we need to deal squarely with the poisonous legacy of the Puritans.
The strong government executes firmly and decisively. The weak one is fickle and inconsistent, and as a result has to be much more vicious to achieve any given level of security.
In a democracy with a free press, the press is the government. Public opinion on any subject will naturally shift toward the opinions of those who explain that subject to the public.
The definition of a sovereign is that a sovereign is above the law. Its will is its own law.
Men fight because they expect to win. Period. When they know they'll lose, they surrender.
Perhaps the principal error of modern libertarians is their failure to distinguish between weak government and small government.
Conservatives cannot admit that conservatism is futile, because then they'd have nothing to do. No man will willingly abolish his own occupation.
Are we really to believe that Marx, on his own, invented the idea that all men are brothers, despite living in a society dominated by a religion whose creed taught exactly that?
All decent, reasonable men are horrified by the idea that the government might control the press.
The permanent contest for political power that democracy creates is an extreme case of limited war, in which no weapons at all are allowed, and battle is resolved by counting heads.
Iraq simply cannot be governed by a military effort, no matter how technically advanced, well-trained, and well-funded, that thinks of itself as a combination of a SWAT team and the Salvation Army.
I can't imagine counting the number of times I've heard someone say "we should…" when what they really mean is "the government should…".
Limited government simply has no motivation to stay limited. And so it doesn't.
[I]n a free society, there is no such thing as official truth.
[T]he modern world has largely replaced religion, defined as the veneration of paranormal beings, with idealism, defined as the veneration of mysterious universal principles.
Moderation is not an ideology. It is not an opinion. It is not a thought. It is an absence of thought.
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