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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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A century and a half of democracy has wreaked unbelievable devastation on a place and people once considered by far the most promising on earth. No mere ecological pollution could possibly compare.
[T]he hardest part of thinking clearly is recognizing false assumptions that are universally shared.
Universities are no longer institutions of scholarship. They are revolutionary seminaries. Their product is cadre.
[U]niversal faith in progress is evidence for, not against, decline.
[T]he state is simply a real-estate business on a very large scale.
Of course empire works. Conquest works. It has worked for the entire course of human history. It is not only effective, it is profitable.
If Americans want to change their government, they’re going to have to get over their dictator phobia.
The only problem with colonialism was that it got nationalized. Which was enough. Colonialism chartered company–style is profitable. Colonialism as a government department is a disaster.
When you create a category called "religion" which lumps together all the delusional traditions that people who are not like you have inherited unquestioned from their intellectual ancestors, you are making it harder, not easier, to question your own assumptions.
It is impossible to count the New Deal's crimes. The list must include everything short of mass murder. And even that is arguable.
It's a reality of modern American life that race confers privilege. As a reactionary, how can I possibly object? A society without hereditary privilege is like a cheeseburger without cheese.
If you have a rule that says the state cannot be taken over by a church, […] the obvious mutation to circumvent this defense is for the church to find some plausible way of denying that it's a church.
[T]he tradition to which most sophisticated Westerners of 2007 conform is best seen as a sect of Christianity.
[W]e have long since learned that offering any resistance to any kind of a mob is incompatible with our great American tradition of civil liberties.
From the perspective of its subjects, what counts is not who runs the government, but what the government does. Good government is effective, lawful government. Bad government is ineffective, lawless government.
[T]he moderate ideas of one generation are the extremist ideas of its parents, and the whole system shifts gradually over time.
[L]eftism is Protestantism and Protestantism is leftism.
Here is yet another (idea for good government): restrict voting to homeowners. Note that this was widely practiced in Anglo-American history, and for very good reason.
Of course, since the government is sovereign, it can break its own laws any time it likes. But it will not do this unless it has a good reason, because the value of a lawless state is much lower than that of a lawful one.
I distrust all velvet gloves. Take the abstract ideals off and show us government as it really is. Law enforcement is not a bad thing.
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