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Curtis Yarvin on History

born 1973 United States

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That's always the trouble with history. It always looks like it's over. But it never is.

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.

The history of ideas since 1789 is an endless record of mass murder in the name of the people.

Of course empire works. Conquest works. It has worked for the entire course of human history. It is not only effective, it is profitable.

[M]ost of the advances in Western scientific history, contrary to popular belief, occurred when scientists were not servants of the state.

[T]he law itself is arbitrary—a product of history, just like all other distributions of property. We support it because it's stable, and we like stability.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Curtis Yarvin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.