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Democracy is to power as a lottery is to money. It is a social mechanism that allows a large number of hominids to feel as if their individual views affect the world, even when the chance of such an effect is negligible.

— Curtis Yarvin

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It is much easier to delude others if at the same time you delude yourself.

No one ever achieved power by promising to enslave his followers.

The New York Times could print nothing but lies for a year, and it would still be the most powerful institution in the world.

The most powerful people in the West today, measured strictly by their ability to influence the real world, are journalists and professors.

Reaction is the reconstruction or restoration of the civilized mind, through political power, from any form of progressive or revolutionary degradation.

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