Όλος ο πλανήτης παρακολουθεί με κάποιο τρόμο όσα συμβαίνουν στην Αμερική και επιρρεάζουν όλους μας. Οι πράξεις τους μας φαίνονται εξωφρενικές και επιθετικές όμως αν σκεφτούμε ότι πάντα η κάθε εξουσία συμπεριφέρεται σύμφωνα με κάποια πιστεύω, θα πρέπει να ψάξουμε ποια είναι τα πιστεύω αυτής της κλίκας που έχει εξαγοράσει , παραπλανήσει, η εξιτάρει τους ψηφοφόρους της και τους υποστηριχτές της. Και ψάχνοντας πράγματι υπάρχει κάτι τέτοιο και το υπηρετούν με ζήλο και αφοσίωση. Το θέμα είναι ότι είναι πολύ τρομαχτικό και πέρα από ότι εμείς, ο απλός κόσμος δηλαδή, θα μπορούσαμε να φανταστούμε. Διαβάστε το άρθρο με προσοχή και θα δείτε ότι ακολουθούν κατά γράμμα αυτή την σκοτεινή ιδεολογία. Φυσικά δεν έχω διαβάσει ότι το έχουν δηλώσει κάπου αυτό, η ότι συμφωνούν σε κάποια συνέντευξη, αλλά οι πράξεις μιλούν πιο δυνατά από τα λόγια.
Σκοτεινός Διαφωτισμός
Ο Σκοτεινός Διαφωτισμός ή το νεοαντιδραστικό κίνημα, μερικές φορές συντομογραφούμενο ως NRx, είναι μια αντιδημοκρατική, αντι-ισοτιμιστική, αντιδραστική φιλοσοφία που ιδρύθηκε από τον Κέρτις Γιάρβιν, έναν Αμερικανό μηχανικό λογισμικού και μπλόγκερ με το ψευδώνυμο "Mencius Moldbug", και αναπτύχθηκε περαιτέρω από τον Άγγλο φιλόσοφο Νικ Λαντ. Η ιδεολογία αυτή απορρίπτει γενικά την Ουίγκικη ιστοριογραφία, δηλαδή την ιδέα ότι η ιστορία παρουσιάζει μια αναπόφευκτη πορεία προς μεγαλύτερη ελευθερία και διαφωτισμό, που κορυφώνεται στη φιλελεύθερη δημοκρατία και τη συνταγματική μοναρχία, καθώς και στον μοναρχισμό και σε άλλες αρχαϊκές μορφές ηγεσίας, όπως ο καμεραλισμός.
Το 2007 και το 2008, ο Γιάρβιν διατύπωσε τις θεωρίες που αργότερα θα εξελίσσονταν στη σκέψη του Σκοτεινού Διαφωτισμού. Οι θεωρίες του Γιάρβιν αναπτύχθηκαν και επεκτάθηκαν από τον Λαντ, ο οποίος πρώτος επινόησε τον όρο "Σκοτεινός Διαφωτισμός" στο ομώνυμο δοκίμιό του. Η Τζέσικα Κλάιν, η οποία ορίζει τον Σκοτεινό Διαφωτισμό ως μια ανησυχητική φιλοσοφία σε άρθρο της, δηλώνει ότι είναι αυτό που θα συνέβαινε αν περισσότερα μέλη της εναλλακτικής δεξιάς διάβαζαν Νίτσε και Χ.Π. Λάβκραφτ αντί για τα tweets του Ντόναλντ Τραμπ. Υπενθυμίζει ότι «στην ουσία του, ο Σκοτεινός Διαφωτισμός είναι μια νεοαντιδραστική φιλοσοφία που ξεκίνησε από τον Νικ Λαντ, καθηγητή ηπειρωτικής φιλοσοφίας στο Πανεπιστήμιο του Γουόρικ μέχρι τα τέλη της δεκαετίας του 1990. Εκεί, συνίδρυσε την Ερευνητική Μονάδα Κυβερνητικής Κουλτούρας με τη συνάδελφό του Σάντι Πλαντ, της οποίας τα γραπτά επηρέασαν τον κυβερνοφεμινισμό.»
Το 2012, το διαδικτυακό μανιφέστο του Λαντ καταδικάζει τη δημοκρατία και αναφέρεται σε φιλελεύθερους όπως ο Πίτερ Τιλ, παραθέτοντας την πεποίθησή του ότι η ελευθερία και η δημοκρατία δεν είναι «συμβατές». Αποτελείται από δέκα μέρη και συγκρίνει τους μετανάστες με ζόμπι πριν καν φτάσεις στο ένα τέταρτο του κειμένου, ενώ παραθέτει μεγάλες πολιτικές και πολιτιστικές προσωπικότητες, από τον Αλεξάντερ Χάμιλτον έως τον Ουίνστον Τσόρτσιλ, σημειώνοντας επίσης τον Χομπς, τον Μαρξ, τον Εξολοθρευτή και, φυσικά, τον Μένκιους Μόλντμπαγκ.
Η Κλάιν γράφει ότι ο Μόλντμπαγκ έχει υποστηρίξει τη δουλεία, σημειώνοντας ότι ορισμένες φυλές είναι «καλύτερα προσαρμοσμένες» σε αυτήν από άλλες. Πιστεύει επίσης ότι η φεουδαρχία είναι ανώτερη από τη δημοκρατία. Στη σύγχρονη φεουδαρχία του, τα βασίλεια θα έμοιαζαν περισσότερο με εταιρείες, με διευθύνοντες συμβούλους ως κυρίαρχους. Χωρίς τους ενοχλητικούς περιορισμούς της δημοκρατίας, ο CEO θα μπορούσε να λαμβάνει αποφάσεις που θα ήταν απαραίτητα επωφελείς, καθώς θα ήταν οικονομικά κερδοφόρες. Ο CEO θα είχε πολύ υψηλό δείκτη νοημοσύνης ή ίσως να ήταν ένας κυβερνο-οργανισμός, ενσαρκώνοντας τη σύγκλιση της ευγονικής και της μοναδικότητας σε μια τρομακτική, δυστοπική επιστημονική φαντασία. Κάτι σαν την ταινία Gattaca του 1997, αλλά με ανθρώπους που πραγματικά θέλουν να συμβεί.
Ο Σκοτεινός Διαφωτισμός έχει χαρακτηριστεί από δημοσιογράφους και σχολιαστές ως μέρος της εναλλακτικής δεξιάς (alt-right) και ως νεοφασιστικό κίνημα. Ένα άρθρο του 2016, γραμμένο από τον Παρκ ΜακΝτούγκαλντ στο περιοδικό New York, αναφέρει ότι «η νεοαντίδραση έχει πολλές διαφορετικές εκδοχές, αλλά ίσως η πιο σημαντική είναι μια μορφή μεταφιλελεύθερου μελλοντισμού που, συνειδητοποιώντας ότι οι φιλελεύθεροι δεν είναι πιθανό να κερδίσουν εκλογές, υποστηρίζει αυταρχικές μορφές διακυβέρνησης αντί της δημοκρατίας.»
Μερικοί θεωρούν τον Σκοτεινό Διαφωτισμό ως τη θεωρητική πτέρυγα της εναλλακτικής δεξιάς. Έχει χαρακτηριστεί ως νεοφασιστικό και ως «επιτάχυνση του καπιταλισμού μέχρι το σημείο του φασισμού». Ο Λαντ διαφωνεί, ισχυριζόμενος ότι «ο φασισμός είναι ένα μαζικό αντικαπιταλιστικό κίνημα», μια άποψη που δεν επιβεβαιώνεται από τη γνώση της οικονομικής ιστορίας του φασισμού. Ο δημοσιογράφος και σχολιαστής Τζέιμς Κίρτσικ γράφει ότι «αν και οι νεοαντιδραστικοί στοχαστές περιφρονούν τις μάζες και ισχυρίζονται ότι απεχθάνονται τον λαϊκισμό, το κοινό τους στοιχείο με την υπόλοιπη εναλλακτική δεξιά είναι το απροκάλυπτα ρατσιστικό τους στοιχείο, η κοινή μισανθρωπία τους και η δυσαρέσκειά τους απέναντι στη διακυβέρνηση των ελίτ.»
Η Κλάιν υποστηρίζει ότι, αν και συνδέεται στενά με την εναλλακτική δεξιά, ο Σκοτεινός Διαφωτισμός είναι πιο ελιτίστικος παρά λαϊκιστικός. Γράφει ότι «η 'επιλεκτική αναπαραγωγή', την οποία προωθούν οι υποστηρικτές του Σκοτεινού Διαφωτισμού, θα πρέπει, κατά τη γνώμη τους, να γίνεται μεταξύ ανθρώπων με υψηλό δείκτη νοημοσύνης — δηλαδή λευκών με υψηλό IQ ή ίσως Ανατολικών Ασιατών, αν διαβάζετε το blog του Λαντ.»
Εν τω μεταξύ, σύμφωνα με άρθρο της Ολίβια Γκόλντχιλ, ο Μπέντζαμιν Νόις, καθηγητής κριτικής θεωρίας στο Πανεπιστήμιο του Τσίτσεστερ, ισχυρίζεται ότι οι υποστηρικτές του Σκοτεινού Διαφωτισμού θεωρούν τους εαυτούς τους ως «τους φιλοσοφικούς ηγέτες» του κινήματος της εναλλακτικής δεξιάς.
Η Κλάιν σημειώνει επίσης ότι υπάρχει αλληλεπικάλυψη μεταξύ του Σκοτεινού Διαφωτισμού και των ομάδων υπέρ της λευκής ανωτερότητας και κατά της μετανάστευσης, όπως το Ίδρυμα VDARE.
Οι Ελιάνα Τζόνσον και Έλι Στόκολς ανέφεραν ότι ο πρώην στρατηγικός σύμβουλος του Τραμπ, Στιβ Μπάνον, είναι θαυμαστής του Σκοτεινού Διαφωτισμού και ότι ο Μένκιους Μόλντμπαγκ είχε επικοινωνία με τον Λευκό Οίκο μέσω ενδιάμεσων.
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https://www.populismstudies.org/Vocabulary/dark-enlightenment/ πηγή
Dark Enlightenment
The Dark Enlightenment or the neo-reactionary movement, sometimes abbreviated NRx, is an anti-democratic, anti-egalitarian, reactionary philosophy founded by Curtis Yarvin, an American software engineer and blogger under the pen name “Mencius Moldbug,” and developed further by English philosopher Nick Land. The ideology generally rejects Whig historiography, the concept that history shows an inevitable progression towards greater liberty and enlightenment, culminating in liberal democracy and constitutional monarchy. monarchism and other archaic forms of leadership such as cameralism.
In 2007 and 2008, Yarvin articulated what would develop into Dark Enlightenment thinking. Yarvin’s theories were elaborated and expanded by Land, who first coined the term Dark Enlightenment in his essay of the same name. Jessica Klein, who defines Dark Enlightenment as a disturbing philosophy in an article, states that it’s what would happen if more members of the alt-right read Nietzsche and H.P. Lovecraft instead of Donald Trump’s tweets. She reminded that “at its core, the Dark Enlightenment is a neo-reactionary philosophy started by Nick Land, a continental philosophy professor at the University of Warwick until the late 1990s. There, he cofounded the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit with colleague Sadie Plant, whose writing went on to influence cyberfeminism.”
In 2012, Land’s online manifesto condemns democracy and cites libertarians like Peter Thiel, quoting his belief that freedom and democracy are not “compatible.” It has ten parts, compares immigrants to zombies before you can scroll even a quarter of the way through, and quotes major political and cultural figures ranging from Alexander Hamilton to Winston Churchill, noting Hobbes, Marx, the Terminator, and, importantly, Mencius Moldbug.
Klein writes that Moldbug has endorsed slavery, noting that some races are “better suited” for it than others. He also believes that feudalism is superior to democracy. In his modern feudalism, kingdoms would instead look like corporations, with CEOs as sovereigns. Without those pesky chains of democracy holding him back, the CEO can make decisions that would be necessarily beneficial because they’d be financially profitable. The CEO would have a very high IQ, or would perhaps be a cyborg, exemplifying the crossroads where eugenics and the singularity merge in a horrific, sci-fi dystopia. Kind of like the 1997 movie Gattaca, except that some people actually want it to happen.
The Dark Enlightenment has been described by journalists and commentators as alt-right and neo-fascist. A 2016 article, written by Park MacDougald in New York magazine, notes that “Neoreaction has a number of different strains, but perhaps the most important is a form of post-libertarian futurism that, realizing that libertarians aren’t likely to win any elections, argues against democracy in favor of authoritarian forms of government. ”
Some consider the Dark Enlightenment part of the alt-right, its theoretical branch. The Dark Enlightenment has been labelled neo-fascist and “an acceleration of capitalism to a fascist point”. Land disputes this, claiming that “fascism is a mass anti-capitalist movement” a point of view that is not corroborated by historical knowledge about the economics of fascism. Journalist and pundit James Kirchick says in an article that “although neo-reactionary thinkers disdain the masses and claim to despise populism and people more generally, what ties them to the rest of the alt-right is their unapologetically racist element, their shared misanthropy and their resentment of mismanagement by the ruling elites.”
Klein asserts that though closely associated with the alt-right, the Dark Enlightenment is more elitist than populist. She writes “That ‘selective breeding’ Dark Enlightenment proponents are a fan of should be, in their eyes, between people with high IQs — white people with high IQs, or maybe East Asians, if you’re reading Land’s blog. Trump, in Land’s view, is indicative of democracy’s broken nature, not a cause for celebration — even though you’d think his xenophobic, white supremacist views would line up neatly with the Dark Enlightenment’s. Turns out Trump isn’t intellectually enlightened enough. ”
Meanwhile, according to an article by Olivia Goldhill, Benjamin Noys, who is a critical theory professor at the University of Chichester, claims that Dark Enlightenment proponents see themselves as “the philosophical masters” of the alt-right movement. “Land sees himself as above all that, as a Philosopher King of a movement that’s too populist and grubby for this liking,” says Noys. “He’s part of this continuum, that’s pretty clear. But he’s fighting to distinguish himself from the more populist end of things.”
Klein also says that there’s an overlap between the Dark Enlightenment and the white supremacist, anti-immigration groups, like the VDARE Foundation. According to her article, the Southern Poverty Law Center describes the VDARE site as “a place where relatively intellectually inclined leaders of the anti-immigrant movement share their opinions.” One of its biggest contributors is Peter Brimelow. Both he and Land have been connected to the LD50 art gallery in London, which has provided a platform for neo-reactionaries and neo-Nazis. The Shut Down LD50 Tumblr specifically points to Land promoting “racism, in its eugenic, ethnonationalist, and cultural varieties.”
Eliana Johnson and Eli Stokols reported that former Trump strategist Steve Bannon is a fan of Dark Enlightenment. They wrote that Moldbug has reportedly opened up a line to the White House, communicating with Bannon and his aides through an intermediary.
Curtis Yarvin
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| Born | 1973 (age 51–52) |
| Nationality | American |
| Other names | Mencius Moldbug |
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| Spouse(s) | Jennifer Kollmer (died 2021) Kristine Militello (2024–) |
| School | Neo-monarchism Neo-reactionism Dark Enlightenment Anti-egalitarianism Anti-democracy Anti-liberalism Neocameralism Technofeudalism |
| Website | Unqualified Reservations – his old blog Gray Mirror – his new blog |
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Curtis Guy Yarvin (born 1973), also known by the pen name Mencius Moldbug, is an American blogger. He is known, along with philosopher Nick Land, for founding the anti-egalitarian and anti-democratic philosophical movement known as the Dark Enlightenment or neo-reactionary movement (NRx).[1][2][3][4]
In his blog Unqualified Reservations, which he wrote from 2007 to 2014, and in his later newsletter Gray Mirror, which he started in 2020, he argues that American democracy is a failed experiment[5] that should be replaced by an accountable monarchy, similar to the governance structure of corporations.[6] In 2002, Yarvin began work on a personal software project that eventually became the Urbit networked computing platform. In 2013, he co-founded the company Tlon to oversee the Urbit project and helped lead it until 2019.[7]
Yarvin has been described as a "neo-reactionary", "neo-monarchist" and "neo-feudalist" who "sees liberalism as creating a Matrix-like totalitarian system, and who wants to replace American democracy with a sort of techno-monarchy".[8][9][10][11] He has defended the institution of slavery, and has suggested that certain races may be more naturally inclined toward servitude than others.[12][13] He has claimed that whites have higher IQs than black people, but does not consider himself a white nationalist. He is a critic of US civil rights programs, and has called the civil rights movement a "black-rage industry".[14]
Yarvin has influenced some prominent Silicon Valley investors and Republican politicians, with venture capitalist Peter Thiel described as his "most important connection".[15] Political strategist Steve Bannon has read and admired his work.[16] U.S. Vice President JD Vance has cited Yarvin as an influence.[17][18][19] Michael Anton, the State Department Director of Policy Planning during Trump's second presidency, has also discussed Yarvin's ideas.[20] In January 2025, Yarvin attended a Trump inaugural gala in Washington; Politico reported he was "an informal guest of honor" due to his "outsize influence over the Trumpian right."[21]
Biography
[edit]Early life and education
[edit]Curtis Guy Yarvin[22] was born in 1973 to a liberal, secular family.[23] His grandparents on his father's side were Jewish American and communists. His father, Herbert Yarvin, worked for the US government as a diplomat,[24] and his mother was a Protestant from Westchester County.[25] In 1985, he entered Johns Hopkins' longitudinal Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth. In 1988, Yarvin graduated from Wilde Lake High School,[26] a public high school in the planned community of Columbia, Maryland.
He attended Brown University from 1988 to 1992, then was a graduate student in a computer science PhD program at UC Berkeley before dropping out after a year and a half to join a tech company.[27][25] During the 1990s, Yarvin was influenced by the libertarian tech culture of Silicon Valley.[27] Yarvin read right-wing and American conservative works. The libertarian University of Tennessee law professor Glenn Reynolds introduced him to writers like Ludwig von Mises and Murray Rothbard. The rejection of empiricism by Mises and the Austrian School, who favored instead deduction from first principles, influenced Yarvin's mindset.[28]
Yarvin's pen name, Mencius Moldbug, is a combination of the Confucian philosopher "Mencius" and a play on "goldbug."[24]
Urbit
[edit]In 2002, Yarvin founded the Urbit computer platform as a decentralized network of personal servers. In 2013, he co-founded the San Francisco-based company Tlön Corp to build out Urbit further with funding from Peter Thiel's venture capital arm, the Founders Fund.[29][30] In 2016, Yarvin was invited to present on the functional programming aspects of Urbit at LambdaConf 2016, which resulted in the withdrawal of five speakers, two sub-conferences, and several sponsors.[31][32] Yarvin left Tlön in January 2019, but retains some intellectual and financial involvement in the development of Urbit.[7]
Neo-reactionary blogging
[edit]Yarvin's reading of Thomas Carlyle convinced him that libertarianism was a doomed project without the inclusion of authoritarianism, and Hans-Hermann Hoppe's 2001 book Democracy: The God That Failed marked Yarvin's first break with democracy. Another influence was James Burnham, who asserted that real politics occurred through the actions of elites, beneath what he called apparent democratic or socialist rhetoric.[33] In the 2000s, the failures of US-led nation-building in Iraq and Afghanistan strengthened Yarvin's anti-democratic views, the federal response to the 2008 financial crisis strengthened his libertarian convictions, and Barack Obama's election as US president later that year reinforced his belief that history inevitably progresses toward left-leaning societies.[34]
In 2007, Yarvin began the blog Unqualified Reservations to promote his political vision.[35] In an early blog post, he adapted a phrase from the movie The Matrix, repurposing "red pill" to mean a shattering of progressive illusions.[25] He largely stopped updating his blog in 2013, when he began to focus on Urbit; in April 2016, he announced that Unqualified Reservations had "completed its mission".[36]
In 2020, Yarvin began blogging his views on under the page name Gray Mirror.[18] His posts, such as "Reflections on the late election" (2020) and "The butterfly revolution" (2022), are thought experiments on how to achieve an American coup and replace democracy with a new form of monarchy, ideas that critics have described as "fascist".[37]
In January 2025, Yarvin attended a Trump inaugural gala in Washington, D.C., hosted by the far-right publishing house Passage Press; Politico reported he was "an informal guest of honor" due to his "outsize[d] influence over the Trumpian right."[38]
Views
[edit]Dark Enlightenment
[edit]Yarvin believes that real political power in the United States is held by something he calls "the Cathedral", an informal amalgam of universities and the mainstream press, which collude to sway public opinion.[39] According to him, a so-called "Brahmin" social class (in reference to the Brahmin class of India's caste system and the American Boston Brahmin) dominates American society, preaching progressive values to the masses. The socio-religious analogy originates from Yarvin's opinion that the progressive ideology of the Cathedral is delivered to and internalized by the general populace much in the same way religious authorities and institutions deliver religious dogma to fanatical worshippers. Yarvin and the Dark Enlightenment (sometimes abbreviated to "NRx") movement assert that the Cathedral's commitment to equality and justice erodes social order.[40] He advocates an American 'monarch' dissolving elite academic institutions and media outlets within the first few months of their reign.[37]
Drawing on computer metaphors, Yarvin contends that society needs a "hard reset" or a "rebooting", not a series of gradual political reforms.[41] Instead of activism, he advocates passivism, claiming that progressivism would fail without right-wing opposition.[42] According to him, NRx adherents should rather design "new architectures of exit" than engage in ineffective political activism.[43]
Yarvin argues for a "neo-cameralist" philosophy based on Frederick the Great of Prussia's cameralism.[44] In Yarvin's view, democratic governments are inefficient and wasteful and should be replaced with sovereign joint-stock corporations whose "shareholders" (large owners) elect an executive with total power, but who must serve at their pleasure.[41] The executive, unencumbered by liberal-democratic procedures, could rule efficiently much like a CEO-monarch.[41] Yarvin admires Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping for his pragmatic and market-oriented authoritarianism, and the city-state of Singapore as an example of a successful authoritarian regime. He sees the US as soft on crime, dominated by economic and democratic delusions.[40]
Yarvin supports authoritarianism on right-libertarian grounds, claiming that the division of political sovereignty expands the scope of the state, whereas strong governments with clear hierarchies remain minimal and narrowly focused.[40] According to scholar Joshua Tait, "Moldbug imagines a radical libertarian utopia with maximum freedom in all things except politics."[45] He has favored same-sex marriage, freedom of religion, and private use of drugs, and has written against race- or gender-based discriminatory laws, although, according to Tait, "he self-consciously proposed private welfare and prison reforms that resembled slavery".[41] Tait describes Yarvin's writing as contradictory, saying: "He advocates hierarchy, yet deeply resents cultural elites. His political vision is futuristic and libertarian, yet expressed in the language of monarchy and reaction. He is irreligious and socially liberal on many issues but angrily anti-progressive. He presents himself as a thinker searching for truth but admits to lying to his readers, saturating his arguments with jokes and irony. These tensions indicate broader fissures among the online Right."[27]
Under his Moldbug pseudonym, Yarvin gave a talk about "rebooting" the American government at the 2012 BIL Conference. He used it to advocate the acronym "RAGE", which he defined as "Retire All Government Employees". He described what he felt were flaws in the accepted "World War II mythology", alluding to the idea that Hitler's invasions were acts of self-defense. He argued these discrepancies were pushed by America's "ruling communists", who invented political correctness as an "extremely elaborate mechanism for persecuting racists and fascists". "If Americans want to change their government," he said, "they're going to have to get over their dictator phobia."[46]
In the inaugural article published on Unqualified Reservations in 2007, entitled a formalist manifesto, Yarvin called his concept of aligning property rights with political power "formalism", that is, the formal recognition of realities of the existing power, which should eventually be replaced in his views by a new ideology that rejects progressive doctrines transmitted by the Cathedral.[45][47] Yarvin's first use of the term "neoreactionary" to describe his project occurred in 2008.[48][49] His ideas have also been described by Dylan Matthews of Vox as "neo-monarchist".[9]
Yarvin's ideas have been influential among right-libertarians and paleolibertarians, and the public discourses of prominent investors like Peter Thiel have echoed Yarvin's project of seceding from the United States to establish tech-CEO dictatorships.[50][15] Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, an informal adviser to Donald Trump, has spoken approvingly of Yarvin's thinking.[51] Political strategist Steve Bannon has read and admired his work.[16] Vice-president JD Vance has cited Yarvin as an influence, saying in 2021, "So there's this guy Curtis Yarvin who has written about these things," which included "Retire All Government Employees," or RAGE, written in 2012. Vance said that if Trump became president again, "I think what Trump should do, if I was giving him one piece of advice: Fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, and replace them with our people. And when the courts stop you, stand before the country and say, 'The chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.'"[17][52]
Yarvin suggested in a January 2025 New York Times interview that there was historical precedent to support his reasoning, asserting that in his first inaugural address FDR "essentially says, Hey, Congress, give me absolute power, or I'll take it anyway. So did FDR actually take that level of power? Yeah, he did." The interviewer, David Marchese, remarked that "Yarvin relies on what those sympathetic to his views might see as a helpful serving of historical references — and what others see as a highly distorting mix of gross oversimplification, cherry-picking and personal interpretation presented as fact."[51]
According to Tait, "Moldbug's relationship with the investor-entrepreneur Thiel is his most important connection."[15] Thiel was an investor in Yarvin's startup Tlon and gave $100,000 to Tlon's co-founder John Burnham in 2011.[53][15] In 2016, Yarvin privately asserted to Milo Yiannopoulos that he had been "coaching Thiel" and that he had watched the 2016 US election at Thiel's house.[54] In his writings, Yarvin has pointed to a 2009 essay by Thiel, in which the latter declared: "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible... Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women—two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians—have rendered the notion of 'capitalist democracy' into an oxymoron."[55]
Investor Balaji Srinivasan has also echoed Yarvin's ideas of techno-corporate cameralism. He advocated in a 2013 speech a "society run by Silicon Valley [...] an opt-in society, ultimately outside the US, run by technology."[56][15]
Alt-right
[edit]Yarvin has been described as part of the alt-right by journalists and commentators.[44][57][10] Journalist Mike Wendling has called Yarvin "the alt-right's favorite philosophy instructor".[58][44] Tait describes Unqualified Reservations as a "'highbrow' predecessor and later companion to the transgressive anti-'politically correct' metapolitics of nebulous online communities like 4chan and /pol/."[15] Yarvin has publicly distanced himself from the alt-right. In a private message, Yarvin counseled Milo Yiannopoulos, then a reporter at Breitbart News, to deal with neo-Nazis "the way some perfectly tailored high-communist NYT reporter handles a herd of greasy anarchist hippies. Patronizing contempt. Your heart is in the right place, young lady, now get a shower and shave those pits."[59]
Writing in Vanity Fair, James Pogue said of Yarvin:
In Commonweal, Matt McManus said of Yarvin:
Yarvin came to public attention in February 2017 when Politico magazine reported that Steve Bannon, who served as White House Chief Strategist under U.S. President Donald Trump, read Yarvin's blog and that Yarvin "has reportedly opened up a line to the White House, communicating with Bannon and his aides through an intermediary."[62] The story was picked up by other magazines and newspapers, including The Atlantic, The Independent, and Mother Jones.[44][63][64] Yarvin denied to Vox that he was in contact with Bannon in any way,[9] but he jokingly told The Atlantic that his White House contact was the Twitter user Bronze Age Pervert.[44] Yarvin later gave a copy of Bronze Age Pervert's book Bronze Age Mindset to Michael Anton, a former senior national security official in the first Trump administration. Trump also named Anton to be the U.S. State Department Director of Policy Planning in his second presidency.[65][66][67]
In a May 2021 conversation, Anton said Yarvin was arguing that a president could "gain power lawfully through an election, and then exercise it unlawfully." Yarvin replied, "It wouldn't be unlawful. You'd simply declare a state of emergency in your inaugural address," adding, "you'd actually have a mandate to do this. Where would that mandate come from? It would come from basically running on it, saying, 'Hey, this is what we're going to do.'" He continued that if a hypothetical authoritarian president were to take office in January 2025, "you can't continue to have a Harvard or a New York Times past since perhaps the start of April" because "the idea that you're going to be a Caesar and take power and operate with someone else's Department of Reality in operation is just manifestly absurd. Machiavelli could tell you right away that that's a stupid idea."[20]
Views on race
[edit]Yarvin has alleged that whites have higher IQs than blacks for genetic reasons. He has been described as a modern-day supporter of slavery, a description he disputes.[68][31] He has claimed that some races are more suited to slavery than others.[31] In a post that linked approvingly to Steve Sailer and Jared Taylor, he wrote: "It should be obvious that, although I am not a white nationalist, I am not exactly allergic to the stuff."[44][69] In 2009, he wrote that since US civil rights programs were "applied to populations with recent hunter-gatherer ancestry and no great reputation for sturdy moral fiber", the result was "absolute human garbage."[70]
Yarvin disputes accusations of racism,[68] and in his essays, "Why I am not a White Nationalist" and "Why I am not an Anti-Semite," he offered a somewhat sympathetic analysis of those ideologies before ultimately rejecting them.[25] He has also described the use of IQ tests to determine superiority as "creepy".[31]
Personal life
[edit]Yarvin was married to Jennifer Kollmer, who died in 2021 and with whom he had two children.[71] He was briefly engaged to writer Lydia Laurenson, with whom he has one child.[60][72][73] He married Kristine Militello in 2024.[74]
He is an atheist.[24]
Ο Κέρτις Γκάι Γιάρβιν (γεν. 1973), γνωστός και ως Mencius Moldbug, είναι Αμερικανός μπλόγκερ και τεχνολόγος, που θεωρείται ιδρυτής του νεο-αντιδραστικού (NRx) κινήματος, γνωστού και ως "Σκοτεινός Διαφωτισμός" (Dark Enlightenment). Μέσα από τα ιστολόγιά του Unqualified Reservations (2007-2014) και Gray Mirror (από το 2020), προωθεί αντικοινοβουλευτικές και αντιφιλελεύθερες απόψεις, υποστηρίζοντας την αντικατάσταση της δημοκρατίας με μια "τεχνο-μοναρχία", εμπνευσμένη από εταιρικά διοικητικά μοντέλα.
Είναι δημιουργός της πλατφόρμας Urbit και συνιδρυτής της εταιρείας Tlön (2013), με επενδύσεις από τον Πίτερ Τιλ. Οι ιδέες του έχουν επηρεάσει συντηρητικούς διανοούμενους, επιχειρηματίες της Silicon Valley και πολιτικούς, όπως ο Τζ. Ντ. Βανς και ο Στιβ Μπάνον.
Ο Γιάρβιν χρησιμοποιεί έννοιες όπως ο "Καθεδρικός" (Cathedral) – ένας υποτιθέμενος συνδυασμός πανεπιστημίων και μέσων ενημέρωσης που ελέγχει την κοινή γνώμη – και προτείνει την ανατροπή του καθεστώτος μέσω μιας "επαναφοράς συστήματος". Έχει υπερασπιστεί την απολυταρχία, ενώ κάποιες δηλώσεις του έχουν επικριθεί ως ρατσιστικές.
Παρά την αποστασιοποίησή του από την alt-right, οι ιδέες του έχουν συνδεθεί με την αμερικανική άκρα δεξιά και έχουν επηρεάσει τη σύγχρονη συντηρητική σκέψη στις ΗΠΑ.
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