* has said that American democracy is a failed experiment,
* has said he wants to replace American democracy with an "accountable" "techno-monarchy",
* has said that liberalism is creating a Matrix-like totalitarian system,
* has said that certain races may be more naturally inclined toward servitude than others, and
* has said that whites have inherently higher IQs than black people.
I am... speechless.
eschaton · 3h ago
A perfectly reasonable and proper reaction to learning who and what Yarvin is.
What does it say about Musk that he’d ask Yarvin for political advice? (Nothing surprising, to those of us who have been paying attention…)
joules77 · 2h ago
Trump and Musk are propped up by the Attention Economy algos. They never got this level of Attention from anyone before these algos started running.
The Attention pool is finite and non growing. So its like a fight over finite land. Plus who captures more Attention shifts constantly. These are games no one wins because the game is not even designed for a end/win state.
The day the algos give Trump more Attention, Musk feels like he is loosing land and vice versa, making them both do and say and seek out more and more extreme stuff. One day they will use Yarvin, the next Epstein, the next Aliens etc etc.
> Vance described two possibilities that many on the New Right imagine — that our system will either fall apart naturally, or that a great leader will assume semi-dictatorial powers. “So there’s this guy Curtis Yarvin, who has written about some of these things,” Vance said. Murphy chortled knowingly. “So one [option] is to basically accept that this entire thing is going to fall in on itself,” Vance went on. “And so the task of conservatives right now is to preserve as much as can be preserved,” waiting for the “inevitable collapse” of the current order. He said he thought this was pessimistic. “I tend to think that we should seize the institutions of the left,” he said. “And turn them against the left. We need like a de-Baathification program, a de-woke-ification program.” “I think Trump is going to run again in 2024,” he said. “I think that 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, replace them with our people.” “And when the courts stop you,” he went on, “stand before the country, and say—” he quoted Andrew Jackson, giving a challenge to the entire constitutional order—“the chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.” This is a description, essentially, of a coup.
* has said that American democracy is a failed experiment,
* has said he wants to replace American democracy with an "accountable" "techno-monarchy",
* has said that liberalism is creating a Matrix-like totalitarian system,
* has said that certain races may be more naturally inclined toward servitude than others, and
* has said that whites have inherently higher IQs than black people.
I am... speechless.
What does it say about Musk that he’d ask Yarvin for political advice? (Nothing surprising, to those of us who have been paying attention…)
The Attention pool is finite and non growing. So its like a fight over finite land. Plus who captures more Attention shifts constantly. These are games no one wins because the game is not even designed for a end/win state.
The day the algos give Trump more Attention, Musk feels like he is loosing land and vice versa, making them both do and say and seek out more and more extreme stuff. One day they will use Yarvin, the next Epstein, the next Aliens etc etc.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/inside-the-new-right...
> Vance described two possibilities that many on the New Right imagine — that our system will either fall apart naturally, or that a great leader will assume semi-dictatorial powers. “So there’s this guy Curtis Yarvin, who has written about some of these things,” Vance said. Murphy chortled knowingly. “So one [option] is to basically accept that this entire thing is going to fall in on itself,” Vance went on. “And so the task of conservatives right now is to preserve as much as can be preserved,” waiting for the “inevitable collapse” of the current order. He said he thought this was pessimistic. “I tend to think that we should seize the institutions of the left,” he said. “And turn them against the left. We need like a de-Baathification program, a de-woke-ification program.” “I think Trump is going to run again in 2024,” he said. “I think that 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, replace them with our people.” “And when the courts stop you,” he went on, “stand before the country, and say—” he quoted Andrew Jackson, giving a challenge to the entire constitutional order—“the chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.” This is a description, essentially, of a coup.