Great interview. Curtis Yarvin is funny, clearly very intelligent, and presents numerous valid points about society, America, power and democracy ("democracy"?). I do not agree with his initial premise, which is that, basically, civilization has failed. We're going to toss out everything because of endless interventionism, gender studies professors run amok, and the fact there is no longer an economy in the Rust Belt...? For someone who makes repeated points about the need to dwell in reality, it does not seem very realistic that all members of society, least of all its most elite, are going to suddenly pivot in their beliefs and that society is going to change via top down fiat. Yarvin is every bit as much a social planner as are the far-leftists that want to re-make the world's 7 billion people into an egalitarian utopia.
I think emphasizing a voluntary/cooperative hierarchy built on trust (real leadership) would be a lot easier to accept for most people than the idea of subjugating oneself. Secondary to innate differences a free society will be hierarchical. It always takes violence to try to impose egalitarianism for this reason. Is this not a much more attractive (and accurate) message? The left tries to wield the bitterness of envy and jealousy to interfere with the formation of these mutually beneficial relationships. If this can be better understood, it can be thwarted.
Great interview. Curtis Yarvin is funny, clearly very intelligent, and presents numerous valid points about society, America, power and democracy ("democracy"?). I do not agree with his initial premise, which is that, basically, civilization has failed. We're going to toss out everything because of endless interventionism, gender studies professors run amok, and the fact there is no longer an economy in the Rust Belt...? For someone who makes repeated points about the need to dwell in reality, it does not seem very realistic that all members of society, least of all its most elite, are going to suddenly pivot in their beliefs and that society is going to change via top down fiat. Yarvin is every bit as much a social planner as are the far-leftists that want to re-make the world's 7 billion people into an egalitarian utopia.
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I think emphasizing a voluntary/cooperative hierarchy built on trust (real leadership) would be a lot easier to accept for most people than the idea of subjugating oneself. Secondary to innate differences a free society will be hierarchical. It always takes violence to try to impose egalitarianism for this reason. Is this not a much more attractive (and accurate) message? The left tries to wield the bitterness of envy and jealousy to interfere with the formation of these mutually beneficial relationships. If this can be better understood, it can be thwarted.