One of the dumbest features of the new right is this idea that prestige and influence are just resources that can be sstolen or extracted from the world, like iron ore. Rather than social relationships that need to be cultivated through specific political and cultural practices. - ThreadSky

nicholashandler.bsky.social • 24 days ago

One of the dumbest features of the new right is this idea that prestige and influence are just resources that can be sstolen or extracted from the world, like iron ore. Rather than social relationships that need to be cultivated through specific political and cultural practices.

Reposted from K. Thor Jensen

Ugly cretin Yarvin really exposing the plan here. The right doesn’t want institutions like Harvard and Hollywood destroyed. They want them to be forced to use their cultural power to present their shitty unpopular ideas as if they were good and popular www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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pfish.zone•23 days ago

of course one of the dumbest features of the elite center-left is the willingness to give the right that prestige and influence

pinktweets.bsky.social•24 days ago

Yarvin read Ayn Rand when he was in the 8th grade and his intellectual development stopped there.

plootube.bsky.social•24 days ago

The lesson they should all be learning is that the reverse is true. When prestige and influence overlap with their bullshit it evaporates and is replaced by humiliation and ruin.

See: Rudolph Giuliani
See: Elon Musk

And so on…

djmccann.bsky.social•24 days ago

If any of them had a mature brain they would look at what is happening to Tesla, which had a brand reputation and cultural footprint well beyond its actual output and has seen those utterly trashed by enthusiastic association with the wrong people, and know that this is not the case.

obliqueirony.bsky.social•24 days ago

Why don’t these guys just put their (boundless) time, energy, & money into starting a film studio to do their zany Camp of the Saints/Turner Diaries movies? Eugenicist sci-fi, Latin-Mass Catholic revanchism, stuff like that.

Earn your prestige & influence, knuckleheads.

nicholashandler.bsky.social•24 days ago

Also, we really need a moratorium on referring to these guys as intellectuals. They are mostly very dumb. Yarvin writes like a 14 year old.

nicholashandler.bsky.social•24 days ago

If you shake down Harvard and put a bunch of Yarvinites in charge of it, the Yarvinites don't become more influential. Harvard becomes less influential. Because it has stopped exhibiting any of the features of intellectual rigor and open-mindedness that made it influential in the first place.

bluegrin.bsky.social•24 days ago

Why would you say that? It's worked so well for so many media institutions that became Potemkin content farms for right wing ideas, like Forbes and Newsweek. /s

jessealston.bsky.social•24 days ago

Funny how difficult it is for Yarvin and his ilk to understand that the reason Harvard and Yale are the best universities in the world is that they are the best universities in the world

honestquestion.bsky.social•24 days ago

These guys are so tortured. Every right wing nut ball calling for the destruction of Harvard, also insists it’s already ruined, and also jumps at any chance to present themselves on campus…and let everyone know about it. The intellectual dishonesty is exhausting. Harvard will prevail.

lawrencemoratl.bsky.social•24 days ago

Sounds an awful lot like Nouveau Riche who think they can enter the ranks of “respectable society” by buying the biggest house, the fanciest cars, the best schools for their kids, etc. They are NEVER going to be let into the enclave of Old Money.

zekeskitchen.bsky.social•24 days ago

A similar feature is simple solutions to endlessly complex questions; zero sum thinking. Oh we will just move that one thing to here now and that will fix the problem.

heppy111.bsky.social•24 days ago

It's the underlying sense of "we want all the trappings of civilisation; but only for us few, you understand, not you plebs" that really sells his argument, I feel.

jeninmotion.bsky.social•24 days ago

It's honestly sovcit thinking. Say the magic formula and people must do what you say AND like it.

tck-original.bsky.social•24 days ago

Same ole one-trick-pony Radical Right Wing: it is Vulture Capitalism, but for culture.

skeezix.bsky.social•24 days ago

Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. I'd been trying to put words to this thought for a while and couldn't figure it out. I love following people smarter than me.

eruanion.bsky.social•24 days ago

sounds to me that they are upset that even getting wealthy doesn't make them part of that group of elites like the Bush family....

marymacdougall.bsky.social•24 days ago

And that they really haven't been discriminated against; their 19th-century ideas are terrible, and scholars rightly reject them for the most part.

twitonatrain.bsky.social•24 days ago

See the saga of the blue tick on Twitter.

Musk's fundamental misunderstanding of what the blue tick was highly illuminating. They idea of thing that you couldn't buy was completely at odds with his world view.

chimpzilla.bsky.social•23 days ago

Incel as a political ideology

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