Reading this interview I was shocked at how binary and lacking real-world complexity Yarvin's worldview is once he himself drills into it... and the fact very wealthy, very powerful people think he's a political philosophy savant of some sort is super scary.
Well said and I absolutely agree. He is incredibly frightening and to think that he has the ear of our vice president and other influential leaders is truly unnerving.
There are so many people who are so full of hate for anyone who is not like them, it is heartbreaking to grasp the full scope of it.
It turns out that billionaires love being told they deserve to rule the world like kings and Yarvin provides them the requisite intellectual veneer to make monarchy seem less primitive and greedy to ignorant followers.
I guess we all just get to watch what happens and who will remain standing once these barely able to stand each other factions start to eat each other alive.
UGH, this timeline suckkks.
Ayn Rand did the same thing & others before that. They grow up reading this crap from con artists, it strokes their egos & they use it as an excuse to violently harm people & steal.
Thank you.
Definitely a chilling read and very relevant to our currently occurring technological coup. I wish more people would see the truth of all this now, before stuff gets TRULY awful.
Additional interesting perspective is the layer of 1930s Technocracy Movement in Canada that captivated Elon Musk’s grandfather, and the line through South Africa to the “PayPal Mafia” to Elon Musk as America’s probationary C.E.O. Today…
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This man is scary.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/01/30/curtis-yarvins-ideas-00201552
I'm non violent but even I'd like to smack the crap out of him
There are so many people who are so full of hate for anyone who is not like them, it is heartbreaking to grasp the full scope of it.
UGH, this timeline suckkks.
Definitely a chilling read and very relevant to our currently occurring technological coup. I wish more people would see the truth of all this now, before stuff gets TRULY awful.
As a long-time Lapham reader: Wow!