Curtis Yarvin

For obvious reasons of human psychology, journalists—like other historians—are likely to favor political systems in which they themselves are more important and powerful.Ibid.

— Curtis Yarvin power

Did you ever wonder why nationalism seemed so similar, right down to the names of the parties in, say, Algeria, Indonesia, and Vietnam? What did Algeria, Indonesia, and Vietnam have in common? Certainly nothing that could be described as Algerian, Indonesian, or Vietnamese. Oh, no. What they had in common was that they all had friends—or, more precisely, sponsors—at Harvard.Ibid.

— Curtis Yarvin art

You are probably used to worrying about the crimes of your government overseas, but not in this way. You have an eagle eye for the crimes of the Defense Department. When it comes to the crimes of the State Department, you have the approximate visual acuity of the average snail.Ibid.

— Curtis Yarvin art

Universities are no longer institutions of scholarship. They are revolutionary seminaries. Their product is cadre.Roberts and Easterbrook

— Curtis Yarvin evolution

The general modus operandi of the Progressive movement in attaining power was to cause problems, then appoint themselves to fix them.The Democrats: party of lies

— Curtis Yarvin art

The irony of the postwar age is that this reign of global peace, this universalist millennium, was achieved by the Allied victory in the most ruthless war in modern history, in which neither side displayed the slightest respect for enemy civilians.The mystery of pacifism

— Curtis Yarvin war

— Curtis Yarvin art

In reality, progressives dont like actual Negroes any more than they like democracy. They have no love at all for the poor. What they love is to pick them up, turn them into feral barbarians, encourage them to devastate civilized society, and provide millions of jobs for themselves caring for the animalistic, burned-out shell of what was formerly one of North Americas great cultures.They Say Racist!! Your Reply Is

— Curtis Yarvin love

— Curtis Yarvin art

Once you go to college, you are no longer in the real America. You are in a fortified outpost of future America, which has been planted in the real America to enlighten and assimilate it.How I stopped believing in democracy

— Curtis Yarvin future

No one observing the Western governments today can fail to be struck by a massive sense of sleepwalking. There is no unified consciousness or purpose behind their actions. Each of their decisions is an atom unto itself, made through an almost ritualized process by a large number of very intelligent, talented, and ambitious people, whose abilities tend to cancel each other almost perfectly, leaving nothing but a chilling bureaucratic continuity.Return to Castle Goldenstein: the gold market in a nutshell

— Curtis Yarvin people

In any responsible position, no formula or computer given present technology can replace human decisions, because no formula can exhibit wisdom or exercise judgment. These essentially human qualities are essential for any responsible position, but most of all in the most responsible position of all: sovereign command. And all organizations, big or small, public or private, military or civilian, are managed best when managed by a single executive. Hence: royalism. However he or she is selected, the title of such an executive, in a sovereign capacity, is King—or, at least, anything else is a euphemism. And why trade in euphemisms?From Mises to Carlyle: my sick journey to the dark side of the force

— Curtis Yarvin wisdom

Good does not tolerate evil, but drives it out entirely. If you see a process inviting further evil, it may well be compromised itself. Chaos breeds more chaos; order must extirpate it entirely, or surrender to it.From Mises to Carlyle: my sick journey to the dark side of the force

— Curtis Yarvin evil

I see this Hitler-was-a-liberal trope catching on all over the right. Of course, it is a leftist trope—in two senses. First, the tactic of tarring all political adversaries with some abstruse connection to fascism in general, and Hitler in particular, is of course a characteristic tactic of the Left. Second, the tactic of disseminating a palpable misreading of history, for political purposes—etc.From Mises to Carlyle: my sick journey to the dark side of the force

— Curtis Yarvin art

To a Carlylean, the main event is the struggle between left and right. Which is the struggle between good and evil. Which is the struggle between order and chaos. Evil is chaos; good is order. Evil is left; good is right. Evil is fiction; good is truth.From Mises to Carlyle: my sick journey to the dark side of the force

— Curtis Yarvin truth

Freedom is good, because freedom is fundamentally orderly—i.e. right-wing. Tyranny is evil, because tyranny is chaotic—i.e. left-wing.From Mises to Carlyle: my sick journey to the dark side of the force

— Curtis Yarvin freedom

Here is the Carlylean roadmap for the Misesian goal. Spontaneous order, also known as freedom, is the highest level of a political pyramid of needs. These needs are: peace, security, law, and freedom. To advance order, always work for the next step—without skipping steps. In a state of war, advance toward peace; in a state of insecurity, advance toward security; in a state of security, advance toward law; in a state of law, advance toward freedom.From Mises to Carlyle: my sick journey to the dark side of the force

— Curtis Yarvin war

But the libertarian artillery officer faces a serious moral dilemma. Does artillery violate the natural rights of the target? I would say: the entire purpose of artillery is to violate the natural rights of the target. Clearly, if you could get your hands on the people your artillery is pointed at, and subject them to a full and fair judicial trial for whatever their offenses may be, you would have no need at all for artillery. Since you have no means by which to achieve this, you subject them to a 120-mm shell instead. Hence violating their natural rights—with both blast and shrapnel. When they may have committed no offenses at all.From Mises to Carlyle: my sick journey to the dark side of the force

— Curtis Yarvin art

In certain rare instances, systematic crime can be legalized, and thus become orderly. Indeed, if the states orders are physically unenforceable, it should reconsider them. It cannot outlaw the moon.From Mises to Carlyle: my sick journey to the dark side of the force

— Curtis Yarvin journey

Here we meet a good old friend, martial law—yet another traditional attribute of sovereignty recognized for millennia, yet strangely forgotten in the late twentieth century. Martial law is no law at all, of course, but the arbitrary will of a military commander. It is really martial order. And there are countries in the world—quite a few, in fact—that need martial order, the way a camel thats just walked across Libya needs a glass of water.From Mises to Carlyle: my sick journey to the dark side of the force

— Curtis Yarvin art

The question all conservatives, libertarians and reactionaries need to be asking themselves: how do we organize to seize power? For me, the winning combination is the combination of absolute government with absolute truth.Not in the mood

— Curtis Yarvin truth

Therefore, my program is to find the truth first and the power later. This means that counting heads—one, ten, a thousand, a million—is for the present entirely superfluous and irrelevant. Counting heads is building democratic power—which is, essentially, military power. I would rather have ten people, all in possession of the same absolute truth, than ten million Tea Partiers who agree on nothing but glittering lies and myths. For my ten is a viable government in exile—if they somehow gained power, they would keep it—whereas your ten million have no real collective identity at all. Even if they grow to a hundred million and elect all the politicians in Washington, actual power will elude them, the bureaucrats will wrap them around their fingers, and they will evaporate, disappear, and become jokes, like all twentieth-century American conservative movements.Not in the mood

— Curtis Yarvin truth

The basic premise of UR is that all the competing twentieth-century systems of government, including the Western democracies which came out on top and which rule us to this day, are best classified as Orwellian. They maintain their legitimacy by shaping public opinion. They shape public opinion by sculpting the information presented to the public. As part of that public, you peruse the world through a lens poured by your government.A gentle introduction to Unqualified Reservations part 1

— Curtis Yarvin art

In other words, our so-called democracy is dependent not on the wisdom of the people, but on the internal power politics of the official church. If these politics produce a political platform which translates to responsible and effective actions, the government will be good. If they dont, it will suck. Either way, we have consigned the state to an unaccountable conclave of bishops. Why this is an improvement on monarchy, or any other form of autocracy, is unclear. This political architecture, an abortion by any standard, is commonly known as a theocracy. Oddly enough, the classic historical case of a theocracy is wait, hang on, Im forgetting oh, yes! Right here, in North America. Under those strange people we call the Puritans.A gentle introduction to Unqualified Reservations part 1

— Curtis Yarvin wisdom

The system may be Orwellian, but it has no Goebbels. It produces Gleichschaltung without a Gestapo. It has a Party line without a Party. A neat trick.A gentle introduction to Unqualified Reservations part 1

— Curtis Yarvin art

Democracy is to power as a lottery is to money. It is a social mechanism that allows a large number of hominids to feel as if their individual views affect the world, even when the chance of such an effect is negligible.The Price of Muscle-Flexing

— Curtis Yarvin power

In a society where scholars are the ruling caste, actual scholarship tends to disappear.Roberts and Easterbrook

— Curtis Yarvin society

A good way to find the most powerful people in the US is to find the most responsible people. No one in the US is scheming for power. A lot of them seem to be working for change. No one in the US is brainwashing the masses. A lot of them seem to be educating the public. No one in the US is ruling the world. A lot of them seem to be making global policies.The iron polygon: power in the United States

— Curtis Yarvin change

Democratic politics is best understood as a sort of symbolic violence, like deciding who wins the battle by how many troops they brought.The Mencius Vision

— Curtis Yarvin politics

Whats fascinating about Chomsky is that, in a way, he is an infallible guide to reality. You just have to reverse him precisely. In Chomskys mind, Poland is always invading Germany.Comments on Is journalism official?

— Curtis Yarvin reality

Assuming tax rates are fixed by contract, the neocameralist states incentive is simply to maximize property prices. Any policy that would make it a less pleasant place to live or work is clearly contraindicated.Against political freedom

— Curtis Yarvin freedom

The temptation to reform, rather than abandon, the adaptive fiction is omnipresent.Democracy as an adaptive fiction

— Curtis Yarvin fiction

Fairness is unachievable. Any distribution of rights will be perceived by someone as unfair. If it starts as equal, it will not long remain so. If you try to set it back, you can only do so by breaking the law.Democracy as an adaptive fiction

— Curtis Yarvin art

A real isolationist opposes both Georgetownism and Arlingtonism, but in very different ways. Georgetownism is the problem. Arlingtonism is a misguided attempt to solve the problem, which in fact makes it worse. When you emphasize the failings of the latter, which is the subordinate and perennially losing tradition, you are serving as a faithful lackey of the former, which is the dominant and perennially victorious one.Moldbug Transcripts 2: Electric Boogaloo

— Curtis Yarvin faith

As American Puritanism won military victories and grew in political power, its British counterparts advanced as well. Everyone loves a strong horse.How Dawkins got pwned part 2

— Curtis Yarvin love

It strikes me that if everyone is a pacifist and then one person decides not to be a pacifist, he will wind up ruling the world.The Mencius Vision

— Curtis Yarvin men

Moderation is not an ideology. It is not an opinion. It is not a thought. It is an absence of thought.The Mencius Vision

— Curtis Yarvin men

So libertarians cannot present a realistic picture of a world in which their battle gets won and stays won. They wind up looking for ways to push a world in which the states natural downhill path is to grow, back up the hill. This prospect is Sisyphean, and its understandable why it attracts so few supporters.Further conversation on regime change

— Curtis Yarvin change

The artists of today produce kitsch because they are rebelling against a fictitious power structure by supporting a real one.The Democrats: party of lies

— Curtis Yarvin art

The principle of formalism, which is my own private libertarian heresy, suggests that the purpose of property is to prevent violence. The formalist is completely unconcerned with the moral legitimacy of property rights. She is entirely concerned with their stability. To a formalist, a system in which no involuntary property transfers occur is always ideal - at both the primary and secondary levels.Why I am not a libertarian

— Curtis Yarvin purpose

The problem is that Burma has no way to turn into Dubai. China or Russia can defy the Carnegie Institute - with difficulty. For Pakistan or Burma, no chance. Dubai and Singapore and Hong Kong exist not because they could be created now, but because they are grandfathered accidents of history.Benazir Bhutto: mob hit in Pakistan

— Curtis Yarvin history

There’s no reason why European civilization should not spread over the whole planet, and barbarism be entirely extinguished.The Moldbug transcripts

— Curtis Yarvin reason

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