The philosophical core of the Mump administration...Curtis Yarvin

The ideas of a blogger who wrote a series of anti-democracy theories on the state called the "Dark Enlightenment" are now infiltrating the tech world's leading figures. One such blogger is Curtis Yarvin, who advocates that "the president should act as a monarch, like a CEO." Some of his arguments overlap with the actions of the Trump administration, which has appointed Elon Musk to take drastic measures against the bureaucracy. Yarvin, who has c…

The philosophical core of the Mump administration...Curtis Yarvin

aka Mencius Moldbug A guy who contends that our democratic republic is a failed experiment, that the Constitution is garbage, that white people are...

The US president is seeking to revolutionize his country's system from the ground up. Examples of the end result can already be found all over the world, and they are not flattering. Donald Trump is pushing the United States towards an authoritarian model of government, but it would not be a fascist or one-party dictatorship. This is the assessment of professors Steven Levitsky and Lucan A. Way in an analysis published in the journal Foreign Aff…

Is Democracy Overrated? The Vacuity of Curtis Yarvin and His ‘Dark Elves’ - The Freethinker

In his seminal work, the renowned 20th-century economist John Maynard Keynes wrote: ‘Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.’Donald Trump, the dearly beloved leader of the Republican Party who took power in January as the 47th president of the United States, has made no secret of his autocratic proclivities. During the campaign, he cheekily asserted that he in…