2025-01-18
52 分钟The once-fringe writer has long argued for an American monarchy. His ideas have found an audience in the incoming administration and Silicon Valley.
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it was always about managing the fear and finding ways to use it until I could be motivated by the exact opposite of that.
And I never had to worry about the fear again because it didn't define me.
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From the New York Times, this is the interview.
I'm David Marchese.
For a long time, Curtis Yarvin, a 51 year old computer engineer,
had been writing online about political theory in relative obscurity.
His ideas were pretty extreme that institutions like the mainstream media
and academia have been overrun by progressive groupthink and need to be dissolved.
He believes that government bureaucracy should be radically gutted and that American democracy should be replaced by what he calls a monarchy run by what he's called a CEO,
which is basically his friendlier term for a dictator.
To support his arguments, Yarvin relies on what sympathetic ears might hear as a helpful serving of historical references,
but which others hear as a distorting mix of gross oversimplification, cherry picking, personal interpretation presented as fact, and just plain inaccuracy.
But while Yarvin himself may still be obscure, his ideas are not.
Vice President elect J.D.
vance has alluded to his notions of forcibly ridding American institutions of so called Wokeism.
You know, there's this guy, Curtis Yarvin, who's written about some of these things.
Incoming State Department official Michael Anton has spoken with Yarvin