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Taken seriously, LOL
Also known as (((Mencius Moldbug))), a mediocre American intellectual but talented "meme-coiner" of Communist Jewish heritage. Born 1973. Married twice (first wife died) and reportedly has a few kids. Associated with the "Dark Enlightenment" (oxymoron) and the neo-reactionary movement (also an oxymoron).
After his brain had grown to its full size, sometime in the 90s, Yarvin became interested in the naive utopian ideology of libertarianism. After a few years of pretending that "spontaneous order" could overthrow authoritarian and totalitarian states prepared to kill people and genocide entire sections of society, he realised how dumb libertarianism was and instead gravitated to a naive form of authoritarianism called "having a king."
He later used this supposed "eureka" moment to formulate his meme of "the Red Pill" vs "the Blue Pill," even though 'any phule' could see that libertarianism is politically moronic while a reversion to monarchy is only slightly less so.
He then tried to make his childish idea of "having a king" more cool, edgy, and modern by putting a thin veneer of tech-bro jargon on it. For example, he talks about "techno-monarchy" as if it were a "select government" option on Sid Meier's Civilization, and a "hard reset" or "rebooting" as if the political system is some sort of computer game that has gone into freeze.
Another one of his tricks was to use obtuse and murky language to make his "ideas" seem "deeper" than their actual puddle depth, but this was probably just due to him being a bad writer rather than intentional.
Another one of his tricks was to use obtuse and murky language to make his "ideas" seem "deeper" than their actual puddle depth, but this was probably just due to him being a bad writer rather than intentional.
Despite this slow, painful, pedestrian intellectual progress, redolent of someone who had played computers games too much in his youth and damaged his mind, he managed to get himself taken seriously by a lot of people much more intelligent than himself. Presumably this was because they craved the implicit simplicity of stupid ideas.
One of his other inexplicably famous ideas (or memes) is "the Cathedral." This is simply a catchy pleonasm, as it merely denotes the nebulous consensus of certain institutions (press and academia) whose obvious purpose is to create a nebulous and non-constrictive consensus.
He is generally treated with disdain and suspicion by many in the Dissident Right, who view him as a "gate-keeper figure," seeking to deradicalize its more identitarian aspects and keep them "on the plantation" of intellectual irrelevance. The occasional puff piece in the mainstream media tends to reinforce this impression.
He is only really relevant as an avatar or symbol of America's blatant descent into hyper-stupidity and intellectual trivialism during the Obama-Biden-Trump period.
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This guy created the blue pill vs red pill?
ReplyDeleteNah, that was some 90s movie with Keanu Reeves.
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