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(neologism, politics) A small group of ultrawealthy men who exert inordinate control or influence within a political structure, particularly while espousing views regarded as anti-democratic, technofascist, and masculinist.

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Curtis Yarvin is among the crazed pseudo-Fascist thinkers influencing J.D. Vance (mronline.org)

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Meet Curtis Yarvin: whose seemingly crazed ideas have found fertile ground among technocrats and oligarchs who have never quite shaken entitled Ayn Rand’s “greed is good” sensibility.

Essentially, the guy wants the world to be run by smart CEOs commanding Corporate States. It is a form of National Socialism without the pollution of the socialism.

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His blog, “Gray Mirror,” offers dense insights into his philosophy. Not easy to digest but if you have the time and focus, it does reduce itself to a critique of modern governance and social structures through a lens of historical and philosophical analysis. Yarvin, or Mencius Moldbug if you prefer, argues that contemporary democracy and political systems are fundamentally flawed. His advocacy of more authoritarian forms of governance falls lockstep into the activities of historical examples from Caesar to Hitler and, currently, to Hungary’s Orbán.

According to Mencius: strong leader = stability and order. Well, as history has demonstrated in the first two examples, this can be finite. For Orbán? That remains to be seen.

But what would an activist sort of philosophy be if you cannot find those who will put it into practice?

Well, for Mencius, along came the dynamic duo of tech billionaire Peter Thiel and the current Vice President, J.D. Vance, both of whom became fans.

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[–] Paragone@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

1st article I tried on there was https://graymirror.substack.com/p/chevron-and-the-professional-republicans

The fundamental-error that that perspective is making, is that you CAN'T run a continent-sized-tiny-human-population ( ancient Africa ) the same way you run a 400,000,000-people, multiplied-through-technology, half-continent, like the US of A:

The no-regulations you can have on the whole-Africa-inhabited-by-few, doesn't correctly map onto 1,000x the population, in less space, with 10,000x or 100,000x the resource-consumption, through technology.

When one's ideology is dependent on ignoring that .. then .. it is impossible to respect the "integrity" ( with the falsifying-quotes on that word ) of what you're pushing.

THE DENSER THE POPULATION, & THE GREATER THE RESOURCE-CONSUMPTION OF IT, THE TIGHTER THE REGULATION HAS TO BE, TO MAKE IT SUSTAINABLE

Think of a vehicle engine:

consumer vehicle, it never is run to its limit, so it can be neglected, & it'll still work for a reasonable-lifespan.

race-vehicle: it is ALWAYS run at it's limit, & ANY neglect quickly becomes fatal.

See?

The low-population-density of ancient Africa didn't need tight-regulation to be keeping it alive!

However, nowadays humankind's tech-multiplied costing-of-the-world-ecology is sooo-great that if we won't tightly-regulate our process, then we're reducing the number-of-generations who are allowed to live on this world, with our shortsightedness.

Sloppiness is literally slaughtering our own future-generations.

He's ignoring that, as most right-wingers do.

Notice, though, as the commuter-vs-race-engine example shows: if you want performance .. then you want your "ship" to be the tightest-run ship in the race so that ALL of its effort goes into productivity:

leave the sloppy-unregulated "competitors" in the dust, behind you, when you reach the finish-line.

This identifies that proper regulation increases the value of an economy, not reduces it.

( Brexit might be an object-lesson demonstrating this principle )

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[–] Paragone@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

I just glanced-at https://graymirror.substack.com/p/its-easy-from-here & his intellectual-dishonesty is rank.

Is the "power" of a person who "controls" their body through endlessly taking drugs, according to their current-whim,

.. somehow "the same" as the power of a ninja/yogi, who trains endlessly in self-management & self-conquering??

1 is ignoring-the-costs ( the drugs-user ) & the other is working-within-own-means ( which is what "yoga", aka the verb "to yoke", or "to harness" means ).

The same is true of governments.

Some are irresponsible, others responsible: it's a spectrum, Duh..

& the far-upright has never been explored, by the politically-motivated.

Too bad the next-generation has only this disinformation, MSM's normalizing-of-this, & anti-ideology-ideologies to grow in..

that's going to cost LOTS of lives, throughout this century's unfolding..

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