Mencius Moldbug

…”taxation is not theft. Taxation is rent.”“Good government as good customer service”.— Mencius Moldbug.Curtis Guy Yarvin (born June 25, 1973), also known by the pen name Mencius Moldbug, is a far-right American blogger and computer scientist.Wikipedia, «Curtis Yarvin», r. Oct 2019.
 "Curtis Yarvin, the technologist best known for blogging under the name Mencius Moldbug, established a reputation this decade as one of the most influential and controversial figures on the online Right, far out of step with established mainstream conservatism. In recent years, as the political scene across the internet has fragmented with explosive growth, some factions have taken concepts Yarvin introduced—such as the “red pill” metaphor associated with The Matrix—and popularized them, sometimes in unhealthy and extremist ways. "
=== Beliefs ===
Yarvin believes that the real seat of political power in the United States is an amalgam of established universities and the mainstream press, an entity he calls "the Cathedral." Yarvin originally called his idea to align property rights with political power "formalism"Mencius Moldbug (23 April 2007). "A formalist manifesto". Unqualified Reservations. Retrieved11 April 2016. (a concept based on legal formalism). The label "neo-reactionary" was applied to Yarvin's ideas by Arnold Kling in 2010 and adopted by Yarvin's followers;[8] Yarvin has said he prefers the label "restorationist."[10]
=== Biography ===
Who is Mencius Moldbug. Well, he’s American, An ethnically Jewish atheist, apparently a child prodigy, a former student of Brown University, a programmer by trade and an amateur historian, philosopher, social critic, political theorist, poet, and a Neo-Royalist reactionary — in his spare time. In short, he’s a crazy, polymath genius.When I learned he was Jewish, and started reading his work, I tutted to myself: “Here we go again!” — @ImperialEnergy on Moldbug,Under his Moldbug pseudonym, Yarvin gave a talk about "rebooting" the American government at the 2012 BIL Conference. He used it to advocate the acronym "RAGE", which he defined as "Retire All Government Employees."
=== Writing ===
in a new series of essays, Yarvin sets the record straight on his thinking, his critics, and his radical challenge to all political frameworks competing for dominance in American life.— Matt Peterson, Claremount Institute, dated 27 Sep 2019
Yarvin largely stopped updating his blog in 2013, when he pivoted to focus on his tech startup Urbit.[12] Six years later, he returned to political writing with a series of five essays published by the Claremont Institute's online publication The American Mind.[13]
=== Bibliography ===
* «The Clear Pill, Part 1 of 5: The Four-Stroke Regime» by Curtis Yarvin. Published by Claremont Institute as a Feature Eassay. Registed here 28 Sep 2018, Dated 09.27.2019 there.
* "DarkReformation" on Moldbug.
* Media by Moldbug (The Gray Mirror)
== Detractors ==
Found Moldbug from god knows what chain of links, googled something like 'wtf is neoreaction', found Scott's long post about it, obsessively read SSC archives, never read Moldbug again. then found rat tumblr, then Meaningness, then here--- Lucy Keer WastebasketBucket @drossbucket · 8:28 PM · Sep 2, 2020·Twitter Web AppReplying to @__justplayinghttps://twitter.com/drossbucket/status/1301255771351646208
== Rhizomata ==
* Neoreaction; Political figures; Software developers; Politics;
* Influenced: Nick Land; Neoreaction; Justin Murphy
* Political theory; Government
* Patchwork; Right-wing; 21st Century Right-wing
== References ==
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