#keeperman — Public Fediverse posts

‘This is what we’re going to do’

Yarvin is the originator of the neoreactionary or
“dark enlightenment” movement,
whose early ideas he developed on a blog called
"Unqualified Reservations" in 2007 and 2008
under the pseudonym #Mencius #Moldbug.

He now writes a Substack newsletter under his own name
and the far-right imprint "Passage Publishing" recently published an anthology of his earlier writing.

The Guardian previously reported that Passage Publishing’s founder is #Jonathan #Keeperman,
a former UC Irvine lecturer who had previously operated under the pseudonym “#L0m3z”.

For years, Yarvin has consistently held to a number of explicitly anti-democratic beliefs:
🔸republican self-government has already ended;
🔸real power is exercised oligarchically in a small number of prestigious academic and media institutions he calls the #Cathedral;
🔸and a sclerotic democracy should be replaced by a strict hierarchy headed by a single person whose role is that of a monarch or CEO.

He also thinks that current liberal democracy contains the seeds of its own destruction.

As JD Vance put it in a 2021 podcast interview with far-right influencer #Jack #Murphy:
“There’s this guy Curtis Yarvin who’s written about some of these things.
One has to basically accept that the whole thing is going to fall in on itself.”

Vance added:
“The task of conservatives right now is to preserve as much as can be preserved
and then when the inevitable collapse comes you build back the country in a way that’s actually better.”

-- Jason Wilson

#JDVance
#CurtisYarvin #MichaelAnton