The Takeover (With Curtis Yarvin)
Added 2022-11-02 11:02:41 +0000 UTCCurtis Yarvin's writings are at:
https://graymirror.substack.com/
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The saddest part of listening to this poseur blather, is that you can tell he genuinely believes the self-aggrandizing non-sequiturs he peppers into all his interviews. The dude really thinks he’s one of only a handful of elite intellectuals who know that the Khmer Rouge renamed Cambodia, Kampuchea. How this Wikipedia skimmer gained so much purchase amongst a certain segment of the right will never cease to amaze me.
Sam
2022-11-27 04:57:46 +0000 UTCTo be fair to Yarvin (which is admittedly hard to do after listening to him this episode, but I digress), there is something real to the hobbit/elf dynamic that right wingers have to account for if we are ever going to overturn this corrupt order: the vast majority of the people we consider to be our natural allies in this conflict are just checked out. They’re D.A.D.s (Deracinated American Dudes) that don’t like the degeneracy of the ruling class and being lied about by the chattering classes, but when presented with the reality of what would be required to put an end to this bullshit and save their children and grandchildren from being sacrificed on the altar of progress, they shut down and give up. They are mentally owned by the regime, and you’d probably have more success squeezing blood from a stone than trying to pull them out of that state. Actual change seems too hard to them, and they would rather enjoy the small comforts and peace that is immediately available. I see this every time I speak to my relatives about the issues of the day. They will gripe endlessly about the politicians and the media, get fired up, and swear that someday those people will get what’s coming to them. When I address the elephant in the room that this comeuppance won’t just happen on its own, and it requires action and sacrifices made in the present, all that piss and vinegar just drains out of them. They even admit they would rather just retreat into watching football and enjoy retirement (implicitly assuming things won’t get too bad before they die, and trying not to think about how their posterity will suffer after they die). They are too comfortable, and they won’t do anything that requires actual effort and sacrifice. They want someone else to come along and fix the problems for them, and I guess they’ll vote for that guy when he appears (but they won’t do much to actually prevent or reverse his opponents rigging an election against him because it’s too hard and scary). Now, I can’t make much sense of Curtis’s “dark elf” solution, but ANY plan for how to proceed must grapple with this problem: what do you do with the D.A.D.s? If we don’t, we’re just going to repeat many of the mistakes we have already made in recent history.
Samuel Webb
2022-11-10 12:11:05 +0000 UTC
