PART ONE – RIGHT-WING TECHNO LIBERTARIANISM: I’m not gonna lie to you, shit just gets weirder and weirder the closer one gets to the source of the NOTHING. The majority of my research has focused on the Geopolitics of God and the rise of Christianfascism across the world. I wasn’t really paying attention to right-wing libertarianism, futurism, and technocapital singularity, as these ideologies seemed incompatible with dogmatic religion. I was wrong. Very wrong.
We’ve looked at Russian philosopher Aleksandr Dugin and War Room strategist Steve Bannon. Now we are going to focus on the ideas of right-wing libertarians, Nick Land and Curtis Yarvin, also know as Mencius Moldbug, an American neo-reactionary blogger.
If one is serious about understanding what’s going on in America today, a little bit of effort is required. I’ve tried to keep it short and to point, but these ideas are complex and far reaching. People are confused about Doge and Elon Musk’s role in dismantling the Federal Government. Yes PROJECT 2025 is a massive problem, but it is surface level noise, the real danger is happening behind the scenes. The Uber wealthy Silicon Valley technocrats like Peter Thiel and Musk are busy creating their version of the future, while destroying everyone else’s.
Vice President JD Vance is their man on the inside, and is fully aligned with their goals of absolute control and dominance. It is a strange mix of militant Catholics, devout libertarian atheists, techbros, and white nationalists. They are not your run of the mill red-hat wearing Maga folk. Musk wears a black Maga cap for a reason, he is one of the Dark Gothic Maga overlords.
We are mostly going to look at the philosophical foundation of this pseudo-religious, white supremacist, hyper-tech movement hellbent on destabilizing society, and then in Part Two we will delve deeper into the actual technology and the desire for Digital Immortality, Artificial Superinteligence, and Transhumanism.
My gratitude is endless for the work of the dedicated contributors to Wikipedia that makes researching and understanding these people and ideologies super easy. I’ve noticed there is a movement on the alt-right to disparage Wikipedia and even demands for it to be shut down. They hate the fact that the truth is only the click of a button away. Of course Wiki is not infallible, but with some effort and due diligence, many if not most of the facts can be verified.
The content you are about to read describes what is busy happening in real time.
ANTI-STATISM: Right-wing libertarianism supports free-market capitalism, civil liberties, especially natural law, negative rights, the non-aggression principle, and a significant transformation of the modern welfare state.
Right-libertarian political thought is characterized by the strict priority given to liberty, with the need to maximize the realm of individual freedom and minimize the scope of public authority. Right-libertarians typically see the state as the principal threat to liberty.
This anti-statism differs from anarchist doctrines in that it is based upon strong individualism that places less emphasis on human sociability or cooperation. Right-libertarian philosophy is also rooted in the ideas of individual rights and laissez-faire economics, and view any attempt to dictate the market process as counterproductive, whilst portraying government intervention and attempts to redistribute wealth as invariably unnecessary and counterproductive.
Although all right-libertarians oppose government intervention, there is a division between anarcho-capitalists, who view the state as an unnecessary evil and want property rights protected without statutory law through market-generated tort, contract and property law; and minarchists, who support the need for a minimal state, often referred to as a night-watchman state, to provide its citizens with courts, military, and police. – W –
NEOREACTIONx: Curyis Yarvin is known, along with philosopher Nick Land, for founding the anti-egalitarian and anti-democratic philosophical movement known as the Dark Enlightenment or neo-reactionary movement (NRx).
It is an anti-democratic, anti-egalitarian, and reactionary philosophical and political movement. The term “Dark Enlightenment” is a reaction to the Age of Enlightenment and an apologia for the popular conception of the Dark Ages.
The ideology generally rejects Whig historiography, the concept that history shows an inevitable progression towards greater liberty and enlightenment, culminating in liberal democracy and constitutional monarchy, in favor of a return to traditional societal constructs and forms of government, including absolute monarchism and other older forms of leadership like cameralism.
Central to Nick Land’s ideas is a belief in freedom’s incompatibility with democracy, having stated “Democracy tends to fascism”. Land drew inspiration from libertarians such as Peter Thiel, particularly Thiel’s claim that “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible”, in his essay The Dark Enlightenment.
The Dark Enlightenment has been described by journalists and commentators as alt-right and neo-fascist. A 2016 article in New York magazine notes that “Neoreaction has a number of different strains, but perhaps the most important is a form of post-libertarian futurism that, realizing that libertarians aren’t likely to win any elections, argues against democracy in favor of authoritarian forms of government.”
Ana Teixeira Pinto describes the political ideology of the gov-corp model as a form of classical libertarianism: “they do not want to limit the power of the state, they want to privatise it.” According to criminal justice professor George Michael, neoreaction seeks to save its ideal of Western civilization through adoption of a monarchical, or CEO model of government to replace democracy.
Yarvin has described himself as a royalist, monarchist, and Jacobite. He and Land refer to contemporary liberal society which they oppose as “the Cathedral” in association with the Puritan church, and its goals of egalitarianism and democracy as “the Synopsis”. – W –
HYPERRACISM: Neoreactionaries endorse race realism, referring to it as “human biodiversity”. Land coined the term “hyperracism” to refer to his views on race; he believes that socioeconomic status is “a strong proxy for IQ” rather than race specifically (though he acknowledges a correlation between race and socioeconomic status), and that meritocracy, particularly space colonization, will “function as a highly-selective genetic filter” that propagates mostly (but not strictly) Whites and Asians.
Yarvin has stated “Although I am not a white nationalist, I am not exactly allergic to the stuff”, and has endorsed arguments for Black racial inferiority.
Neoreaction also functions as a means to achieve accelerationism, the use of capitalism and technology to destabilize existing systems and create radical change. Land views democratic and egalitarian policies as only slowing down acceleration and a technocapital singularity, stating “Beside the speed machine, or industrial capitalism, there is an ever more perfectly weighted decelerator […] comically, the fabrication of this braking mechanism is proclaimed as progress.
Accelerationism is a range of revolutionary and reactionary ideologies that call for the drastic intensification of capitalist growth, technological change, and other processes of social change to destabilize existing systems and create radical social transformations, referred to as “acceleration”.
Nick Land’s technocapitalist ideas of accelerationism have been re-interpreted into the use of racial conflict to cause societal collapse and the building of white ethnostates, linked to a number of white nationalist terrorist attacks such as the 2019 Christchurch mosque massacres.
Vox pointed to Land’s shift towards neoreactionarism as the likely connection point with far-right racial accelerationism, citing a 2018 Southern Poverty Law Center investigation which found users on the neo-Nazi blog The Right Stuff who cited neoreactionarism as an influence.
Land himself has called the neoreactionary movement “a prophetic warning about the rise of the Alt-Right”. – W –
NEO-CORPORATE MONARCHIST: In his blog Unqualified Reservations, which he wrote from 2007 to 2014, and in his later newsletter Gray Mirror, which he started in 2020, Curtis Yarvin argues that American democracy is a failed experiment that should be replaced by an accountable monarchy, similar to the governance structure of corporations.
Yarvin has been described as a “neo-reactionary”, “neo-monarchist” and “neo-feudalist” who “sees liberalism as creating a Matrix-like totalitarian system, and who wants to replace American democracy with a sort of techno-monarchy”. He has defended the institution of slavery, and has suggested that certain races may be more naturally inclined toward servitude than others. He has claimed that whites have higher IQs than black people, and opposes US civil rights programs.
Yarvin has influenced some prominent Silicon Valley investors and Republican politicians, with venture capitalist Peter Thiel described as his “most important connection”. Political strategist Steve Bannon has read and admired his work. U.S. Vice President JD Vance “has cited Yarvin as an influence himself.”
Michael Anton, the State Department Director of Policy Planning during Trump’s second presidency, has also discussed Yarvin’s ideas. In January 2025, Yarvin attended a Trump inaugural gala in Washington; Politico reported he was “an informal guest of honor” due to his “outsize influence over the Trumpian right.”
In an early blog post, he adapted a phrase from the movie The Matrix, repurposing “red pill” to mean a shattering of progressive illusions. – W –
THE CATHEDRAL: In 2020, Yarvin began blogging his views under the page name Gray Mirror. His posts, such as “Reflections on the late election” (2020) and “The butterfly revolution” (2022), are thought experiments on how to achieve an American coup and replace democracy with a new form of monarchy, ideas that critics have described as “fascist”.
Yarvin believes that real political power in the United States is held by something he calls “the Cathedral”, an informal amalgam of universities and the mainstream press, which collude to sway public opinion. According to him, a so-called “Brahmin” social class (in reference to the Brahmin class of India’s caste system and the American Boston Brahmin) dominates American society, preaching progressive values to the masses.
The socio-religious analogy originates from Yarvin’s opinion that the progressive ideology of the Cathedral is delivered to and internalized by the general populace much in the same way religious authorities and institutions deliver religious dogma to fanatical worshippers. Yarvin and the Dark Enlightenment (sometimes abbreviated to “NRx”) movement assert that the Cathedral’s commitment to equality and justice erodes social order.
He advocates an American “monarch” dissolving elite academic institutions and media outlets within the first few months of their reign.
Drawing on computer metaphors, Yarvin contends that society needs a “hard reset” or a “rebooting”, not a series of gradual political reforms.
According to him, NRx adherents should rather design “new architectures of exit” than engage in ineffective political activism.
In Yarvin’s view, democratic governments are inefficient and wasteful and should be replaced with sovereign joint-stock corporations whose “shareholders” (large owners) elect an executive with total power, but who must serve at their pleasure. The executive, unencumbered by liberal-democratic procedures, could rule efficiently much like a CEO-monarch. – W –
RAGE: Yarvin supports authoritarianism on right-libertarian grounds, claiming that the division of political sovereignty expands the scope of the state, whereas strong governments with clear hierarchies remain minimal and narrowly focused
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”. He described what he felt were flaws in the accepted “World War II mythology”, alluding to the idea that Adolf Hitler’s invasions were acts of self-defense. He argued these discrepancies were pushed by America’s “ruling communists”, who invented political correctness as an “extremely elaborate mechanism for persecuting racists and fascists”.
“If Americans want to change their government,” he said, “they’re going to have to get over their dictator phobia.”
Yarvin’s ideas have been influential among right-libertarians and paleolibertarians, and the public discourses of prominent investors like Peter Thiel have echoed Yarvin’s project of seceding from the United States to establish tech-CEO dictatorships. Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, an informal adviser to Donald Trump, has spoken approvingly of Yarvin’s thinking. Political strategist Steve Bannon has read and admired his work. Vice-president JD Vance has cited Yarvin as an influence, saying in 2021, “So there’s this guy Curtis Yarvin who has written about these things,” which included “Retire All Government Employees,” or RAGE, written in 2012.
Vance said that if Trump became president again, “I think what Trump should do, if I was giving him one piece of advice: Fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, and replace them with our people. And when the courts stop you, stand before the country and say, ‘The chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.'” – W –
PETER THIEL: According to Tait, “Moldbug’s (Yarvin) relationship with the investor-entrepreneur Thiel is his most important connection.” Thiel was an investor in Yarvin’s startup Tlon and gave $100,000 to Tlon’s co-founder John Burnham in 2011. In 2016, Yarvin privately asserted to Milo Yiannopoulos that he had been “coaching Thiel” and that he had watched the 2016 US election at Thiel’s house.
In his writings, Yarvin has pointed to a 2009 essay by Thiel, in which the latter declared: “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible… Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women—two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians—have rendered the notion of ‘capitalist democracy’ into an oxymoron.”
Yarvin later gave a copy of Bronze Age Pervert’s book Bronze Age Mindset to Michael Anton, a former senior national security official in the first Trump administration. Trump also named Anton to be the U.S. State Department Director of Policy Planning in his second presidency.
In a May 2021 conversation, Anton said Yarvin was arguing that a president could “gain power lawfully through an election, and then exercise it unlawfully.” Yarvin replied, “It wouldn’t be unlawful. You’d simply declare a state of emergency in your inaugural address,” adding, “you’d actually have a mandate to do this.
Where would that mandate come from? It would come from basically running on it, saying, ‘Hey, this is what we’re going to do.'” He continued that if a hypothetical authoritarian president were to take office in January 2025, “you can’t continue to have a Harvard or a New York Times past since perhaps the start of April” because “the idea that you’re going to be a Caesar and take power and operate with someone else’s Department of Reality in operation is just manifestly absurd. Machiavelli could tell you right away that that’s a stupid idea.”
Yarvin has alleged that whites have higher IQs than blacks for genetic reasons. He has been described as a modern-day supporter of slavery, a description he disputes. He has claimed that some races are more suited to slavery than others. – W –
Curtis Yarvin is an atheist.
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