Ok. So I study authoritarian regimes for a living. I spend most of my time thinking about how Russia's dictatorship works. But one of my personal side-projects involves looking at authoritarian theorists closer to home. The most prominent by far is Curtis Yarvin. https://t.co/LnkVPpyydL

where did the tech right come from? @pmarca's recent interview with @DouthatNYC is very illuminating here's a 4-part grand theory of the tech right: https://t.co/iskBZj4Lnl

The term Alt-Right was not yet a thing, certainly not like it would become within a few short years. The biggest and most innovative name by far in this internet scene was Mencius Moldbug, the pseudonym of programmer Curtis Yarvin. Moldbug’s blog was called “Unqualified Reservations,” and it was as remarkable for its radical ideology as for

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In the second Trump Administration, a class of Silicon Valley leaders was insinuating itself into politics in a way that recalled one of Mimura’s primary subjects of study: the élite bureaucrats who seized political power and drove Japan into the Second World War. “These are experts with a technological mind-set and background, often engineers, who... See more