Q&A with Curtis Yarvin, a computer engineer and blogger whose ideas are increasingly popular with tech elites, on why democracy is bad, dictators, and more
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/m... @traplife : www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/m... We wanted to know why democracy is the worst form of government. So in this week's ‘The Interview’, we sat down with a fascist online troll who's friends with Marc Andreessen and J.D. Vance. Dave Infante / @dinfontay : this is a real article btw. look at the photo they chose for social lmao @jondavidchurch : 1/Curtis Yarvin is a pseudo-philosopher & proselytizer. He has a script of talking points & anecdotes that show up in almost every interview, including this one. Like anti-wokes who amusingly think they are serious philosophers, Yarvin is an amateur historian at best — www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/m... Ben Werdmuller / @werd.io : It's impossible to come out of reading this (softballed, frankly) interview without coming to the conclusion that this man - who is highly influential in politics and tech - is evil. #Democracy Jodi Jacobson / @jljacobson : Democracy is dead ONLY IF WE ALLOW IT. — Who are these people? Self-serving misogynistic racists with a lot of power ceded to them by all those Dems who called them “brilliant.” We decide on democracy, not this nutcase. — www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/m... Kevin M. Levin / @civilwarmemory : I know they can't do this, but at some point the interviewer should have just stopped and walked away. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/m... [images] Casey Michel / @cjcmichel : Putting aside his adoration for dictators, Curtis Yarvin is, by all appearances, an idiot. — www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/m... [image] Josh Marshall / @joshtpm : It's interesting to me in a way listening to Yarvin. Because I do think he captures what motivates key tech bro types. But almost everything he says is puerile and mostly silly. Almost all the conversation is just him parrying questions with ... www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/m... Mastodon: Bill Seitz / @billseitz@toolsforthought.social : @Techmeme you mis-spelled “billionaires” X: Marc Andreessen / @pmarca : You can read Rand without becoming an objectivist, Marx without becoming a socialist, Yarvin without becoming a monarchist, Singer without becoming an effective altruist, Che Guevara without becoming a terrorist, and Bronze Age Pervert without becoming a nude bodybuilder. 📖📚📘 Jacob Silverman / @silvermanjacob : Not a good writer, not a novel or interesting thinker, but he gives his tech-lord adherents a permission structure to abandon democracy and embrace their inner dictator. https://www.nytimes.com/... Todd Pitcher / @toddmpitcher : NYT: I have to say, I find the depth of your background information to be obfuscating, rather than illuminating. CY: How can I change that? NYT: By answering the questions more directly and succinctly. [Laughs.] CY: Fine, I'll try. Hard fail. https://www.nytimes.com/... Lawrence Serewicz / @lldzne : When things turn to shit in America, when kids start getting measles and polio, and the government becomes a mess. Find Curtis Yarvin, hold him to account. He plays with matches thinking he is Prometheus when he is simply an intellectual arsonist. https://www.nytimes.com/... Dan Goldberg / @goldberg_dan : All this article does is make me think Yarvin is not particularly bright. https://www.nytimes.com/... Josh Ellis / @jzellis : No no no no no. When the NYT is taking a fucking neomonarchist batshit whacko like Yarvin (aka “Mencius Moldbug") seriously, things are very far gone indeed. This scares me worse than anything else yet. https://www.nytimes.com/... @glenweyl : I am sorry to say this but shame on you @nytimes, @NYTmag and David Marchese. You just got your rear handed to you by one of the most dangerous people on earth: https://www.nytimes.com/.... The worst thing you can do with this guy is give him attention in a context Alex Tabarrok / @atabarrok : Whiplash. Two years ago and the mere mention of his name would get you cancelled. https://www.nytimes.com/... [image] Forums: r/inthenews : ‘The Interview’: Curtis Yarvin Says Democracy is Done r/TrueReddit : Curtis Yarvin Says Democracy Is Done. Powerful Conservatives Are Listening. r/Destiny : ‘The Interview’: Curtis Yarvin Says Democracy is Done