“[P]ublic opinion in a democracy is a sort of funhouse mirror that reflects—albeit inaccurately, imperfectly, and often quite reluctantly—the views of the governing elite. To be fair, it also has a certain filtering effect which discourages some of the nuttiest intellectual fads, if only because they can be positively incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't been to Harvard.”
“Every society in human history that has ever given itself over to government by intellectuals has lived to regret it. Ours will be no different.”
Curtis Yarvin
“The history of ideas since 1789 is an endless record of mass murder in the name of the people.”
Curtis Yarvin
“The relative peace of the last sixty years has been achieved only at the price of creating a university system which is an established church in all but name, and which suppresses any thought it finds...”
Curtis Yarvin
“The most powerful people in the West today, measured strictly by their ability to influence the real world, are journalists and professors.”
Curtis Yarvin
“When you create a category called "religion" which lumps together all the delusional traditions that people who are not like you have inherited unquestioned from their intellectual ancestors, you are ...”
Curtis Yarvin