“[A] free, prosperous democratic society is like a person who's so strong and healthy he can take a dose of arsenic every day—or at least, every four years—and still survive, sort of. The free, prosperous democratic society might be remarkably unfree and unprosperous compared to an undemocratic society that never took the arsenic, but so few of the latter survived the last two centuries that we have no basis for comparison.”
“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