Curtis Yarvin
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He's nominally the secretary.
He's nominally the secretary.
Cereals were first cultivated. I'm doing a Putin. I'll speed this up.
Cereals were first cultivated. I'm doing a Putin. I'll speed this up.
So to make a long story short, whether you want to call Washington, Lincoln and FDR dictators, this sort of, you know, appropriate word, what they were was basically national CEOs. And they were running the government like a company from the top down.
So to make a long story short, whether you want to call Washington, Lincoln and FDR dictators, this sort of, you know, appropriate word, what they were was basically national CEOs. And they were running the government like a company from the top down.
So it's not even that democracy is bad. It's just that it's very weak. And the fact that it's very weak is basically easily seen by the fact that very unpopular policies like mass immigration persist despite strong majorities being against them. So the question of basically is democracy good or bad is, I think, a secondary question to is it what we actually have?
So it's not even that democracy is bad. It's just that it's very weak. And the fact that it's very weak is basically easily seen by the fact that very unpopular policies like mass immigration persist despite strong majorities being against them. So the question of basically is democracy good or bad is, I think, a secondary question to is it what we actually have?
When you say to a New York Times reader, democracy is bad, they're a little bit shocked. But when you say to them, politics is bad, or even populism is bad, they're like, of course, these are horrible things.
When you say to a New York Times reader, democracy is bad, they're a little bit shocked. But when you say to them, politics is bad, or even populism is bad, they're like, of course, these are horrible things.
And so the thing is, when you basically want to be anti, you know, say democracy is not a good system of government, just bridge that immediately to saying populism is not a good system of government. And then you'll be like, yes, of course. Like, actually, you know, policy and law should be set by wise experts and people in the courts and lawyers and professors and so forth.
And so the thing is, when you basically want to be anti, you know, say democracy is not a good system of government, just bridge that immediately to saying populism is not a good system of government. And then you'll be like, yes, of course. Like, actually, you know, policy and law should be set by wise experts and people in the courts and lawyers and professors and so forth.
Then you'll realize that what you're actually endorsing is aristocracy rather than democracy.
Then you'll realize that what you're actually endorsing is aristocracy rather than democracy.
My honest answer would have to be it's not exactly time for that yet. Because what I see happening in D.C. right now, you know, nobody should be watching this panicking, you know, thinking I'm about to be installed as America's secret dictator. I don't think I'm even going to the inauguration. The... Were you invited? No, no, no. Like, I'm an outsider, man. You know, like, I'm an intellectual.
My honest answer would have to be it's not exactly time for that yet. Because what I see happening in D.C. right now, you know, nobody should be watching this panicking, you know, thinking I'm about to be installed as America's secret dictator. I don't think I'm even going to the inauguration. The... Were you invited? No, no, no. Like, I'm an outsider, man. You know, like, I'm an intellectual.
And the actual ways in which my ideas get into circulation is actually mostly through the staffers and the kind of younger people who basically kind of, you know, swim in this very online kind of soup. And I think that's fine. I think that what's happening now in D.C., to sort of distinguish my much more radical ideas from what's happening now,
And the actual ways in which my ideas get into circulation is actually mostly through the staffers and the kind of younger people who basically kind of, you know, swim in this very online kind of soup. And I think that's fine. I think that what's happening now in D.C., to sort of distinguish my much more radical ideas from what's happening now,
I would say that what's happening now is there's definitely an attempt to revive the White House as an executive organization which sort of governs the executive branch. And the difficulty with that is if you go to Washington and say to anyone who's like professionally involved in the business of Washington that Washington would work just fine or even better if there was no White House at all.
I would say that what's happening now is there's definitely an attempt to revive the White House as an executive organization which sort of governs the executive branch. And the difficulty with that is if you go to Washington and say to anyone who's like professionally involved in the business of Washington that Washington would work just fine or even better if there was no White House at all.