Curtis Yarvin

Let me sort of examine the thinking behind Musk saying this, because I find it sort of extremely odd in a sense. Like, because one of the things about monarchy that's been known for quite some time, and again, even in very, very anti-monarchical ways, regimes and periods and exception is made for this, is that a ship always has a captain. An airplane always has a captain.

Basically, in any very safety-critical environment... You should have someone in charge. You should have someone in charge. But the thing is, you look at basically a Mars colony, And you're just like, really, are the like the citizens of the Mars colony going to vote on like how to like replenish the oxygen supply or whatever? Like, no, of course not.

Basically, in any very safety-critical environment... You should have someone in charge. You should have someone in charge. But the thing is, you look at basically a Mars colony, And you're just like, really, are the like the citizens of the Mars colony going to vote on like how to like replenish the oxygen supply or whatever? Like, no, of course not.

The Mars colony that Elon establishes will be a subsidiary of SpaceX and it will have someone in charge and it will have a command hierarchy just like SpaceX does. And so I'm like, Elon, when you say that this should be a democracy, what are the people voting on? And so there's this world of actually real governance that someone like Elon Musk lives in every day.

The Mars colony that Elon establishes will be a subsidiary of SpaceX and it will have someone in charge and it will have a command hierarchy just like SpaceX does. And so I'm like, Elon, when you say that this should be a democracy, what are the people voting on? And so there's this world of actually real governance that someone like Elon Musk lives in every day.

And actually applying that world, applying that thinking to like, you know, being like, oh, this is, you know, this thinking is directly contradictory, you know, in a sense, to the ideals that I was taught in this society, that's a really difficult cognitive dissonance problem, even if you're Elon Musk.

And actually applying that world, applying that thinking to like, you know, being like, oh, this is, you know, this thinking is directly contradictory, you know, in a sense, to the ideals that I was taught in this society, that's a really difficult cognitive dissonance problem, even if you're Elon Musk.

Monarch is good. It's a neutral term.

Monarch is good. It's a neutral term.

And then the monarchs in the age of democracy are just terrible.

And then the monarchs in the age of democracy are just terrible.

Your question is the most important question of all, because basically understanding why Hitler was so bad, why Stalin was so bad, is really essential to the riddle of the 20th century. But I think it's important to note that we don't see for the rest of European and world history, human history as a whole is a mixed bag.

Your question is the most important question of all, because basically understanding why Hitler was so bad, why Stalin was so bad, is really essential to the riddle of the 20th century. But I think it's important to note that we don't see for the rest of European and world history, human history as a whole is a mixed bag.

The history of the age of democracy in the last 250 years is also a mixed bag.

The history of the age of democracy in the last 250 years is also a mixed bag.

A holocaust. You know, you can pull the camera way back and basically say, wow, you know, in Europe, since basically the establishment of European civilization from like 1000 AD to, you know, 1750 AD, we didn't have this kind of chaos and violence. And then you can't separate Hitler and Stalin from the sort of global democratic revolution that they're a part of.

A holocaust. You know, you can pull the camera way back and basically say, wow, you know, in Europe, since basically the establishment of European civilization from like 1000 AD to, you know, 1750 AD, we didn't have this kind of chaos and violence. And then you can't separate Hitler and Stalin from the sort of global democratic revolution that they're a part of.

He killed, there was a... Tamerlane was not in Europe. I meant Europe, though.

He killed, there was a... Tamerlane was not in Europe. I meant Europe, though.

So I often find, why don't you just scratch a little at some of the historical... There was no massacre of Huguenots. I think you're confusing it with the Sack of Béziers and the massacre of the Alpagentians. So they got massacred, not the Huguenots. Yeah.