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From The New York Times, this is The Interview. I'm David Marchese. For a long time, Curtis Yarvin, a 51-year-old computer engineer, had been writing online about political theory in relative obscurity. His ideas were pretty extreme, that institutions like the mainstream media and academia have been overrun by progressive groupthink and need to be dissolved.

From The New York Times, this is The Interview. I'm David Marchese. For a long time, Curtis Yarvin, a 51-year-old computer engineer, had been writing online about political theory in relative obscurity. His ideas were pretty extreme, that institutions like the mainstream media and academia have been overrun by progressive groupthink and need to be dissolved.

He believes that government bureaucracy should be radically gutted and that American democracy should be replaced by what he calls a monarchy run by what he's called a CEO, which is basically his friendlier term for a dictator.

He believes that government bureaucracy should be radically gutted and that American democracy should be replaced by what he calls a monarchy run by what he's called a CEO, which is basically his friendlier term for a dictator.

To support his arguments, Yarvin relies on what sympathetic ears might hear as a helpful serving of historical references, but which others hear as a distorting mix of gross oversimplification, cherry-picking, personal interpretation presented as fact, and just plain inaccuracy. But while Yarvin himself may still be obscure, his ideas are not. Vice President-elect J.D.

To support his arguments, Yarvin relies on what sympathetic ears might hear as a helpful serving of historical references, but which others hear as a distorting mix of gross oversimplification, cherry-picking, personal interpretation presented as fact, and just plain inaccuracy. But while Yarvin himself may still be obscure, his ideas are not. Vice President-elect J.D.

Vance has alluded to his notions of forcibly ridding American institutions of so-called wokeism.

Vance has alluded to his notions of forcibly ridding American institutions of so-called wokeism.

Incoming State Department official Michael Anton has spoken with Yarvin about how an American Caesar might be installed into power.

Incoming State Department official Michael Anton has spoken with Yarvin about how an American Caesar might be installed into power.

And Yarvin has also found fans in the powerful and increasingly political ranks of Silicon Valley, like Marc Andreessen.

And Yarvin has also found fans in the powerful and increasingly political ranks of Silicon Valley, like Marc Andreessen.

I've been aware of Yarvin's work for years and was mostly interested in it as a prime example of growing anti-democratic sentiment in particular corners of the internet. Until recently, those ideas felt too fringed to really take seriously. But given that they are now finding an audience with some of the most powerful people in the country, Yarvin can't be so easily dismissed anymore.

I've been aware of Yarvin's work for years and was mostly interested in it as a prime example of growing anti-democratic sentiment in particular corners of the internet. Until recently, those ideas felt too fringed to really take seriously. But given that they are now finding an audience with some of the most powerful people in the country, Yarvin can't be so easily dismissed anymore.

Here's my conversation with Curtis Yarvin. To my understanding, one of your central arguments is that America needs to I think the way you've put it in the past is sort of get over our dictator phobia that American democracy is a sham beyond fixing and having sort of a monarch style leader or call it a CEO or call it a dictator. That's the way to go.

Here's my conversation with Curtis Yarvin. To my understanding, one of your central arguments is that America needs to I think the way you've put it in the past is sort of get over our dictator phobia that American democracy is a sham beyond fixing and having sort of a monarch style leader or call it a CEO or call it a dictator. That's the way to go.

So why is democracy so bad and why would having a dictator solve the problem?