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"The plan was simple. It started by retiring all government employees by
offering them incentives to leave and never return. To avoid anarchy and keep
authority, the police and military would be retained.
Government funds would be seized and the money redirected to more worthwhile
pursuits. Court orders pushing back against these measures as
“unconstitutional” should be summarily ignored. The press should be massaged
and censored as necessary. Finally, universities, scientific institutions, and
NGOs should also be snapped off, their funding terminated.
These moves resemble many made (or attempted) in the first 100 days of the
second Trump administration. But they were all laid out in 2012 by a single
person: Curtis Yarvin.
In the past five years, Yarvin’s reactionary blueprints for governance have
found powerful backers in both Silicon Valley and Washington circles.
His ideas have been taken up and repeated in various ways by Peter Thiel
(PayPal), Elon Musk (X, Tesla), Alexander Karp (Palantir) and other founders,
CEOs and thought-leaders within the broader tech industry. He was a guest at
Trump’s Coronation Ball in January.
Perhaps most directly, vice president JD Vance has praised him by name and
echoed his ideas, asserting the need for a “de-wokification programme” that
“strikes at the heart of the beast”.
Yarvin’s current newsletter,
Grey Room, now boasts 57,000 subscribers.
“Curtis Yarvin’s Ideas Were Fringe,” cautioned a recent article, “Now They’re
Coursing Through Trump’s Washington.”"
Via Muse, who wrote "Technologists actively seeking god-like powers."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
