MOLDBUGGERY AFOOT & AT HAND: Vance and the New Ideology for the Coming Dark Age

“If Americans are going to change their government, they’re going to have to get over their dictator phobia”. Curtis Yarvin (alias: Mencius Moldbug)

“We are in a late republican period. If we’re going to push back against it, we’re going to have to get pretty wild, and pretty far out there, and go in directions that a lot of conservatives right now are uncomfortable with”. J.D. Vance

“There is no institution to which one can go in order to receive a sound paleoconservative education. Most of the people in the idea trade would simply deny that such a thing exists. Safeway will sell you a whole, salted rhinoceros head before Harvard will teach you that Lincoln was a tyrant”. Curtis Yarvin

“Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Lord Acton

“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness”. John Kenneth Galbraith

“If Trump wins the election, there is little doubt that Vance will bring Yarvin’s twisted techno-authoritarianism to the White House, and one can imagine — with horror — what a receptive would-be autocrat like Trump might do with those ideas”. Gil Duran

“These dweebish fantasies of power and domination might appear especially pathetic to us, but they are not really different in kind from the ones that animated the…