Thanksgiving Day - a lull period between the parade and The Meal - so was just hopping around between Medium/Substack pieces and came upon yours. It is terrific. Thank you on this most appropriate day of thanks. I discovered Yarivn even later than you - all of about a month ago. He reminds me of an emotional adolescent boy-child with a high IQ. But if you actually stack him up against a real man - i.e. adult, mature, life-experience, respects his body - let's say someone like my husband who also has a very high IQ and was also pulled into all these "for really smart people only" type situations in the USSR - however, unlike Yarvin, the USSR did not pamper their brainy folks, they expected them to work for the collective good. If you wanted to be "elite" you had to be a ass-kissing member of the CP. Yarvin's socialization in the West taught him that he was special, not only did not have to use his talents for the collective good, rather he should not even consider himself to be part of that collective, but superior, OK to rise above. This narcisstic release allowed him to feel good about himself even if others thought he was a weirdo. As a result, not ever being asked to/expected to make hard choices, he never matured. Unlike most, he could afford to not grow up. As he got older and realized more and more that he was an oddball, he was bright enough to create an alternate reality where his immaturity was a get in free card to the world of his making. But still insecure down deep and craving praise, he went public with his alternate reality and invited other adolescent-adult males to join him. All this writing of mine leads up to one point: how many women follow Yarvin, support his "vision", his worldview? Pretty close to zippo I would bet. And why is it that when others - almost all men as best as I could tell - write about Yarvin, they don't ask the obvious question: if 50% of the population does not have a place in your reality, then what kind of reality is it really? The same way that adolescent boys loved alternate realities in the past - Dungeons and Dragons, Harry Potter's Hogwarts - Yarvin's Dark Englightenment is a pretentious, albeit dangerous, update.
Not just Bannon, but Musk, Ramaswamy, JD Vance, Peter Thiel, et al, are proponents of this. Deeply concerned that no one's ringing alarm bells about these crackpots taking major positions in government, especially given Elon's "temporary hardship" remark, with the intent of overthrowing the government.
About 10 years ago I was deeply involved in Republican state politics in Arkansas. There's a wealthy CEO I crossed paths with back then who talked about how collapse needed to be brought about in America before things could get better. It made no sense at the time, but in hindsight, I believe he's also a Yarvinist. He's still a major player here.
In short, they're essentially white supremacist who are afraid of becoming a minority in a democracy and this is their rationalization for seizing power. I keep thinking that surely the IC is aware and already on it, but it's startling that no one is the news is saying much about it.
Vance calls Yarvin a friend and mentor, now JD Vance is a heartbeat or whatever kind of arrangement away from assuming the powers of the presidency and this is the dangerous ideology he'll bring into the Oval Office, and his financier, Peter Thiel will undoubtedly have Vance's ear to spew more of this dangerous neoreactionist ideology. I wonder if the author of this piece would revise anything he wrote given how dangerously close Yarvin's ideology is from the Oval Office. The media is complicit they aren't calling any of this out and I also have been trying to sound the alarms and I'm getting crickets.
The Crucifix is not "a Catholic totem"! Its a religious symbol whose meaning is widely understood throughout Western society and Christianity generally.
It was noxious to many Elizabethan Protestants and would not have been much seen after about 1560 in Anglican churches (the Chapel Royal being a notable exception). In 16th century England its use would have been a very clear marker of confessional identity.
Really enjoyed this and I agree about some of these so-called intellectuals, who appear to prefer the conspiratorial approach to many contemporary issues. He was so wordly and a bit up himself, truth be told. I prefer listening to people who use critical thinking to come to their conclusions; he was rambling a lot and constantly deferring back to himself. We should worry about how many people get their news from Facebook, X and the like and how many of these type of 'intellectuals' reside there.
Thanksgiving Day - a lull period between the parade and The Meal - so was just hopping around between Medium/Substack pieces and came upon yours. It is terrific. Thank you on this most appropriate day of thanks. I discovered Yarivn even later than you - all of about a month ago. He reminds me of an emotional adolescent boy-child with a high IQ. But if you actually stack him up against a real man - i.e. adult, mature, life-experience, respects his body - let's say someone like my husband who also has a very high IQ and was also pulled into all these "for really smart people only" type situations in the USSR - however, unlike Yarvin, the USSR did not pamper their brainy folks, they expected them to work for the collective good. If you wanted to be "elite" you had to be a ass-kissing member of the CP. Yarvin's socialization in the West taught him that he was special, not only did not have to use his talents for the collective good, rather he should not even consider himself to be part of that collective, but superior, OK to rise above. This narcisstic release allowed him to feel good about himself even if others thought he was a weirdo. As a result, not ever being asked to/expected to make hard choices, he never matured. Unlike most, he could afford to not grow up. As he got older and realized more and more that he was an oddball, he was bright enough to create an alternate reality where his immaturity was a get in free card to the world of his making. But still insecure down deep and craving praise, he went public with his alternate reality and invited other adolescent-adult males to join him. All this writing of mine leads up to one point: how many women follow Yarvin, support his "vision", his worldview? Pretty close to zippo I would bet. And why is it that when others - almost all men as best as I could tell - write about Yarvin, they don't ask the obvious question: if 50% of the population does not have a place in your reality, then what kind of reality is it really? The same way that adolescent boys loved alternate realities in the past - Dungeons and Dragons, Harry Potter's Hogwarts - Yarvin's Dark Englightenment is a pretentious, albeit dangerous, update.
Not just Bannon, but Musk, Ramaswamy, JD Vance, Peter Thiel, et al, are proponents of this. Deeply concerned that no one's ringing alarm bells about these crackpots taking major positions in government, especially given Elon's "temporary hardship" remark, with the intent of overthrowing the government.
About 10 years ago I was deeply involved in Republican state politics in Arkansas. There's a wealthy CEO I crossed paths with back then who talked about how collapse needed to be brought about in America before things could get better. It made no sense at the time, but in hindsight, I believe he's also a Yarvinist. He's still a major player here.
In short, they're essentially white supremacist who are afraid of becoming a minority in a democracy and this is their rationalization for seizing power. I keep thinking that surely the IC is aware and already on it, but it's startling that no one is the news is saying much about it.
Vance calls Yarvin a friend and mentor, now JD Vance is a heartbeat or whatever kind of arrangement away from assuming the powers of the presidency and this is the dangerous ideology he'll bring into the Oval Office, and his financier, Peter Thiel will undoubtedly have Vance's ear to spew more of this dangerous neoreactionist ideology. I wonder if the author of this piece would revise anything he wrote given how dangerously close Yarvin's ideology is from the Oval Office. The media is complicit they aren't calling any of this out and I also have been trying to sound the alarms and I'm getting crickets.
I see where you are going with this and it is an interesting question that needs answering.
Yarvin is not wholly esteemed here on the right. The Triggernometary chaps are viewed as risible at best. Can I suggest you look up Dr. Neema Parvini?
His book “The Populist Delusion” is useful in the debate about governmental structures and the nature of power.
Dr. Parvini is also a Shakespeare scholar. He can be found here at Forbidden Texts or at @OGRolandRat on X, Academic Agent in YouTube.
The Crucifix is not "a Catholic totem"! Its a religious symbol whose meaning is widely understood throughout Western society and Christianity generally.
It was noxious to many Elizabethan Protestants and would not have been much seen after about 1560 in Anglican churches (the Chapel Royal being a notable exception). In 16th century England its use would have been a very clear marker of confessional identity.
Really enjoyed this and I agree about some of these so-called intellectuals, who appear to prefer the conspiratorial approach to many contemporary issues. He was so wordly and a bit up himself, truth be told. I prefer listening to people who use critical thinking to come to their conclusions; he was rambling a lot and constantly deferring back to himself. We should worry about how many people get their news from Facebook, X and the like and how many of these type of 'intellectuals' reside there.