Re:Ask HN: Thoughts on Curtis Yarvin?
by ai_critic on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @08:22PM
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Perhaps, but Zizek is at least funny and so on and so on.
Re:Ask HN: Thoughts on Curtis Yarvin?
by PestoDiRucola on Thursday August 21, 2025 @10:14AM
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There's nothing neoconservative about his ideology. He's some sort of monarchist paleoconservative.
There's nothing liberal about Slavoj, for most eastern Europeans. Nevertheless, European conservatives treat him like some sort of intelligentsia final boss when in reality he's just a kinda pissed-off dad with a Marxism fetish. I think Yarvin has become a similarly pointless flashpoint discussion topic, a sort of liberal boogeyman to wheel out when people demand more democracy or social benefits.
I don't really take issue with people who write this sort of literature, but I also don't take it very seriously myself.
His original bibliography is largely ignored in polsci circles, found most often next to a print copy of Protocols of the Elders or somesuch conspiracy.