Curtis Yarvin

“Gray Mirror – his new blog”

“Unqualified Reservations – his old blog”

“Bertrand de Jouvenel”

“For all his faults, Yarvin is an engaging writer with a very dry sense of humor, bringing the pompousness of a Silicon Valley know-it-all to abstruse eighteenth-century European political thought.”

“[H]is writing seems designed to leave a reader guessing as to whether he's really serious or executing the most brilliantly satirical long-term troll-job in the history of the Internet.”

“Moldbug is good medicine for genuine progressives, who more than most have an obligation to think through their beliefs. It's strong and possibly toxic medicine, but having your thought congeal into mindless ideology is even more toxic.”

“Moldbug is the most articulate and compelling reactionary I've ever read […]”

“I am not a neoreactionary, but sometimes I think Mencius Moldbug is the greatest living political thinker.”

“Mencius Moldbug's style is indirect, florid, and allusive, but […] he's essential reading.”

“I regard Mencius Moldbug as one of the most important thinkers of our time […]”

“To be as mad as Moldbug is an artform.”

“Not only does Moldbug know such iron fists would rule best, allow emigration, not cheat their investors, and never ever accept manipulator payola, he apparently knows this deductively, as a noble philosopher, not like data-addicted corrupt pansy social scientists. And he has no interest in improvements in the status quo below his philosopher-deduced-best pinnacle.What more can one say to such a person?”

“If there is a germ of useful provocation in Moldbug’s posts—a glimmer of a productive idea that could be the basis of a discussion—those germs are more than vitiated by his sprawling, associative, and bombastically categorical writing.”

“I don't think the conversion of Southern slaves into Southern sharecroppers made anyone much freer, because it created few practical options for the people involved. Before, you were an agricultural laborer who worked on the same farm for your entire life; after, ditto.Yarvin, Curtis (May 9, 2009) “Democraphobia goes (slightly) viral.” Unqualified Reservations (blog).”

“If you taught chemistry at a university, you taught chemistry at a university which had a chief diversity officer, a department of African-American Studies, etc, etc. You knew what these people were. You knew what these people did. At least, you knew that whatever it was, it was not scholarship. You said nothing. What kind of servant of truth are you, sir? You served not truth, but the Party. Sign the form, sir.Yarvin, Curtis (October 11, 2009) “A gentle introduction to Unqualified Reservations (part 9b).” Unqualified Reservations (blog).”

“For quite some time in America it's been illegal to employ racists, sexists and fascists, and mandatory to employ a precisely calibrated percentage of women, workers and peasants. Because America is a free country and that's what freedom means.Yarvin, Curtis (13 September 2013) “Technology, communism, and the Brown Scare.” Unqualified Reservations (blog).”

“It's a reality of modern American life that race confers privilege. As a reactionary, how can I possibly object? A society without hereditary privilege is like a cheeseburger without cheese.Yarvin, Curtis (July 26, 2010) “Race: a modest proposal.” Unqualified Reservations (blog).”

“While the civil-liberties geek of 2013 is a pathetic and even hilarious figure, it's not at all true that his passion has never gone requited. Actually, in its bureaucratic form, "civil liberties" helps keep the streets of San Francisco covered with turds and shambling zombies.Yarvin, Curtis (June 20, 2013) “Civil liberties and the single reactionary.” Unqualified Reservations (blog).”

“Here is yet another (idea for good government): restrict voting to homeowners. Note that this was widely practiced in Anglo-American history, and for very good reason.Yarvin, Curtis (July 17, 2008) “OLXIV: rules for reactionaries.” Unqualified Reservations (blog).”

“Political power is a property right, however you slice it. It is owned, not deserved. It is not a natural or "human" right. And it has no more to do with freedom than brake fluid with fondue.Yarvin, Curtis (May 9, 2009) “Democraphobia goes (slightly) viral.” Unqualified Reservations (blog).”