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Curtis Yarvin debates Christopher Rufo on the future of the Right
Curtis Yarvin and Christopher Rufo. Credit: IM-1776
Happening today beneath the surface
Curtis Yarvin and Christopher Rufo. Credit: IM-1776
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SubscribeOn the plus side K.S. can go screw themselves in due course.
All I can say is that Curtis Yarvin changed my life by writing about Italian elitist Gaetano Mosca’s Ruling Class and Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt’s Concept of the Political.
Do you know what a “political formula” is? No? Then go to the back of the class.
Rufo is decidedly taking DEI apart; Yarvin writes winding, if entertaining, Alice in Wonderland paeans to monarchy. I’ll take Rufo any day.
Imagine a ménage à trois between a French counter-revolutionary ( or a Romantic fascist, take your pick ), a postmodernist, and a gonzo journalist whose mind in pickled in Schedule 1 drugs and high concepts. The issue of such an unholy union might be the eponymous Moldbug, a homeless wanderer in the archives of history, who has read everything and understands nothing, who is nihilistic, fashionably paranoid, and….how to put this….”a manic combination of grandiosity and fatalism”.
DEI, ESG, CRT, and the rest of it, it’s true, are symptoms. Yarvin is right about that much. One of these days they will all perish from their internal contradictions. It is inevitable. There are signs already. In the meantime, Rufo is doing the hard yards of bringing that day forward. The question is why he consented to engage with a niche eccentric like Yarvin.