Anyone read the Curtis Yarvin interview in the NYT?
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wrote on 20 Jan 2025, 15:35 last edited by wtg
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wrote on 20 Jan 2025, 18:32 last edited by
Just read it. Also good to read the comments challenging his ideas.
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wrote on 20 Jan 2025, 18:43 last edited by wtg
Can't get Reader View to work now. Anyone able to post a gift link?
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wrote on 21 Jan 2025, 00:38 last edited by
What a complete asshole, who doesn't deserve the space or the air the Times gave him. Unreal that anyone would take this guy and his juvenile ideas seriously. Reminds me of Ayn Rand.
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Just read it. Also good to read the comments challenging his ideas.
wrote on 21 Jan 2025, 00:44 last edited by@RealPlayer said in Anyone read the Curtis Yarvin interview in the NYT?:
Just read it. Also good to read the comments challenging his ideas.
Thanks for the heads up on the comments.
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wrote on 21 Jan 2025, 02:52 last edited by
Just read it. I probably should have waited until my dinner had settled a bit first. I think he's nuts, a case for Freud. I think it would be less embarrassing for him if he did some psychotherapy. His life seems very insular, like he doesn't know life outside the narrow confines of business.
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wrote on 21 Jan 2025, 02:59 last edited by Mik
I’d like to see the whole interview. As much as I can see here he has two arguments - autocracy is more efficient, which is correct, but prohibited, for very good reasons, in our Constitution, and social progress, I.e. emancipation, has some problematic consequences. Also true, but what’s the alternative? Continuing slavery? Far worse.
The only thing of possible value is if you interpret his idea as boiling down to leaders who actually lead.