Curtis Yarvin Quotes

People think at least as much about breeding each other as they do about breeding animals.

The most powerful people in the West today, measured strictly by their ability to influence the real world, are journalists and professors.

Corruption in Third World countries is a case of the formalist pattern trying to reemerge. A Third World government, far more than ours, is a system for distributing dividends, which even in the worst countries on earth are nontrivial. It is just a hellaciously intricate and absurdly informal system.

[T]he law itself is arbitrary—a product of history, just like all other distributions of property. We support it because it's stable, and we like stability.

That's always the trouble with history. It always looks like it's over. But it never is.

In fact, we know exactly what Washington's policies twenty years from now will be. They will certainly have nothing to do with "politics." They will be implementations of the ideas now taught at Harvard, Yale and Berkeley.

The system will be defeated when most intelligent people realize that The New York Times is a government gazette and Harvard is a government seminary, and when they form alternate institutions that fulfill the same role in a way that is genuinely independent.

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.

And while not all the crimes in this tragedy (crimes of the 20th century) were committed by democrats, democracy is indeed its prime and ultimate cause. It is not a coincidence that the century of murder and the century of democracy were one and the same.

On a historical timescale, the practical effect of the sovereignty of the press is just to play yet another whack-a-mole game of quis custodiet ipsos custodes. Who watches the watchdog? In the end, this chain must logically terminate in a dog you just… trust. Sovereignty is conserved.

[F]ar from advancing toward tolerance for all, Western civilization is being overrun by an aggressive and intolerant monoculture.

[L]eftism is Protestantism and Protestantism is leftism.

The righteous ruler has nothing to hide.

[M]ost of the advances in Western scientific history, contrary to popular belief, occurred when scientists were not servants of the state.

In fact, natural selection tends to favor the ascent of ideologies which not only are ineffective, but actually iatrogenic. In other words, the solution is actually causing the problem it purports to be trying to solve.