Curtis Yarvin Quotes

All the great crimes of the recent past have been committed by states which portrayed themselves as profoundly ethical actors. Removing this mask, eliminating the ability of the beast to portray itself as good, uninstalls an essential module in this perverse system.

The entire intellectual system of the West was corrupted by its twentieth-century connection to government. Public opinion reflects press opinion, press opinion reflects academic politics, and academic politics are driven by power-struggles in which the attraction of the state is clear.
The victory of Keynesian over Misesian economics, for example, is a classic case of this. Theories of economics which led to jobs advising the state were adaptive. Theories which didn't weren't.

[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.

Stability is much underappreciated, especially by those who enjoy its benefits.

A good test for getting rid of anything is: if we didn't have this, would we need it?

"Why, when, and how to abolish the United States", Unqualified Reservations (July 3, 2007).

[I]f you actually want to abolish politics, you have to deal with the existing power structure rather than the ideal form it pretends to be.

[T]he moderate ideas of one generation are the extremist ideas of its parents, and the whole system shifts gradually over time.

The problem with the permanent bureaucracy is that any enterprise controlled by its own employees tends to expand without limit.

Ultimately, a pacifist is just an activist whose strategy for victory is to suppress the military efforts of his enemies.

In any conflict between X and Y, there are three paths to peace. X can prevail, Y can prevail, or X and Y can agree to leave the battle lines where they are now.

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.

You get rid of the system by making it fashionable, among the most fashionable people, to believe the system needs to be gotten rid of. It is certainly possible to build a system of government that can withstand, in a purely military sense, the disapproval of its own elites, but such is not the case with ours.

Surely, after the legal realists plunged us into a century-long nightmare of litigation and government by judiciary, precisely as its critics warned, we can see the value of legal formalism.
Law is inherently objective and consistent because it is defined as such. If it isn't inherently objective and consistent, it is not the rule of law but the rule of men. Which we have far too much of these days.

I distrust all velvet gloves. Take the abstract ideals off and show us government as it really is. Law enforcement is not a bad thing.