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

In the twenty-first century, any writer whose work appears anywhere but his own blog is a shill. Or at least, he should be assumed to be compromised unless proven otherwise. The Internet has all the tools you need to write and be read without being beholden to anyone. If anyone rejects this independence, you have to wonder why.

[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.

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.