[T]yranny is best seen as a sort of static civil war. The t… - Curtis Yarvin

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[T]yranny is best seen as a sort of static civil war. The tyrant's office differs from the monarch's in that the latter's legitimacy is assured by law, whereas the former's is a matter of personal power and prestige.

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Curtis Yarvin (born June 25, 1973), also known under his pen name Mencius Moldbug, is an American computer scientist and quintessential political theorist of the neoreactionary movement. He is also creator of the Urbit computing platform and, currently, authors primarily the Gray Mirror blog.

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Pen Names: Mencius Moldbug

Alternative Names: Curtis Guy Yarvin • Moldbug

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