Curtis Yarvin

“A conservative is someone who helps disguise the true nature of a democratic state. The conservative is ineffective by definition, because his goal is to make democracy work properly. The fact that it does not work properly, has never worked properly, and will never work properly, sails straight over his head. He therefore labors cheerfully as a tool for his enemies.Yarvin, Curtis (February 19, 2009) “A gentle introduction to Unqualified Reservations.” Unqualified Reservations (blog).”

“Until there's an election in which one box is a clear mandate for abolishing the New Deal, if not Washington itself, democratist conservatives are wasting time and annoying the pig.Yarvin, Curtis (May 11, 2007) “Roth, castes, chips and Rangordnung.” Unqualified Reservations (blog).”

“It is impossible to count the New Deal's crimes. The list must include everything short of mass murder. And even that is arguable.Yarvin, Curtis (November 29, 2007) “Tryfon Tolides: an almost pure empty poetry.” Unqualified Reservations (blog).”

“I'll tell you what the real emotion behind the Arab Spring was. Actually, Beavis can tell you better. "Fire is cool," said Beavis. Fire is indeed cool. Americans were bored and needed some better CNN. They wanted to see shit burn. Shit indeed burned, and is still burning. Which was cool. So they got what they wanted. Not too different from the crowd in the Colosseum, just less honest about how they satisfy their very simple chimp/human needs.Yarvin, Curtis (May 29, 2008) “OL7: the ugly truth about government.” Unqualified Reservations (blog).”

“One way to elect a new people is to import them, of course. For example, to put it bluntly, the Democratic Party has captured California, once a Republican stronghold, by importing arbitrary numbers of Mexicans. Indeed the Third World is stocked with literally billions of potential Democrats, just waiting to come to America so that Washington can buy their votes.Yarvin, Curtis (July 17, 2008) “OLXIV: rules for reactionaries.” Unqualified Reservations (blog).”

“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. Yarvin, Curtis (May 29, 2008) “OL7: the ugly truth about government.” Unqualified Reservations (blog).”

“I date the Fourth Republic and the Progressive period to 1933. We can read this story in two ways. We can read it as the coming of modern, scientific government in the United States. Or we can read it as the transfer of power from political democracy to the American university system — which, just for the sake of a catchy catchword, I like to call the Cathedral.Yarvin, Curtis (May 29, 2008) “OL7: the ugly truth about government.” Unqualified Reservations (blog).”

“America has no surviving intellectual tradition besides progressivism — which is no more than a synonym for communism… Communism is as American as apple pie, and America today is a completely communist country.Yarvin, Curtis (September 30, 2010) “Slow history and the mysterious 20th century.” Unqualified Reservations (blog).”

“The American, being human, being descended from a long line of chimpanzees and their still more foul hominid spawn, craves status, importance, meaning, in a word: power. But power is hard, oh so hard, to come by in his whip-broken, fixed and empty life of pleasant boredom. The solution? Oh, solution there is none, for power does not grow on trees. Power is here in America, as everywhere; power in America is locked up tight as Katrina van den Heuvel's ass. It's open to someone, perhaps, but not to him.Yarvin, Curtis (March 26, 2011) “Libya, the nadir achieved.” Unqualified Reservations (blog).”

“Our lovely "mainstream media" is not, of course, a hierarchical organization reporting to the hidden Elders of Journalism. However, modern journalism is descended from such a hierarchical organization. That organization was the Office of War Information, OWI.Yarvin, Curtis (February 12, 2009) “A gentle introduction to Unqualified Reservations, part 5.” Unqualified Reservations (blog).”

“It is not at all surprising that progressives hate corporations and the profit system. It is a natural consequence of the antipathy to order, the anarchism, the lust for entropic destruction, which is the foundation of their creed.Yarvin, Curtis (April 9, 2009) “America: zombie nation.” Unqualified Reservations (blog).”

“Most progressives are socially normal human beings, who in any political environment, would just be choosing the largest, best-appointed bandwagon for their personal conveyance. In Nazi Germany they would be Nazis, in Russia they would be Bolsheviks, in the kingdom of Louis XIV they would be all for Louis XIV. This is one of the many reasons there is no need to guillotine them.Yarvin, Curtis (October 11, 2009) “A gentle introduction to Unqualified Reservations (part 9b).” Unqualified Reservations (blog).”

“One interesting case of an ideal shared by both the 1930s Nazis and the 2007 Progressives is the Environment. Nazi environmentalism was definitely a different thing from ours, but the family resemblance is clear, and although environmentalism was hardly the most important part of the Nazi program it perhaps provides a window into their worldview… Is it so impossible to imagine Environmentalism being used as the basis for mass murder?Yarvin, Curtis (May 20, 200) “Understanding radical idealism.” Unqualified Reservations (blog).”

“Perhaps the easiest way for a modern American or European to understand Nazism is to understand that a good Brown thought about preserving the Deutsche Volk in exactly the same way that today's Greens think about preserving the Environment.Yarvin, Curtis (November, 22, 2007 “Why I Am not a White Nationalist.” Unqualified Reservations (blog).”

“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.Yarvin, Curtis (January 3, 2022) "The restoration of public truth." Gray Mirror (blog).”

“If Americans want to change their government, they’re going to have to get over their dictator phobia.Pein, Corey (May 19, 2014) “Mouthbreathing Machiavellis Dream of a Silicon Reich.” The Baffler.”

“Was royalism a perfect system? It was not. But if we imagine a world in which the revolutions and civil wars of the last four centuries had never happened, it is hard not to imagine that world as happier, wealthier, freer, more civilized, and more pleasant.Yarvin, Curtis (May 22, 2008) “OL6: the lost theory of government.” Unqualified Reservations (blog).”

“Our modern democratic elections are an extremely poor substitute for actual regime change. As we've seen, democracy is to government as gray, slimy cancer is to pink and healthy living tissue. It is a degenerate neoplastic form. The only reason America has lasted as long as she has, and even still has more than a few years left, is that this malignancy is at present encysted in a thick husk of sclerotic scar tissue - our permanent civil service.Yarvin, Curtis (July 10, 2008) “OLXIII: tactics and structures of any prospective restoration.” Unqualified Reservations (blog).”

“As in the late Roman period, declining official authority, declining personal morality, and increasing public bureaucracy are observed in synchrony. This is not in any way a coincidence. The combination is an infallible symptom of the great terminal disease of the polity — leftism. Leftism is cancer.Yarvin, Curtis (November 13, 2008) “Patchwork: a positive vision (part I).” Unqualified Reservations (blog).”

“It is very difficult for a modern American to construct the history of the last 250 years as a history of decay. Decay is especially concealed by the obvious history of technical and scientific progress. While this has no reason at all to correlate with political or cultural progress, the two are certainly not hard to confuse.Yarvin, Curtis (October 18, 2007) “How Dawkins got pwned.” Unqualified Reservations (blog).”